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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday questioned whether Delhi should remain the Indian capital as the city’s worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum. A thick layer of smog – a toxic blend of smoke and fog – has been enveloping the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) for the past few days with the air quality index (AQI) plummeting to the “severe-plus” category, forcing authorities to switch schools to online classes and invoke strict pollution control measures. “Delhi is officially the most polluted city in the world, 4x hazardous levels and…

Team Goemkarponn Margao:The first match saw MCC Legends overcome MCC Knights by 5 wickets. MCC Knights set a competitive total of 124/9 in 17 overs, with standout performances by Venkatesh Nevgi, who top-scored with 40 runs off 20 balls, featuring 5 fours and 2 sixes. Rohit Mehta and Pranav Biche contributed 33 and 22 runs, respectively. MCC Legends’ bowling attack was spearheaded by Vasudev Kundaiker, who took 2 wickets for a mere 7 runs. Additional support came from Sandeep Dalal, Amod Borkar, Gopal Gawas, and Elliyas Naroo, each taking one wicket. In reply, MCC Legends chased down the target of…

Team Goemkarponn Margao: Margao Sports Club got the better of Carmona Sports Club 3-0 to move into the quarter-finals of the 30th Mandopa Cup org by Mandopa Sports Club and played at Mandopa on Monday. Carmona SC. Missed to score in the 7th minute of play when Ronan Ferrao shot out of target when only the goalkeeper was at his mercy then Margao made a counterattack when Clif Barreto gave a through pass to Edger Noronha who smartly placed the ball in the far corner of the net in the 24th minutes of play and Margao Sports Club remained 1-0…

New Delhi: After the Competition Commission imposed a ₹ 213-crore penalty on Meta in relation to WhatsApp privacy policy, the company said it disagrees with the watchdog’s decision and plans to appeal. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday asked WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data with other applications, owned by Meta, for advertising purposes for a period of five years. India’s competition watchdog imposed a penalty of ₹ 213.14 crore on the social media giant for unfair business ways with respect to WhatsApp privacy policy update done in 2021. Besides, the competition watchdog has directed Meta to…

Rio de Janeiro: G20 leaders met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday for talks on climate change, ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, and more, at a forum that highlighted differences between world powers but also delivered some successes. Here are five key takeaways from the summit: No climate breakthrough Hopes were high that G20 leaders would jumpstart stalled UN climate talks taking place in Azerbaijan. In their final declaration, however, they merely recognized the need for “substantially scaling up climate finance from billions to trillions from all sources.” Crucially, they did not say who would provide the trillions.…

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi reviewed progress in the disengagement of troops in Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh in a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. It was the first high-level engagement between the two sides after completion of the disengagement process in the two friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the mountainous region. After his talks with Mr. Wang, Mr. Jaishankar said that both sides also exchanged views on the next steps in the India-China bilateral ties. “On the sidelines of the G20 Summit…

New Delhi: India’s most advanced communications satellite was successfully lifted off into space by Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. At the stroke of one minute past midnight on Tuesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s most sophisticated communications satellite, which will provide broadband services in remote areas and in-flight Internet in passenger aircraft, set off for its 34-minute journey into outer space on board Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on its 396 th flight. “Launch successful,” said Radhakrishnan Durairaj, Chairman and Managing Director of New Space India Limited, the commercial…