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Kolkata: Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to field in a rain-curtailed IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders here Saturday. MI are playing the same XI that recorded a seven-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mumbai Monday. KKR made one change, bringing in Nitish Rana for Angkrish Raghuvanshi. It will be a 16-over-a-side contest, with only...

Rafah: Israel ordered new evacuations in Gaza's southern city of Rafah Saturday, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its operation and adding that it is also moving into an area in northern Gaza where Hamas has regrouped. Israel has now evacuated the eastern third of Rafah, pushing the operation to...

Islamabad: Flash floods from unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 1,000 houses, the UN food agency said Saturday. The World Food Programme said it was distributing fortified biscuits to the survivors of one of the many floods that hit Afghanistan over the last few weeks, mostly the northern...

Hyderabad: A video of Baba Ramdev publicly praising Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been making rounds on social media. Users sharing it claim the video is recent and attributed the praise to a changing political climate in the Opposition’s favour in the ensuing General Elections. In the video, Ramdev says Rahul Gandhi used to get little space...

New Delhi: It will be a positive initiative for the major political parties to present their vision from a common platform, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Saturday as he welcomed the invitation of two former judges and an eminent citizen for a public debate on the Lok Sabha elections. In a post on X, Gandhi also said...

Male: Maldives Minister of Foreign Affairs Moosa Zameer Saturday said 76 Indian military personnel were replaced by civilian employees of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited which manufactured the helicopters gifted by India, thus also ending the suspense over the exact number of those repatriated. The Indian military personnel, stationed in the Maldives to operate two platforms for helicopters...

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Saturday said it is surprising that the Election Commission chose to respond to a letter he wrote to INDIA bloc leaders but ignored several other complaints he raised directly to it. In a letter addressed to the CEC and other election commissioners, he said the poll panel is showing no urgency...

Hyderabad: Top BJP leader Amit Shah Saturday asserted Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue to lead the country post 2024 Lok Sabha polls and hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for claiming the PM was seeking votes for making Shah his successor, citing the 75 years age 'rule'. There was nothing written in the BJP's...

Gaza: Some 1,50,000 Gazans have fled from Rafah since the start of the week, fearing an Israeli advance into the city, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) posted X Saturday. However, the Israel Defense Forces say an estimated 3,00,000 people had followed the evacuation orders since the beginning of the week, in...