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COVID 19 Threat Looming Again: US and China face dangerous resurge
While many countries have already been through the back-breaking second wave of COVID 19, a third wave is just around the corner. It has been more than one and a half years since the COVID-19 virus forced the world into lockdown, and the pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe. However, in the past
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Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi: More Alike Than Different?
There is a sameness to the personas of Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi rather than them being the complete opposite. One of the most widely used defenses over the past seven years by the current Indian Prime Minister towards any kind of criticism he receives has been to “Blame it on Congress
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Sunil Chhetri Receives Birthday Wishes from Virat Kohli
The ace batsman expressed his thankfulness for the bond of friendship he shares with the Blue Tigers star Sunil Chhetri. New Delhi [India]: There is no denying the popularity of the India Cricket team Captain Virat Kohli and there is no hiding his love for the game of football. In a show of brotherh
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Tokyo Olympics: PM Modi Wishes Indian Hockey Team Good Luck
PM Modi said the country is proud of what Manpreet and his boys have been able to achieve in the ongoing competition so far New Delhi [India]: As the Indian Men’s Hockey Team conceded a defeat to the Belgium Team, PM Narendra Modi spoke to the team captain to lift his and the team’s spirits. Whereas
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India v England: Suryakumar Yadav Departs for England Counting Blessings
The India v England series will mark the start of the second cycle for the second world test championship Colombo [Sri Lanka]: In a classic case of one’s curse being another one’s blessing, the goddess of luck smiled on Indian middle order batsman Suryakumar Yadav and the marquee opener batsman Prit
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Mathew Wade Ready to Play in Middle Order: Australian Cricket Team
He also revealed that in all probability, this will be his role in the upcoming T20 World Cup Australian Cricket Team Dhaka [Bangladesh]: The Australian Cricket team is touring Bangladesh for a T20I series. Speaking at a press conference in Dhaka, the stand-in skipper for Australia on the tour, Math
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COVID-19 at England’s “The Hundred” Cricket League
Head Coach of the London Spirit’s team at The Hundred, Shane Warne Tests COVID Positive London [UK]: Four years ago, the England Cricket Board took the initiative of strengthening their White Ball Cricket in a bid to win the world cup. Not only did the team succeed in doing so, the ECB is curr
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Tokyo Olympics: Indian Women’s Hockey Team Crack Semi-Finals for the First Time
The solitary goal in the game was scored by Indian defender Gurjit Kaur through a penalty corner during the first half of the game. Tokyo Olympics Tokyo Olympics Japan, August 2: In what can be touted as the Chakde India moment of Indian Hockey, much like the Shahrukh Khan starer Bollywood movie, th
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COVID 3rd Wave: India on Edge as Active Cases Begin Trumping Recoveries in Various States
New cases outnumber recoveries in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Mizoram, Sikkim and the UT of Jammu and Kashmir Ever since the devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit India and left a trail of destruction across all areas of the country, experts have been warning of
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Pegasus Spygate: Senior Journalists Move Supreme Court. Seek Investigations
The mass surveillance using Pegasus, a military-grade spyware, abridges several fundamental rights New Delhi: Senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar have moved the Supreme Court for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over 142 potential
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Explained: Assam and Mizoram Boundary Clash That Claimed 6 Lives
The violence spotlights the long-standing inter-state boundary issues in the Northeast, particularly between Assam and the states that were carved out of it. At least five Assam Police personnel were killed after the old boundary dispute between Assam and Mizoram exploded in violent clashes&nbs
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Pegasus Spying Row: Mamta Banerjee Becomes First CM to Order Probe
WB CM has appointed a panel consisting of retired judges Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya and Justice M B Lokur to probe the phone-hacking scandal. New Delhi, India: The Pegasus spying row has for sure been a thorn in the BJP’s and PM Narendra Modi’s shoes since it came to fore. While in the names rev
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India’s Pegasus Scandal: NSO says “The Target List in India Is Not Ours, Never Was”
As NSO denies to take the burden of Pegasus’s Indian Snoop list, the scam in India becomes deeper and darker with every passing minute. The NSO Group – the Israeli technology firm that developed and sells the Pegasus spyware programme – told NDTV on Tuesday that the list of Indian phone
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Is Pegasus Spygate India’s Watergate Moment? Indian Journalists Names on Pegasus Snoop List
Until now, spread across several stories – The Wire has revealed the names of 115 people on the Global Pegasus Snoop List In one of the most historic events in the modern history of the United States, on June 17, 1972, four burglars were arrested at the office of the Democratic National Co
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Pegasus Spyware Used to Spy on 40 Indian Journalists. Who Should Be Under the Line of Fire?
Once it has wormed its way on to your phone, without you noticing, it can turn it into a 24-hour surveillance device Strictly speaking, Spyware is the term given to a category of software which aims to steal personal or organisational information. It is done by performing a set of operations without
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Adar Poonawalla and the COVID-19 Vaccine Dilemma
The head of Pune based Serum Institute of India (SII) has quoted controversy for saying that he received ‘aggressive demands’ from some powerful people in the country for vaccines Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has taken a lead in vacci
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COVID Orphans and the Lack of Foster Care System in India – A New Challenge
Amid the raging second wave of Covid-19 in the city, many children who have lost their parents or whose single parent is in hospital have become the pandemic’s silent victims. A 14-year-old boy was left alone at home for hours with the bodies of his parents as they succumbed to Covid-19 this month i
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Democratic Elections Amidst a Pandemic and Deaths of Teachers on Poll Duty – COVID Warriors or Sacrificial Lambs?
At least 700 state government school employees on panchayat poll duty succumbed to Covid in Uttar Pradesh this month, the state teachers’ union said on Friday, underlining the risk of flouting Covid norms during a devastating surge in infections On Saturday (1st May 2021), the COVID cases in India c
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The Catastrophe Within the Pandemic – Is India’s Oxygen Crisis a Self-Made Disaster?
India sold twice as much oxygen to the world during the first ten months of fiscal 2020-21 as compared to entire financial year before it. Has over export resulted in an oxygen crisis in India? On 30th of January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the COVID-19 virus a Pand
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Why is Indian Rupee Kneeling to Dollar Again?
Performance of Rupee Vs Dollar is declining drastically in past 07 years from 54.78 in 2013 to 75.07 in April 2021 The rupee on 9th of April 2021, dropped sharply against the US dollar, approaching the 75 mark. The currency was trading at 74.86 per dollar at 1 p.m., down 0.33% from its previous clos
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