Coronavirus: Dharavi in Mumbai Has Not Reported COVID-19 Cases for the First Time Since Outbreak Bombay: Not a single case of COVID-19 has been reported in Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, for the first time since the pandemic hit India earlier this year. Health workers and researchers have given their …
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If India does not win the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground starting Saturday, it will be the first time in 88 years that it will end a year without registering a single Test victory in a year. The Boxing Day test will be India’s fourth …
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The Center has chosen eight districts in four states of Punjab, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat to assess the readiness of the established mechanism for the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The two-day test will take place on December 28 and 29, authorities said. “The trial is being …
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JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s health minister has rejected the claim of his British counterpart that a new variant of the coronavirus in the country is more contagious or dangerous than a similar one in the UK spread. “At present, there is no evidence that the 501.V2 (variant) is more transmissible than …
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A scene from the remake starring David Dhawan of the 1995 hit Pawn No. 1 has everyone talking online. In a short clip that goes viral from the comedy film, the lead actor is seen running onto a moving train and jumping off it just in time to save a …
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BEIJING: China said on Friday there was no “link” between the situation of the Indian crew on two ships stranded in Chinese ports and its strained relations with India and Australia. The Foreign Ministry said in New Delhi on Thursday that two freighters with a total of 39 Indians on …
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Winter may be relatively harsher and longer in northern India this year as La Niña, a global weather pattern that has a cooling effect on global weather conditions, has matured and is nearly peaking. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said various meteorological parameters indicate that La Niña, which started in …
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West Bengal Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Amartya Sen on Friday, expressing his solidarity with the Nobel Prize winner after his name emerged among those allegedly occupying land belonging to the prestigious Visva-Bharati University, the news agency reported. ANI. In an apparent reference to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party …
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday allayed fears that private companies could seize farmers’ lands under a new contract farming law promulgated by the Center, while listening to success stories about the benefits of the new laws while interacting with farmers from seven states. After releasing Rs 18 …
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Farmers have been protesting the center’s three agricultural laws for months (Representational) Phagwara: On Friday, activists from the Bharti Kisan (Doaba) Union gave gherao to local BJP leaders who had gathered at a hotel in Punjab’s Phagwara to celebrate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, forcing …
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