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Sensex falls 500+ points — but watch what’s actually moving Not a broad sell-off. Auto and banking led the fall (Nifty Financial Services ex-Bank down 1.12%, Auto down 1%), while metals and pharma actually gained. That split matters — it tells you the market's pricing a fuel-cost problem, not a general panic. Sensex touched 77,004 intraday, down 524 points; Nifty slipped near 24,066. Market veteran Ajay Bagga called it a "dangerous convergence" — Middle East conflict landing at the same time as hawkish central bank rhetoric.
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Bitcoin’s reaction this time was actually muted — and that’s the real story BTC fell under 2% to around $62,461 even as oil jumped 4% on the same news — historically, that ratio would've been reversed. Compare it to June 2025, when an Israel-Iran strike alone dropped Bitcoin more than 7% in three days. Analysts now argue Bitcoin's day-to-day price is driven less by war headlines and more by Fed policy and ETF liquidity mechanics — the oil-to-inflation channel is the actual link, not fear itself. The move was mostly a leverage flush: $73 million in liquidations, with longs outnumbering shorts 6-to-1, meaning...
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Trump’s 20% hormuz toll, and why his own team rejected the idea weeks ago Here's the awkward part: Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent late June personally telling Gulf states that tolling the Strait of Hormuz was "not even workable." Trump floated it anyway on Monday — a 20% fee on any ship's cargo value, in exchange for US "protection," alongside reinstating the naval blockade on Iranian vessels specifically. Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi wasn't buying the "protection" framing either: "Iran has always been the guardian of the strait and will remain so forever."
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Norway vs england, argentina vs switzerland set to decide the last two world cup semi spots Two quarterfinals kick off today in the US to complete the semifinal picture. Opta gives England the edge over Norway, and Argentina a 57.1% chance against Switzerland in normal time. Asked to compare himself with Golden Boot rival Erling Haaland, Harry Kane wouldn't bite: "We're completely different players. We're both number nines, but we play in different ways."
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The human cost landed on an indian sailor this time Two UAE-flagged tankers, al-Bahiya and Mombasa, were hit by Iranian cruise missiles while sitting in Omani territorial waters — not even the disputed zone. One Indian crew member aboard the Mombasa was killed, eight others wounded, according to the UAE Ministry of Defence. Iran's IRGC claimed separately it had "struck and disabled" two other tankers for using a "mined route" without navigation systems on — though it didn't name them.
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Nolan, damon and holland skip the usual promo tour small talk in mumbai This wasn't just another stop — Mumbai got The Odyssey's actual first public screening anywhere in the world, ahead of London, Paris and New York. Nolan explained why he'd waited this long: he'd originally wanted to premiere Tenet here in 2020, but COVID killed those plans. "I've never been anywhere in the world with an appreciation of what movies can be and what they should be for audiences," he told Hindustan Times. "It seemed crazy that we wouldn't be bringing our film here." Matt Damon didn't undersell how hard the...
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Four strikes in six days — centcom’s making a point This was actually strike number four, not three, since the week began — CENTCOM confirmed it targeted air defence systems, coastal radar and IRGC vessels specifically. Iran hit back at US bases across the Gulf with drones and missiles, and that's where the tanker strikes came from. Trump, asked directly by a reporter whether the US knows where Iran's remaining military leadership is hiding, didn't deny it: "Yeah, I do, but we don't want to talk about that. But we certainly are watching."
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The tn defamation case is older than it looked, and the politics run deeper This actually happened July 3, not this week — DMK MLA Anitha Radhakrishnan was arrested after the Madras High Court denied him anticipatory bail, over remarks he made about Tamil Nadu CM Vijay (yes, actor-CM Vijay) at a public event on June 20, including a comment referencing Vijay's pre-political film career. DMK workers physically surrounded police trying to prevent the arrest. Party chief MK Stalin didn't hold back, accusing the TVK government of running a "police state" and pointedly asking why a gang-rape complaint against a TVK MLA hadn't drawn...
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Kejriwal’s e20 fight isn’t random — there’s an actual controversy underneath it This connects to something bigger than one letter. E20, the ethanol-blended petrol now standard across India, has a live mileage dispute attached to it — YouTuber Sourav Joshi's claims about reduced mileage on E20 fuel have been circulating and disputed by manufacturers including Mercedes-Benz. Kejriwal's letter to Modi, sent a day before his noon press conference, is riding that wave rather than starting a new one.
