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Asian shares mixed after US stimulus bill, profit-taking

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Asian shares were mixed Monday, as some indexes were lifted by hopes for a gradual global recovery after the US economic relief package passed the Senate over the weekend. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was up 0.2 per cent in early trading at 28,926.03. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped nearly 1.0 per cent to 6,776.00, while South Korea’s Kospi shed 0.2 per cent to 3,020.40. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.2 per cent to 3,020.40, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.5 per cent to 3,483.92. Although shares mostly rose at first, some…

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‘I was down’: Federer had hard time before 2nd knee surgery

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Roger Federer never seriously contemplated retirement while he was away from the tennis tour for more than a year. He did have a hard time dealing with the need for a repeat operation on his bad right knee, though. “I was down. Obviously I couldn’t believe I had to do a second one,” Federer said Sunday ahead of his appearance at the Qatar Open. “This is definitely a moment where you maybe question a little bit more.” The 39-year-old Federer’s first match since the 2020 Australian Open will come Wednesday…

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Pope visits Iraq’s war-ravaged north on last day of tour

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Pope Francis arrived in northern Iraq on Sunday, where he planned to pray in the ruins of churches damaged or destroyed by Islamic State extremists and celebrate an open-air Mass on the last day of the first-ever papal visit to the country. The Vatican hopes that the landmark visit will rally the country’s Christian communities and encourage them to stay despite decades of war and instability. Francis has also delivered a message of interreligious tolerance and fraternity to Muslim leaders, including in an historic meeting Saturday with Iraq’s top Shiite…

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Jharkhand devising resource generation plan after ‘unconstitutional harassment’ by Centre: CM Soren

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Alleging “unconstitutional harassment” by the Centre over funds, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said pushed to the brink, the state is now devising its own innovative resource generation mechanism for self-sustenance. Alleging unequal treatment, the chief minister of the JMM-led alliance in the state said tribal-rich state has been all along exploited and plundered. Soren was sworn in as the 11th chief minister of the state in December 2019. “There has been unconstitutional harassment to us…Centre diverted the funds of the state from Jharkhand’s account with the Reserve Bank of…

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From farms to mills, it’s a long wait for Western UP farmers just to get sugarcane weighed

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As thousands of farmers lay siege to Delhi borders for over 100 days demanding the repeal of three contentious farm laws, those staying back in Western Uttar Pradesh have to endure a different kind of long wait — at times for multiple days just to get weighed quintals of sugarcane lying in tractor-trollies on their way from farms to mills. Some pass their time chit-chatting about the ongoing protests, others while smoking bidis or cigarettes, but all of them sound worried about loads of sugarcane drying under a scorching sun,…

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Sharjeel moves HC, seeks quashing of FIR against him over speech

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Activist Sharjeel Usmani has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to quash an FIR registered against him by the Pune police for allegedly promoting enmity among different groups in his speech made at the Elgar Parishad event held in January this year. In the petition filed earlier this week, Usmani termed the FIR as “frivolous and baseless”, and said it has been registered “on the basis of certain select statements taken out of context”. The FIR was registered on February 2, 2021 against Usmani (23), an alumnus of the Aligarh…

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COVID-19 case hits Indian boxers in Spanish tourney, three men pull out from final

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The Indian men’s boxing team’s final campaign at the 35th Boxam International Tournament in Castellon, Spain was derailed by a positive COVID-19 case in the side, resulting in three withdrawals from the summit clashes. Olympic-bound Ashish Kumar (75kg) tested positive for the virus and as a result of being his roommates, Mohammed Hussamuddin (57kg) and Sumit Sangwan (81kg) were forced to withdraw from the finals on Sunday night. All three of them ended with silver medals which could have been gold but for the unforeseen circumstances. “What started as a…

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Fatima Sana Shaikh to star in Hindi remake of Tamil hit ‘Aruvi’

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Actor Fatima Sana Shaikh has been roped in to play the lead role in the the Hindi adaptation of 2017 Tamil blockbuster movie Aruvi , the producers announced on Friday. Applause Entertainment has collaborated with Faith Films for the remake, which will be directed by E Niwas of Shool fame. The Tamil-language original, directed by Arun Prabu Purushothaman, starred Aditi Balan, who was seen in the recently released anthology Kutty Story . The story follows a girl born and brought up amidst the ever growing eco-social-consumeristic environment. She finds it…

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Washington stranded on 96 as India score 365, England 6 for no loss at lunch

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Washington Sundar showed composure beyond his years but missed out on a maiden Test hundred by 4 runs in India’s commendable first innings score of 365 against England on day three of the fourth and final Test here on Saturday. The 21-year-old left-hander’s 96 off 174 balls was as important as Rishabh Pant’s second day hundred but a sudden tail-end collapse saw him stranded at the non-striker’s end. India lost their last three wickets in a space of five balls with Ben Stokes (27.4-6-89-4) cleaning the tail without much fuss.…

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Taapsee Pannu breaks silence on I-T raids

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 Breaking her silence on the IT department raids against her, actor Taapsee Pannu on Saturday put out three tweets on an alleged bungalow in Paris, the alleged receipt of Rs 5 crore and her memory of 2013 raid . On March 3, the Income Tax Department searched the homes and offices of Pannu and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap as well as his partners who launched the now shuttered production house Phantom Films. Pannu posted a three-point statement on Twitter and also took a jibe at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that…

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