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Hyderabad: Popular singer Sunitha Upadrasta participated in the Green Indian Challenge (GIC) initiative of Rajya Sabha, MP, J Santosh Kumar, and planted a sapling at Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Park in Jubilee Hills on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, she stressed the importance of planting and protecting trees to save the environment. The singer […]
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Medak: The Revenue officials of Masaipet Mandal have restored 89 acres and 19 guntas of assigned land to 65 original assignees from Atchampet and Hakimpet villages of Masaipet Mandal after recovering the lands from Jamuna Hatcheries, owned by Huzurabad BJP MLA Etala Rajendar. Jamuna Hatcheries was accused of encroaching upon these assigned lands and following […]
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Peddapalli: Two persons died in a road accident that took place near Gadudulagandi in Kataram road in the outskirts of Manthani on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred when an unknown vehicle hit a two wheeler on which the deceased were traveling. The deceased were identified as Jakkula Kumaraswamy (48) and Perala Vimala (40). According to […]
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New Delhi: Amid a monkeypox outbreak in several countries, researchers here have said that the possibility of the disease becoming a pandemic is low, and that the virus can be contained by strong surveillance, isolation of confirmed cases, contact tracing, and ‘off-label use’ of smallpox vaccines for ‘ring vaccination’. The group of public health and […]
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New Delhi: India reported 14,506 new Covid-19 cases in a span of 24 hours, which is a substantial increase over the previous day’s count of 11,793, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs on Wednesday. In the same period, the country has reported 30 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide toll to 5,25,077. […]
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka BJP has started an online campaign titled “terrorist Congress” in the backdrop of the beheading of a Hindu man in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The BJP in its online posts stated that “genocide of Hindus is taking place in the Congress-ruled state of India. The incident of Rajasthan is a testament to the fact […]
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Hyderabad: A flex hoarding at Begumpet with a messages “Saalu Modi & Samphako Modi, Bye Bye Modi”, sent police in a tizzy on Wednesday morning. Some unknown persons had put up the flex hoarding at the Begumpet road and in morning the police noticed it. Soon officials rushed to the spot and with the help […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook has announced that it is beginning to test new ways to quickly access your favourite Facebook Groups and simplifying how they are organised. The company said it is also introducing channels, which are focused spaces for people to connect in smaller, more casual settings within their communities. “We are testing a […]
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California: Researchers have measured the stability and infectivity of four variants of SARS-CoV-2 in 5-10 um-wide aerosolized droplets over a period of 5 seconds to 20 minutes and found a reduction in infectivity by around 90% after 20 minutes; loss of infectivity was associated with relative humidity and aerosol pH, providing insight into the mechanisms […]
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Chennai: The 25-hour countdown for the Thursday evening launch of Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying three Singapore satellites will begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The mission is code named PSLV-C53/DS-EO. The Indian rocket will carry three satellites — the 365 kg DS-EO and 155 kg NeuSAR, satellites belonging to Singapore and […]
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will be launching a special drive to provide insurance coverage to farmers against potential crop damage. The drive, slated to begin from the first week of July by the agriculture department, will be flagged off by Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi. It will cover those development blocks which have lower […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at RGI Airport Shamshabad caught a passenger who was smuggling gold into the country. The officials seized 220 grams of gold from him on Wednesday. The passenger arrived from Dubai and had kept the gold pieces in a makeup kit and also gold that was converted into buttons of his kurta. On […]
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Los Angeles: School shootings in the 2020-21 school year rose to the highest number in 20 years, said a new report released. A total of 93 school shootings with casualties occurred at public and private elementary and secondary schools during last school year, including 43 school shootings with deaths and 50 school shootings with injuries […]
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San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned Tesla has reportedly shown exit door to approximately 200 workers from its Autopilot team and closed an office in California, media report says. According to Bloomberg, the majority of those who were let go were hourly workers, said the people, who asked not to be identified as discussing private information. As […]
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New Delhi: Muslim organisations have condemned the horrific beheading of a man in Udaipur and have said that the murder can never be justified. Mushawarat President Navaid Hamid said, “The gruesome beheading in Udaipur is anti-Islamic and an open case of hate crime. Prophet Muhammad had never harmed any body in his entire life. Those […]
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New Delhi: What if there was another way to give love a shot than to swipe on hundreds of profiles online? Well, for those who are app-fatigued or believe in old school meet-cutes, speed dating could be a refreshing change to speed-meet a potential match in a physical setting, on a quick date that’s just […]
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New Delhi: Leaders from the G7 have finished their three-day meeting in a spa resort in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed for close collaboration with developing countries to boost clean energy and resilience through new initiatives, comprising its commitment for Just Energy Transition Partnership with […]
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Ahmedabad: Commuting will be easier in Gujarat as works of 34 national highways at a cost of Rs 3,760.64 crore has been approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said the state Roads and Housing Minister Purnesh Modi. Out of Rs 3,760.64 crore, Rs 2,511.10 crore will be spent on the construction of roads while Rs […]
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London: Latest data released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed the number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the country has reached 1,076. According to UKHSA, up to June 26, 2022, there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. Of these, 27 were in Scotland, five in Northern Ireland, nine in Wales and […]
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Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav, RJD vice president Shivanand Tiwari and other leaders from Bihar condemned the barbaric broad daylight murder of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur and demanded stringent punishment for the culprits. Jitan Ram Manjhi, the former CM of Bihar said in a tweet: “The […]
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Muzaffarnagar: An aspiring athlete ended his life here by suicide after he was accused of rape. In his suicide note, the athlete Rahul wrote that he had been falsely accused of rape and spent almost 19 months jail sentence which led to depression. He said that the alleged victim was his friend but her parents […]
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Malahide (Ireland): Deepak Hooda hit a master-class maiden century as India survived a mighty scare before defeating Ireland by four runs in a nail-bitting high-scoring second T20 International to sweep the two-match series here on Tuesday. Hooda scored 104 off 57 balls to become only the fourth Indian to hit a T20 International ton, while […]
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By Shubhranshu Choudhary When violence suddenly escalated in Chhattisgarh due to a government-supported anti-Maoist programme called Salwa Judum in 2005, according to some government figures, around 55,000 tribals had escaped to then Andhra Pradesh leaving their homes behind. Economic migration of Gutti Koyas (known as Muria in Chhattisgarh) to the southern part of Dandakaranya forest […]
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Wimbledon: From the red clay of the French Open to the green grass of Wimbledon, the wins keep coming for Iga Swiatek. The top-seeded Pole won her opening match on Centre Court on Tuesday, beating Croatian qualifier Jana Fett 6-0, 6-3. The victory was Swiatek’s 36th in row and includes all seven matches she played […]