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Gold’s doing the opposite of what you’d expect Down more than 2% to $4,020 on Monday, its second straight losing day. Normally a war getting worse means gold goes up. Not this time. The reason's pretty specific: the US-Iran exchange has pushed oil higher, and traders read higher oil as higher inflation — which means the Fed holds rates higher for longer. The 10-year Treasury yield backed that up, climbing to 4.59%, its highest in almost two months. Markets are now pricing in somewhere between a 51% and 71% chance of a Fed rate hike by September, depending...
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The rajnath singh row has an exact quote at the center of it Here's what he actually said in Parliament on July 28, 2025: "If you want to raise a question, then ask whether any of our brave soldiers were harmed in this operation. The answer is, no, none of our soldiers were harmed." A year later, six names — five Army, one Air Force — were inscribed on the National War Memorial as Operation Sindoor casualties. Congress's KC Venugopal filed a formal breach-of-privilege notice over the contradiction, writing that it was "a grave insult to the families of these six martyrs." The...
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Bankipur isn’t just a bypoll — prashant kishor is contesting it himself This is the real story: Prashant Kishor, who's spent his career managing other people's campaigns, is seeking votes for himself for the first time — against BJP's Neeraj Kumar Sinha Bharti in the seat once held by BJP national president Nitin Nabin. It's personal for Nabin too; his father won this seat first back in 1990, and Nabin himself won it four straight times before moving to the Rajya Sabha. The BJP's original pick, Abhishek Kumar Sinha "Bunty," actually withdrew his nomination over "personal and family reasons" before Bharti got...
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A tv actor’s pocso arrest, and why the details matter more than the headline Rohit Chandel — known for Pandya Store and, more recently, Sairaab — was arrested from his Dahisar home on July 10 after a 16-year-old girl filed a complaint. According to the FIR at Pant Nagar police station, the alleged harassment wasn't a single incident — repeated calls from multiple numbers stretching from December 2025 to July 7, before an alleged physical confrontation near her home. He's been booked under the POCSO Act along with stalking and assault provisions under the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and remanded to police custody. He...
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The hormuz “closure” doesn’t match the shipping data Iran declared it shut. The numbers say otherwise: 8.5 million barrels moved through with US naval escort on Sunday alone, and the US Energy Department says total Gulf flows are still averaging 15 million barrels a day. Some ships are transiting with transponders switched off, which is its own tell — you don't hide movement through a route that's actually closed. Either Iran's declaration is more political signalling than physical fact, or a meaningful chunk of traffic is happening in the dark, literally.
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Correction: the rss “patience and restraint” statement wasn’t about bengal Got this wrong earlier — worth fixing properly. Dattatreya Hosabale's statement was actually about the Ram Temple donation-theft scandal in Ayodhya, not the West Bengal case. The SIT investigating alleged embezzlement from donation boxes at the Shri Ram Lalla temple has already arrested eight people; Hosabale called the theft "highly condemnable," demanded strict punishment for the guilty, and separately urged Hindu society to stay patient while warning against "anti-Hindu and anti-national forces" using the incident to malign the religion. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat later simply pointed reporters back to Hosabale's...
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Arshad warsi’s lokhandwala shop sale is a better story than “sold a shop” Specifics matter here: it's a 684 sq ft ground-floor unit in Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West — bought February 2012 for ₹2.12 crore, sold this month to a buyer named Umang Rajkumar Budhraja for ₹6.25 crore. That's ₹91,400 per square foot, and roughly ₹4 crore profit after 14 years of holding it. Warsi hasn't commented publicly — the whole story comes from registration documents, not a press release, which is honestly how most of these celebrity property stories actually surface.
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India’s odi reset has a real number behind the optimism Rohit Sharma specifically chose to fly into London early for quiet net sessions — deliberate, not routine. There's a reason: he averages 89.4 in away ODIs at Edgbaston specifically, the highest of any batter at this ground, per Cricinfo. Gill's arriving in form too — 373 runs in five ODI innings this year, a 93.3 average. And Gill's already made his stance on the format clear: "ODIs shouldn't be shortened to 40 overs a side." Whether that experience translates into runs against an England side that hasn't played an ODI...
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Srk’s delhi purchase isn’t his “childhood home” — it’s more specific than that Correcting myself here too: the Panchsheel Park property is where Shah Rukh and Gauri lived in the early years of their marriage, before he moved to Mumbai for his film career — not his childhood home. The family already owned the ground floor and basement; this ₹37 crore deal buys the second and third floors, completing full ownership of the building. Gauri's spoken about it before: "Our Delhi home is almost 20 years old... I thought it would be a great idea to buy and design a home close to...
