NEW DELHI: In the midst of a raging controversy over political bias and interference in Facebook At the urging of its top Indian officials, the government on Tuesday wrote a strong letter to the founder of the social media giant. Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company’s employees of “officially abusing” Prime …
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(ANI photo) PRAYAGRAJ: On Monday, the Allahabad High Court ordered the immediate release of Dr. Kafeel Khan, who has spent more than seven months in prison for his public speech against CAA and NRC outside the Aligarh Muslim University campus, saying that the pediatrician’s arrest under the National Security Act …
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(ANI photo) LUCKNOW / MATHURA: Following an order from the Allahabad Superior Court, Dr. Kafeel Khan was released from Mathura jail late Tuesday night, his attorney said. “Mathura jail the administration informed around 11:00 pm that Dr. Kafeel will be released, and around midnight, he was released, “Khan’s lawyer, Irfan …
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NEW DELHI: A total of 8,145 deaths were reported in India in 2019 due to causes attributable to forces of nature, with nearly 3,000 of them caused by lightning, a report by National Office of Criminal Records Has revealed. The majority (50.3%) of the reported victims belonged to the age …
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Representative photo: PTI NEW DELHI: A total of 4.37.396 road accidents were recorded across India in 2019, resulting in the death of 1,54,732 people and the injury of another 4,39,262, according to the latest National Office of Criminal Records (NCRB) data. In addition, the majority (59.6 percent) of traffic accidents …
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NEW DELHI: The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Chinese troops resorted to “provocative actions” to change the status quo in the south bank area of Pangong lake and the Indian side took appropriate defensive measures to thwart their attempts. Foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said the Chinese side violated …
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NEW DELHI: India reported close to 2 million Covid-19 cases in August, the highest recorded in any country for any month since the outbreak of the pandemic. The country also saw an increase in deaths from the virus, with 28,859 deaths reported in August, a 50% increase from the previous …
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NEW DELHI: The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) – Major for admission to engineering colleges began Tuesday amid strict precautions and social distancing measures in light of the Covid-19 pandemic even as the chorus continued to grow to postpone the crucial exam that has already been postponed twice. Scenes outside test …
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Written by Shubhajit Roy | New Delhi | Updated: September 1, 2020 8:56:01 pm Sources had said that Indian troops had moved to occupy the dominant heights on their LAC side on the middle night of Saturday and Sunday on the south bank of Pangong Tso. (Express file) Hours later …
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Representative photo UNITED NATIONS: India at the UN has called for the Jammu and Kashmir issue to be permanently removed under the “outdated agenda item” of the “India-Pakistan issue” from the Security Council agenda, saying that “irrational exuberance“There are no winners in a decent world. In a veiled attack on …
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