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Sri Lanka to back bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at UNSC: President Wickremesinghe
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Sri Lanka to back bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at UNSC:...

Colombo, Sept 27: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said his government will back the bids of India and Japan for permanent member status at the UN Security Council. President Wickremesinghe is currently in Japan to attend the state funeral of the former Japanese prime...
Musk, Agrawal didn
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Musk, Agrawal didn't depose as per court dates, spark speculation

San Francisco, Sep 27: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Twitter counterpart Parag Agrawal did not depose in an ongoing litigation despite earlier filings in a US court, triggering speculations. According to a CNN report, citing sources, the dates listed in deposition notices filed with the court are...
NASA spacecraft successfully crashes into asteroid in defence test
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NASA spacecraft successfully crashes into asteroid in defence test

Washington, Sep 27: After flying in space for 10 months, a NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid on Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind mission to test whether space rocks that might threaten Earth in the future could be nudged safely out of the way, the US space agency said. The...
Sikh student at North Carolina detained for wearing Kirpan, US University apologises
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Sikh student at North Carolina detained for wearing Kirpan, US University...

Guwahati, Sep 26: A Sikh student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the USA was detained on campus for wearing a Kirpan, an integral part of the Sikh religion. The university later issued an apology after it created uproar on social media. The Chancellor of the University,...
6 dead, 20 wounded in school shooting in Russia
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6 dead, 20 wounded in school shooting in Russia

Moscow, Sep 26: A gunman on Monday morning killed six people and wounded 20 others in a school in central Russia, local police said. Governor of the Udmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the still unidentified shooter got into a school in Izhevsk, the region's...
Sachin Dev Burman
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Sachin Dev Burman's home in Bangladesh set to be converted into cultural

Cumilla (Bangladesh), Sept 25: Legendary musician and composer Sachin Dev Burman's palatial home in Cumilla district of Bangladesh is all set to be transformed into a cultural complex, with the Sheikh Hasina government having sanctioned Taka 1.10 crore (Rs 86 lakh) for the project. Dev Burman, born...
No peace overtures expected between India and Pakistan
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No peace overtures expected between India and Pakistan

Islamabad, Sep 25: An escalation between India and Pakistan is highly unlikely, but the upcoming change of command in the Pakistan Army and general elections in both neighbouring countries would not allow for any major progress towards normalisation of bilateral ties either, at least for another...
Russia backs India, Brazil for permanent membership in UN Security Council
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Russia backs India, Brazil for permanent membership in UN Security Council

United Nations, Sep 25: Russia has voiced its support for India and Brazil as "worthy candidates" for permanent membership in the UN Security Council, calling them "key international actors." During the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday...
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall Tudor saga, dies at 70
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Hilary Mantel, author of 'Wolf Hall' Tudor saga, dies at 70

London, Sep 24: Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed "Wolf Hall" trilogy of historical novels, has died, her publisher said Friday. She was 70. Mantel died "suddenly yet peacefully" on Thursday surrounded by...
Roger Federer retires after teaming with Nadal in last match
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Roger Federer retires after teaming with Nadal in last match

London, Sep 24: This day, this match, had to come, of course, for Roger Federer, and for tennis, just as it inevitably must for every athlete in every sport. Federer bid adieu Friday night with one last contest before he heads into retirement at age 41 after a superlative career that spanned...
Man missing for 17 days after Sichuan earthquake found alive
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Man missing for 17 days after Sichuan earthquake found alive

Beijing, Sep 23: A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China's southwest Sichuan province has been found alive, according to local media reports. The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after the magnitude-6.8 earthquake...
Guterres warns against continued global warming, 1.5-degrees limit on life support
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Guterres warns against continued global warming, 1.5-degrees limit 'on life...

United Nations, Sep 22: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that global warming continues and the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris accord -- to limit Earth's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels -- is "on life support". "The 1.5-degrees limit is on life...
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