Rumita Patel
AIZAWAL: At least 12 people from Myanmar crossed the border into India and took refuge in Mizoram about a month after the neighboring country’s army overthrew those elected. government from Aung San Suu Kyi, authorities said Thursday. Eight people have entered the Serchhip district, while another four have arrived in the Champhai district. A senior…
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CALCUTTA: With the assembly elections only three weeks away, the BJP, in the midst of an all-out effort to oust Mamata Banerjee from power in Bengal, is also struggling to keep its house in order, as veterans and New entrants engage in disputes over multiple issues, including ticket distribution. The saffron party, which had experienced…
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NEW DELHI: The Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs V Muraleedharan clarified on Thursday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not yet decided to nominate the former head of the Delhi Metro, E Sreedharan, popularly known as ‘Metroman’, as the party’s prime minister candidate for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections. Speaking to ANI,…
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BENGALURU: Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), led by Professor Utpal Tatu from the Department of Biochemistry, have found a set of new proteins unique to Covid-19, including a key protein that suppresses our immune response to the virus. The SARS-CoV-2 genome encodes more than 25 proteins, but only a handful of these…
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NEW DELHI: In a sudden and unexpected decision on Wednesday, the close adviser to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa VK Sasikala announced that he was retiring from politics. The development took everyone by surprise because after she was released from jail in January, Sasikala had made it explicit that she would play an…
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NEW DELHI: A “belligerent” China will continue to assert itself as it tries to establish dominance in countries surrounding India along land borders, as well as in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), Chief of Staff said Thursday. defense, General Bipin Rawat. With India facing a complex and challenging security environment, the armed forces must be…
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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday showed apprehensions over the failure to use the Covid-19 vaccine to its fullest capacity. The court also ordered the country’s leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India (SII), to disclose their ability to make Covaxin and Covishield vaccines. Here are the key observations…
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PUNE: The research findings on the recent paper leak will be used to make the recruitment process more foolproof and robust, the Indian Army said on Thursday. Five people, including two members of Army personnel, were arrested after it was discovered that the document for the Army Relations Recruitment exam, scheduled for February 28, was…
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NEW DELHI. The annual report of the US-based think tank Freedom House on political rights and civil liberties reduced India’s status from “free” in 2019 to “partially free” in 2020. The think tank is a non-governmental organization funded by the United States government. India’s score dropped from 71 to 67, with 100 being the freest…
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NEW DELHI: The long-awaited Content on Demand (CoD) service on trains will launch this month, a senior Railway PSU RailTel official said Thursday. The service includes information and entertainment on moving trains by providing preloaded multilingual content that will include movies, news, music videos and general entertainment. To ensure buffer-free services, media servers will be…
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