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Ottawa: Canada has confirmed 58 cases of monkeypox, the country’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said. Speaking to reporters at a health briefing, Tam said the confirmed cases have been reported nationally, including 52 cases from Quebec, five from Ontario and one from Alberta, reports Xinhua news agency. She said the risk of exposure […]
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Jeddah: The first chartered flight of Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying Indian pilgrims for the upcoming Haj landed at Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah Saturday morning. A total of 377 pilgrims including 196 women from Kochi in Kerala arrived at the holy city where they will spend 14 days prior to moving to […]
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London: Dogs are more effective at detecting Covid-19 infections through human sweat samples than the existing rapid antigen tests, according to a study. The study, published in the PLOS ONE, showed that dogs were 97 per cent effective at detecting Covid infection compared to PCR tests – the most accurate Covid test. On the other […]
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Hyderabad: A scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google due to the pressure from employees. Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Thenmozhi to speak, resigned over the incident. The talk was scheduled in April as part of the Dalit History Month. The presentation was supposed to […]
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San Francisco: US President Joe Biden has wished Elon Musk “lots of luck” for his trip to the Moon, as the Tesla CEO expressed “super bad feeling” about the economy and decided to cut its workforce by 10 per cent. When asked about Musk’s pessimistic attitude toward the economy during a press briefing at the […]
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Washington: US employers added 390,000 jobs in May amid continued labour market tightness, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 3.6 per cent, the Labour Department reported. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, in professional and business services, and in transportation and warehousing, while employment in retail trade declined, according to the report released […]
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New Delhi: India Friday rejected its criticism it in a US State Department report on religious freedom, saying it is unfortunate that “vote bank politics is being practised in international relations”. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the observation on India in the report is based on “motivated inputs and biased views”. The annual […]
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Kyiv: On Ukraine’s battlefields, the simple act of powering up a cellphone can beckon a rain of deathly skyfall. Artillery radar and remote controls for unmanned aerial vehicles may also invite fiery shrapnel showers. This is electronic warfare, a critical but largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Military commanders largely shun discussing it, […]
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Kiev: Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine completed 100 days on Friday, with Moscow’s forces now in control of 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory. On the eve of the anniversary, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said up to 100 of his soldiers were dying each day as they resisted Russia’s push to control the country’s eastern […]
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Washington: Three people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting incident outside a church in the US state of Iowa, authorities said. The incident took place on Thursday evening in Ames, a city in Story County about 50 km north of state capital Des Moines, reports Xinhua news agency. Taking to Twitter, the Story County […]
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New Delhi: Reiterating that the principles outlined during the 1972 Stockholm conference remain relevant even today, India has said the world needs to ensure that when the Stockholm conference turns 75, it can look back with satisfaction of our collective action — to leave no one behind. This was Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav making […]
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Washington: Eminent Indian-American and major fund raiser Ajay Jain Bhutoria has been named as Deputy National Finance Chair of the ruling Democratic party in the US. Silicon Valley-based Bhutoria is a successful entrepreneur and is considered to be one of the major fund raisers for the Democratic Party and US President Joe Biden. With a […]
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New York: An Indian-origin girl has won the US National Spelling Bee championship regaining the title for the community after two breaks in the streak of victories going back to 2008. Wow! Watch 14-year-old Indian-American Harini Logan, 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion: Spelled random 21 words correctly during a 90-second tie-breaker spell-off.pic.twitter.com/yWYnoD9YcH — John […]
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Kiev: The Ukrainian Joint Forces Task Force has said that it repelled five Russian attacks in Donbas and are continuing to fight in the separatist eastern region. In a social media post late Thursday, the Force said: “The occupiers have shelled nearly 30 towns and villages in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and have destroyed or damaged […]
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New York: Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old gunman who killed 10 African-Americans and injured three others during a shooting spree at a supermarket in New York’s Buffalo city on May 14, pleaded not guilty to charges of domestic act of terrorism. Gendron appeared in the Erie County Court on Thursday for an arraignment hearing after which […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday seized gold valued at Rs 1.65 crore from a passenger who arrived from Dubai. The officials apprehended a male passenger who arrived by AI-952 from Dubai and a private employee working at the Covid Testing Centre at the airport. According to Custom officials, the passenger […]
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London: Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, leads a list of over 40 professionals and community champions of Indian-origin to be honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Rushdie is named a Companion of Honour, an exclusive club with membership limited to just 65 people at any given time, […]
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Islamabad: Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has warned that the country would descend into a civil war if fresh elections were not announced. In an interview to Bol News on Wednesday, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman said he is waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on his party’s plea to provide protection to […]
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Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye,” the state-run news agency reported. The move is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird, turkey, and some negative […]
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Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that 2,00,000 children are among the Ukrainians who have been forcefully taken to Russia and dispersed across the vast country. They include children from orphanages, children taken with their parents and those separated from their families. “The purpose of this criminal policy is not just to steal people […]
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The shooting incident took place on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
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New Delhi: Elon Musk on Wednesday gave an ultimatum to Tesla employees to either return to office or get out, saying they “should pretend to work somewhere else” if they disagree with the company’s policy. He sent a series of emails that asked employees to come back to the office or be terminated. “Anyone who […]
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Karachi: The Pakistan government shocked consumers by pushing up ghee and cooking oil rates by an unprecedented Rs 208 and Rs 213 to an all-time high of Rs 555 per kg and Rs 605 per litre respectively. An official in the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) in Karachi confirmed to Dawn that the USC had issued […]
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Madrid: Spanish police have found a 46-year-old former princess of Qatar dead in her bed at home in southern Spain, authorities said Wednesday. Kasia Gallanio was found dead Sunday morning in her apartment in Marbella, a Malaga province a police spokeswoman said. Police went to the house after receiving a call from one of Gallanio’s […]
