Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI / JAIPUR / HYDERABAD: Northern and Southern states continue to dominate the UG 2020 national income eligibility test results (undergraduate) with states such as Delhi and Haryana registering more than 70% qualification with respect to candidates who appear in these states. From the south, while Kerala and Karnataka continued with more than 60%…
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NEW DELHI: At a time when relations with China and Pakistan remain in free fall, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joined by President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Imran Khan at the SCO summit that Russia will host virtually, as Indian officials confirmed in November. 10. As previously reported, Modi and Xi will also…
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NEW DELHI: Xiaomi, the Chinese mobile phone company, was embroiled in a controversy after users reported on social media that the company’s smartphones were not displaying the Arunachal Pradesh weather. The company blamed a “technical error” for the problem and said “the same has been fixed.” The confusion surrounding Arunachal comes at a time when…
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MUMBAI: The brother of a Bollywood actor’s girlfriend was arrested in Lonavala on Sunday in the drug case related to the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The Narcotics Control Office collected Agisilaos Demetriades (30), a South African national, from an adventure resort and recovered a small amount of hashish and 15 strips of…
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NEW DELHI: The future definition of the poverty line may not be the level of subsistence income required by an individual, but will have to take into account the living standards that encompass facilities such as housing, education and sanitation, among others, a document of work on poverty published by the Ministry of Rural Development…
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AIZAWL / SILCHAR: Simmering tension prevailed on the Assam-Mizoram border after a violent clash between the people of the two states took place, injuring several, said a police officer in Aizawl. The situation is now under control in the area, which is in the Kolasib district of Mizoram and the Cachar district of Assam, he…
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NEW DELHI: The number of active symptomatic Covid-19 cases in India already peaked at around 10 lakhs on September 17 and the cases, which are now declining, may reach the cumulative figure of 1.06 crore with negligible growth at the end of February next year, a government expert committee said on Sunday. It means that…
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PARIS: Thousands of people demonstrated in the center Paris On Sunday in a defiant show of solidarity with a teacher who was beheaded for showing the students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Protesters in the Place de la Republique held signs reading: “No to the totalitarianism of thought” and “I am a teacher” in memory…
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NEW DELHI: India has almost lost the Farzad-B gas field discovered by ONGC Videsh Ltd in the Persian Gulf after Iran decided to prefer domestic to foreign companies for development of the field, sources said. ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas investment arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), had discovered in 2008…
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s failure to meet six key FATF obligations, including action against two of India’s most wanted terrorists, Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed, and the sudden disappearance of more than 4,000 terrorists from its official list will likely lead to its continuation. on the global watchdog’s ‘gray list’ on money laundering and terrorist…
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