Schools in some states will partially reopen beginning Monday after more than five months of lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The states are Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Nagaland, and Madhya Pradesh. The Center had last week allowed the partial reopening of schools on …
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The man who single-handedly built a 3-kilometer-long tunnel in 30 years to irrigate his parched farmland has won a recognition award from Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra. Impressed by the Herculean effort made by Laungi Bhuyian, a farmer from the Gaya district of Bihar, Mahindra has decided to let him …
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For the first time in more than two decades of forage scam cases, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) turned to a new statutory provision to oppose RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s release on bail, even when it may bring problems to several other convicts. According to the CBI, the court …
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NEW DELHI: One day after BJP’s oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal withdrew from the Modi government to protest legislation aimed at restructuring agricultural trade, and amid continued opposition from Congress and some other parties, Prime Minister Narendra modi he went on the offensive on Friday, calling the bills a “historic” …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate the Kosi Rail Mega Bridge in Bihar at 12pm on Friday. In addition to the bridge, the prime minister will inaugurate another 12 railway projects related to passenger facilities for the benefit of the state, according to a statement from the Ministry of …
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India reported 96,424 new cases of the coronavirus disease on Friday, a world record, taking the cumulative count beyond 5.21 million. With a steady increase in Covid-19 cases at a record rate, India is the second most affected country globally and is expected to surpass the United States, where the …
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Actor Sushant Singh Rajput is not a Rajput as those belonging to the Maharana Prataps clan do not commit suicide, RJD MLA Arun Yadav has said, sparking controversy. Striking, the JD (U) and BJP asked Yadav to apologize to the people of the Bihar and Sushants fans for the caste …
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The Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled for October-November, are important in many ways. This is because, in these elections, the reputation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is more at stake than that of Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar. Regular polls in newspapers and television news channels have been saying that Prime …
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In Dispatch 156, I wrote about why it didn’t make sense to use rapid antigen tests all the time, or to rely too much on them, as Delhi is still. In short, these tests return too many false negative results (identifying an infected person as not infected) to be reliable. …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi praises the good work of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in ensuring the supply of clean water in the villages. The prime minister had also inaugurated three projects in the oil sector worth Rs 900 million. Projects include the Durgapur-Banka section of the Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur Pipeline Augmentation Project …
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