Representative image | Photo credit: PTI Key points The panel highlighted the lack of facilities in state health centers He said the number of government hospital beds in the country was not adequate He also claimed that the public had to suffer trauma and distress due to the absence of …
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KP Ramalingam | Photo credit: ANI Key points ‘Having close relations with MK Alagiri, I will try to bring him to BJP’ I don’t have the heart to accept anyone as head of the DMK party after Karunanidhi: KP Ramalingam I am happy to be with a party that has …
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Continuing its attack on the entertainment industry, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested the television industry’s comedy queen, Bharti Singh, on Saturday. In one raid, the NCB raided the residence of Bharti and her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa. Detectives seized 86.5 g of marijuana from his residence. “Both Bharti Singh and …
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Bangalore: Online education startup Byju’s is close to raising $ 200 million in a new round of funding from US investment firms BlackRock and T. Rowe Price with a valuation of $ 12 billion, said a person familiar with the matter. The Bengaluru-based educational technology firm had last raised $ …
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The Gupkar alliance. | Photo credit: PTI Srinagar: Former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and president of the newly formed Peoples’ Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) Farooq Abdullah wrote to state electoral commissioner KK Sharma on Saturday, alleging that the alliance’s candidates are being transferred to ” safe …
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Tarun Gogoi has suffered from multi-organ failure, a minister said. (Archive) Guwahati: Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s health condition deteriorated with multi-organ failure and he has lost consciousness with shortness of breath, Assam’s Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The 86-year congressional political veteran, who was on non-invasive ventilation …
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DK Shivakumar said he will appear before CBI on November 25. (Archive) Bangalore: Karnataka Congressional Unit Chairman DK Shivakumar said on Saturday that he received a subpoena from the CBI in connection with a disproportionate assets case, and will appear before the investigating agency on November 25. “It is true …
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The G20 leaders appeared in various windows through a blinking screen. Riyadh: Saudi King Salman inaugurated the G20 summit on Saturday for the first time for an Arab nation, with the virtual forum dominated by efforts to address the coronavirus crisis and the worst global recession in decades. G20 leaders, …
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TMC MP Saugata Roy, | Photo credit: PTI Calcutta: Ahead of next year’s West Bengal elections, BJP leader Arjun Singh appeared to claim that five TMC government MPs in the state are likely to switch sides soon. Singh, the BJP MP from Barrackpore, hinted that TMC MPs, including Saugata Roy, …
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A study published to evaluate the efficacy and safety of favipiravir has concluded that the drug has shown positive results in the treatment of mild to moderate cases of Covid-19 disease. In the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. The significant improvement in the time required for clinical cure suggests that …
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