Australia India Tour: About 30 km from Sydney Olympic Park, where the Indian cricket team is in quarantine, local cricketers and footballers survived a scare and fled after a small plane crashed on the Cromer Park sports ground where they were playing the Saturday. ALSO READ: India Tour of Australia: …
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NEW DELHI: The Union government has extended the term of ED director Sanjay Kumar Mishra for one year after modifying his appointment order that was issued in 2018, authorities said. Mishra, 60, is a 1984 batch Indian Tax Service Officer of the Income Tax table and was appointed head of …
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India has reported fewer than 50,000 new cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) for seven days in a row, bringing the total number of cases in the country so far to about nine million (87,73,479), according to data. published by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. India’s active case …
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The success of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine trial may help persuade more people to get vaccinated amid a surge in new coronavirus cases, according to Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease physician. The Pfizer vaccine, developed in collaboration with BioNTech SE of Germany, has “an extraordinarily high degree of efficacy: …
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NEW DELHI: Barring select consumer goods names, stocks from all sectors were in demand during Saturday’s annual Muhurat Trading session, pushing benchmarks to new all-time highs. An overnight rally in US markets also supported morale on Dalal Street. Improving business sentiment and the holiday spirit keep markets bullish as indices …
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The young Owaisi, who wanted to be a lawyer, had to submit his nomination papers to challenge the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections in 1994. It was the year 1994. Two years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, there were riots across India at Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), a party …
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What did the RBI warn about falling GDP amid the pandemic and what awaits us? The story so far: The latest monthly newsletter of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) features an article by an official in its Monetary Policy Department titled ‘An Index of Economic Activity for India’, where …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday to take care of Christian shrines in parts of Nagorno-Karabakh that Azerbaijan has under this week’s ceasefire agreement, the Kremlin said. Russia negotiated a ceasefire on Tuesday that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in the ethnic Armenian region, …
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Fear of the coronavirus and chronic pollution ruined Saturday’s holiday when hundreds of millions of Indians celebrated the biggest Hindu holiday of the year. Diwali is destined to be the festival of light, but the pandemic has clouded the future for many in the country of 1.3 billion. Some defiantly …
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People in Delhi defied the ban on firecrackers on Diwali by worsening air pollution New Delhi: A day after millions of people celebrated Diwali across the country, pollution levels in Delhi and its neighboring areas soared as people defied the ban on firecrackers. Air quality in the national capital fell …
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