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This is how the overall COVID-19 position looked like in India on September 3, 2021.This data is collated by Union ministry of health and family welfare
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III departs on a trip Sunday, September 5, to visit Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a statement released by Pentagon Press Secretary John F Kirby stated.Throughout his trip, Secretary Austin will meet with regional partners and thank them...
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Two police constables from Gujarat's Junagadh district were on Friday placed under suspension after a video purportedly showing them thrashing an Army jawan went viral on social media, an official said.Rajesh Bandhia and Chetan Makwana, attached to Bantva police station, were suspended on the...
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The Indian stock market continued its bull run as the 30-stock bellwether Sensex jumped 277 points or 0.48% to close at all-time high of 58,130
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The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday granted permission to the Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Life Sciences to conduct phase-I clinical trial of its indigenous COVID-19 vaccine with certain conditions, sources said.The phase-I clinical trial will be conducted to evaluate safety,...
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Former RSS ideologue and BJP leader K N Govindacharya on Friday said people should be able to drink Ganga water collected from anywhere and that should be the yardstick to determine whether the river water is clean.Addressing a press conference, he said there was also a need to ensure...
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Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA in the north-east Delhi riots conspiracy case, told the court on Friday that the chargesheet against him reads like a web-series or TV news script and referred to Harry Potter villain Voldemort while...
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Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the number of IPS officers for the state in view of creation of more districts.Rao, who met Modi in the national capital on Friday, also sought 100 per cent funding for constructing...
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In order to have protection against drone attacks, all the three defence forces including the Army, Navy and Air Force have signed contracts for acquiring DRDO-developed anti-drone systems.The deals for buying the anti-drone systems was signed on August 31, which was the last date for completing...
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BJP MLA Vikram Saini on Friday appeared before a special court here in connection with a case linked to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.The case relates to violence by a group of people, who were returning after cremating two youths, in Kawal village here. The group allegedly damaged properties and...
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The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday said it is recalling 1,81,754 units of petrol trims of various models, including Ciaz, Vitara Brezza and XL6, to replace faulty motor generator unit.This is the company's largest vehicle recall till date.As a responsible...
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PS Prasanth
Ousted senior Congress leader P S Prasanth on Friday joined the CPI-M in the presence of party state secretary in-charge A Vijayaraghavan in Thiruvananthapuram. Vijayaraghavan, along with other CPI-M leaders, welcomed Prasanth to the party at the AKG centre, head office of the party, where...
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A day after Kerala's overall COVID-19 cases crossed the 41 lakh mark, state health minister Veena George on Friday said the state is facing vaccine shortage and the Covishield stock is completely over in at least six districts, following which the government has asked for more vaccine doses from...
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The material seized in Kolkata
The department of atomic energy on Friday clarified that the material seized from two persons in Kolkata was non-radioactive and not the highly expensive 'californium' as suspected earlier. The persons were arrested from Kolkata airport by the West Bengal police last Thursday with 250 gm of...
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JD-U MLA Gopal Mandal lodged a complaint against a fellow passenger onboard in Tejas Express train for allegedly abusing, misbehaving and snatching his gold ornaments.The complaint has been registered at GRP New Delhi Railway Station. In his complaint, Mandal accused one Prahlad Paswan of...
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A group of Afghan women staged a protest today in Kabul to demand their right to work and education. Taliban have banned many women from working outside their homes and girls from attending school, university.
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Worried by the alarming Covid-19 situation in Kerala, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed a state government decision to hold offline Class 11 exams. The court ordered the exams be paused for a week, saying: Children of tender age can't be exposed to the risk (of contracting the virus).A...
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Equity benchmark Sensex surged 277 points to close above the 58,000-mark for the first time on Friday, driven by gains in index major Reliance Industries amid a largely positive trend in global markets and sustained foreign fund inflows. The 30-share Sensex settled 277.41 points or 0.48 per...
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Thirteen years after 56 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, a special court here has concluded the trial against 77 accused, while reserving its verdict in the matter. The prosecution examined over 1,100 witnesses in the lengthy trial, which began in...
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The domestic flights from Kabul will resume on Friday. The airport has been closed since the last evacuation flight took off on September 1.Citing an Afghan civil aviation official, the Doha-based Al Jazeera reported on Thursday said that he expected international flights to take...
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against dismissed police officer Sachin Waze and other accused in Antilia bomb scare-Mansukh Hiran murder case. The central probe agency filed the charge sheet before a court here. Besides Waze, former...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday urged citizens not to put the state government in a position where it has to shut everything in the event of a third wave of the pandemic. Pawar said the Centre has already cautioned all the states, citing that Kerala and Maharashtra...
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A day after Kerala's overall COVID-19 cases crossed the 41 lakh mark, state Health Minister Veena George on Friday said the Covishield vaccine stock is completely over in at least six districts and the government has asked for more vaccine doses from the Centre. The districts- Kollam,...
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As the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is under control, the police will review and restore the internet soon, said Director-General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Friday.Situation is absolutely under control. Not even one incident occurred in the last two days. People cooperated, security forces...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a person in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district in connection with its probe into a case of post-poll violence in the state, an agency source said on Friday.Ratan Halder, an accused in the murder of a Bharatiya Janata Party worker's mother...
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Actor Sidharth Shukla has been cremated. A crowd gathered outside the Oshiwara crematorium where the mortal remains of actor Sidharth Shukla were brought for the last rites. Family and friends of the late actor were present. Sidharth Shukla's autopsy was completed last night at a...
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Covid cases continue to rise in Kerala.
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Taliban Political office Deputy Head Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai met with Germany's Ambassador to Afghanistan Marx Putzel on Friday, reported TOLO news.Stanekzai and Putzel discussed the situation in Afghanistan, the reopening of Kabul Airport and the continuation of German humanitarian aid to...
