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NIA arrests another conspirator in Visakhapatnam espionage case
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 6 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested a conspirator, Abdul Rehman Abdul Jabbar Sheikh, in connection with the Visakhapatnam espionage case, wherein 14 people including 11 naval personnel allegedly leaked sensitive information
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Bolsonaro threatens to withdraw Brazil from WHO
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 6 (ANI): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday (local time) threatened to withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Xinhua news agency reported.
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Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surges to world's third-highest
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 5 (ANI): Brazil's total tally of deaths related to COVID-19 have surged to 34,021 after its health ministry on Thursday reported 1,437 new deaths in the last 24 hours, making its overall death toll the third highest in the world, Xinhua news agency reported citi
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FAO food price index falls to its lowest point in 17 months
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], June 4 (ANI): Global food commodity prices fell for the fourth consecutive month in May as coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic caused the economic crunch, leading the market to reflect strong supply and weak demand situation, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.
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Trump says NYPD can't fight violent protesters alone as 'radical left' has
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): Chiming in about ongoing protests in New York City over the death of black American man George Floyd, US President Donald Trump in a late-night tweet just after midnight on Wednesday (local time) said that the New York Police Department won't be able to c
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Three Indian manufacturers to commercialize NASA developed ventilator
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 3 (ANI): US Space agency NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California has shortlisted three Indian companies for manufacturing a new ventilator that uses one-seventh the parts of a traditional ventilator, tailored for coronavirus patients.
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Moody's has rated PM Modi's handling of India's economy a step above 'junk
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Moody's Investors Service downgrading India's sovereign rating to the lowest investment rate and said that the global rating agency has rated his handling of the countr
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Goa: Advisory issued for beach-goers ahead of pre-monsoon showers
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], June 1 (ANI): With heavy pre-monsoon showers expected over the next two days in Goa, Drishti Marine, the state-appointed professional lifeguard agency, has issued an advisory instructing visitors to the beaches not to venture into the sea during the next 48 hours.
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Global energy leaders call for greater investment in clean electricity sys
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France], May 30 (ANI): Energy ministers and electricity industry CEOs from around the world have called for mobilising investments for secure and sustainable power systems to offset the impact of Covid-19 crisis on the electricity sector.
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ICMR writes to WHO disagreeing with HCQ assessment, officials say internat
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): After the Union Health Ministry expressed reservations about the World Health Organisation's (WHO) advisory to suspend hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) usage in treating COVID-19 patients, now, India's nodal government agency ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research)
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NIA files charge-sheet against 10 in KLF narco-terror case
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge-sheet against 10 accused in a special NIA court in Punjab's Mohali in connection with the KLF narco-terror case, an official statement said.
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Delhi HC pulls up NIA for 'hurriedly transferring' Gautam Navlakha to Mumb
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Delhi High Court has pulled up the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for "hurriedly transferring" social activist Gautam Navlakha, who is facing probe for his alleged role in the Bhima Koregaon violence case, to Mumbai.
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