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GSLV MK III successfully puts satellite in orbit
GSLV MK III successfully puts satellite in orbit
The GSLV MK III-D1 rocket carrying the GSAT-19 satellite will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 5.28 pm. It is capable of carrying payloads of up to 4,000 kg into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and 10,000 kg into the Low Earth Orbit.
The Indian Space Organisation (ISRO) on Monday launched one of its heaviest communication satellites, the…
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'Police won't intervene': Indian brides given wooden paddles to beat drunk husbands
‘Police won’t intervene’: Indian brides given wooden paddles to beat drunk husbands
State minister gives out hundreds of bats at a mass wedding emblazoned with messages that read: ‘For beating drunkards’
An Indian state minister has given hundreds of wooden bats to newly-wed brides, urging them to use the paddle as a weapon if their husbands turn alcoholic or abusive.
Gopal Bhargava gave the bats – which are used to get dirt out of clothes in traditional laundries – to nearly…
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How artificial wombs will change our ideas of gender, family and equality
How artificial wombs will change our ideas of gender, family and equality
Science has shown what’s possible with lamb foetuses. For humans this could revolutionise birth, solving inequalities and raising new ethical dilemmas
In 1924 the evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane coined the term ectogenesis to describe pregnancy in humans provided through an artificial womb. Haldane imagined that artificial wombs might become so popular by 2074 that only a small minority –…
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We’ll be sneered at, but a progressive alliance can win
We’ll be sneered at, but a progressive alliance can win
Party leaders have ruled out formal deals – and that’s fine. The best place to start is from grassroots level
After the summer referendum lunacy, there was a back-to-school feel travelling up to the Green party’s conference last September. Is progressive alliance the best name for us, my fellow travellers and I were wondering. I use the term “fellow travellers” not in its pejorative, 50s American…
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US woman convicted of spying in China returns home
US woman convicted of spying in China returns home
Deportation of Phan ‘Sandy’ Phan-Gillis, who was arrested on a business trip and accused of espionage, comes at a time of warming China-US relations
An American woman who was arrested on a business trip in China and later convicted of spying has been deported to the US.
Jeff Gillis said his wife, Phan “Sandy” Phan-Gillis, got on a flight to Los Angeles from the southern city of Guangzhou on…
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Pope urges North Korea-US mediation as Trump hedges on military action
Pope urges North Korea-US mediation as Trump hedges on military action
Pope Francis says widespread war would destroy ‘a good part of humanity’ while president, asked about likelihood of military action, says: ‘We’ll see’
Pope Francis has said a third country should mediate the dispute between North Korea and the US, which he said had become “too hot”, risking a war in which “a good part of humanity” would be destroyed.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, answered a…
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Fear of neofascism keeps Emmanuel Macron ahead of Marine Le Pen
Fear of neofascism keeps Emmanuel Macron ahead of Marine Le Pen
With a week until the final poll, French voters face a choice between the unpalatable and the unacceptable
At the university of Paris Nanterre, on the outskirts of the French capital, Antoine Guerreiro of the union of communist students was handing out leaflets urging students to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the final round of the presidential election next Sunday.
Or, to be strictly accurate, to…
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If May really does mean what she says, she should put it in writing
If May really does mean what she says, she should put it in writing
The PM has been long on rhetoric, short on action and the Tory manifesto should contain some real promises
On the night of Theresa May’s announcement that she was calling a snap election, she addressed a private meeting of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers. She rehearsed to them the Brexit-related arguments for going to the country that she had already offered to the public, but witnesses…
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गौतम गंभीर उठाएंगे सुकमा नक्सली हमले में शहीद सीआरपीएफ जवानों के बच्चों का खर्च
गौतम गंभीर उठाएंगे सुकमा नक्सली हमले में शहीद सीआरपीएफ जवानों के बच्चों का खर्च
नई दिल्ली: क्रिकेट के मैदान में गेंदबाजों की खबर लेने वाले भारतीय बल्लेबाज और आईपीएल-10 में कोलकाता नाइट राइडर्स के कप्तान गौतम गंभीर ने ऐलान किया है कि वह सुकमा में हुए नक्सली हमले में शहीद हुए सीआरपीएफ जवानों के बच्चों के खर्च का उठाएंगे.
