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UNSC meets in-person on Wednesday for first time since COVID-19 lockdown:
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], July 2 (Sputnik/ANI): The members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday held an in-person meeting for the first time since mid-March, the council's president for the month of July, German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen said in a press briefing.
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Govt forms IN-SPACe to guide private sector in space activities
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): A new institution - Indian National Space, Promotion and Authorisation Centre - has been formed which will guide the private industries in space activities through encouraging policies in a friendly regulatory environment, said Minister of State for Atomi
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Rapid Antigen testing kits to be used for COVID in Uttar Pradesh from tomo
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 23 (ANI): Rapid Antigen Testing kits have arrived in Uttar Pradesh and will be used from June 24 for COVID-19 tests with special focus on six districts, said Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish K Awasthi on Tuesday.
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Uttar Pradesh to set up dedicated team to verify teachers' document at all
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), June 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered the setting up of a dedicated team to check the documents of teachers, across all levels, in the state and to take action against those whose records or certificates are found out to be fake.
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Urge Mamata Banerjee to be responsive in humane manner: West Bengal Govern
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 12 (ANI): West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said that he has sought an urgent briefing from KMC Chairperson and Municipal Commissioner over a viral video showing decomposed bodies being dragged into a vehicle and urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to
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Coronavirus spread by people with no symptoms 'appears to be rare': WHO
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 9 (ANI): The spread of COVID-19 by those who do not show symptoms of being infected by the contagion appears to be rare, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's technical lead for coronavirus response and head of the emerging diseases, said during a med
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New York extends curfew amid violent protests over Floyd's death
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [USA], June 3 (ANI): Curfew measures imposed in New York City due to violent protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody will remain in place till June 7, Mayor Bill De Blasio said in a press briefing on Tuesday.
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Trump says peaceful protests derailed by 'acts of domestic terrorism'
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 2 (ANI): US President Donald Trump said that peaceful protests following the death of African-American man George Floyd in police custody were derailed by acts of domestic terrorism.
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No evidence COVID-19 changed in terms of transmissibility, severity of Ill
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 2 (Sputnik/ANI): There is no evidence that the novel coronavirus has changed both in terms of the transmissibility and the severity of the disease, Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 technical lead at the World Health Organization (WHO), told on Monday in a virtual brief
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Canada enlists US Navy in recovery of lost military Helicopter in Greece
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], May 20 (Sputnik/ANI): The Canadian Armed Forces have enlisted the help of the US Navy in the recovery mission of a doomed military helicopter off the coast of Greece, Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau told reporters during a briefing.
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Covid-19 will create changes in our society even if pandemic ends, vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], May 15 (ANI): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said that the impact of coronavirus pandemic will create changes in our society and even if a vaccine is found people will have to modify their behaviours.
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Lockdown measures worsening poverty and vulnerabilities among informal eco
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 9 (ANI): The Covid-19 lockdown and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world's informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points in low-income countries, according to a new briefing paper issued by the International
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