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United Nations: Children are worst affected as terror networks spread their tentacles across the borders and threaten peace, India has said in a veiled reference to Pakistan, as it called on the UN member states to demonstrate a greater political will to ensure perpetrators of terrorism are held accountable for abusing child rights. Terrorist outfits […]
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Geneva: The United Nations independent expert on poverty has warned that the worst impacts from the coronavirus pandemic on poverty are yet to come, and that measures taken by governments to protect people so far have been insufficient. The social safety nets put into place are full of holes, said Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian […]
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New Delhi: The government has issued a revised SOP for conducting examinations amid the COVID-19 pandemic, removing the provision that allowed symptomatic candidates who insist on taking an exam to do so in isolation. According to the revised document by the Health ministry, in regular course, a symptomatic candidate should be referred to the nearest […]
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Srinagar: Security forces have recovered the body of a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant, who was injured in an encounter in Budgam district, from a stream near the site of the gunfight, police said on Friday. Police and Army, with the help of Marine commandos, last night recovered a militant’s body from a ‘nallah’ (stream) after four […]
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Srinagar: Security forces have arrested two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants from Kupwara district of north Kashmir and recovered arms, ammunition and cash from their possession, the Army said on Friday. “Based on a credible input, multiple joint check posts were established in Drugmulla area of Kupwara on Thursday,” an army official said. He said two JeM […]
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Serum Institute halts India trials of AstraZeneca's vaccine
New Delhi: Serum Institute of India on Thursday said it is putting on hold clinical trials of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine for which it has been enlisted to manufacture a billion doses. “We are reviewing the situation and pausing India trials,” SII, the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer by volume, said in a brief statement. The […]
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Beijing: China has approved for trials its first nasal spray vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus that has claimed over 904,000 lives and infected more than 27 million people globally, official media here reported on Thursday. China’s only nasal spray vaccine against the coronavirus is expected to start phase I clinical trials in November, and […]
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Ambala: Five French-made multirole Rafale jets were inducted into the Indian Air Force on Thursday at a glittering ceremony here, in a major boost to the country’s air power at a time it is engaged in an escalating border dispute with China. Using the occasion to send a signal to China over the border row […]
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New Delhi: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and French Defence Minister Florence Parly held talks on Thursday to further boost bilateral defence and security cooperation, officials said. The talks were focused on ways to enhance the overall strategic ties between the two countries, they said. Earlier in the day, Parly attended a ceremony at the […]
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Says President’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination hard-earned, well-deserved
Washington: The nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the landmark Israel-UAE deal is a “hard-earned and well-deserved honour,” the White House has said, underlining that the US President has made peace a cornerstone of his foreign policy efforts. Trump has repeatedly in the past offered to mediate between India and […]
