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Ancient Mayan City With "Pyramid-Like Buildings" Found Deep In Mexican Forest
Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said the city was likely an important centre more than a thousand years ago.
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3,000-Year-Old Maya Cities With "Super Highways" Discovered In Guatemala
It is the latest discovery of roughly 3,000-year-old Maya centers and related infrastructure, according to a statement on Monday from a team from Guatemala's FARES anthropological research foundation.
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2,000-Year-Old Mayan City Discovered Beneath Guatemala's Rainforest
A vast, 2,000-year-old Maya site in Guatemala that was hidden by a rainforest has been found by researchers.
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Karnataka Clarifies Fewer Flights From 5 States, No Ban
Karnataka has requested the Civil Aviation Ministry to reduce the number of incoming flights from five states - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan - to contain the spiralling coronavirus infection in the state.
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2 Dead In Landslide In Kodagu, Coastal Karnataka Flooded, Rescue Ops On
Two people died on Kodagu-Mangaluru highway in a landslide this morning. Heavy rain has caused severe flooding in parts of coastal Karnataka and Kodagu district which generally receive higher rainfall than elsewhere in the state. Choppers will leave Bengaluru to airlift over 100 perople stranded in Kodagu. The Civil Defence Quick Response Team resc...
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After Flight Scare, Team Rahul Gandhi Alleges "Intentional Tampering"
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and four passengers on a chartered flight from Delhi to Karnataka got a major scare on Thursday after the aircraft reportedly developed "multiple faults", triggering a complaint from his key aide to seek a probe to determine if there was any "intentional tampering" of the aircraft.
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Amit Shah Testifies In Court, Backs Maya Kodnani's Claims In Gujarat Riots Case
BJP president Amit Shah told a Gujarat court on Monday that he had seen Maya Kodnani, a leader of his party, in the state assembly and then at Ahmedabad's Sola Civil Hospital on the morning of February 28, 2002. Mr Shah appeared as a defence witness in a riot case in which Kodnani is accused of murdering 11 Muslims on that day in Naroda Gam, an Ahm...
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Karnataka Assembly Discusses IAS Officer Anurag Tewary's Death
The death of Anurag Tewary, the Karnataka cadre IAS officer whose body was found on the road in Lucknow in his home state of Uttar Pradesh on May 16, is still raising many questions. There had been talk of a scam which the officer was about to unearth in the food and civil supplies department in which he worked, but there has been no evidence so fa...
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Gujarat Riots Convict Maya Kodnani Can Call Amit Shah For Alibi To Court
Maya Kodnani, a former Gujarat minister sentenced to jail for the 2002 riots, can call Amit Shah as her witness, a special court has said.
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No Night Shifts For Women, They Are Needed At Home, Say Karnataka Legislators
Women should not be forced to work in night shifts and companies should, as far as possible, avoid women on the night shift, a committee of legislators has proposed in Karnataka. The proposal has triggered a barrage of protests from activists and civil society, who have called it regressive and argued that if accepted, it will shrink the space for ...
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Blog: Revisiting The Clash Of Civilizations
Fundamental Western concept is at the heart of American Nationalism. Or is it? Over a decade after he wrote the Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington asked Americans a fundamental question - "Who are We?"
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After Cabinet Reshuffle, Karnataka Congress Picks A New Chief
The ruling Congress in Karnataka has a new working president in Dinesh Gundu Rao. Mr Rao, the son of former chief minister, the late Gundu Rao, had been a minister in chief minister Siddaramaiah's cabinet holding the portfolio of food and civil supplies.
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Former Guatemalan Despot Efrain Rios Montt Incompetent to Stand Trial: Doctors
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, charged with genocide during a brief but particularly brutal period of the country's civil war, is incompetent to stand trial, doctors said Tuesday.
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Chinese Dream Turns Sour for Activists Under Xi Jinping
Activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers, professors - China's new leaders have taken aim at civil society in what analysts call an effort to muffle dissent that is proving powerfully effective.
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Karnataka lawyers boycott courts; spiritual guru Sri Sri offers to mediate
Lawyers across Karnataka boycotted courts on Monday to protest against alleged police excesses against some lawyers at the Civil Court complex in Bangalore on Friday.
