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This combination photo shows presidential candidates Rodrigo Paz, left and Bolivia’s former President Jorge Quiroga, right. Freddy Barragan, Arnulfo Franco/AP hide caption toggle caption Freddy Barragan, Arnulfo Franco/AP LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s presidential vote headed to an unprecedented runoff after a vote Sunday that ended more than two decades of left-wing dominance in the Andean nation but signaled voters’ trepidation about a major lurch to the right. A dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew more votes than the right-wing front-runners, although not enough to secure an outright victory, early results showed. Paz, a former mayor who has sought…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to skip the inauguration of three Kolkata metro projects by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 22, a top state government official said on Monday. The chief minister does not wish to share the stage with officials from the central government, PTI quoted a bureaucrat as saying.(AITC) Banerjee, during her tenure as the railway minister, had planned these metro projects, he claimed. The decision to skip the inauguration of the metro projects was taken in the backdrop of alleged harassment of migrants from West Bengal in the BJP-ruled states, he said. “There…

Published on: Aug 18, 2025 03:17 pm IST On August 4, PPC secured a Guinness World Record for ‘most people registered on a citizen engagement platform in one month’, with over 35.3 million registrations. The central government’s spending on Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) has risen nearly fivefold since its launch in 2018, the education ministry informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. The expenditure grew from ₹3.67 crore in 2018 to ₹18.83 crore in 2025, with the highest spending in 2023 at ₹27.70 crore, before being scaled down in subsequent years. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during an interactive…

File photo of Deepika Kumari. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Ace archers such as Olympians Deepika Kumari and B. Dhiraj in recurve and V. Jyothi Surekha and Abhishek Verma in compound are among the Indian archers named for the inaugural Archery Premier League, scheduled to be held at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi in October.The Archer Association of India (AAI) picked the archers on the basis of top-20 world rankings and a recently-held selection trials.The APL, to be organised under lights, will also witness the participation of elite international archers.Selected Indian archers:Recurve:Men: B. Dhiraj (World Ranking 14), Tarundeep Rai,…

Pakistan has been grappling with one of the deadliest monsoons in recent years with over 650 people being killed in rain-related incidents since June 26, according to local newspaper Dawn. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has voiced sorrow over the mounting human toll from the recent flash floods in Pakistan. In a statement issued by his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Sunday, Guterres extended condolences to the families of the victims and expressed solidarity with all those affected. “The UN Country Teams are at the disposal of the Governments to provide necessary assistance,” the statement read, according to PTI. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

Union Finance Minister during the monsoon session of Parliament in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI/Sansad TV Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Wednesday (August 20, 2025) address a crucial meeting of a group of ministers of States as she makes a case for the sweeping GST reforms that will slash tax rates and lead to reduction in prices of common use items. The Centre has proposed a 2-tier GST structure of 5 and 18%, besides a 40% special rate on a select few items to the GoM on GST rate rationalisation.The proposal, which entails removing the current 12…

In March, music composer Amaal Mallik announced on social media that he has cut ties with his family and had been diagnosed with depression. In the long note, he called out his parents Dabboo and Jyoti Malik for creating differences between him and his brother Armaan Malik by being biased. Now, in a recent interview, Daboo has opened up about how he reacted to his son’s post. He also admitted that he was at fault as a parent for making him feel lonely. During a conversation with Faridoon Shahryar, the music director-singer said, “Baat kisi aur ki thi ya kuch…

A day after Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar asked Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi to either submit his allegations of vote theft in a sworn affidavit within a week or apologise to the nation, the INDIA bloc is learnt to be considering moving an impeachment notice against him.Sources said the matter was discussed at a meeting of the floor leaders of the Opposition bloc chaired by Rajya Sabha LoP and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge earlier in the day. The decision to initiate impeachment proceedings against Kumar is likely to be announced at a press conference scheduled…

Published on: Aug 18, 2025 01:59 pm IST The first suspect was a resident of the victim’s village and the other, her uncle, threatened to kill her if she did not remain silent. Two men have been booked for allegedly raping a Class 12 student when she was returning home after attending the Independence Day celebration at her school here, a police officer said on Monday. The 17-year-old girl was returning home after attending Independence Day programme in her school, when the accused forcibly took her to a farm house and allegedly raped her.(Unsplash/representational) A case has been registered against…

Chandigarh, The Haryana Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a news report alleging that a Public Health Department employee was denied salary as his Aadhaar record wrongly showed him as “deceased.” HHRC takes suo motu cognisance of employee declared ‘dead’ in Aadhaar records The report published in a leading daily on August 12 said Vijay Kumar, a resident of Valmiki Basti, Ramlila Parao in Rohtak, is alive and continues to perform his duties regularly. He has been reportedly deprived of his lawful remuneration due to the administrative lapse, it said. Upon review, the commission observed that the…