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Government Higher Secondary Schools in Chandwan and Barwal in Kathua district of Jammu have been renamed after Sepoy Bua Ditta Singh and Naik Yograj Singh respectively, who lost their lives in action.This is a good initiative and will motivate students to do something for the nation, says...
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Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee Secretary PS Prasanth wrote to former party president Rahul Gandhi seeking the removal of Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal, who is arguably Rahul's closest political aide.Prashant was almost instantly expelled from the party without a show cause...
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Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government set to be announced shortly, sources in the Islamist group said on Friday, as it battled rebel fighters in the Panjshir Valley and strived to ward off economic collapse. Baradar, who heads the Taliban's political office,...
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A bunch of helicopters was seen flying over southern Afghanistan while jubilant Taliban members below stood aboard captured US military hardware as the Islamist group paraded them with pride.The United States forces left Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, marking the end of a chaotic and messy exit...
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India has vaccinated 67 crore people.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said he will not run for party re-election as a leader this month, amid criticism over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.This comes as just under a year Suga took office and as his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) prepares to hold its...
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Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday slammed the Centre's National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), saying his Congress party monetised non-core, loss-making assets when in power.Chidambaram said the Congress never sold off strategic assets. We always ensured that there is no...
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Helmet's sole attribute are its three actors.Aparshakti Khurana, Abishek Banerjee and Ashish Verma have an effortless witty quality and breezy camaraderie, observes Sukanya Verma. Read it here.
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Swedish pop band Abba has announced its first album in 39 years and debuted two new songs.The Mamma Mia hitmakers -- Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad -- also unveiled plans for a high-tech concert show featuring digital versions of...
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Among many gains lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, child labour shows resurgence, worsened by inadequate rescue efforts. Read the report here.
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Living with the Taliban involves major risks and uncertainties, and it will be more than difficult even if it proves successful. No one can dismiss the risk that the Taliban will emerge as a hardline extremist state and/or use, or at the very least, tolerate some form of terrorism. Any form of...
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NZ PM Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand authorities said Friday they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terror attack. She said the man was a Sri Lankan national who was inspired by the...
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Trailblazing shooter Avani Lekhara on Friday became the first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals by claiming the 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 bronze to add to an unprecedented gold she had won earlier in the ongoing Games in Tokyo. The 19-year-old Lekhara qualified second for the...
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Supreme Court refuses to grant interim bail to Congress leader and former MP Sajjan Kumar, convicted to life imprisonment in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, after noting that his medical condition is stable and improving.
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Tokyo Paralympics: India's Avani Lekhara wins bronze in women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (SH1) event. Lekhara had scripted history last week as she became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics, firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women's 10m Air Rifle...
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Noting that Afghanistan has entered into a very challenging new chapter of power transition, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) urged Taliban-led authorities of Afghanistan to uphold the international obligations of the State.Experts serving on the UN human rights treaty body...
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Actress Rakul Preet Singh appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Friday after being summoned as part of a money laundering probe in connection with a high-end drugs racket that was busted in the city in 2017. The ED had earlier summoned over 10 Tollywood (Telugu film...
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M&M was among the laggards
Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 250 points in early trade to scale the 58,000-level for the first time on Friday, led by gains in index majors Reliance Industries, Kotak Bank and ICICI Bank amid a positive trend in global markets and sustained foreign fund inflows. Similarly, the broader...
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A kisan mahapanchayat on issues related to farmers, including three new agriculture laws of the Centre, has been convened in this Uttar Pradesh district on Sunday. The venue for the mahapanchayat that would be held under the banner of Kisan Morcha would be the government college...
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Amid India's concern that Afghanistan territory might be used for anti-India activity under the Taliban regime, the terror group has said that it has the right to raise its voice for Muslims anywhere including in Kashmir. However, it added that the group does not have the policy to raise...
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With 45,352 people testing positive for coronavirus, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,29,03,289, while active cases registered an increase for the third consecutive day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 4,39,895...
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The death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida has risen to 46 on Thursday local time in the United States.This comes after New Jersey announced that atleast 23 people have died in the state.According to CNN, Governor Phil Murphy said that the majority of the deaths have occurred as people,...
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Abdul Salam Hanafi, the deputy head of the Taliban political office in Qatar, held a telephonic conversation with Wu Jianghao, Deputy Foreign Minister of China and the latter informed that Bejing would maintain their embassy in Kabul, said Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen on Friday.During the...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday said only the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines will be given to eligible beneficiaries at civic and government-run inoculation centres in the metropolis on September 4. In a release, the civic body said in the wake of the rising number of...
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The Taliban is expected to announce a new government in Afghanistan within hours amid the United Nations' warning of the impending food crisis, urging the global community to step up support for the war-ravaged country.Media reports suggest that the cabinet could be presented after morning...
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India's Praveen Kumar clinched the silver medal in the men's high jump T64 event of the Paralympics, taking the country's haul to 11 in the ongoing Games in Tokyo.The 18-year-old Kumar, competing in his debut Paralympics, set a new Asian record with a 2.07m jump to finish behind Great Britain's...
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The Army has foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, defence officials said on Friday.This is the second infiltration bid foiled by the Army in the last five days.There was an infiltration attempt (by terrorists) along LoC in Poonch...
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At least 26 people have died after flash floods triggered by hurricane Ida hit parts of New York, New Jersey, and across the northeast United States, local media reported on Thursday (local time).Eight people were confirmed dead in New York City, including a 2-year-old boy, a 48-year-old female...
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Police and Coast Guard have started probe after an unidentified boat was found stranded off Vasai coast in Maharashtra's Palghar district, officials said. The boat -- a mini barge -- was spotted around 10 nautical miles from Builgaon-Kalamb area. It raised red flags as usually fishing...
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