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New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has slipped to world No. 17, her worst in ten years, in the latest women’s singles BWF rankings, released on Tuesday.

New Delhi: In a stunning move, the Australian state of Victoria on Tuesday announced that it will not host the 2026 Commonwealth Games because it is turning out to be too expensive.

WASHINGTON: Trump and his inner circle are not at all shy about saying he will move to assume the role of a dictator should he be elected in 2024.

Increasingly, muzzling political freedoms beyond national borders is part of an autocrat’s toolkit.

A key feature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent foreign trips was the vegetarian meals served in state banquets organized to mark his presence.

‘Pee-gate’, standing for the incident of a top executive of a multinational urinating on a co-passenger in an inumbrated state, was a new year sensation. The man, Shankar Mishra, was banned from flying for four months while Air India, the operator of the New York-Delhi flight on which the clumsy behaviour occurred, was slapped a fine of Rs 3 million for failure to prevent the mid-air drama. The incident itself happened in November 2022, but it came to light only in January this year.

India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector.

Spam calls continue to intrude daily lives of mobile users with impunity. Users maintain they disconnect and block three and more spam calls daily despite Do Not Disturb (DND) facility having been introduced since 2007 by the union government. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has already introduced in 2010 a framework, Telecom Commercial Customers Preference Regulation (TCCCPR), to curb spam calls. But the spammers went ahead and thwarted this regulation as well. Union government also keeps introducing new regulations from time to time to keep spam calls under checks. All such measures have failed to check pesky calls. It seems spam callers have infiltrated every mode of communications. Users are finding it difficult to deal with such problems.

New Delhi: Indian shooter put up a disappointing show as India finished with a solitary bronze medal bagged by Prithviraj Tondaiman in the trap event at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Lonato in Italy

New Delhi: Avinash Sable qualified for the Paris Olympics as he timed a season’s best 8:11.63 to finish sixth in the 3000m steeplechase at the Silesia Diamond League athletics meet in Chorzow (Poland).