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Bologna, Dec 2: Bolognas 12-match unbeaten run came to an ignoble end when it went down 3-1 at home to Cremonese, for which Jamie Vardy scored his first double in Serie A. The match pitted a home side unbeaten in 12 games against a visitor that lost its last three league matches by a combined []

Madrid, Dec 2: A deflected shot gave Valencia a 1-1 draw at Rayo Vallecano in La Liga. The visitor started the night a point above the relegation zone and ended it one point and one place better off thanks to a second half strike from Diego Lpez. His strike through a packed penalty box appeared []

SSA Champions Cup 2025 By Our Reporter Shillong, Dec 2: Shillong Lajong became the first team to qualify for the semifinals of the SSA Champions Cup 2025 after a 2-0 victory over nine-man Laitkyrhong at the SSA Stadium at First Ground, Polo, here on Tuesday. After three rounds, SLFC have a full 9 points and []

By Our Reporter Shillong, Dec 2: Meghalaya had an excellent second day in the U-19 mens Cooch Behar Trophy 2025-26 plate group match against Arunachal Pradesh and are 298/5 in their second innings, with Angkit Tamang on the cusp of a century at the MCA Ground here on Tuesday. Meghalaya are in a solid position []

New Delhi, Dec 2: India on Tuesday called for global cooperation for coordinated action to deal with new challenges emanating from the digitalisation of the economy and the emergence of new financial products like crypto and stablecoins, and ensure the timely exchange of information among various jurisdictions. Inaugurating the 18th Global Forum Plenary meeting, Finance []

Mumbai, Dec 2: Stock markets declined on Tuesday, with the benchmark Sensex tumbling nearly 504 points due to selling in blue-chip bank stocks and Reliance Industries, and persistent foreign fund outflows. Falling for the third straight session, the 30-share BSE Sensex tumbled 503.63 points or 0.59 per cent to settle at 85,138.27. During the day, []

MUMBAI, Dec 2: The rupee hit the psychological 90-a-dollar level in intraday trade before settling 43 paise down at an all-time low of 89.96 against the US dollar on Tuesday, largely owing to continued short-covering from speculators and sustained importer demand for the American currency. Forex traders said multiple pressures, like foreign fund outflows from []

New Delhi, Dec 2: The global green economy has surpassed USD 5 trillion and is projected to exceed USD 7 trillion in annual value by 2030, with India expected to clock the highest growth in renewable electricity capacity and generation, a new report said on Tuesday. The World Economic Forum report, developed in collaboration with []

New Delhi, Dec 2: Gold prices plunged Rs 1,670 to Rs 1,31,530 per 10 grams in the national capital on Tuesday, amid weak trends in the international markets, according to the All India Sarafa Association. The precious metal of 99.9 per cent purity had settled at Rs 1,33,200 per 10 grams in the previous market []

At the 35th annual Gotham Awards, Paul Thomas Andersons One Battle After Another was named Best Feature Film, while Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards for his revenge drama It Was Just an Accident, marking a star-studded start to the film awards season. Hosted by the Gotham Film & Media Institute at Cipriani Wall []

Sean Diddy Combs has strongly criticised Netflixs upcoming documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, calling it a shameful hit piece built on stolen footage and claiming his words were taken out of context, a spokesperson told Variety. The teaser features a 2024 phone call linked to his legal case, though Combs was acquitted of sex trafficking []

Bollywood singer Arijit Singh is set to launch a new concert series in the UAE with a performance at Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, on December 19. Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman will follow on January 23, 2026, as part of his Wonderment tour at the same venue, while sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma is scheduled to perform []

Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh and Sara Arjun with singers Jasmine Sandlas, Shilpa Rao, Hanumankind and Madhubanti Bagchi perform at the music-album launch of their upcoming film Dhurandhar, in Mumbai, on Monday. (PTI)

Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar reflected on the growing social media and paparazzi culture, questioning the impact on celebrities and cinema. Taking to Instagram Stories, he asked if stars are now reduced to reels, clickbait headlines, and paparazzi spotting and admitted, Yes we are! He urged a shift from the smartphone screen to the silver screen, []

Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world. A new report by the United Nations Development Programme notes most of the gains from AI are likely to be reaped by wealthy nations unless steps are taken to use []

In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning movie later developed into a novel by Isaac Asimov seemed like pure fantasy at the time. []

An AIIMS psychiatrist on Tuesday warned that excessive screen time and dependency on social media were leading to loneliness and social disconnect among the youth, and suggested people make real and not reel friends. Dr Nand Kumar, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at AIIMS Delhi, expressed concern over increasing cases of suicide, especially among []

SHILLONG: State Level Youth Engagement Program-ko Mongolbar sal dipet, Sports & Youth Affairs Directorate, Shillong songjinmani NEHU Convention Hall-o ongatenga aro ia program-ko adokni Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, abachengate onangaha. Ia program-ko ongatanio, adokni Sports & Youth Affairs Minister Wailadmiki Shylla aro dingtang dingtang official-rangba dongpae bak raangaha. Ia State Youth Engagement Program-ko abachengate []

