The annual flu season has started in Delhi, northwestern India, and the northern plains. Several in the HT newsroom fell ill with the flu last week, not the coronavirus disease (Covid-19; they tested negative), but the seasonal flu that makes its presence felt at this time of year. Some of …
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That it has been undoing historic mistakes to boost the Indian economy is a key narrative of the current NDA government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When such movements are criticized, he is quick to portray his opponents as representatives of a group of vested interests. Prime Minister …
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He was answering questions posed by his social media interactives on the Sunday Samvaad platform. These questions covered a multitude of queries related not only to the current Covid situation but also to the government’s approach to it. Speaking about the concrete measures that have been planned to handle such …
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NEW DELHI: Dramatic scenes unfolded in Rajya Sabha on Sunday shortly after Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar began responding to the debate over controversial agricultural bills. All social distancing and precautions related to Covid-19 were violated when members of the opposition stepped onto the president’s podium, pulled his microphone, tore …
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India and China are scheduled to hold Corps Commander-level talks in Moldo, on the Chinese side of the Royal Line of Control (LAC) on Monday, in the border clash. This will be the sixth of those conversations on the subject. An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) is …
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By: Desk Explained | Pune | Updated: September 20, 2020 10:20:21 am The Novavax vaccine candidate is currently in phase 2 clinical trials in South Africa. (AP Photo: Taimy Alvarez / File) Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker: The trials in India of a candidate vaccine being developed by the American company Novavax …
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The Comptroller General of Drugs of India (DGCI) on Saturday approved the country’s first Covid-19 Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic (CRISPR) test for commercial launch. This is developed by Tata and developed by CSIR-IGIB (Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology) FELUDA (an acronym for FNCAS9 Editor-Limited Uniform Detection Assay). “The …
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WASHINGTON / NEW YORK : US President Donald Trump said he supports a deal that will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States, after threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app in August. He told reporters at the White House that he backs the deal with TikTok owner ByteDance, …
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NEW DELHI: Health researchers, apparently under instructions from ICMR chiefs, removed a crucial part of the first national serosurvey study conducted to assess the true extent of the spread of Covid-19 before it was finally published, it has compiled this newspaper. The omitted data showed that between 15 and 48 …
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NEW DELHI: Congress and another member of the opposition party sat in protest inside Rajya Sabha even after the House was suspended for the day after the passage of two agricultural bills. Members of Congress, Trinamool Congress, DMK, left-wing parties and some others sat in protest inside Rajya Sabha’s chamber …
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