NEW DELHI: Amid a growing number of Covid-19 cases across the country, the Center on Friday urged states to allow on-demand testing, a move likely to aid in the early detection of positive cases that lead to timely contact tracing and treatment to prevent deaths. . The Center has asked …
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NEW DELHI: Highlighting the scourge of terrorism, External affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday he asked to improve BRICS cooperation to counter terrorism in a virtual meeting of the chancellors. He expressed his satisfaction with the conclusion of the BRICS “anti-terror strategy”. Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi participated …
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Firefighting vessels fighting to extinguish a fire at Panama-registered crude oil tanker New Diamond: AFP COLOMBO: Sri Lanka thanked India on Friday for its support in putting out a large fire aboard a tanker carrying crude from Kuwait which left one of its 23 crew members dead and stressed that …
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ANI photo NEW DELHI: The Army is fully prepared to handle the “delicate and serious” situation along the border with China, having carried out precautionary deployments to safeguard the integrity of the country’s territory, General MM said. Naravane on Friday. “Our troops are well prepared for all contingencies that may …
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Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla NEW DELHI: The situation in LAC between India and China was “unprecedented” and could not be “as usual”, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Shringla tough he said while addressing a webinar at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA). “The situation in LAC is one of the …
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NEW DELHI: A Bank of the Supreme Court Headed by Chief Justice, SA Bobde, on Friday exposed a loosely guarded secret: that judges faced the highest number of false complaints and that it was a common “syndrome” to attack a person about to be appointed. SC judge, superior court or …
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NEW DELHI: Covid-19 cases in India surpassed 4 million on Friday, just 13 days after hitting the 3 million mark, even as new cases in the past 24 hours rose to a new high of more than 87,800 . This was the third consecutive day with the highest increase in …
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BENGALURU: The recent riots in Bengaluru were “pre-planned and organized” and were “undoubtedly community motivated”, citizens for democracy in his investigative report presented to Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday said. He said the mob during the nighttime August 11 riots had specifically targeted certain prominent Hindus in the area, …
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Rajnath Singh meets with Chinese Defense Minister General Fenghe (PTI image) NEW DELHI: In an attempt to break the deadlock in the ongoing military confrontation in the east Ladakh Since early May, India and China held their first high-level political meeting on Friday, on the sidelines of the defense ministers …
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ANI photo MOSCOW / NEW DELHI: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met with his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, in Moscow on Friday at the first highest-level contact after border tension erupted in Ladakh in May, when the Indian leader said that peace and security in the region require a climate …
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