Artists put the finishing touches on a graffiti on the wall in Kolkata, honoring frontline COVID-19 warriors. (Express photo: Partha Paul) Coronavirus India Live Updates: Amid questions raised by experts and opposition about the restricted-use approval granted to Covaxin despite no efficacy data from phase III trials, Bharat Biotech MD …
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In an extraordinary rebuke to President Donald Trump, the 10 living former defense secretaries warn against any move to involve the military in pursuing allegations of electoral fraud, arguing that it would lead the country into “dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional territory.” The 10 men, both Democrats and Republicans, signed an …
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Cat ornament 2020: Aaryan Kapoor, an electronic and instrumental engineering student at BITS-Pilani, is among the nine candidates who scored in the 100th percentile on Common Admission Test (CAT) 2020. The 21-year-old from Garhshankar, a small town in the Hoshiyarpur district of Punjab, said he was hoping for a 99th …
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PUNE: A total of 17 mutations need to be detected in the genetic makeup of the SARS-CoV-2 virus before experts can confirm that it is the new variant that originated in the UK. Scientists who have been carrying out genome sequencing at the Pune-based Indian Council of Medical Research’s National …
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Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) of business magnate Mukesh Ambani, whose Jio Infocomm towers have allegedly been attacked by a section of farmers in Punjab protesting against the Center’s three new agricultural laws, said on Monday it will file a petition in Punjab and Haryana in the Superior Court of Justice. …
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KERALA HAS requested the Center to prioritize the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, considering the high number of cases in the state and to make the most of its strategy of delaying the peak in the containment of the disease. Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja said The Indian Express that the …
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NEW DELHI: Up to 224 retired bureaucrats and judicial officials, including former senior high court judges, chief clerks and DGP, have sent a letter to the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in support of the new law against religious conversions in the state. They also attacked the group of 104 retired …
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Bird carcasses were carefully disposed of in pits in Jhalawar Jaipur: Hundreds of crows have died in Rajasthan, prompting authorities to issue an alert for bird flu in the state. The dreaded virus was confirmed in dead crows in Jhalawar district and many other cities, including Jaipur, authorities said. The …
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CHENNAI: In what the police believe is an act of self defense To escape a rapist, a 19-year-old woman stabbed a 24-year-old man with a knife used by him to threaten her in her attempted rape in Sholavaram in Tiruvallur district on Saturday night. According to Ponneri DSP Kalpana Dutt, …
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WASHINGTON: The United States will continue to seek WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeis extradition, the US Department of Justice he said Monday after a British judge ruled that he should not be extradited to face criminal charges. “While we are extremely disappointed with the final decision of the court, we are …
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