Representative image NEW DELHI: The Center is considering relief modalities for borrowers and will decide within two weeks whether banks will charge compound interest during the six-month moratorium period that ended on August 31, Attorney General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court while seeking to avoid a possible suspension of …
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(This story was published in the Times of India on September 10, 2020) KALABURAGI: In a major crackdown on cannabis since the sandalwood drug trade controversy broke out, Bengaluru Police seized 1,350 kg of cannabis in two separate raids in Kalaburagi district in the north Karnataka. The raids were carried …
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BJP President JP Nadda (File photo) KOLKATA: President of BJP JP Nadda on Thursday he called the Trinamool congressional government “anti-Hindu”, marking for the first time in Bengal politics the issue of discrimination on the grounds of religion. Nadda reinforced his argument by pointing to Trinamool’s “minority appeasement policy”, portraying …
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Players who make it to the England-Australia limited overs series IPL will be available to be selected for their teams’ first matches, contrary to fears that they may be held up by quarantine rules in the UAE. According to Kolkata Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore, players will not have to …
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Representative image NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Serum Institute of India stopped the Covishield trials, Oxford University-AstraZenecaCandidate for the Covid-19 vaccine, after a notice issued by the central drug regulator. “We are reviewing the situation and stopping the trials in India until AstraZeneca restarts them. We are following the instructions of the …
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Union Interior Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday that the government’s decision to allow the Golden Temple in Amritsar to receive foreign funding is a pioneering move and will once again show the extraordinary spirit of service of the Sikh community. On Wednesday, the Home Office approved Sri Harmandir Sahib’s …
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Actress Kangana Ranaut in a tweet said that, as a symbolic gesture, she will not renovate the parts of her office that were demolished on Wednesday by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The BMC carried out the demolition based on alleged structural violations. In a tweet, the actor wrote: “I opened …
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Rashami Desai has supported Ankita Lokhande, who is involved in a war of words with Shibani Dandekar. Rashami called Ankita a ‘big star’ and said she didn’t need ‘two seconds of fame’, as Shibani alleges. Taking the stories from Instagram, Rashami wrote, “@lokhandeankita You are a huge star and people …
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Written by Shubhangi Khapre | Mumbai | September 11, 2020 4:02:19 am On Wednesday, BMC demolished parts of Kangana Ranaut’s Pali Hill property in Bandra. Aware that its aggressive cry for “Justice for Sushant Singh” in Bihar could trigger a backlash in Maharashtra, where Shiv Sena has portrayed the campaign …
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MOSCOW: Twenty-six scientists, most of them working in universities in Italy, signed an open letter questioning the reliability of the data presented in the results of the early-phase trial of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, called “Sputnik-V”. Addressing the editor of The Lancet, the international peer-reviewed medical journal in which the …
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