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Deadly 'Black Fungus' In Covid Patients In India: 10 Facts
The government has told doctors to look out for signs of mucormycosis or "black fungus" in COVID-19 patients as hospitals report a rise in cases of the rare but potentially fatal infection.
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As India Waits For Covid-19 Vaccine, All States Start Dry Run: 10 Facts
A dry run to check the best way to vaccinate people against COVID-19 and plug loopholes in logistics and training has started in all the states today. This day-long drive will also test the operational feasibility in the use of CoWIN application in a field environment. Short for Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network, CoWIN is a digital platform to rol...
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5 Activists Gang-Raped In Jharkhand, Assault Filmed
Five women between the ages of 20 and 35 who were performing a street play in Jharkhand were abducted and then gang-raped in a forest on Tuesday, the police said, adding that the assault was also allegedly filmed on cell-phones.
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Trump, Kim Jong Launch Historic Summit In Singapore With A Handshake
With a handshake in Singapore, US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un marked the beginning of their first one-on-one meeting after months of negotiations over narrowing their differences on how to end a nuclear standoff
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19 Killed After Cement-Laden Truck Overturns On Highway In Gujarat
Nineteen people were killed when a truck carrying heavy cement bags overturned on a highway in Gujarat today, news agency ANI reported
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18 Convicted For Running SIMI Arms Training Camp In Kerala In 2007
Eighteen people have been convicted for running an arms training camp of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in December 2007 in Kerala. Seventeen others have been acquitted. A special court of the National Investigation Agency will announce the sentencing tomorrow
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Over 10 Labourers Feared Trapped After Building Collapses In North Delhi
Over 10 labourers are feared trapped after an under-construction banquet hall in north Delhi's Gujranwala Town collapsed today evening.
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Isha Ambani, Anand Piramal: The Couple That Everyone Is Talking About
Their families have known each other for four decades and, as Bollywood says it best, the time had perhaps come to turn the friendship into a relationship. The bride-to-be, Isha Ambani, is the daughter of Nita Ambani and Mukesh Ambani, India's richest person in the Forbes 2017 rich list. Her fiance is Anand Piramal, the son of Swati Piramal and Aja...
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7 Indian Engineers Kidnapped In Afghanistan's Baghlan
Seven engineers from India working in Afghanistan has been abducted, the local media in Afghanisatn has reported. The government is trying to confirm the reports, sources said
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Furious At 5-Hour Delay, IndiGo Passengers Broke Rules, Exited Plane
A Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight was delayed by five hours at Delhi airport due to bad weather on Wednesday, triggering protests by a group of passengers. Angered by the delay, some of the 177 passengers in the IndiGo Airbus A320 aircraft reportedly came out on the tarmac and allegedly tried to block the taxiway, news agency Press Trust of India repo...
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Officer Supervising Demolition In Himachal Shot Dead By Hotel Owner
A government officer was shot dead on Tuesday by the owner of a guesthouse in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district when she was overseeing the demolition of an illegal structure, the police said. One of the labourers who came with the officer was also hit by a bullet.
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UP Minister Speaks Of Alcohol Ban. Eggs, Tomatoes Thrown In Response
Broken eggs littered the ground outside the gate. Red splotches of tomatoes smeared the walls. This was the scene outside the house of Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday. His comments on liquor consumption pattern of people from certain communities ended with protesters gathering outside his house by the end of the day
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Top British Diplomat Calls Golden Temple A "Mosque", Apologises For Gaffe
A top British diplomat has called the Golden Temple a mosque following which he apologised for the gaffe amid protests by the Sikh community. Simon McDonald, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar as the "Golden Mosque" in a tweet on Monday.
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Karnataka Cop Quit After Spat With Minister. Now, She'll Fight Elections
She quit the police two years ago with a Facebook post over alleged interference in her work by a minister in Karnataka. Now she has returned with her own political party, whose symbol the lady's finger or bhindi was approved by the Election Commission in February. "I have entered politics, floated a party to contest the May 12 state assembly elect...
