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PATNA—A 15-year-old schoolgirl from Patna in Bihar state has been awarded bronze at the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition organized by the London-based Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS). Grade 10 student Vedika Sinha’s essay was…
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RANCHI, INDIA—The evil reputation of cyber criminals has now gone beyond the seven seas! Sounds strange but a technical research team from the United States is said to be very much interested in doing a research on the cyber criminals…
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NEW DELHI—The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Sunday granted approval to two COVID vaccines for their emergency use. With this, India has become the first country in the world to give approval for two vaccines at a time. The…
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NEW DELHI—In a significant development, the Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation on Friday recommended emergency use of Oxford-AstraZeneca's 'Covishield' vaccine. News agency IANS reported that the…
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NEW DELHI—The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports on stranded Indian sailors onboard MV Anastasia and MV Jag Anand in Chinese waters for over 146 days and their difficulties without any…
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PATNA—The Bihar health department is looking for 96 persons who returned to Patna in the last one month from United Kingdom which has reported a new highly contagious strain of COVID-19. A health department official has told the local…
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NEW DELHI—Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has rebutted a statement issued by a Chinese company which criticised CSE’s recent investigation into adulteration in honey and the role played by Chinese companies in selling sugar syrup…
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GENEVA/GUWAHATI—Nearly 500 journalists have died from Covid-19 in 56 countries since March 01, said the Switzerland based international media rights body Press Emblem Campaign adding in November itself, at least 47 media workers succumbed…
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GENEVA/GUWAHATI— A journalist working for Tamil newspaper was killed in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) last week. 45-year-old G Nagaraj (45) who worked for Villangam fell prey to the bullets of the assailants on November…
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