TikTok is staying in the United States under a new American-led joint venture. But instead of relief, the announcement has triggered skepticism.

A dog sat by the body of its 13-year old dead master for four days in Himachal Pradesh's Bharmour before rescuers reached the spot.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party chief Ajit Pawar (66) died after the aircraft he was travelling in crash-landed at Baramati airport on Wednesday morning.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar died on Wednesday after a chartered aircraft crashed while attempting to land at Baramati airport.

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Pawar was headed to Baramati to attend a public rally for the Zilla Parishad Elections

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In fiscal 2024-25 (FY25), India, according to HSBC, exported $76 billion worth of goods to the EU and bought $61 billion worth of goods from the EU

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This year, Kartavya Path, stretching from Rashtrapati Bhawan to the National War Memorial, has been elaborately decorated to showcase India's remarkable journey

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All market segments, including equities, equity derivatives, and the securities lending and borrowing (SLB) segment, are non-operational for the day

Stock market closed for Republic day 2026

The Delhi Police is on high alert with over 30,000 personnel deputed citywide in a  multi-layered security net for the Republic Day celebrations, officials said.
Around 10,000 police personnel are stationed in the New Delhi district alone, which contains the ceremonial parade route and high-security zones, they say.
Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Devesh Kumar Mahala said, "For the safety and security of Republic Day celebrations, approximately 10,000 police personnel are deployed in the New Delhi area. Pickets, barricades and all standard operating procedures are in place."
Deployment plans, point-wise briefings and contingency measures have been explained to all personnel, and rehearsals have been conducted, he said.
More than 3,000 CCTV cameras equipped with advanced video analytics and Facial Recognition System (FRS) are installed across the New Delhi area, including along the parade route and nearby locations, he said.
Live feeds from these cameras are monitored

A Delhi Police officer sealing an area in the Connaught Place area.

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Gold has surged past $5,000 an ounce as geopolitical tensions, trade uncertainty, expectations of lower US Fed interest rates and sustained global central bank buying combine to support prices

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"Like it or not, China matters to the UK," is the message British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is taking on his visit to Beijing on Wednesday, accompanied by a 60-strong business and cultural delegation.
Downing Street said the visit, which will also cover Shanghai, reflects the UK's "clear-eyed and realistic" approach to China in terms of opportunities and challenges they pose by continuing to pursue cooperation while "maintaining guardrails" when it comes to the country's national security.
The Labour Party government is keen to highlight its re-engagement with China with this first visit in eight years, coming close on the heels of a ministerial go-ahead for its controversial new "mega embassy" in London.
"For years, our approach to China has been dogged by inconsistency  blowing hot and cold, from Golden Age to Ice Age. But like it or not, China matters for the UK," Starmer said in a pre-visit statement.
"As one of the world's biggest economic players, a strategic and consistent

Keir Starmer, Keir, Starmer, UK

Britain's competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews.
It's part of a set of proposals from the Competition and Markets Authority aimed at loosening the US tech giant's stranglehold on the UK's online search market.
The watchdog last year labelled Google a "strategic" player in online search advertising, using new digital powers to promote more competition by forcing changes to the company's business practices.
The CMA's report noted that news publishers have suffered a drop in traffic since Google rolled out its AI Overviews - summaries that appear at the top of some search queries - because fewer users are clicking through to the original articles.
The watchdog said Google should give publishers "meaningful choice" over how their content is used in AI-generated responses; be more transparent about the process; and properly cite content used in AI .

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