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Alliance Intact As 2 BJP Ministers Resign, Mehbooba Mufti Thanks PM Modi
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for defusing what could have become a full-blown political crisis in the state over the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua
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Deadly 'Black Fungus' In Covid Patients In India: 10 Facts
The government has told doctors to look out for signs of mucormycosis or "black fungus" in COVID-19 patients as hospitals report a rise in cases of the rare but potentially fatal infection.
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As India Waits For Covid-19 Vaccine, All States Start Dry Run: 10 Facts
A dry run to check the best way to vaccinate people against COVID-19 and plug loopholes in logistics and training has started in all the states today. This day-long drive will also test the operational feasibility in the use of CoWIN application in a field environment. Short for Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network, CoWIN is a digital platform to rol...
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5 Activists Gang-Raped In Jharkhand, Assault Filmed
Five women between the ages of 20 and 35 who were performing a street play in Jharkhand were abducted and then gang-raped in a forest on Tuesday, the police said, adding that the assault was also allegedly filmed on cell-phones.
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Trump, Kim Jong Launch Historic Summit In Singapore With A Handshake
With a handshake in Singapore, US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un marked the beginning of their first one-on-one meeting after months of negotiations over narrowing their differences on how to end a nuclear standoff
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19 Killed After Cement-Laden Truck Overturns On Highway In Gujarat
Nineteen people were killed when a truck carrying heavy cement bags overturned on a highway in Gujarat today, news agency ANI reported
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18 Convicted For Running SIMI Arms Training Camp In Kerala In 2007
Eighteen people have been convicted for running an arms training camp of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in December 2007 in Kerala. Seventeen others have been acquitted. A special court of the National Investigation Agency will announce the sentencing tomorrow
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Over 10 Labourers Feared Trapped After Building Collapses In North Delhi
Over 10 labourers are feared trapped after an under-construction banquet hall in north Delhi's Gujranwala Town collapsed today evening.
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Isha Ambani, Anand Piramal: The Couple That Everyone Is Talking About
Their families have known each other for four decades and, as Bollywood says it best, the time had perhaps come to turn the friendship into a relationship. The bride-to-be, Isha Ambani, is the daughter of Nita Ambani and Mukesh Ambani, India's richest person in the Forbes 2017 rich list. Her fiance is Anand Piramal, the son of Swati Piramal and Aja...
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7 Indian Engineers Kidnapped In Afghanistan's Baghlan
Seven engineers from India working in Afghanistan has been abducted, the local media in Afghanisatn has reported. The government is trying to confirm the reports, sources said
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Furious At 5-Hour Delay, IndiGo Passengers Broke Rules, Exited Plane
A Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight was delayed by five hours at Delhi airport due to bad weather on Wednesday, triggering protests by a group of passengers. Angered by the delay, some of the 177 passengers in the IndiGo Airbus A320 aircraft reportedly came out on the tarmac and allegedly tried to block the taxiway, news agency Press Trust of India repo...
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Officer Supervising Demolition In Himachal Shot Dead By Hotel Owner
A government officer was shot dead on Tuesday by the owner of a guesthouse in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district when she was overseeing the demolition of an illegal structure, the police said. One of the labourers who came with the officer was also hit by a bullet.
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UP Minister Speaks Of Alcohol Ban. Eggs, Tomatoes Thrown In Response
Broken eggs littered the ground outside the gate. Red splotches of tomatoes smeared the walls. This was the scene outside the house of Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday. His comments on liquor consumption pattern of people from certain communities ended with protesters gathering outside his house by the end of the day
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Top British Diplomat Calls Golden Temple A "Mosque", Apologises For Gaffe
A top British diplomat has called the Golden Temple a mosque following which he apologised for the gaffe amid protests by the Sikh community. Simon McDonald, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar as the "Golden Mosque" in a tweet on Monday.
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Karnataka Cop Quit After Spat With Minister. Now, She'll Fight Elections
She quit the police two years ago with a Facebook post over alleged interference in her work by a minister in Karnataka. Now she has returned with her own political party, whose symbol the lady's finger or bhindi was approved by the Election Commission in February. "I have entered politics, floated a party to contest the May 12 state assembly elect...
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Alliance Intact As 2 BJP Ministers Resign, Mehbooba Mufti Thanks PM Modi
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for defusing what could have become a full-blown political crisis in the state over the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua
