As the world’s largest supplier of medicines and producer of 60% of the world’s vaccines, India has long been known as the ‘world’s pharmacy’. Now, as the frantic search for a Covid-19 vaccine gathers momentum, the country is playing an increasingly strategic and central role in the development, manufacturing, and …
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In the past few days, there has been significant criticism leveled at Microsoft for sneakily installing web applications and free advertising for its applications in the start menu of your Windows 10 PC. Criticism and rightly so. This was widely reported globally by tech media and there was significant talk …
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Aamir Khan is also a fan of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and is celebrating his 25th anniversary with the rest of the world. On Tuesday, he took to Twitter to share the movie’s most perfect synopsis. “A hero who discovers her conscience, a heroine who finds her voice, a villain …
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India on Tuesday criticized statements by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressing concern about restrictions on foreign funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India and the arrest of activists in the country. Bachelet specifically cited as “worrying” the use of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act …
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Written by Darshan Devaiah BP | Bangalore | October 20, 2020 4:30:50 pm Karnataka BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal with Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa. (Twitter / @ BRPatil_BJP) Karnataka BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal stated that BS Yediyurappa will not be the prime minister for long and his successor will …
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NOIDA / LUCKNOW: In seven months, the corner of the classroom where they huddled to discuss chemistry notes had changed. They could no longer whisper to each other behind the teacher’s back, they were sitting far apart and would have to speak through a mask. The familiar “guard uncle”, who …
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Kris Srikkanth, the former captain of India and head of the selection committee, harshly criticized Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s “ridiculous” calls to the Chennai Super Kings in the ongoing IPL and asked what “spark” he saw in the underperforming Kedar Jadhav . Srikkanth was referring to Dhoni’s comment that the youngsters …
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WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc. Google Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law by using his market power to defend himself against rivals. The lawsuit marks the largest antitrust case in a generation, comparable to the 1998 lawsuit against Microsoft …
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French authorities said Tuesday they would close a mosque in Paris in a crackdown on radical Islam that has led to more than a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The mosque in a densely populated suburb northeast …
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Every year as the air gets colder and the festive season draws near, the residents of Delhi prepare for a new outbreak of pollution. But this year, Aam Aadmi chief minister and party chief Arvind Kejriwal appears to be turning no stone unturned to ensure air quality remains within the …
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