New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi took a swipe at the Congress Tuesday, saying that instead of being a part of solution to the problems facing the country, the opposition party is creating “political pollution”. Speaking to reporters, the minority...
The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping across India with the number of cases spiking in large numbers every day. Amid this episode comes the locust threat. The insects are feeding and breeding in the agricultural fields, the same very fields which feed human beings. Currently five...
New Delhi: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals announced Tuesday that it will commence another new Phase 3 clinical trial. This will be on a combination of the two anti-viral drugs ‘Favipiravir’ and ‘Umifenovir’. The combination will be tried out in hospitalised patients affected by moderate COVID-19. Glenmark has...
Phulbani: A woman lodged at a quarantine centre in Daringbadi town of Kandhamal district Tuesday accused a man of harassment. The incident came to light after she informed the local sarpanch about the incident. According to a source, the woman, who had returned with 28 other...
Mumbai: Twenty police personnel so far died of coronavirus infection in Maharashtra, a senior official said Tuesday. Till now, 1,889 police personnel have tested positive for the disease in Maharashtra. Among them are 207 officers. Most of them are from Mumbai and Nashik rural areas,...
Keonjhar: This town reported its first COVID-19 case Tuesday with an ambulance driver testing positive. Even though a large number of people have tested positive for coronavirus in the district, there were no cases from the town. As the news of the driver getting infected...
Bhubaneswar: Amid resumptions of transport services, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday said that next 15 to 30 days will pose a challenge for the state government in its attempt to contain COVID-19 outbreak. While reviewing the present COVID-19 situation in the state through video conferencing,...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Tuesday the four phases of nationwide lockdown have ‘failed’. It has not given the results that Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected. Rahul Gandhi urged the Centre to spell out its strategy for ‘opening up’ the country. Congress concerned...
Canberra: A US biotechnology company began injecting a prospective coronavirus vaccine Tuesday into people in Melbourne. The biotechnology company is hoping of releasing a proven vaccine this year. Human trials begin ‘Novavax’ will inject 131 volunteers in the first phase of the testing the safety...
Islamabad: Pakistan’s coronavirus cases Tuesday soared to 57,705 after 1,356 new infections were reported. So far 1,197 people have died of the disease, Pakistan’s health ministry said. Of the total number of 57,705 cases, 22,934 have so far been detected in Sindh, 20,654 in Punjab,...
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By Aakar Patel The 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks will soon be upon us. Americans will mourn, taking...
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By Dilip Cherian An IAS officer quitting after 13 years is unusual. An officer as publicly visible as Divya Mittal...
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Banning books by governments does not surprise much since this has been going on across the world since long. But...
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