Since March this year the COVID-19 pandemic has pretty much held the world hostage. Normalcy is a thing of the past as we are having to be extra careful while stepping out, or even indoors so as we do not fall prey to the virus. But if one does, one needs to go into isolation …
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The horrific reports of rapes and murders from Uttar Pradesh continue to haunt. In a second case in the past 10 days from Lakhimpur Kheri in UP, a 17-year-old Dalit girl who had stepped out to fill the scholarship application was brutally raped and murdered. Just 10 days ago, a 13-year-old girl was also raped and strangulated in the area. …
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In a horrifying incident, a man allegedly killed his mother-in-law by slitting her throat when his pregnant wife said she would not stop visiting her regularly, as per a TNN report. It happened in Taloja Sector 11 in Navi Mumbai. The accused is Praful Siyali who has been taken into custody, according to police. iStock Her name is Rekha Sharma. …
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has hit out at people who are not following COVID guidelines and flouting rules. The ICMR said those who do not wear face masks are driving the coronavirus pandemic in India. “Irresponsible, less cautious people who are not wearing masks are driving the pandemic in India,” said ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava at a …
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Compelling cases of distress, including migrant workers and labourers who have been laid off, short term visa holders faced with expiry of visas, persons with medical emergency/ pregnant women and elderly persons or those required to return to India due to death of family member, and students will be given priority for international travel on non-scheduled commercial flights under Vande …
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India is set to have a vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of 2020. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan said a COVID-19 vaccine is likely in the next 4-5 months. “I hope that if everything goes well, India will have access to a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020,” he later tweeted. कब तक …
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While India remains third worst-affected country by the coronavirus pandemic, its COVID numbers are a reason for some cheer. India has achieved a record high of 63,631 recoveries in a day, the Health Ministry said. The daily tests on Saturday scaled a new high of more than 10 lakh, taking the cumulative tests to more than 3.4 crore. According to …
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The World Health Organisation has advised that children aged 12 and above should wear masks like adults to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. However, it said children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach. Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others cannot be guaranteed and …
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Amid reports that ISIS terrorist Abdul Yusuf Khan who was arrested from New Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan area on Friday night was planning a major strike in the national capital, security agencies have recovered a suicide vest and explosives used for making bombs, from his house in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district. ANI Security forces conducted searches at Yusuf’s residence where a …
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In a major win for Transgenders’ rights, the Uttar Pradesh cleared an amendment to the UP Revenue Code of 2006, now allowing transgender people to inherit agricultural land. The amendment cleared limitations of nomenclature in inheritance laws that only mention “sons”, “daughters”, “married”, “unmarried” and “widow”. The proposal for a law acknowledging the inheritance rights of the third gender, as …
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