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For decades, India has been on the receiving end of Pakistan’s relentless export of terrorism, the product in which it has enjoyed a comparative and competitive advantage. Faced with the use of terrorism by Pakistan as an instrument of state policy, India struggled to devise an adequate response. After every …

On Monday, Nature released a report showing that we are slowly but surely finding out the origin of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The report deals with two related findings about the virus that came, not from the field, but from the freezer. There have been …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would follow scientific advice in deciding which Covid-19 vaccine to use, stressing that “safety is as important as speed,” even as he said it was a national commitment to provide the vaccinations to all citizens. When asked during a …

The news reached Sarah Gilbert on Saturday night that the Covid-19 vaccine she developed with AstraZeneca Plc appeared to work. But the Oxford University professor expected a key number: was it more than 90% effective, as others have been, or less? Instead, when his colleague Andrew Pollard called with the …

BJP leader’s statement comes a year after his ‘morning coup’ with Ajit Pawar stunned Maharashtra A year after his ‘morning coup’ with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and senior deputy minister Ajit Pawar stunned Maharashtra, opposition leader and former senior minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday deliberately signaled that his next …

Ind vs Aus ODI series: The India team is set to begin its full-fledged two-month tour to Australia with the three-match ODI series scheduled to start from November 27. In particular, India will be playing international cricket after nine months and are likely to face many obstacles during their grueling …

US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday (November 23) appointed Antony Blinken as the new US Secretary of State and Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor. Blinken, 58, served as undersecretary of state under President Barack Obama, while Blinken, 43, served as head of policy planning at the State Department under …

Blinken made the remarks during a community outreach program with American Indians organized by the Biden campaign on the occasion of India’s Independence Day on August 15. It alleged that US President Donald Trump has helped China advance key strategic goals by weakening American alliances, leaving a void in the …

NEW DELHI : By officially stating that no vaccine in history has developed as rapidly as the covid-19 vaccine, there is now a real risk that the poorest and most vulnerable will be trampled on in the vaccine stampede, the World Health Organization warned ( WHO). Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO …

NEW DELHI: Private lender HDFC Bank gained attention Tuesday after CLSA raised the lender’s price target to Rs 1,700. On the other hand, Future Group companies continued to reach the upper circuit for the second consecutive session after the Competition Commission of India (ICC) approved RIL’s proposed acquisition of the …