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IHCL profit grows 21% to ₹358 crore

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-21T14:01:07+00:00

Net profit for the quarter stood at ₹358 crore compared to ₹296 crore in the same period last year

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Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T14:00:48+00:00

As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing on changing nature of his home regionDonal Gooch is not pleased about the trash on his arena floor.“Shit, it’s pitiful,” he says. Continue reading...

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Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T14:00:47+00:00

The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countriesNo part of the United States’ anti-HIV programme has escaped unscathed from Donald Trump’s funding cuts, despite pledges from the administration to protect care that saved lives around the world, a new report has found.Funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) have caused “severe and devastating” disruption globally, with thousands of staff laid off and many clinics closed, according to resear

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Broker’s Call: 360 One WAM (Add)

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-21T14:00:04+00:00

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The Teenage Boys Digging for Their Mother’s Body

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:50:50+00:00

After Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes, Winder and Deivi Delfín dug every day for 26 days to find the bodies of their mother, brother and grandmother.

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Fourth person dies in New York City legionnaires’ disease outbreak

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:46:28+00:00

US health officials say source of Upper East Side cluster has likely been eliminated after 76 people fell illAn outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in New York City has claimed a fourth life, officials have said, as they again expressed confidence the source of the exposure had been eliminated.A statement from the city’s health department on Monday said the outbreak, which was traced to cooling towers in buildings in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had sickened 76 people – with 53 discharged after hospital treatment, and 12 others managing their recovery at home. Continue reading...

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Stand still, make eye contact: Denmark tells tourists how to behave in a wolf encounter

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:45:02+00:00

Government urges visitors not to approach or feed wolves as it manages safety amid growing populationDanish authorities have advised tourists to stand still, make eye contact and put up “maximum resistance” in the event of attack if they encounter a wolf while on holiday.After a 200-year absence, wolves started returning to Denmark in 2012. There are now estimated to be 49 wolves on the Danish peninsular of Jutland. Continue reading...

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Scientists’ panel suggests rejuvenation of old Totapuri orchards in AP

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-21T13:45:01+00:00

A comprehensive assessment of the entire Totapuri mango value chain was conducted to have long-term solutions for price stabilisation, says Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

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What does a heatwave cost?

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:42:38+00:00

What does a heatwave cost?

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Як вибрати дитячий візок для щоденних прогулянок

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-07-21T13:41:00+00:00

Купівля дитячого візка здається простою, доки батьки не починають порівнювати десятки моделей. Вони відрізняються вагою, колесами, амортизацією, габаритами, механізмом складання та комплектацією. Тому...

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Oil price rises above $90 as US and Iran exchange fire and Houthis threaten naval blockade in Saudi Arabia - business live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:40:46+00:00

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsMore on the cost of living: new figures show that UK grocery inflation eased in the four weeks to 12th July to 2.6%, its lowest rate since December 2024.It marks the fifth consecutive month of slowing price rises, Worldpanel by Numerator found.Easing price rises will come as welcome news to shoppers, but the annual bill tells a fuller story. The average household spent £5,530 on groceries over the past twelve months to July, up £156 on the same period last year - a reminder that even as the rate of inflation cools, the cumulative cost o

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Ann Widdecombe was hit on head repeatedly with hammer, court told

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:39:33+00:00

Joshua Kerry appears at Westminster magistrates court charged with murder of former MP earlier this monthA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of former MP and Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe.Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of killing the 78-year-old former Conservative minister at her home in Haytor, Devon, earlier this month, by hitting her on the head with a hammer 21 times. Continue reading...

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US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:33:35+00:00

State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down governmentThe US government’s latest allegations that Cuba is behind “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history” and that its leaders pose “a unique threat to American homeland security” have come as startling revelations to those living under the six-month-long US oil blockade in Havana, where desperate people search through piles of uncollected rubbish for food, or else swelter at home in 24-hour-plus blackouts.The unsigned 100-page report Cuba: Capital of 21st-C

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AI will supercharge surveillance capitalism

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-21T13:32:01+00:00

There is a real danger of AI companies replicating the toxic practices of social media. It is time for policymakers to respond

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Attaque armée à Stade dans un centre d’accueil, en Allemagne : l’auteur s’est suicidé en prison

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-21T13:29:08+00:00

Le jour de l’attaque, à la fin du mois de juin, l’homme avait rendez-vous avec plusieurs des victimes afin de discuter de la garde de sa fille, qui se trouvait sur les lieux avec sa mère. Quatre femmes et deux hommes, des travailleurs sociaux chargés de la protection de l’enfance, ont été tués.

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Lebanese army accuses Israelis of firing near troops as president prepares to meet Trump – Middle East crisis live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-21T13:28:24+00:00

Soldiers were operating in ‘pilot zone’ in southern Lebanon; Joseph Aoun to meet Trump at White HouseLebanon’s president, Joseph Aoun, is due to meet Donald Trump for the first time today as he wraps up a four-day visit to Washington.The meeting coincides with ongoing US-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel. The two sides announced a “framework agreement” on 26 June which stipulates the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon as well as the disarmament of Hezbollah. Continue reading...

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В Андах знайшли найбільше родовище у світі: чому його розробка може обернутися катастрофою

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-07-21T13:26:00+00:00

Під землею можуть залягати до 13 млн тонн міді, близько 907 тонн золота та майже 18,6 тис. тонн срібла. Геологи відповіли, чи зможе їх коли-небудь видобути людство.

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Під Андами знайшли гігантське родовище золота: чому його розробка стане катастрофою

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-07-21T13:26:00+00:00

Крім 907 тонн золота під землею можуть залягати до 13 млн. тонн міді та майже 18,6 тис. тонн срібла. Геологи відповіли, чи зможе людство колись здобути ці запаси.

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Microsoft signs multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with France’s Mistral

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-21T13:24:32+00:00

Under the partnership, Microsoft Azure customers will be able to develop AI applications on Mistral’s French data centres, with Mistral’s AI models also becoming available through Foundry, Copilot Studio and Azure Local.

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