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New Zealand's National-led coalition is in office, with Chris Luxon sworn in as prime minister along with his 30-strong team of ministers.

A federal Newspoll, conducted November 20–24 from a sample of 1,216, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50 after preferences, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (up one), 31% Labor (down four), 13% Greens (up one), 6%…

Abdul Saif (TN) won the sub-junior boys' snooker title at the 90th National billiards & snooker championships in Chennai. In a thrilling best-of-7 frames final, Saif defeated Gujarat's Mayur Garg 4-3. Saif managed to clear the table from brown to black ball in the decider to clinch his maiden National…

Top recurve archers incl. Olympic berth winner B. Dhiraj, Tarundeep Rai, Tushar Shelke, Ankita Bhakat & Simranjeet Kaur to compete in National archery championships starting Sat. Dhiraj to train in Korea after event. Atanu Das & Deepika Kumari, Bhajan Kaur, Aditi Swami, Ojas Deotale, Parneet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Abhishek Verma…

He also had harsh words for the government's idea of what levelling up means for theatre

In the interests of advancing personal career ambitions, we will be left with fewer employment protections, a higher prison population and dismantled treaty obligations

It might have taken six weeks to decide the shape of New Zealand’s next government (or three if you count from the final results), but in the end that is the nature of proportional representation. Compromise, trade-offs and haggling are the price of an MMP electoral system designed to avoid…

After weeks of negotiations, incoming PM Christopher Luxon announces that populist Winston Peters and libertarian David Seymour will share deputy role

After six weeks of post-election negotiations, New Zealanders have learned the make-up and the policy agenda of their next government.