Gautam Gambhir to bear full expenses of the children of 25 CRPF personnel killed in Sukma attack, Gambhir’s media manager confirms to ANI pic.twitter.com/CQ…
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Donald Trump warns of 'major, major conflict' with North Korea
Donald Trump warns of ‘major, major conflict’ with North Korea
US president says he wants to seek a diplomatic solution to crisis in Korea and reveals China is helping to pressure Kim Jong-un
Donald Trump has said that a “major conflict” was possible with North Korea though he would prefer to solve the standoff over the country’s nuclear and missile programme through diplomacy.
Trump’s warning on Thursday came towards the end of a week where the…
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Americans see Brexit as a reckoning – and boy are they enjoying it
Americans see Brexit as a reckoning – and boy are they enjoying it
With the pound low and reports of discord in Britain, many New Yorkers believe we are undergoing a historic reality check
There is an advert for Virgin Atlantic running on US TV at the moment that depresses me every time I see it. “The British pound is at a 31-year low,” says the cheerful voiceover, “which means you’ll be saving on literally everything when you travel to London.” Viewers are…
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We all grow old – don’t let the age industry stigmatise it
We all grow old – don’t let the age industry stigmatise it
It’s great that we can live healthily beyond middle age; bad if the need to defy time becomes a tyranny
Once upon a time, the consolation for reaching middle age was being allowed to go cheerfully to seed. What bliss, in a way, to finally let yourself go; throw away the hair dye, buy a bigger size, stop feeling bad about never doing any exercise, and gratefully give up the pretence of keeping up…
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Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passes away at 70 after prolonged illness
Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passes away at 70 after prolonged illness
NEW DELHI: Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passed away at the age of 70 due to advanced bladder carcinoma. The actor was undergoing treatment in HN Reliance Foundation and Research Centre in Girgaon, Mumbai and breathed his last at 11.20 am. Vinod Khanna was sitting MP from Gurdaspur.
The actor was hospitalised after suffering from severe dehydration. Earlier, a picture of the actor went viral …
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Trekker found after surviving 47 days lost in Himalayas
Trekker found after surviving 47 days lost in Himalayas
Liang Sheng-yueh, 21, from Taiwan was trapped in a remote Nepal valley with his girlfriend but she died three days before rescuers found them
Two Taiwanese trekkers who went missing in a remote area of Nepal seven weeks ago have been found – but only one survived the ordeal.
Liu Chen-chun, 19, died just three days before the rescue team located the couple in the Dhading region of central Nepal,…
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Trump under fire over 'huge tax cut for the rich'
Trump under fire over ‘huge tax cut for the rich’
Plan would slash taxes for small and big businesses, including Trump’s, eliminate inheritance taxes, and would be the largest overhaul since Reagan era
The Trump administration unveiled what it called the biggest tax cuts “in history” on Wednesday, in a move that will simplify the US tax system, slash taxes for businesses large and small – including his own – eliminate inheritance taxes and set…
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Isis faces exodus of foreign fighters as its 'caliphate' crumbles
Isis faces exodus of foreign fighters as its ‘caliphate’ crumbles
Exclusive: Two Britons and one US citizen are among dozens who have surrendered or been caught at Turkish border
Large numbers of foreign fighters and sympathisers are abandoning Islamic Stateand trying to enter Turkey, with at least two British nationals and a US citizen joining an exodus that is depleting the ranks of the terror group.
Stefan Aristidou, from Enfield in north London, his British…
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No one sabotages Donald Trump better than Donald Trump
No one sabotages Donald Trump better than Donald Trump
Yet another executive order by the US president was blocked by the courts, in part because of his own words. His tweets are a political doomsday device
Welcome to the age of presidential sabotage. Since assuming office, President Donald J Trump has shown little inclination to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”, as commanded by the US constitution. Instead, he has openly declared his…
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