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Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour and Spider-Man creator Stan Lee dies

Justin Trudeau confirms Canadian agents heard recordings related to Khashoggi's killing and a Democrat becomes the first woman to serve in Senate from Arizona.

Macron says nationalism is the opposite of patriotism, and Trump paid off women for silence

'No tension' between Melania and Ivanka Trump and Danny Boyle leads a community remembrance event on British beaches.

US journalists decry Trump move to bar Jim Acosta, and Afghan govt draws flak ahead of peace talks

Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee camps to move to Malaysia, and Prince Charles says he will tone down his activism as a king. 

Trump threatens Democrats with ‘warlike posture’, and Prince Charles speaks in Pidgin

Trump 'compels' US attorney general Jeff Sessions to resign, and Silicon Valley startups continue to take Saudi money.

US midterm elections get ugly with Trump’s racist ad, and Taliban to attend Moscow peace talks

North Korea issues nuclear threat to the US, and Prince Charles says Britain's involvement in transatlantic slavery an 'appalling atrocity'.

It’s Trump versus Obama before the US midterm polls, and Brexit is making UK lawyers anxious

UK top lawyers and business leaders ask PM May for another vote on Brexit, and Sri Lanka's President reconvenes Parliament for trust vote.

Google employees walk out in protest, and Trump and Oprah hit US campaign trail

Dozens of Shia protesters 'shot dead' by Nigerian security forces, and Donald Trump & the Republicans launch racist campaign ad for midterm polls.

Khashoggi’s body was dismembered, and white men are biggest terror threat in US, says CNN host

America calls for an end to Yemen fighting, and Israeli ‘Freedom is basic’ niqab advertisement sparks controversy.

First black American woman vying for governor’s post, and WWF report rings alarm bell

US President Donald Trump plans to end  US birthright citizenship, and Yemeni teacher turns home into school for 700 children.

Angela Merkel to exit politics, and Tamils at risk again in Sri Lanka

Donald Trump to deploy armed soldiers to stop Central American refugees, and China allows tiger bone and rhinoceros horns in medicines.  

On Camera

India’s X-ray satellite system Daksha can settle the dark matter question

Daksha would be an invaluable tool to study flares from the Sun, X-rays from certain pulsating neutron stars, gamma-ray lightnings in the Earth's atmosphere, and so on.

8 crore MGNREGS workers deleted in 2 yrs. Centre’s Budget cuts, tech push to blame — NGO report

Report by civil society organisations LibTech India and NREGA Sangharsh Morcha flags tech changes being enforced without adequate training, cut in allocation despite demand for work.

Indian peacekeeper Major Radhika Sen to receive UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award 2023

Major Sen, a native of Himachal Pradesh, served in Democratic Republic of Congo between March 2023 & April 2024. She is the second Indian to win the award since its inception in 2016.

Abki baar 90 paar for Congress? Why even 30 more seats will ruffle BJP

Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?