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The all-party meeting is set for july 19 — one day before the real fight starts 11am, standard pre-session format, Rijiju leading it. The topics on the table — NEET, Rajnath Singh, the 130th Amendment, unemployment, inflation — are all things we already know are coming. What the meeting can't really resolve is the deeper problem: with the Opposition this fractured after months of defections, it's genuinely unclear whether "opposition strategy" this session means one coordinated front or several smaller parties pursuing their own grievances separately.
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Ikka’s reviews are genuinely split, not just “mixed” — and it’s on netflix, not in theatres Correcting the release format too — this dropped on Netflix, not cinemas. Critics are further apart than "average reviews" suggests: Hollywood Reporter India was fairly unsparing, with one line landing particularly hard — "Your Honour, the accused is overstating... Your Honour, he is also overacting," mocking Akshaye Khanna's courtroom theatrics. Other reviewers rated it as high as 4/5, praising Tillotama Shome's performance specifically. The common thread across every review, though: the second half loses the plot in twists that don't quite add up, no matter which side of the rating...
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Pok’s “muzaffarabad chalo” march is bigger and older than a one-day protest This didn't start this week. The JAAC — banned last month under Pakistan's anti-terrorism laws — has been leading protests for months over electricity prices, wheat flour costs and detained civil rights leaders, and it's already left dozens dead, including seven people (four police, three protesters) killed in Rawalakot last month alone. PoJK officials have asked Islamabad for another 4,000 paramilitary personnel plus seven battalions of Rangers — roughly 6,000 more troops — on top of the 10,000 already deployed since June. The July 15 march also lands right before...
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Tonight: two “first time ever” matchups on two different continents France-Spain is a genuine first — the tournament's two form teams meeting for the first time all competition, both still unbeaten. India-England ODI kicks off at almost the same hour. Commentator Nagraj Gollapudi flagged it live from Edgbaston: the cricket should wrap "just in time for everyone to take a break... and settle down for the France-Spain semi-final." Somebody in that press box is planning their evening around both.
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Twisha sharma: what “skin tissue matches a gym belt” actually means AIIMS Delhi's board handed its sealed report to the CBI investigating officer directly — the videography of the second post-mortem stays with the investigating agency separately, a procedural detail that suggests they're being careful about chain of custody here. Twisha was found hanging at her matrimonial home in Bhopal; she was the daughter-in-law of retired judge Giribala Singh. Her family's allegation that the first investigation and post-mortem had lapses is what forced the Madhya Pradesh High Court to order a second post-mortem in the first place. Giribala and her son...
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Correction: that samantha nepotism quote isn’t new — it’s from 2022 Worth flagging since a lot of outlets ran it like fresh news this week: this Koffee With Karan appearance and the "nepo kids, non-nepo kids, everyone has their own demons" line actually date back to 2022, around her divorce from Naga Chaitanya. Multiple wire services picked it up again on July 10 as a "rewind" piece, but it's old footage being recirculated, not a new interview. Worth knowing before treating it as this week's news.
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The rupee’s at a seven-week low, and june’s inflation number is making it worse Opened 33 paise weaker at 95.95 to the dollar — its sharpest opening decline in weeks. Two things are compounding each other: Brent crossing $85, and India's own June inflation data coming in at an 18-month high, above forecasts. That second part matters more than it looks — it reduces the odds the RBI can cut rates to support growth, right when a weaker rupee needed some help from home. Because India imports roughly 85% of its crude, this isn't abstract — every dollar Brent adds gets paid for by...
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The 30-day custody bill has more teeth than the headline suggests The mechanism is specific: if a PM, CM or minister is arrested for an offence carrying five-plus years' imprisonment and stays in judicial custody for 30 consecutive days, removal happens automatically on day 31 — the President or Governor can act on advice, but if they don't, it happens anyway. One detail that rarely makes the summary: anyone removed this way can be reappointed once released from custody, which somewhat undercuts the "destabilizing" argument critics have made. JPC sources say the committee will keep the clause intact when it meets...
