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June 03, 2024

Levitt ready to light up T20 WC

Netherlands' highest individual T20I scorer played a key role when his side beat former champions Sri Lanka in a warm-up match. All eyes will be on him during the marquee event..

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15th CL crown for Real

REAL Madrid withstood a Borussia Dortmund barrage to win the Champions League for the 15th time as Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Junior struck late in a 2-0 win at Wembley on Saturday.

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Tale of redemption: Amit, Jaismine find joy

BOXERS Amit Panghal and Jaismine Lamboria's tales are sort of a redemption.

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MRC 'A' secure VAP Trophy

M BOOPATHI Vaishna Kumar slammed a century as Take Solutions MRC 'A' beat Kalpathi Investments Young Stars by by three wickets to win the VAP Trophy at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday.

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On the way to becoming a great: Sania on Iga

ON Monday, one of the surest things in tennis, a Rafael Nadal win in the French dirt, came to an end.

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Adani Group 'better' leveraged even as debt more than doubles in 5 yrs

TOTAL net debt of the Adani Group has almost doubled in the past five years from ₹94,770 crore at the end of FY19 to ₹181,604 crore in FY24, growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 14%.

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Markets might see biggest gains post exit polls

INDIA'S equity market is expected to see one of its biggest gains of recent times this week following the exit poll results which have erased all concerns related to change of power at the centre.

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First Christian women gets Brigadier rank in Pak army

DR Helen Mary Roberts, serving in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps, has made history by becoming the first woman from Christian and minority community to achieve the rank of brigadier in the Muslim-majority country.

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China disrupting peace conference: Zelenskyy

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused China on Sunday of helping Russia to disrupt an upcoming Swiss-organised peace conference on the war in Ukraine.

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US trying to build Asia-Pacific NATO, China says

THE US is trying to build an Asia-Pacific version of NATO through its Indo-Pacific strategy to maintain its hegemony in the region, a Chinese defence official said, stressing that Washington's attempt to serve its 'selfish' geopolitical interest is 'doomed to fail'.

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Israel-Hamas war continues amid truce push by mediators

ISRAEL bombarded the Gaza Strip on Sunday and battled Hamas as mediators called on both sides to agree to a truce and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden.

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Ramaphosa fighting to stay prez as talks for govt formation begin

Zuma's party, the third biggest in Parliament, says he will come for talks after Prez leaves

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Welfare schemes fuel SKM power play

'Sikkim Aama Yojana', 'Bahini' and 'Vatsalaya', and the slogan of 'Garib Ka Sarkar' did wonders for the party

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Nitish leaves for Delhi, says Modi to form govt

BIHAR chief minister Nitish Kumar left for New Delhi on Sunday ahead of the announcement of Lok Sabha election results scheduled to be announced on June 4.

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In a 1st in many decades, Naxals fail to cast shadow on elections in J'khand

FOR the first time in the last few decades, voting in Jharkhand went without any signs of Maoist threat.

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Litmus test for Omar, Mehbooba, Jitendra Singh

THE political career of three political heavy weights — two ex-chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti and BJP MP and Union MoS PMO Dr Jitendra Singh at stake in the Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir.

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EC seeks 'detailed info' from Ramesh over Shah remark

AFTER Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged that home minister Amit Shah had called up 150 district magistrates across the country after voting for the Lok Sabha polls was completed, the Election Commission of India (EC) on Sunday asked him to furnish details of the officials.

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May records 125% jump in heatwave days, says IMD; casualties too surge

HEATWAVE days across the country rose by 125% in May, a record jump, compared to the normal, impacting a billion people, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

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Missing Odisha girl reunited with dad

A 10-year old girl from Odisha, who went missing on May 22 in Vellore, was reunited with her father on Friday.

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SIT begins search for Prajwal's mother

THE Special Investigation Team (SIT) conducted extensive searches across the state, including Bengaluru and Ramanagara, to locate Bhavani Revanna, wife of Holenarasipura MLA HD Revanna and mother of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, in connection with a kidnap case.

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Stalin pays rich tribute to Karuna on centenary

CM MK Stalin on Sunday paid rich tributes to his father and former chief minister M Karunanidhi whose birth centenary is celebrated on Monday.

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Climatic changes cut Madurai malli yield by 50%

Unseasonal rain in May affects buds bringing down harvest from 20 kg per acre to 10 kg, say farmers

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Keltron's instructors and hi-tech lab administrators to handle EMIS portal

ADMINISTRATORS and instructors to be recruited by Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (Keltron) for the 8,209 hi-tech labs in government schools across the state will be tasked with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) work, including Educational Management Information System (EMIS), sources said.

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HDPE sacks causing spillage, revenue loss to co-op societies, say PDS workers

BESIDES spillage, the use of High Density Polythene (HDPE) bags to pack foodgrains instead of jute sacks is causing revenue loss to cooperative societies as there is no resale value, say supervisors at PDS shops.

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Man rapes staff after spiking drink, arrested

A 30-year-old man who runs a movie production company was arrested by the Ambattur All Women Police for allegedly raping a female staff.

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Corpn on toes after three more dog bites reported

Dog census to be held in all 200 wards, NGOs invited to participate

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City likely to see partly cloudy sky today

WITH the maximum temperature remaining normal in most parts the state for the second consecutive day on Sunday, Chennai is likely to see a partly cloudy sky on Monday with a possibility of light rain in some areas.

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No V-C in Madras Univ, PhD scholars' future darkens

THE PhD students of the University of Madras are up against the wall with delay in conducting viva voce and awarding degrees as the vicechancellor post of the varsity has been vacant since last August.

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Teen dies in jumbo attack, friend escapes sans injuries

AN 18 year old youth died in a wild elephant attack near the tea gardens at Puthukkad in Valparai on Saturday evening.

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Elephant calf visits ailing mother

EVEN as frontline staff of the forest department were trying to trace a calf elephant that went inside the forest to join a herd leaving his ailing mother behind near the Maruthamalai foothill, it came back to her for a short period of time at 10.30 pm on Saturday.

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