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Latest news on June 20, 2024: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama exchanges greetings with former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during their meeting at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, on India. (REUTERS)
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June 20, 2024 6:12 PM
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World News Live Updates: China says Dalai Lama must correct his political propositions for talks; asks US to respect its sensitivities over Tibet
- President Biden is set to sign the Resolve Tibet bill. The bill urges talks between Tibetan leaders and Beijing to resolve their governance dispute with China.
June 20, 2024 6:05 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘Just because Rahul Gandhi failed…’: BJP’s counter to Cong on NEET, UGC-NET row
- Rahul Gandhi alleged that the educational institutions in India have been captured by the BJP and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of facilitating it
June 20, 2024 5:43 PM
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India News Live Updates: WATCH: Railways conducts successful trial run on world’s highest Chenab rail bridge
- The Indian railways completed a trial run on the Chenab rail bridge, the world’s highest, on Thursday. Services will start soon, say officials.
June 20, 2024 5:40 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘We are hurt…why is CM silent?’: Tejashwi Yadav on Patna High court order rejecting 65% quota
- The Patna high court passed the order on a batch of writ petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the legislations brought by the state government
June 20, 2024 5:38 PM
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Cities Live Updates: U.P.’s go green plan with Nepal, 8 states
- Saplings of trees that matter to U.P.’s neighbours will be planted during upcoming plantation season starting in July
June 20, 2024 5:19 PM
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India News Live Updates: PM Modi psychologically collapsed, his chest now 30-32 inch: Rahul Gandhi on NEET-UG row
- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government over the alleged irregularities in NEET and cancellation of UGC-NET.
June 20, 2024 5:08 PM
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India News Live Updates: UK PM Sunak’s party campaign chief steps down after insider gambling scandal
- Tony Lee, campaign chief of UK PM Sunak’s Conservatives party, has stepped aside after news broke of him being investigated for insider gambling
June 20, 2024 5:03 PM
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India News Live Updates: French journalist claims ‘asked to leave India’, forbidden from covering general elections
- Sébastien Farcis said that on March 7, the MHA refused to renew his journalist permit and informed him about the rejection to cover the general elections
June 20, 2024 4:45 PM
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World News Live Updates: Putin signs deals with Vietnam in bid to shore up ties in Asia
- Though not substantial as Russia’s deal with North Korea, it aims to develop “reliable security architecture” for Asia-Pacific to avoid “closed military blocs”.
June 20, 2024 4:39 PM
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India News Live Updates: Trouble for JD(U) MP as case filed over ‘won’t work for Yadavs and Muslims’ remark
- The case against the MP-elect from Sitamarhi has been lodged by a social worker based in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur.
June 20, 2024 4:38 PM
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World News Live Updates: Who is Alki David? Coca-Cola heir ordered to pay employee $900mn in one of largest sexual assault verdicts in history
- Alki David, Coca-Cola heir with string of sexual assault convictions against him, has been directed to pay $900mn to a former employee.
June 20, 2024 4:36 PM
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World News Live Updates: Over 1,000 Hajj pilgrims dead amid record-breaking heat in Saudi Arabia
- The death toll from this year’s hajj crossed the 1,000 mark as Saudi Arabia continues to reel under sweltering heat.
June 20, 2024 4:35 PM
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India News Live Updates: Amid heatwave, 77% Indians want stronger climate action: UNDP-Oxford survey
- The UNDP survey also reveals that 33 per cent of Indians have experienced extreme weather like heatwaves and that most countries support climate action
June 20, 2024 4:31 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Minor boy kills three people including grandmother in Odisha: Police
- During interrogation, the minor boy confessed to having sexually assaulted the woman and hacked her to death while he killed his grandmother as she refused him money
June 20, 2024 4:28 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Punjab FM approves 6th pay panel recommendations for aided staff
- Decision will benefit employees of aided schools and colleges under the departments of school education, technical education and industrial training, non-teaching staff of these institutions under the higher education department, and retirees of aided schools.
June 20, 2024 4:25 PM
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Cities Live Updates: BJP holds state-wide protest in Karnataka over hike in petrol and diesel prices
- BJP state President B Y Vijayendra sought to mark their protest by riding bicycles from the party’s state office ‘Jagannath Bhavan’ to ‘Vidhana Soudha’.
June 20, 2024 4:19 PM
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World News Live Updates: Seoul slams Russia-North Korea deal, might reconsider policy on arms to Ukraine
- South Korea said deal will negatively affect relations with Russia. Seoul has not armed Ukraine due to policy of not arming countries engaged in active conflict
June 20, 2024 4:05 PM
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World News Live Updates: Melania Trump stuns in all-white ensemble amid rare outing, expert calls her outfit ‘echo from the past’
June 20, 2024 3:38 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Baramulla encounter: Slain terrorists Pakistanis associated with LeT
- The terrorists were identified as Usman and Umar and were part of group active in Sopore area of Baramulla district
June 20, 2024 3:38 PM
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India News Live Updates: ED raids 35 places linked to Amtek group in ₹20,000-cr bank fraud case
- The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided offices across Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai and Nagpur associated with Amtek Group
June 20, 2024 3:30 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘Modi facilitated capture of educational institutions’: Rahul Gandhi on UGC-NET cancellation
June 20, 2024 3:26 PM
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India News Live Updates: These states to receive rainfall as monsoon advances after 9-day lull: IMD updates
- IMD updates: Fairly widespread light to moderate rainfall is exoected over Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
June 20, 2024 3:23 PM
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India News Live Updates: Kuala Lampur-bound Malaysia Airlines flight returns to Hyderabad due to ‘engine issue’
- A video, recorded apparently by a passenger shows, sparks coming out from one of the flight’s engines.
June 20, 2024 3:12 PM
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India News Live Updates: Monsoon makes marginal progress; relief from heatwave likely over next 4-5 days: IMD
- A fresh spell of heavy to very heavy rainfall is also likely over Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra over the next five days
June 20, 2024 2:53 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Anonymous social media user describes brutal gang fight on Bengaluru road
- The person claimed that an entire gang was involved in the street brawl that happened on Monday, and he/she claimed that a few people were injured.
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