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Ancient Mayan City With "Pyramid-Like Buildings" Found Deep In Mexican Forest
Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said the city was likely an important centre more than a thousand years ago.
-
3,000-Year-Old Maya Cities With "Super Highways" Discovered In Guatemala
It is the latest discovery of roughly 3,000-year-old Maya centers and related infrastructure, according to a statement on Monday from a team from Guatemala's FARES anthropological research foundation.
-
2,000-Year-Old Mayan City Discovered Beneath Guatemala's Rainforest
A vast, 2,000-year-old Maya site in Guatemala that was hidden by a rainforest has been found by researchers.
-
Karnataka Clarifies Fewer Flights From 5 States, No Ban
Karnataka has requested the Civil Aviation Ministry to reduce the number of incoming flights from five states - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan - to contain the spiralling coronavirus infection in the state.
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2 Dead In Landslide In Kodagu, Coastal Karnataka Flooded, Rescue Ops On
Two people died on Kodagu-Mangaluru highway in a landslide this morning. Heavy rain has caused severe flooding in parts of coastal Karnataka and Kodagu district which generally receive higher rainfall than elsewhere in the state. Choppers will leave Bengaluru to airlift over 100 perople stranded in Kodagu. The Civil Defence Quick Response Team resc...
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After Flight Scare, Team Rahul Gandhi Alleges "Intentional Tampering"
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and four passengers on a chartered flight from Delhi to Karnataka got a major scare on Thursday after the aircraft reportedly developed "multiple faults", triggering a complaint from his key aide to seek a probe to determine if there was any "intentional tampering" of the aircraft.
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Amit Shah Testifies In Court, Backs Maya Kodnani's Claims In Gujarat Riots Case
BJP president Amit Shah told a Gujarat court on Monday that he had seen Maya Kodnani, a leader of his party, in the state assembly and then at Ahmedabad's Sola Civil Hospital on the morning of February 28, 2002. Mr Shah appeared as a defence witness in a riot case in which Kodnani is accused of murdering 11 Muslims on that day in Naroda Gam, an Ahm...
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Karnataka Assembly Discusses IAS Officer Anurag Tewary's Death
The death of Anurag Tewary, the Karnataka cadre IAS officer whose body was found on the road in Lucknow in his home state of Uttar Pradesh on May 16, is still raising many questions. There had been talk of a scam which the officer was about to unearth in the food and civil supplies department in which he worked, but there has been no evidence so fa...
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Gujarat Riots Convict Maya Kodnani Can Call Amit Shah For Alibi To Court
Maya Kodnani, a former Gujarat minister sentenced to jail for the 2002 riots, can call Amit Shah as her witness, a special court has said.
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No Night Shifts For Women, They Are Needed At Home, Say Karnataka Legislators
Women should not be forced to work in night shifts and companies should, as far as possible, avoid women on the night shift, a committee of legislators has proposed in Karnataka. The proposal has triggered a barrage of protests from activists and civil society, who have called it regressive and argued that if accepted, it will shrink the space for ...
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Blog: Revisiting The Clash Of Civilizations
Fundamental Western concept is at the heart of American Nationalism. Or is it? Over a decade after he wrote the Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington asked Americans a fundamental question - "Who are We?"
-
After Cabinet Reshuffle, Karnataka Congress Picks A New Chief
The ruling Congress in Karnataka has a new working president in Dinesh Gundu Rao. Mr Rao, the son of former chief minister, the late Gundu Rao, had been a minister in chief minister Siddaramaiah's cabinet holding the portfolio of food and civil supplies.
-
Former Guatemalan Despot Efrain Rios Montt Incompetent to Stand Trial: Doctors
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, charged with genocide during a brief but particularly brutal period of the country's civil war, is incompetent to stand trial, doctors said Tuesday.
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Chinese Dream Turns Sour for Activists Under Xi Jinping
Activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers, professors - China's new leaders have taken aim at civil society in what analysts call an effort to muffle dissent that is proving powerfully effective.
-
Karnataka lawyers boycott courts; spiritual guru Sri Sri offers to mediate
Lawyers across Karnataka boycotted courts on Monday to protest against alleged police excesses against some lawyers at the Civil Court complex in Bangalore on Friday.