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Correction: vijay isn’t “shifting to politics” — jana nayagan is his last film as a sitting chief minister Got this wrong before, worth fixing: Vijay is already Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister. Jana Nayagan cleared the CBFC after a genuinely rough seven months — it was supposed to release on Pongal, January 9, but got stuck over concerns that certain scenes might hurt religious sentiments. That fight went all the way to a High Court division bench and then the Supreme Court before the makers finally agreed to 12 modifications, including muting or altering references to TVK and "New India." The new poster announcing clearance called Vijay "The Honourable...
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Andy burnham isn’t “in line” for pm — he’s already won This moved faster than most coverage suggests. Burnham secured backing from 349 Labour MPs on July 13, ending the contest before it really started — no rival could gather enough nominations to challenge him. He's set to be formally confirmed as Labour leader at a special party conference on July 17, and PM by July 20. A Tory MP's description of him has stuck: "Keir Starmer with a Northern accent." Whether that's an insult or the whole reason Labour wants him is genuinely up for debate.
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Nafisa ali’s comeback has a harder edge than “showed up anyway” She almost didn't do this film at all. At the trailer launch, she admitted the physical and emotional toll of her cancer treatment had genuinely shaken her confidence — she'd nearly walked away from the project entirely. On Instagram, she wrote plainly: "I had just finished chemotherapy, had 2 bone immunity injections over the next two days to fly and I was on antibiotics due to a tummy bug. It was tiring but it was so full of love and cheer... it made me happy." Producer Samiksha Oswal got emotional...
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The monsoon session’s real story isn’t neet or inflation — it’s the opposition falling apart The dates are simple: July 20 to August 13, approved by President Murmu on Rijiju's recommendation. What's not simple is who's actually left in the Opposition benches by the time it starts. Twenty of TMC's 28 Lok Sabha MPs have rebelled to back the BJP, three more resigned their Rajya Sabha seats to join outright, seven AAP Rajya Sabha MPs already crossed over earlier, and six Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs have joined Eknath Shinde's faction. Imran Masood's "the government is weak" line makes for a good soundbite, but the more...
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Australia leg of modi’s tour delivers a uranium deal and a cricket announcement Buried in Modi's Australia stop was a bigger story than it first looked: a finalized arrangement for Australian uranium exports to India under IAEA safeguards, plus a Joint Declaration on defence cooperation. On the lighter side, Australian PM Anthony Albanese announced the Big Bash League's 2026-27 season will open in India, with Chennai hosting the first match ever played outside Australia.
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Modi wraps up three-nation tour, heads home Modi's left New Zealand for India, closing out a run through Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Auckland gave him a traditional Maori welcome at Government House, followed by a community event at Spark Arena that drew over 10,000 members of the Indian diaspora. He and Luxon signed off on an "India-New Zealand Strategic Partnership: Roadmap to 2030." Referring to the 40-year gap since the last Indian PM visit, Modi told the crowd the next one "would not take so long."
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Iran declares the strait of hormuz closed ‘until further notice’ Early Sunday, Iran's IRGC formally declared the Strait of Hormuz shut — the first such declaration of this phase of the conflict — after striking the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy for using what it called an "unauthorized route." One crew member is missing. US Central Command denied the strait is actually closed and said it launched a third round of strikes overnight, hitting roughly 140 Iranian military targets. "Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted.
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England bulldoze india 4-0: buttler’s 131 seals a 56-run win India's traffic-delayed team never recovered. Jos Buttler smashed 131 off 64 balls and Harry Brook stayed unbeaten on 95, their 233-run stand the highest second-wicket partnership in England's T20I history, as the hosts posted 257/3 and won by 56 runs at Southampton. It completed a 4-0 sweep — India's worst-ever T20I series defeat — and pushed England to No.1 in the ICC rankings, past defending champions India. Shreyas Iyer, now 0 for 7 as captain in the toss department, admitted his side were "outplayed and outfielded" through the tour.
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India women begin lord’s test with unbeaten england record to protect Maybe I’m missing something here, but I don’t think the headline alone tells the full story. India’s women entered the Lord’s Test having never lost a Test match in England. There’s an easy take on this and then there’s the harder question of implementation, incentives and what actually changes on the ground. I’d want to see more detail before declaring it a huge win or disaster. Anyone following this closely?
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Trump declares ceasefire ‘over’ — but keeps talking to iran Messier than "ceasefire holds." Trump posted on Truth Social Friday that Washington has told Tehran directly the ceasefire is "OVER," while still agreeing to keep negotiating. Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf hit back the same day: Tehran remains "distrustful of the Americans" and ready for "all-out defense" if the US keeps striking. Underneath all of it sits one unresolved question neither side has settled — who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz.
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