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NHRC issues detailed advisory to Centre, States/UTs seeking overall welfar
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) headed by Justice Arun Mishra, on Monday issued a detailed advisory to the Centre, States and Union Territories calling for timely identification, treatment and elimination of discrimination against the persons
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UN provided food assistance to more than 9 million Afghans since Taliban t
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], January 18 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) had scaled up food assistance in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in mid-August.
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Taliban deploys more than 2,500 troops to Sar-e-Pul to provide security
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 18 (ANI): Amid rising threats from the Islamic State (ISIS), the Taliban deployed more than 2,500 troops to the northern province of Sar-e-Pul to provide security on Monday.
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Netherlands reports record of over 42,000 new COVID-19 cases per day
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], January 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The Netherlands has recorded 42,472 new COVID-19 cases over the past day, which is its highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said on Monday.
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India tackling another COVID-19 wave while maintaining economic growth: PM
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday emphasized India's fight against another wave of COVID-19 caused due to the Omicron variant of coronavirus while maintaining the economic growth of the country.
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For first time in 75 yrs, Republic Day parade to start 30 minutes late tha
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): For the first time in 75 years, the Republic Day parade will not start at the scheduled time of 10 am but with a 30-minute delay forced by COVID-19 restrictions and homage to Jammu and Kashmir security personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty
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Ministry of Textiles clears 20 strategic projects worth Rs 30 cr under Nat
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Ministry of Textiles on Monday cleared 20 strategic research projects worth Rs 30 crores in the areas of Specialty fibres and Geotextiles under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Textiles, Piyush Goyal, informed the Ministry of Textiles.
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US condemns Houthi attack against UAE, vows to stand beside Emirati partne
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 18 (ANI): The US on Monday (local time) condemned the Houthi attack against UAE that killed three civilians and vowed to stand beside Emirati partners against all threats to their territory.
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Al-Qaeda outfit Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind's claim of Delhi bomb scare bogus: D
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Delhi police on Monday said that they have found the claims of terror outfit Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an Al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist militant group, regarding the Ghazipur Mandi bomb scare, as bogus.
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COVID-19: Third wave has reached its peak in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, says
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Dr Manindra Agrawal, Professor of IIT Kanpur, said that the third wave of COVID-19, which is caused by Omicron, has reached its peak in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata as predicted by IIT's Sutra model.
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Taliban trying to 'erase' women from public life, say UN experts
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 18 (ANI): A group of UN human rights experts warned on Monday that that large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls has been ongoing since the Taliban took over the control of Afghanistan in mid-August in order to "
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Motion of some stars holds clue of dark matter shape in barred galaxies
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Dark matter forms the skeleton on which galaxies form, evolve, and merge. Scientists investigating how the shape of dark matter halo affects the motion of stars in stellar bars (found at the centre of some galaxies) have found that out-of-plane bending ev
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