New Delhi: Eight passengers were found to be Covid-19 positive upon arrival from Britain on Monday night flights in different cities in India. These passengers had arrived on different flights from London to Delhi (5), Kolkata (2) and Chennai (1), and have been sent to institutional quarantine. Central health agencies …
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Photographers around the world captured Jupiter and Saturn aligning almost perfectly in the night sky this week. Monday was the closest the two planets have appeared in 800 years; the last time they were this close and visible was in 1226. The two planets align or conjugate every 20 years. …
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The Netanyahu-led coalition had been creeping toward collapse for weeks. (ARCHIVE) Jerusalem: Israel’s parliament was dissolved on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fractured ruling coalition failed to pass a budget, prompting a fourth election in two years and renewing an unprecedented political crisis. The coalition led by Netanyahu and …
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Samsung has already started rolling out the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 update on its high-end phones, including the Galaxy S20 series and the Galaxy Note 20 series. Now, the company plans to roll it out on its mid-range smartphones, starting with the Galaxy M31. The company has announced the …
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NEW DELHI: Old Jammu Kashmir Prime Minister and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti has asked the Bjp fight with it politically and “not through ED, NIA, CID”, saying that democracy is about fundamental rights. “I want to tell all the BJP leaders who fight with me politically, not through NIA, ED …
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Chinese Ambassador Hou Yanqi met with Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Tuesday night at the Shital Niwas presidential palace, people familiar with the matter said. The hour-long meeting comes two days after the president approved Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s recommendation to dissolve parliament, a precursor to the split …
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NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the government called Rahul Gandhi’s tweet about the cancellation of the India-Russia summit “false and misleading”, explaining that the scheduled meeting between the two nations was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier today, the congressional leader blamed a news report claiming that the recent cancellation …
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Written by Aashish Aryan, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 23, 2020 12:33:35 pm Worker cycles by machinery at Cairn India, Barmer oil and gas exploration plant in Rajasthan. (Photo via Bloomberg) The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has ruled that the Indian government …
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A few days ago, driving back from Berkeley to San Francisco, I was delayed for a while in a traffic jam on the other side of the Bay Bridge. The cause of the jam was a mobile procession organized by the Sikh community, with messages of support for Indian farmers …
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Farmer groups from UP, Haryana and Uttarakhand say they will support farm laws (Archive) New Delhi: Around 20,000 members of the Kisan Sena will march from western Uttar Pradesh to Delhi on Thursday to highlight their support for the center’s agricultural laws, setting up a possible clash with thousands of …
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