TURA: Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC)-ni ningo koela aro roong salruragipa garirang, nangana bate gatenba salruraenga ine Tura-ni MDC aro BJP-ni state vice president Bernard N Marak matnangataha aro Garo Hills-o iandake niam gri koela aro roong salruraaniko champengchina GHADC-ni Chief Executive Membor (CEM)-na sedoataha. Marak-ni CEM-na sedoatgipa chittio janapatani gitade, Indian Constitution-ni Article []

From Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Renowned traditional handloom weavers and designers Iaishah Rymbai and Lakme Marak were honoured as the Best Handloom Designers from Meghalaya at Delhi Fashion Week 2025, during which the International Delhi Fashion Awards (IDFA) was also launched to recognise excellence in fashion and the creative industries. Iaishah Rymbai, []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: The Hynniewtrep Integrated Territorial Organisation (HITO) has formally written to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) urging the Centre to halt and cancel all processes connected to the proposed Shree Cement Integrated Cement Plant at Daistong in East Jaintia Hills. In its communication, HITO informed the []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: The Statehood Day of Assam and Nagaland was celebrated at Raj Bhavan here on Tuesday, with Governor CH Vijayashankar underscoring the economic and cultural importance of the two states in the Northeastern region. Speaking at the Durbar Hall, the Governor said Assams expanding economic base and its role as []

Guests of a special musical presentation titled Dressing Table organised by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad in memory of music maestro Salil Chowdhury on the occasion of his centenary birth anniversary, release Karmashala, the quarterly magazine of the Parishad.

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: Meghalaya State Network of Positive People+ (MSNP+) president, Paul Molun Hrangbung, has warned that Meghalaya continues to struggle in containing the spread of HIV/AIDS, even as the United Nations aims to end the epidemic by 2030. Speaking at the state-level observance of World AIDS Day 2025 on Monday, Paul []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: As many as 240 tourism projects worth Rs 3,900 crore are currently underway in the state, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma announced on Tuesday, while stressing that community participation is vital to realising the governments Billion Dollar economy vision. Sangma was speaking at the closing ceremony of the Silver []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: Twenty-four children from Meghalaya, aged between eight and thirteen, have been repatriated from Chikkaballapura district in Karnataka following their rescue from the Sowmya Kesanupalli Student Home in Perumale. The incident has renewed demands for a stronger regulatory framework to prevent children from being sent out of the state under []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: Health and Family Welfare Minister Wailadmiki Shylla on Tuesday said the government is holding negotiations with the landowners of the Nongur-Weilyngkut Primary Health Centre (PHC) in an effort to end the deadlock and restore health services for the area. The PHC has remained locked since November 12 after the []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: The Meghalaya State Commission for Women (MSCW) chairperson, Iamonlang Syiem, on Tuesday emphasised the need for greater involvement of men in Internal Committees, pointing out that issues concerning women are often dismissed as womens issues. Men too must be sensitised. Internal Committees must involve men because they also need []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 2: Chairperson of the Meghalaya State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR), Agatha Sangma, on Tuesday reiterated her appeal for the state government to consider a policy that would allow women employeesespecially mothersa few hours off each week to spend meaningful time with their children. Sangma said she hoped []

Guwahati, Dec 2: In order to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC) in areas experiencing regular night- time movements of wild elephants, premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak (www.aaranyak.org ) , with the support of the SBI Foundation (SBIF), has installed 20 solar street lights in a number of villages across Baksa, Tamulpur, and Udalguri districts during the []

Paris, Dec 1: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday at the Elyse presidential palace in Paris, part of a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at brokering the terms for a potential ceasefire in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. Zelenskyys visit to Paris followed a meeting between Ukrainian and []

Kantara fame actor Gulshan Devaiah has never shied away from calling a spade a spade. In a recent exclusive conversation with IANS, the actor, without mincing words, spoke his heart out over the forever Insider and Outsider debate. Speaking passionately about the whole nepotism debate, Gulshan slammed the actors whining over losing work to insiders. []

Actress Jenna Ortega has expressed her concern about the use of artificial intelligence in film and TV and hopes people will get sick of such work and want to return to genuine human creations in the future. During the jury press conference at the Marrakech Film Festival, The Wednesday actress said: There is really charm []

Bollywood veteran superstar Jeetendra recently appeared on the singing reality show Indian Idol season 16 as a part of their Yaadon Ki Baraat series. The veteran actor, in a special segment dedicated to the late superstar Dharmendra, on the show was seen getting emotional. In a video shared by the host channel on their social []

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan says he has grown up as a fan of his father, Amitabh Bachchan, whose films he would watch as often as he could growing up, but he would never want to recreate any of them. Abhishek spoke on the second day of IFP, the multi-disciplinary creative festival which was held at []

