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NDA's Droupadi Murmu vs Opposition's Yashwant Sinha in president election

With Murmu's nomination, the BJP is sending out a significant political message after elevating a Dalit, Ram Nath Kovind, to the top post five years back

International Yoga Day 2022: PM Modi leads celebrations from Mysuru

This year the theme for the celebration of International Yoga Day is "Yoga for humanity"

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka opens IMF talks, begins a two-week shutdown

Many protesters accuse President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his influential family of mishandling the economy

Assam floods: 9 die in last 24 hours, CM Sarma holds review meeting

With over 127,600 people affected by the Assam floods, the death toll in the state has now jumped to 71

Vladimir Putin says will use nuclear arms to defend our sovereignty

Putin said the United States considered itself "God's emissary on Earth", and that Russia was taking its place in a new world order

Sri Lankan troops open fire to contain unrest over fuel shortages

Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365 kilometres (228 miles) north of Colombo, on Saturday night as their guard point was pelted with stones

Sri Lanka in talks to amend terms of $1.5-billion China deal: Report

Meanwhile, the United States on Thursday announced that it will provide $6 million in emergency assistance to Sri Lanka

Meta, Google and Twitter vow to fight fake news or risk penalties

The signatories agree to do more to tackle deep fakes, fake accounts and political advertising

Dow Jones falls 758 points to lowest in over a year, techs slide

The Dow had rallied on Wednesday after the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced its largest rate hike since 1994

UAE suspends exports and re-exports of Indian wheat for four months

UAE's economic ministry cited international developments that have affected trade flows as the reason behind the suspension

Fed hikes rates by 75 bps, biggest jump since 1994, flags slowing economy

Chairman Jerome Powell and colleagues on Wednesday intensified their effort to cool prices by lifting the target range for the federal funds rate to 1.5% to 1.75%

Pakistan FinMin warns of default if fuel subsidies not abolished

Ismail claimed that the government was still giving Rs 19 subsidy on petrol and Rs 53 subsidy on diesel

Russia got $98 billion from fuel exports in 100 days of war: Report

According to the report, the EU took 61 per cent of Russia's fossil fuel exports during the war's first 100 days, worth about 57 billion euros

Centre starts awareness drive to dispel myths about rice fortification

The food secretary said that the state medical department and ground functionaries are generally aware of pockets where and what kind of diseases are prevalent

Centre orders online food operators to show break-up of all charges levied

Asks them to submit plan in 15 days for improving complaint redress

Retail inflation eases to 7.04% in May, but remains above RBI's target band

Inflation in the food basket was 7.97% in May 2022, marginally lower than 8.31% in the previous month, as per the data released by the National Statistical Office

Russia attacks chemical plant in Ukraine's Severodonetsk city

Officials estimate that as many as 800 civilians are hiding in the plant

NEET 2021 counselling: SC quashes plea to hold stray round for vacant seats

The bench said that granting a stray round of counselling for NEET 2021 would have public health implications

Rajya Sabha elections: BJP, Congress bag 3 each in Karnataka, Rajasthan

Counting halted in Maharashtra, Haryana over accusations of rule violations

War causing severe cost-of-living crisis no country can escape: UN

An FAO index of food prices surged to a record earlier this year as Russia's invasion of Ukraine curtails shipments from one of the world's biggest suppliers of vegetable oils and grains