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Biden says US combat mission in Iraq to conclude by year end

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 President Joe Biden said Monday the U.S. combat mission in Iraq will conclude by the end of the year, an announcement that reflects the reality on the ground more than a major shift in U.S. policy. Even before Biden took office, the main U.S. focus has been assisting Iraqi forces, not fighting on their behalf. And Biden did not say if he planned to reduce the number of troops in Iraq, now about 2,500. The announcement comes on the heels of Biden’s decision to withdraw fully from Afghanistan nearly 20…

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India records less than 30,000 fresh COVID-19 cases in over three months

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 India recorded less than 30,000 fresh COVID-19 cases after 132 days while its active caseload fell below 4,00,000 after 124 days on Tuesday, according to Union health ministry data As many as 29,689 new coronavirus infections took the country’s tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,14,40,951 while 415 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 4,21,382, the data updated at 8 am showed The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,06,21,469, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.34 per cent, it said The number of…

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Naomi Osaka wins in debut at Tokyo Olympics

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Naomi Osaka is back and still winning. The Japanese superstar who lit the Olympic cauldron defeated 52nd-ranked Zheng Saisai of China 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday in her first match in nearly two months. Osaka hadn’t played since she withdrew from the French Open in May to take a mental health break, revealing that she has dealt with depression. She then sat out Wimbledon. The second-ranked Osaka was sharp from the start, serving an ace down the T on the opening point of the match and and racing out to a…

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Harbhajan Singh wraps shoot of ‘Friendship’

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Former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh has wrapped up the shoot of his multilingual feature film debut “Friendship” and will soon start dubbing for the movie. Directed by John Paul Raj & Sham Surya, the film also features South star Arjun and Losliya. Producer Kiran Reddy Mandadi said the team is thrilled to have wrapped up the final schedule. “It was just an amazing experience working with the fun, ball of energy that Harbhajan is. He is now going to start his dubbing soon as the film releases in multiple languages…

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Delhi HC to hear plea against Ramdev for remarks against allopathy

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The Delhi High Court will hear on Monday a plea by seven doctors’ associations against Yoga guru Ramdev for allegedly spreading misinformation by his statements against allopathy amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The matter will be heard by Justice C Hari Shankar who had earlier asked the counsel for the associations to place on record the videos pertaining to the alleged misinformation. The associations before court are three Resident Doctors’ Association of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Rishikesh, Patna and Bhubaneshwar, Association of Resident Doctors, Post Graduate…

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RBI central board short of 9 non-official directors

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The central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is facing shortage of nine non-official directors, including seven from the category of people of eminence from various fields. The central board is the highest decision making body of the apex bank headed by the RBI governor. According to the RBI Act, the government nominates 10 eminent persons from various fields to the central board of the RBI, besides four directors (one from each of the four local boards). The government is yet to appoint seven non-official directors from the…

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Europe’s summer tourism outlook dimmed by variants, rules

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Chaos and confusion over travel rules and measures to contain new virus outbreaks are contributing to another cruel summer for Europe’s battered tourism industry. Popular destination countries are grappling with surging COVID-19 variants, but the patchwork and last-minute nature of the efforts as the peak season gets underway threatens to derail another summer. In France, the world’s most visited country, visitors to cultural and tourist sites were confronted this week with a new requirement for a special COVID-19 pass. To get the pass, which comes in paper or digital form,…

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Who funded Pegasus snooping? asks Raut, compares it with Hiroshima bombing

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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday asked who funded the alleged snooping of politicians and journalists by Pegasus and compared it with the Hiroshima bombing, saying while the attack on the Japanese city had resulted in death of people, the spying by the Israeli software led to “death of freedom”. “The modern technology has taken us back to slavery,” Raut said in his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana. He said the Pegasus case is “no different from the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima”. “People died in…

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Amitabh Bachchan starts shooting for Deepika Padukone and Prabhas-starrer sci-fi film

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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday began filming for a multilingual sci-fi movie, headlined by actors Prabhas and Deepika Padukone, in Hyderabad. Filmmaker Nag Ashwin, known for helming the National Award winning 2018 biographical drama “Mahanati”, is directing the project, which has been tentatively titled “Project K”. According to the makers, Ashwin will be canning crucial sequences featuring the 78-year-old icon and other actors during the film’s first shooting schedule at Ramoji Film City (RFC). Prabhas took to Instagram and shared an image of the film’s clapperboad. “On this #GuruPurnima, it…

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Sensex drops over 100 pts in early trade; Nifty slips below 15,800

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 Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled over 100 points in early trade on Friday, tracking losses in index majors HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and L&T amid sustained foreign fund outflow. After opening over 150 points higher, the 30-share BSE index pared all gains to trade 141.67 points or 0.27 per cent lower at 52,695.54 in initial deals, while the broader NSE Nifty declined 42.05 points or 0.27 per cent to 15,782. L&T was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding around 1 per cent, followed by Sun Pharma, Bajaj Finance, HDFC…

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