Putting Congress in a political turmoil, Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday resigned as Punjab Congress chief, saying he cannot compromise on the future of his home state.
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18,795 new cases, 179 deaths in the last 24 hours; Active caseload stands at 2,92,206: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
For decades, scientists argued over whether volcanoes or an asteroid caused dinosaurs’ abrupt extinction 65 million years ago. It wasn’t until 2010 that an international panel of experts formally declared that it was the space rock, and not giant eruptions, that was the primary cause of dino demise.
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Prediction of the future is an Indian pastime. We do not know how to predict future virus-human interactions because the past did not give us clear metrics. Between the first and second waves, the virus behaviour changed drastically and that could not be predicted, virilogist Jacob John tells DH
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China has put in place new modular container-based accommodations for its troops in several high-altitude forward areas on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh in response to Indian deployment in the region, people familiar with the developments said on Monday.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday attempted to draw a comparison between the previous Kumbh Melas held in the state that were "defamed" and the one held in Allahabad two years ago.
"The heritage of Kumbh spanning over thousands of years may have been linked to faith in the country. But what was the point of view of the world? If you see the write-up of the West towards the Kumbh before 2019, it was in the form of chaos ('bhagdarh'), disorder ('avyavasthaa'), dirt ('gandagi') and anarchy ('arajaktaa'). Instead of mutual co-ordination, there were mutual differences. Attempts were made to defame it," the Chief Minister said while addressing a programme here on World Tourism Day.
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Rains pounded several parts of Telangana on Monday, even as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that heavy rains are expected at isolated places in different districts of the State over the next 48 hours.
President Joe Biden may have gotten ahead of the government’s scientists in announcing prematurely that virtually all Americans would begin getting coronavirus booster shots this fall, but he made a show of getting his own. The president spoke briefly before he received a Pfizer-BioNTech booster Monday afternoon.
Schools need to be reopened in a phased manner, starting with primary sections with proper implementation of multi-layered Covid-19 mitigation measures, according to experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).