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Traveling In The Time Of Coronavirus - Some Hits, Some Misses
While India has shut down its borders, put in mandatory screening at ports of entry and curtailed non-essential travel, countries like the US with over 1,000 positive cases appear to be taking things lightly.
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PM Modi, Saudi Prince Condemn Pulwama Attack In Joint Statement: 10 Facts
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a joint statement on Wednesday, condemned "in the strongest terms" the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Both sides agree on the need to create "conditions necessary for resumption of ...
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Congress@100 In Rajasthan After Win, BJP Wins In Haryana Seat: 10 Points
The ruling BJP and the Congress scored a victory each today in the last polls before the national election, due by May. The BJP won by-polls in Haryana's Jind, where the counting of votes was briefly stalled over protests and allegations of EVM or vote machine tampering. The Congress won the Ramgarh election in Rajasthan, adding one more seat to it...
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PM Modi Writes To You. Controversy Over Centre's Rs 15 Crore Outreach
In election season, crores of households across India are receiving a personalised letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his flagship health insurance plan under the Ayushman Bharat - PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the largest government-funded healthcare programme, touches the 100-day mark.
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Climate Change, Heat Exposure Reducing India's Labour Force By 7%: Report
Climate change is making more people vulnerable to heat exposure and air pollution in India leading to one lakh premature deaths and 7 per cent reduction in country's labour force, the researchers said in an analysis in The Lancet medical journal.
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8-Year-Old Madrasa Student Killed In South Delhi In Brawl Over Playground
A scuffle over the right to play in a playground turned fatal for 8-year-old Aseem, a student of the Darul Uloom Faridiya madrasa in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar. On Thursday, Aseem and his friends, all of them students, were playing in the madrasa premises when a group of neighbourhood children aged 10-12 years, attacked them. Soon a scuffle broke ...
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#MeToo Singes Journalists. Twitter Thread Provokes Stories, Allegations
India's media was thwacked by a stunning #MeToo moment that uncoiled in a Twitter thread on men who had misbehaved on a cruise liner in Australia. It began with ex-AIB comic Utsav Chakraborty being called out for sexual harassment after he derided the men who had partied on the cruise ship.
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After Polio Vaccine Scare, Questions On Quality Checks
India's anti-polio programme got a jolt recently after it was found that some vaccines made by a Ghaziabad-based firm were found to contain the P2 virus strain. The company, BioMed, is one of the four domestic suppliers of polio vaccines to the government-run polio immunisation programme.
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Nearly Rs 50 Lakh Raised Online For Family Of Delhi Man Who Died In Sewer
The wife of the Delhi sewage worker urged she wants to educate her three children. As of 10 AM on September 19, over Rs 48 lakh had been crowdfunded for Anil's family.
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Navjot Sidhu Rebuked For "Messing Up" In Pak, Says Minister. His Rebuttal
Navjot Singh Sidhu's gesture of hugging Pakistan's army chief during his visit to Islamabad for Imran Khan's oath ceremony impacted soldiers and "demoralises people", Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today, commenting that the Punjab minister "could have avoided it".
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Traveling In The Time Of Coronavirus - Some Hits, Some Misses
While India has shut down its borders, put in mandatory screening at ports of entry and curtailed non-essential travel, countries like the US with over 1,000 positive cases appear to be taking things lightly.
-
PM Modi, Saudi Prince Condemn Pulwama Attack In Joint Statement: 10 Facts
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a joint statement on Wednesday, condemned "in the strongest terms" the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Both sides agree on the need to create "conditions necessary for resumption of ...
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Congress@100 In Rajasthan After Win, BJP Wins In Haryana Seat: 10 Points
The ruling BJP and the Congress scored a victory each today in the last polls before the national election, due by May. The BJP won by-polls in Haryana's Jind, where the counting of votes was briefly stalled over protests and allegations of EVM or vote machine tampering. The Congress won the Ramgarh election in Rajasthan, adding one more seat to it...
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PM Modi Writes To You. Controversy Over Centre's Rs 15 Crore Outreach
In election season, crores of households across India are receiving a personalised letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his flagship health insurance plan under the Ayushman Bharat - PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the largest government-funded healthcare programme, touches the 100-day mark.
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Climate Change, Heat Exposure Reducing India's Labour Force By 7%: Report
Climate change is making more people vulnerable to heat exposure and air pollution in India leading to one lakh premature deaths and 7 per cent reduction in country's labour force, the researchers said in an analysis in The Lancet medical journal.
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8-Year-Old Madrasa Student Killed In South Delhi In Brawl Over Playground
A scuffle over the right to play in a playground turned fatal for 8-year-old Aseem, a student of the Darul Uloom Faridiya madrasa in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar. On Thursday, Aseem and his friends, all of them students, were playing in the madrasa premises when a group of neighbourhood children aged 10-12 years, attacked them. Soon a scuffle broke ...
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#MeToo Singes Journalists. Twitter Thread Provokes Stories, Allegations
India's media was thwacked by a stunning #MeToo moment that uncoiled in a Twitter thread on men who had misbehaved on a cruise liner in Australia. It began with ex-AIB comic Utsav Chakraborty being called out for sexual harassment after he derided the men who had partied on the cruise ship.
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After Polio Vaccine Scare, Questions On Quality Checks
India's anti-polio programme got a jolt recently after it was found that some vaccines made by a Ghaziabad-based firm were found to contain the P2 virus strain. The company, BioMed, is one of the four domestic suppliers of polio vaccines to the government-run polio immunisation programme.
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Nearly Rs 50 Lakh Raised Online For Family Of Delhi Man Who Died In Sewer
The wife of the Delhi sewage worker urged she wants to educate her three children. As of 10 AM on September 19, over Rs 48 lakh had been crowdfunded for Anil's family.
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Navjot Sidhu Rebuked For "Messing Up" In Pak, Says Minister. His Rebuttal
Navjot Singh Sidhu's gesture of hugging Pakistan's army chief during his visit to Islamabad for Imran Khan's oath ceremony impacted soldiers and "demoralises people", Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today, commenting that the Punjab minister "could have avoided it".
