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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Meteorological Department has forecasted that Goa’s weather will stay partly cloudy from May 6 to May 8. However, between May 9 and May 12, intermittent rainfall is anticipated. Today and tomorrow are also likely to be hot and muggy days, with the highest temperature hovering around 33 to 35 degrees Celsius over the course of the following seven days. The state’s maximum temperature is not expected to change significantly over the next five days. Margao recorded a minimum temperature of 27.4 degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of 33.6 degrees Celsius on Monday, while Panaji recorded…

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Washington: Donald Trump’s intimate moments with an adult film star spilled out into open court on Tuesday as Stormy Daniels described her alleged affair with the former president in a highly-anticipated moment of his hush-money trial. The testimony everybody was waiting for arrived Tuesday morning in Manhattan as Daniels took the stand to tell her story of a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel suite. “He was wearing silk or satin pajamas that I immediately made fun of,” Daniels said as a prosecutor questioned her about the encounter. “‘Does Hugh Hefner know you stole his pajamas?'”…

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MUMBAI: Rajasthan Royals (RR) captain Sanju Samson has been found guilty of breaching the IPL Code of Conduct in the fixture against Delhi Capitals (DC), played on Tuesday at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. The wicketkeeper-batter has been slapped with a fine worth 30 percent of his match fee as the punishment for his offence. According to IPL’s statement, the RR skipper ‘committed a Level 1 offence under Article 2.8 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct’ and has accepted the Match Referee’s sanction. “Sanju Samson, Captain, Rajasthan Royals has been fined 30 per cent of his match fees…

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MUMBAI: Over 80 international and domestic flights of Air India Express were cancelled after the senior crew members of the airline went on mass ‘sick leave’. The development came after several cabin crew members started reporting sick since Monday evening and as there are not enough cabin crew members, “scores of flights” have been cancelled at various airports, including Kochi, Calicut and Bangalore. According to sources, the Civil Aviation authorities are looking into the issue to understand the cause of the sudden incident. Meanwhile, reports suggest that the flights were cancelled due to shortage of Air India Express staff members…

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MUMBAI: Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca will withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide, UK-based media outlet The Telegraph said in a report published Tuesday (local time). The report said that the vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its “marketing authorisation”. AstraZeneca submitted the application to withdraw the vaccine on March 5 and the application came into effect on May 7. The pharma major will make similar applications in the UK and other countries that had approved the vaccine in the coming months. Their vaccine for Covid was known as Vaxzevria. AstraZeneca said that it initiated the…

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NEW DELHI: The row over Sam Pitroda’s ‘inheritance tax’ remark amid election season has not even settled yet but the Indian Overseas Congress head stirred new trouble for Congress with his racist remark, giving the BJP an opportunity to lambast the grand old party. Following Pitroda’s statement, Chief Ministers from BJP-ruled states in Northeast — Assam and Manipur — attacked Pitroda and demanded an apology from the Congress. Manipur CM N Biren Singh said that Congress has a hidden agenda to divide India on religious grounds and blamed the opposition party for the situation in the state, where over 100…

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HOW NUMBERS STACK IN HARYANA ASSEMBLY AFTER 3 INDEPENDENTS WITHDRAW SUPPORT? — Following Tuesday’s development, the BJP now has 40 MLAs in the 90-member Haryana Assembly. — BJP also has the support of two other independent MLAs – Nayan Pal Rawat from Prithla and Rakesh Daulatabad from Badshahpur and Haryana Lokhit party’s Gopal Kanda. — With a total of 43 MLAs, the BJP is short of two from the halfway mark of 45. — ⁠BJP, however, claims the unofficial support of 4-5 JJP MLAs saying it is actually at 47 and safe. — The JJP MLAs haven’t announced support due to anti-defection law. –…

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