UDUPI: With a view to conducting annual board exams after a few months, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is making plans and will soon reveal how it will conduct the mock assessments, a senior official said at an ASSOCHAM webinar on Friday. . “During March-April we were puzzled …
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Two Michigan state legislators addressed the White House on Friday as President Donald Trump made an extraordinary and surely futile attempt to block Joe Biden’s victory in the battlefield state and subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. . The state has yet to certify its results for Biden, …
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Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday expressed hope that based on the positive signs of the past four to five days, the national capital was crossing the third peak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), with the positivity rate of the tests and the number. of infections steadily decreasing during …
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New DelhiAt least 1.04 million new workers joined the formal workforce in September, the Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) said in its payroll data on Friday. This is the fifth consecutive month that new hires increased after a sharp drop in April, following the pan-India lockdown imposed in March. The …
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LONDON: Indian-born economist, author and colleague Lord Meghnad Desai has resigned as a member of the UK’s Opposition Labor Party for failing to effectively tackle anti-Semitic racism within its ranks. The 80-year-old partner said he has only been a supporter of the Labor Party, but was forced to make the …
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New Delhi: In the wake of the massive increase in COVID-19 cases in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced on Friday that all schools in its jurisdiction will remain closed until the end of this year, that is, December 31, 2020. However, schools may reopen as of November 23 …
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NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday extended by three days the judicial custody from former JNU student leader Umar Khalid and JNU student Sharjeel Imam who were arrested under the Law (Prevention) of Illegal Activities in a case related to communal violence in northeast delhi in February. Additional sessions …
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The president of Congress, Sonia Gandhi, formed three committees on Friday to consider and discuss issues and policies related to the economy, foreign affairs and national security, accommodating some congressmen who in recent months have raised questions about the functioning of the party . All committees will be headed by …
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday conducted a review of India’s vaccination strategy amid indications that the rapidly developing Oxford-AstraZeneca injection could be eligible for emergency use authorization in India from next month. “Important issues related to the progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and acquisitions were discussed,” …
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One day after the Gujarat government imposed a full curfew on Ahemedabad from 9 p.m. on November 20 to 6 a.m. on November 23, the night curfew was reinstated in Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara between 9 pm and 6 am following the increase in Covid-19 cases in the state, the …
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