Actress Dia Mirza seems to be on a nature expedition yet again, with her team. The actress shared a few pictures of herself on her social media account today wherein she was seen exploring nature. Mirza captioned the post as, Kya kabhi khud se roobaroo hue? Kya kabhi apni hi kahaani mein sacchi si muskurahat []

What if teams got more points for taking Tests longer without drawing? London, Dec 1: Imagine, for a moment, a World Test Championship that placed real value on the drama of endurance. A system that rewarded the craft of taking a Test into its fourth and fifth day and still finding a result. Not a []

London, Dec 1: The warning signs were there for Mohamed Salah. His form wasnt great. Pundits were starting to get on his back. Fixtures were coming thick and fast for Liverpool. Plus, manager Arne Slot clearly needed to switch things up amid the teams worst run of results in more than 70 years. And so, []

SSA Champions Cup By Our Reporter Shillong, Dec 1: Chesterpaul Lyngdoh scored a hat-trick on the way to Nongksehs whopping 7-0 victory against Mawlynrei in Group B of the SSA Champions Cup 2025 at the SSA Stadium at First Ground, Polo, here on Monday. The other match of the day, in Group A, saw Umlyngka []

Rome, Dec 1: Defending champion Napoli won 1-0 at rival Roma to move level with AC Milan atop the tight Serie A standings on Sunday. David Neres scored in the first half after finishing off an exchange with Rasmus Hojlund on a counterattack. Milan and Napoli each have 28 points and Inter Milan and Roma []

Madrid, Dec 1: Real Madrid failed to return to the top of the Spanish league on Sunday after being held 1-1 at relegation-threatened Girona. Kylian Mbapp converted a 67th-minute penalty after Azzedine Ounahi had put the hosts ahead in the 45th at Montilivi Stadium.Mbapp, who scored four goals midweek against Olympiakos in the Champions League, []

Aizawl, Dec 1: Mizoram on Monday launched an intitiative to establish sports coaching and talent development programmes across the northeastern state, officials said. State Home Minister K Sapdanga kicked off the Empowering Mizoram Sports (EMS) programme, under the Bana Kaih or handholding scheme, to promote sports and groom talented youths. As part of the initiative, []

New Delhi, Dec 1: Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will meet representatives of all stakeholders in Indian football, including the sports national federation, its former commercial partner and clubs on December 3, to try and find a way out of the current crisis. The latest crisis emerged after the All India Football Federation (AIFF) could not []

By Our Reporter Shillong, Dec 1: Meghalaya are in a strong position despite being bowled out on the first day of their U-19 mens Cooch Behar Trophy 2025-26 plate group match against Arunachal Pradesh at the MCA Ground here on Monday. Made to bat first after Arunachal won the toss, Meghalaya were 205 all out []

Mumbai, Dec 1: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed marginally lower after hitting their fresh all-time highs on Monday due to profit-taking at higher levels and foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex pared early gains and closed 64.77 points or 0.08 per cent lower at 85,641.90. During the day, the benchmark jumped 452.35 []

Low blood levels of choline, crucial for liver function and controlling inflammation, could be among the various ways through which obesity can speed up cognitive decline and increase the risk of Alzheimers disease, according to a study. Studies have found that high blood pressure is a risk factor for mild cognitive impairment, which usually precedes []

SHILLONG: Adokni gitcham chief minister aro Trinamool Congress (TMC)-ni dilgipa Mukul Sangma, dao gital jakuko dechakatna gita dingtang dingtang dolrang baksa agangrikengon, ua (Mukul) antangan 2023 bilsini Assembly election-na skang Congress-ko wate katani jaman party-ona rebapiljawaha ine aganahani gimin Congress-ona rebapilnaba dongaha ine Sombar salo, Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC)-ni president Vincent Pala parakataha. Mukul []

SHILLONG: Dokgipa Meghalaya Saras Aajeevika Fair 2025-ko Sombar salo, adokni Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, Shillong songjinmani U Soso Tham Auditorium-o abachengate onangaha aro ia Saras Fair-ko abachengatanio, adokni Community & Rural Development (C&RD) Minister Sosthenes Sohtun, dingtang dingtang official-rang aro adokni self help group (SHG)-rangba bak raangtokaha. Ia program-ko abachengatanio adokni Chief Minister, tombimonganio []

From CK Nayak NEW DELHI, Dec 1: The entire Northeastern regionrecently placed in the highest earthquake-risk category by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)recorded a staggering 25 tremors in October alone, the highest among all regions in the country. In October this year, 25 earthquakes were registered in the Northeast: Assam reported seven quakes, followed []

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 1: Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday called for coordinated and sustained efforts from all stakeholders to advance Meghalayas organic farming mission. Speaking at the conclusion of the 4th Organic Youth Summit at Courtyard Marriott, he said farmers remain central to government policy, and programmes are being designed to []