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Lebanon at risk of humanitarian catastrophe: UN refugee agency warns
Lebanon is facing a heightening humanitarian crisis as Israeli invasion risks turning into a catastrophe, the United Nations refugee agency warned. More than a million people, one in five citizens, have been…
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Siasat’s ‘Check Your SIR’ initiative sees massive public response in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: In a powerful step toward community empowerment, the “Check Your SIR” initiative launched at the Siasat Office has been receiving an overwhelming response from citizens across the city. The initiative, introduced under…
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Man held for supplying spoiled chicken in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: A person involved in supplying spoiled chicken was nabbed by the H-FAST team in Hyderabad. Acting on credible information, the sleuths of the H-FAST Team, along with Dr. K. Nagarjuna, Veterinary…
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Ambulance services stay afloat amid Hyderabad fuel pump rush
Hyderabad: While restaurants and the transport sector continue to reel under the ongoing fuel pump rush, ambulance services in the city have largely managed to keep their wheels turning and their sirens…
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Telangana HC issues notices to Speaker, two BRS MLAs in defection case
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday, March 26, issued notices to Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar and to two MLAs who won the election on the BRS ticket but allegedly defected…
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Shifting narratives, lack of evidence: The viral Varanasi iftar boat party
The Varanasi Iftar party on a boat has continued to reveal a series of shifting versions of accounts, according to a conversation with the complainant, Rajat Jaiswal, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha…
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Ex-Calcutta HC judge to move tribunal after name deleted from Bengal voter list
Kolkata: After the first supplementary list of “under adjudication” voters was published on Monday, March 23, Calcutta High Court’s retired judge and West Bengal Waqf Board chairperson Shahidullah Munshi claimed that his…
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Visitor asked to ‘get out’ of gated community in Hyderabad, divides internet
Hyderabad: Hyderabad has sprung into a new debate: Should outsiders need permission to be allowed inside gated communities? And from whom? A video of a woman being asked to leave a gated…
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US-Israel-Iran war saps India’s economic stability
War does not resolve an issue. It leaves behind a tale of untold miseries across nations, as the celebrated Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi asserted over five decades ago. His prophecy holds today…
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No proposal of imposing lockdown in India: FM Sitharaman
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, March 27, said there is no proposal to impose a lockdown in India in the wake of the West Asia war, and asked politicians…
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Hyderabad: Man alleges custodial torture, Police Commissioner seeks report
Hyderabad: Tension gripped Hyderabad’s Falaknuma on Friday, March 27, after a young man was allegedly tortured in police custody. Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar asked the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rajendranagar,…
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Will gouge out eyes and play marbles: Mumbai BJP MLA over religious insult
Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane issued a direct threat during the grand Ramnavami procession in Maharashtra’s Mumbai on Thursday, March 26, stating that he would “gouge out the eyes” of…
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Relive the 90s: A guide to Hyderabad’s retro-themed food spots
Remember when life was simpler? Before the era of streaming apps and ‘aesthetic’ coffee culture, there was the 90s, the decade of tangled cassette tapes, the sudden spark of MTV on a…
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The Rajas who shaped Indian history: The legacy of Prof Mahmudabad’s family
By Aman Alam The Supreme Court on March 16 closed the case against Prof Ali Khan Mahmudabad, the Ashoka University historian and columnist, after the Haryana government declined to grant sanction for…
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India saw 24700 maternal deaths per one lakh livebirths in 2023: Global analysis
New Delhi: India was among the countries in South Asia and others in sub-Saharan Africa with the highest number of maternal deaths in 2023 of 24,700 per one lakh live births, according…
