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Police say four people were killed and 500 others arrested at protests in the capital, Luanda.At least four people were killed and hundreds were arrested during a protest against a fuel price hike in Angola’s capital, police said.The protests erupted on Monday in response to the government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by 30 percent, which led to large hikes in fares by minibus taxis, an important method of transport for many Angolans.Gunfire could be heard in central Luanda’s Cazenga area, where people were seen taking food and other items from shops.Social media images showed…

GuwahatiJul 29, 2025 19:38 IST First published on: Jul 29, 2025 at 19:24 IST Share Even as Manipur remains under President’s Rule, district election officers have begun holding meetings with local representatives of political parties to discuss the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. While these meetings have already been held in at least five of the 16 districts in the state, notices convening such meetings have been issued in the remaining districts. On Monday, representatives of the BJP, Congress and the Kuki People’s Alliance attended one such meeting in Kangpokpi district. According to an official there, the meeting…

On a mission: Harshika says that she is looking at the stint with CS Atletic Olimpia Gherla as a pathway to play for clubs like Barcelona or Chelsea. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Harshika Jain, after dabbling in just about every possible sport as a kid, found her calling in football. It put her on a tough yet rewarding path, culminating in a move to the Romanian first division team CS Atletic Olimpia Gherla.“Everything still feels new. But I need to get into the zone quickly because the league starts soon,” she told The Hindu, reflecting on her first few…

A cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company’s computer systems on Monday, Russia’s prosecutor’s office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others.Watch | Russian airline Aeroflot hit by cyberattack, over 100 flights cancelled Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack.It is one of the most disruptive cyberattacks to hit Russia since the start of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Previous attacks have targeted…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories A gunman opened fire yesterday evening in a Midtown Manhattan office building, killing four people — including a police officer — before killing himself, city officials say. Police identified the shooter as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, who had a Nevada address. Tamura appears to have driven across the country, entering New York City just hours before the attack, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. New York Police Department…

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is known to be a hard taskmaster and recently, his longtime collaborator, Monty Sharma, who has composed music for many of his films like Black and Saawariya, and also worked on the background music of Devdas, opened up about their work relationship. Sharma shared that while Bhansali allowed him a lot of space as an artiste, he also recalled how the filmmaker would make demands that were not in alignment with his vision. He also shared that during the making of Devdas, he had to postpone his wedding five times because SLB was worried about the film’s…

Kerala’s decision to introduce HPV vaccination targeting adolescent girls, to protect them from cervical cancer is generally hailed as a positive public health measure. However, health experts have pointed out that the State has other pressing public health concerns, where also vaccination strategies must be prioritised.Going by the current data from the population-based and hospital-based cancer registries in Kerala, the incidence of cervical cancer has been on a steady decline in the State over the past several years and it no longer figures among the top five cancers affecting women in Kerala, according to epidemiologists. This is consistent with improvements…

Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 when the Court heard arguments on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals after the Trump administration tried to wind it down. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Trump administration is shifting its tone on how it handles immigrants brought to the U.S. as children under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Also known as DACA, the program was created in 2012 to protect children who arrived in the country illegally prior to 2007 from deportation. In…

India head coach Gautam Gambhir said touring England has always been a challenging assignment, but asserted that the quality of cricket in the ongoing series has made “every cricket lover proud.” Gambhir was addressing a gathering at the India House on Monday evening to express gratitude for the fans’ support during the course of the series, which saw the visitors pull off a dramatic draw in the fourth Test at Manchester.“Touring this part of the world has always been challenging because of the history between the two countries, which can never be forgotten,” said Gambhir during his speech. “Whenever we…

In 1964, two radio engineers at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, were trying to calibrate a sensitive antenna. They kept picking up an odd hiss of noise, no matter where they pointed the instrument. At first they blamed pigeons nesting in the dish. But when they ruled out all local interference, they realized they had stumbled upon something big. The hiss was from the cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang.Meanwhile, just 60 kilometers away at Princeton University, physicist Robert Dicke and his team had been working on a theory predicting exactly this signal. They…