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US Open: Sumit Nagal will face second seed Dominic Thiem in the next round.© Twitter Sumit Nagal broke into the second round of the ongoing US Open on Tuesday. Nagal defeated Bradley Klahn of the United States 6-1, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the men’s singles first round at the US …

NEW DELHI: If India wanted a military confrontation, the People’s Liberation Army is obliged to do the Indian army suffer much more serious losses than in 1962, shouted the hawkish global times in an editorial about the latest military outbreak in Pangong Tso. This followed a rare ‘poll’ conducted by …

The Chinese military is pushing to double its more than 200 nuclear warheads in a decade with the ability to launch them aboard ballistic missiles by land, sea and air, the Pentagon said in a report Tuesday. In addition to aiming for technological parity with the United States, the People’s …

Here is a list of the top ten stocks that may appear in the news on Wednesday: Telecommunications companies: Operators must make an advance payment of 10% of the total fees before March 31. Thereafter, they must pay the balance in equal annual installments for 10 years at an interest …

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine because it does not want to be limited by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization. The decision to act alone, first reported by The Washington Post, …

WASHINGTON DC: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (POT) has congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one of the most distant Star galaxies in the universe estimated to be 9.3 billion light-years distant from land. Speaking about the achievement to ANI on Tuesday, NASA described this discovery as an …

Experts said that the closure of educational institutions had a significant impact on the teaching-learning system. New Delhi: A group of public health experts recommended that schools and other educational institutions be reopened in a phased manner and, at the same time, stressed that the blockade should be suspended as …

NEW DELHI: Bharti Infratel’s board approved Tuesday the long-pending merger with Indus Towers Ltd, first announced in April 2018, to create the world’s largest mobile tower operator outside of China. The deal will allow the cash-hungry Vodafone Idea Ltd to sell its 11.15% stake in Indus Towers for ₹4,000 crore, …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: After the Prime Minister Narendra modiInnovative apps mentioned in Mann Ki Baat last Sunday, various indigenous apps have been ranked in the top 10 on the app store in their respective categories. In the “social” category, the indigenous apps in the top …

Among other allegations, the minister in his letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (above) also alleged that Facebook employees had abused the prime minister and high-level cabinet ministers while working at Facebook India and holding positions important. (Reuters / File Image) The ongoing controversy over Facebook’s alleged political bias took …