August 14, 2026

Swapan Dasgupta gets finance as West Bengal govt distributes portfolios among newly sworn ministers | India News

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Swapan Dasgupta (File photo) NEW DELHI: Newly sworn-in West Bengal ministers were allocated portfolios on Wednesday, with Swapan Dasgupta placed in charge of the finance department and Tapas Roy appointed as industries minister.Dasgupta was elected from the Rashbehari assembly constituency and is a former Rajya Sabha member.The allocation covered 13 Cabinet ministers and 22 ministers…

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A 2200-year-old Chinese four-lane highway discovered buried in the mountains, revealing a lost Qin dynasty megaproject | World News

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In northwest China’s Shaanxi province, a 13-kilometre stretch of the Qin Straight Road is forcing archaeologists to redraw parts of one of antiquity’s most ambitious transport systems. The corridor, built more than 2,200 years ago under the Qin dynasty, is often described as a “four-lane highway,” a comparison that captures its width but not its…

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Chinese investors blocked from SpaceX IPO: How they are finding alternative routes to gain exposure

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Chinese investors are seeking indirect ways to gain exposure to SpaceX’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), after being excluded from direct participation in what could become the world’s largest listing.The surge in interest around Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite internet company has triggered strong fear of missing out (FOMO) among mainland investors. With direct…

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He nearly drowned in space when water filled his helmet, now he’s part of NASA’s Artemis III crew: Meet Luca Parmitano |

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In July 2013, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano found himself in a situation no astronaut ever wants to face. While performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, water began leaking into his helmet. What initially seemed like sweat soon turned into a life-threatening emergency as the water rose around his face, impairing his vision and…

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Rohini Hattangadi reveals the heartwarming thing Smita Patil told her during ‘Gandhi’ screen tests; ‘Smita Patil ka dil kaafi saaf tha’ | Hindi Movie News

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Years after sharing screen space with some of Indian cinema’s finest talents, veteran actor Rohini Hattangadi revisited a memory that perfectly captured the kind of person Smita Patil was behind the spotlight. The incident dates back to the casting process of Richard Attenborough‘s acclaimed film ‘Gandhi’, where both actors found themselves competing for the same…

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‘Egregious, blatantly unlawful’: Congress challenges Rajya Sabha rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan | India News

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Congress on Wednesday urged the Election Commission (EC) to immediately reverse the rejection of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh, calling the poll body’s decision ‘egregious’ and ‘blatantly unlawful’.A delegation of senior Congress leaders, including KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek Tankha and Abhishek Singhvi, met Election Commission…

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Johannesburg Shooting: South Africa shooting: Over 12 killed, 9 wounded in Johannesburg after gunmen open fire

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At least 12 people were killed and nine others injured after gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.The South African Police Service said officers responded to reports of a shooting in progress late on Tuesday evening at around 11.10 pm at the Jumpers informal settlement, where they found…

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Billions under the Pacific Ocean: Apple-sized metal-rich rocks that could power the future of electric cars |

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Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…

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