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On first day of 2025, people of Delhi hope you give up habit of lying, BJP’s Sachdeva writes to Kejriwal

New Delhi, 1/1:  In a jibe at AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva urged him to give up what he said were the former CM’s “deceitful and dishonest” political practices as a new year resolve. The dig at Kejriwal comes in response to his letter to RSS head Mohan Bhagwat…

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In a historic first, Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi agree to share chess World Blitz title

Washington DC, 1/1: The chess world will have two World Blitz Champions for the first time in its history after former World Champion Magnus Carlsen agreed to share the title with Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi after three sudden-death games failed to produce a winner. It was Carlsen who made the suggestion to Nepomniachtchi, who then accepted…

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Thousands march in Bangladesh to mark student-led uprising that ousted PM Hasina

Dhaka, 31/12: Thousands of Bangladeshis rallied at a ‘March for Unity’ in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and remember the more than 1,000 killed. The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group that led the protests, dropped a…

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