Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday became the first Indian to be officially invited by the Pakistan government to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor in Pakistan. The Kartarpur Corridor will be inaugurated on November 9 at Narowal, on the occasion of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. He was the …
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Delhi’s air pollution levels has sky-rocketed for the past fortnight and since Diwali, to put it mildly, it has gotten worse. The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government claims they are doing their bit to curb the air pollution and has pinned the blame on the stubble burning from the adjoining states that has deteriorated Delhi’s air. In order to prevent …
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A new government report stated that there is only one allopathic government doctor for every 10,926 people in India against the WHO’s recommended doctor-population ratio of 1:1000. Compiled by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), the National Health Profile, 2019, stated that the number of registered allopathic doctors possessing recognised medical qualifications (under the MCI Act) and registered with …
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Jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world’s most wanted man, was believed Sunday to have been killed in a US special operation in northwest Syria. News agency AFP reported that the elusive chief of the Islamic State group was thought to be dead after a US military raid in the Idlib region. US media reports also claimed the same on …
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Today there is a lot of conversation around the topic of plastic waste and recycling. While everyone has heard about the fact that plastic waste is collected and recycled, not many people know how it is done or what it takes to turn a discarded product that would otherwise end up in a landfill for the next several centuries into …
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India jumped 14 places from the previous year’s ranking riding high on the government’s flagship ”Make in India” scheme and other reforms attracting foreign investment.That is not all, the country also figured among the top 10 performers on the list for the third time in a row. The rankings come at a time when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), …
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Surgeons from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University were involved in a five-hour long operation to clear 52 kilograms of plastic from the stomach of an ailing cow. In what could be labelled as a chilling example of undiscerning use of plastic and its disposal, the cow was found to have ingested huge quantities of plastic from the waste …
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In recent times, be it, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist or Aman Sharma, a teenage climate activist from Delhi, the youth generation has been taking the lead when it comes to environmental issues. It is us, the young generation that has an entire lifetime in front of us that are going to face the consequence of the policies …
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Three people have been arrested and two others have been detained for questioning in connection with the ongoing investigation into the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari, the leader of a little known political outfit Hindu Samaj Party. The three men arrested by the Gujarat Police from Surat identified as Maulana Sheikh Salim, Faizan, and Rashad Pathan, all in their early 20s …
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Three days of incessant rain plunged the historic city of Patna into massive floods as most residential areas were submerged knee-deep under the water. But even as rains receded and gave way to clear skies, the authorities failed to clear the water-logged areas for well over a week and this revealed their incompetence as well as unpreparedness in dealing with …
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