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From Rome with love: Caravaggio’s $50-million painting debuts in Bengaluru | Bengaluru News

Bengaluru: For the first time ever, a painting attributed to the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio has arrived in Bengaluru, offering the city’s art enthusiasts a rare chance to witness the dramatic intensity and emotional realism that reshaped Western art. The painting, which is 419 years old, is a $50 million masterpiece.The work — Maddalena in…

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Rupee tumbles 55 paise to 86.07 against US dollar on oil spike, Israel-Iran conflict jolts markets; foreign fund outflows deepen

The rupee plunged 55 paise to close at 86.07 against the US dollar on Friday, its sharpest single-day fall in over three months, as a surge in global crude oil prices and heightened geopolitical tensions rattled investor sentiment.The currency, which opened weaker at 86.25, briefly recovered to an intraday high of 85.92 but ended the…

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A closet of one’s own 

We all need privacy – to misspeak, to err, to be intimate To hold one opinion but voice another, is this inauthentic? To conduct oneself as if one is being permanently surveilled, does that help democratic life? In her book Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, British sociologist Tiffany Jenkins traverses…

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Haryana education minister calls Hindi national language, pushes to end English in department communication

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Education Minister Mahipal Dhanda said all work under his department should be done in Hindi as a majority of the state’s population speaks the language and it was the “national language”. Speaking to reporters in Kurukshetra on Wednesday, Dhanda said people will benefit if government correspondence was done in Hindi. India does not…

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Iran strikes back after Israel’s Operation Rising Lion; Netanyahu warns ‘more is on the way’; what happened overnight?

A dramatic and dangerous escalation unfolded across the Middle East overnight, as Iran launched a barrage of retaliatory missile strikes at Israel late Friday and early Saturday, in response to what it called Israel’s “criminal aggression” on Iranian soil a day earlier.The confrontation began with Israel’s “greatest military operations in history,” against Iran. In a…

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Drowsy driver rams bus with 30 onboard into truck in Hoskote; 5 killed, 16 injured | Bengaluru News

Bengaluru: Five persons, including two children, were killed in an accident, involving an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) bus and a truck around 2am on Friday near Gottipura Gate in Hoskote taluk in Bengaluru Rural. At least 16 passengers were injured, and two among them are critical.Based on primary investigation, police said the…

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