WORLD

NEW DELHI—Seamless transport connectivity between India and Bangladesh has the potential to increase national income by as much as 17 percent in Bangladesh and 8 percent in India, says a new World Bank report. Titled “Connecting to…
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PATNA—The strained relations between India and China have dealt a severe blow to people’s enthusiasm for learning Chinese language. Reports said the tourist guides in Bihar are currently more interested in learning Japanese language than…
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A faithful dog kept waiting for her sick master outside a hospital in Turkey for a full week after he was admitted with some cerebral problems last week. The 68-year-old man was admitted to a hospital on January 14 in Istanbul after a…
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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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