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SIT headed by sitting judge to probe Kolkata pandal stampede; CM announces ₹25 lakh aid, government job
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced that a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a sitting Calcutta High Court judge, will investigate the stampede at a Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata that killed at least 19 people…
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TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account
A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms, with TikTok banning the film’s advertising account. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, the documentary’s distributor Bleecker…
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Scarlets 47-14 Newcastle Red Bulls: Wales fly-half Sam Costelow injured in Challenge Cup win
Scarlets: Murray; Mee, Roberts, Williams, Page; Costelow, G Davies; Mathias, McKee, Harri O’Connor, Cuckson, Groves, Lousi, Macleod (capt), AndersonReplacements: Elias, Sam O’Connor, Hawley, Plumtree, Davis, Blacker, Hawkins, JamesNewcastle: Hodge;…
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Val Chmerkovskiy’s TikTok post about Carrie Ann Inaba leads to one-week ‘Dancing With the Stars’ suspension
Val Chmerkovskiy has been suspended from Dancing with the Stars for one week after a TikTok post that seemed to point to Will Smith’s 2022 Oscar slap. The post was later deleted.Val Chmerkovskiy has been suspended from ‘Dancing with the…
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Blackburn on AI Kendrick Lamar clip backlash: It wasn’t ‘intended to offend’
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is defending herself after coming under fire for sharing a video, which seemed to be AI-generated, in which she appeared in the place of rapper Kendrick Lamar during his 2025 Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show…
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Bengal CM forms high-level panel to review safety at Durga Puja pandals after 19 die at Chorbagan stampede
Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced the formation of a high-level committee to review safety arrangements at major Durga Puja pandals across the state following the stampede on Saturday at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin…
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Pope Leo XIV Discharged From Hospital After Surgery, Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Pope Leo XIV was discharged Saturday afternoon from Rome’s Agostino Gemelli University Hospital after a Tuesday operation to remove a cancerous tumor from his lung.“At the time of his discharge from the hospital, Pope Leo was in entirely…
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Clashes, fires and looting break out across France
Clashes, fires and looting break out across France
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Uddhav Thackeray says Govt taking away right to vote, protest; backs regime change call
If the BJP-led Centre is taking away people’s right to express themselves through voting and protests, then such a regime needs to be changed and the Opposition is standing up for it, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Saturday.He…
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Grab an RTX 5090 for a discounted $5,300 as part of an MSI Infinite ZS prebuilt gaming PC — price includes other components worth about $2,300 on their own
This one will be short and sweet. So remember how there are apparently no more RTX 5090s available most anywhere, even though Nvidia’s Senior Vice President just said that the company definitely hasn’t stopped making them? If you had been…
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