United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the need to protect human rights in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. “The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency. But it is …
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Mumbai: The Covid-19 situation continued to be grim in Maharashtra with 14 deaths and a stupendous 778 new cases on Thursday, health officials said here. With these, the state’s total fatalities …
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Bengaluru: researcher and a string of Indian institutes have joined forces with a team of 600 global researchers to poll a survey to determine the relationship between loss of smell (anosmia) …
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New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday submitted a memorandum based on students’ suggestions to the expert committee formed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the issues …
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Mumbai: “Bigg Boss 13” contestant and singer Shehnaz Gill on Thursday gave a fun-filled warning to China where novel coronavirus originated. She made a TikTok video in which she is seen …
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Mumbai: In a bid to ease the liquidity strain caused due to Covid-19 outbreak and its subsequent economic fallout, the Reserve Bank of India on Thursday conducted a targeted long-term repo …
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Washington: US President Donald Trump said that the US “had no choice” but to pour trillions of dollars into fighting the coronavirus pandemic, adding that “this was an attack… this wasn’t …
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Dubai: Amid the Indian government’s travel restrictions, a pregnant Dubai-based Indian expat has decided to take her case to the Supreme Court, so that she can fly home for her delivery, …
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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has appointed three secretaries to oversee and monitor the COVID-19 situation in three districts of the state, said an official order on Thursday. The three secretaries have …
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Washington: Global remittances are projected to decline by about 20 per cent this year due to the COVID-19-induced economic crisis, the World Bank Group (WBG) said. The projected fall, which would …
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