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CNN-News18 becomes India's No.1 English News channel, racing ahead of the competition
As per the BARC data, CNN-News18 has garnered 26.3 percent market share in the India urban+rural segment
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The Pulitzer winner that emerged out of a time of quietness
Inspired by the silence of days spent in lockdown, Raven Chacon, member of the Navajo Nation, began writing "Voiceless Mass," a 16-minute work for ensemble and pipe organ. It won the Pulitzer in Music
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Oil giants are selling dirty wells to buyers with looser climate goals: study
The world's largest energy companies are expected to sell off more than $100 billion of oil fields and other polluting assets to cut their emissions and make progress toward their corporate climate goals. However, they frequently sell to buyers that disclose little about their operations, have made few or no pledges to combat climate change, and are committed to ramping up fossil fuel production
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Social network Grindr going public at $2.1 bn value
Los Angeles-based Grindr expected to raise $384 million when it combines with Tiga Acquisition Corp and becomes Grindr Inc
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Tinder parent takes Google app store war to court in US
The litigation comes as part of an ongoing battle by Match, Epic Games and others to force Google-parent Alphabet and iPhone maker Apple to loosen their grips on their respective app stores
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Bitcoin falls below $30,000, lowest since July 2021
The world's largest cryptocurrency by market value fell as low as $29,764 in Tuesday trade, before recovering above $30,000, extending a recent collapse in price as investors desert assets viewed as risky
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Russia shells Ukraine's Odessa as US pledges fresh arms for Kyiv
The southern city was hit by a series of missiles Monday, destroying buildings, setting ablaze a shopping centre and killing one person, its city council said, just hours after a visit by European Council President Charles Michel
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Climate disasters force Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
As families are forced to migrate after disasters, many children leave school never to go back again, raising the school dropout rate to over 17 percent in 2021, while UNICEF says 1.7 million children of the country are now working
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All that glitters: How the money-spinning IPL turned cricket into gold
The world's most valuable cricket tournament, now in its 15th iteration, was a pioneer in Twenty20 league cricket. Its success and popularity has spawned copycat competitions in other countries and generated a fortune for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
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Three decades after Pablo Escobar's death, drugs ravage Medellin
Junkies frequent hundreds of sales points dotted around Colombia's second city, which has become the epicenter of the domestic drug trade
