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Bihar job protests: Aspirants detained after police scuffle during Lok Bhavan march | India News

Bihar job aspirants detained after clash with police during Lok Bhavan march. Photo credit: ANI NEW DELHI: Police detained several job aspirants in Patna on Saturday after a protest march towards Lok Bhavan turned tense. Demonstrators clashed with security personnel while demanding greater transparency in government recruitment.A large number of aspirants took part in the…

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No more boarding pass stamps: New immigration rule for international flyers from Sept 1 | India News

International travelers will soon need e-boarding passes on smartphones for immigration clearance. Physical boarding passes will no longer be stamped by immigration authorities from September one. This change aims to streamline the process and reduce passenger inconvenience. A pilot project is also underway to eliminate immigration stamping for Indian passport holders. The Bureau of Immigration…

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‘Treating assembly like cinema set’: MK Stalin takes dig at CM Vijay’s ‘conduct’ | India News

Stalin also accused Vijay’s government of concentrating on changing the names of old schemes. NEW DELHI: DMK chief MK Stalin on Saturday took aim at Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay over his “conduct” in the state assembly, accusing the actor-turned-politician of treating the House like a film set and using it to deliver…

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Laptop fire sparks mid-air scare on American Airlines flight; passengers injured

An American Airlines flight to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare. (File Photo) An American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare after a passenger’s laptop caught fire during landing, with the pilot reporting that several passengers may have been burned.According to CBS News, which…

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Canada lowered a retired Boeing 737 onto the seabed off Vancouver Island; the 100-foot jet now sits nearly 90 feet underwater as an artificial reef for marine life

A Boeing 737 aircraft that was originally the part of the Canadian Airlines fleet now lies nearly 90 feet underwater and serves the role of an artificial reef for marine life. The 100-foot jet was decommissioned by Air Canada due to age and structural problems, stripped of all usable components and the airframe was donated…

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‘Why Samajwadi Party never split?’ Akhilesh Yadav points out ‘benefit’ of dynastic politics | India News

“Sometimes dynastic politics has its benefits,” Akhilesh Yadav said with a laugh. NEW DELHI: Asked whether defections by MPs could lead to political parties splitting, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said the SP had a built-in advantage because five members of his family are among its MPs.He suggested that even if some MPs…

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‘Judges are not gods, won’t get every judgment right’: Outgoing SC Judge Sanjay Karol in farewell speech | India News

NEW DELHI: Retiring Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Karol in his farewell address on Saturday, said judges “are not gods and they will not get every judgment right.” He also urged other judges to look beyond the facts of a case and see the person behind every litigant.The Supreme Court bid farewell to Justice Karol…

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Researchers turned data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere, mapping a hard-to-observe region around 500 kilometres above the planet

Representative Image (AI-generated) A network of Starlink satellites designed primarily for internet connectivity is giving scientists a new way to study one of the hardest-to-observe regions of Earth’s atmosphere. According to a study by researchers at Kyoto University, publicly available orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites were used to estimate the density of the…

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A Russian pensioner covered her Siberian home with 30,000 colourful bottle caps; the unusual recycling project turned a wooden house into a giant work of art

What do you do with a plastic bottle cap once the drink is gone? For most people, it is the smallest part of the bottle and one of the easiest things to throw away. For Russian pensioner Olga Kostina, however, those colourful little caps became something far more ambitious. Over several years, she collected thousands…

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