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New York: Maryland Governor Wes Moore has named Indian-American Sanjay Rai as acting secretary for the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC)Rai, who is Montgomery College's senior vice president for academic affairs, will start his…
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Texas: At least 18,000 cows died and one female employee was critically injured after a fire erupted inside a milking parlour at a dairy farm in Dimmitt, Texas, on April 10. The incident marks the deadliest barn fire on record in the US,…
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Phnom Penh: Cambodia on Saturday broke its own Guinness World Record for the largest Madison dance involving 4,999 participants. A Guinness World Record adjudicator announced that the participants performed the five-minute Madison dance…
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Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday was evacuated unscathed after an object that appeared to be a smoke bomb was thrown at him during a public event in Wakayama City, local media reports said, adding that the suspect…
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Tokyo:  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday escaped unhurt after a smoke bomb was hurled at him ahead of his scheduled speech at the Saikazaki Port in Wakayama prefecture, local media reported. According to public…
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Jakarta: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 jolted  the north coast of Java in Indonesia Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake that hit the region at 09:55:45 GMT, was initially…
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Seoul:  South Korea and the US held joint air drills, involving at least one B-52H strategic bomber, on Friday, Seoul's defence ministry said, a day after North Korea test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The…
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Islamabad: At least four people were killed, three others injured and several went missing in a traffic accident in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The accident took place in Upper Kohistan area where a passenger van…
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Tokyo:  Japanese lunar exploration company ispace aims to make a historic touchdown on the surface of the Moon on April 25, the company said on Thursday. So far no privately operated spacecraft has ever landed softly on the Moon, besides…
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Kathmandu: Nepal has become a founding member of the International Big Cats Alliance initiated by India. During the launch of the alliance under India's initiative, Minister for Energy Shakti Bahadur Basnet handed over the letter…
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