Preparations for the country's 80th Union Budget have begun, but this time there is suspense regarding the date of the budget. Because, in the year 2026, February 1 is a Sunday and Guru Ravidas Jayanti is also on the same day.
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New Delhi: The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) recently rolled out a new feature that displays a monthly list of the most-liked tweets within a specific country. These rankings confirm that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s digital popularity remains undiminished.
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Adelaide: Australia got off to a good start in the second innings of the ongoing third Test of the Ashes 2025-26. Posting a target of 435 runs for England to chase down in Adelaide, the hosts saw skipper Pat Cummins propel his side to a brilliant start, taking the first two wickets of the run chase.
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New Delhi: In a significant commercial milestone, ISRO’s LVM3-M6 rocket is set to launch a communication satellite for the US-based firm AST SpaceMobile on December 24.
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New Delhi: A SpiceJet passenger has accused an off-duty Air India Express pilot of physically assaulting him at Delhi airport’s Terminal 1 on Friday following an argument at the security checkpoint. The incident allegedly took place after a dispute over cutting the queue, which quickly escalated.
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The bustling street, where vendors sell everything from antiques to Persian carpets and spices, is called Jew Town - some decades ago, every house on this street had a Jewish family, and the place was known as the Jewish quarter. Thaha now runs the last Jewish embroidery shop in Kochi.
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For years, scientists have warned that bird flu - better known as H5N1 - could one day make the dangerous leap from birds to humans and trigger a global health crisis. Avian flu - a type of influenza - is entrenched across South and South-East Asia and has occasionally infected humans since emerging in China in the late 1990s.
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