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Telangana: Junior doctors withdraw strike, govt announces hike in stipend
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 28 (ANI): The Telangana Junior Doctors Association (T-JUDA) called off their strike to serve the patients as the country is witnessing second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19: Arunachal Pradesh receives 160 oxygen cylinders from Centre
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], May 28 (ANI): Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Arunachal Pradesh received 160 cylinders of medical oxygen, cumulatively weighing about 40 litres, Chief Minister Pema Khandu informed on Friday.
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"Centre using pandemic to turn narrative of farmers' protest in their favo
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Friday hit out at the Central government saying that it is 'using the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic' to turn the narrative of the farmers' protest in its favour and called for scrapping of the contenti
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Thomas Cook India reduces Q4 loss to Rs 68 crore
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 28 (ANI): Integrated travel services company Thomas Cook India has reduced its loss at a consolidated level to Rs 68 crore in Q4 FY21 versus Rs 89 crore in the previous quarter.
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra demands removal of GST from COVID related drugs, equ
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Ahead of the 43rd Goods and Services Tax (GST) meeting scheduled for today, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday demanded that the centre remove GST from all life-saving medicines and equipment being used in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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India's first city-wide environmental surveillance platform for COVID laun
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], May 28 (ANI/NewsVoir): With the number of cases of COVID-19 surging across the county in the second wave of the pandemic, the Government of Karnataka is introducing a city-wide sewage surveillance system in Bangalore that will help officials track the virus at
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China under pressure over probe into origins of COVID-19, scientists deman
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 28 (ANI): China is coming under increasing pressure over probe into the origins of the COVID-19, even as scientists are demanding more clarity to go into the roots of the global pandemic.
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US-India partnership will help end COVID-19 pandemic, says Jake Sullivan
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 28 (ANI): US-India strategic partnership will help to end the COVID-19 pandemic, said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Thursday (local time).
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Stronger India-US health partnership can be powerful force to fight global
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 28 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday emphasised that a stronger India-US health partnership can be a powerful force to fight the global COVID-19 pandemic as he met business leaders in Washington and discussed India's priorities and the impor
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US intelligence community split, unsure if coronavirus came from lab or th
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 28 (ANI): The US intelligence community on Thursday acknowledged its agencies had two theories on where COVID-19 originated, with two agencies believing it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals and a third embracing a possible laboratory accident
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Centre approves financial assistance to 67 families of journalists who die
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Press Information Bureau had compiled and collated the details of journalists who lost their lives due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 and have started a special drive to provide assistance to their familie
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Researchers develop app to help couples communicate directly from heart
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): Even though people stayed in touch during the pandemic's stay-at-home orders and social distancing, it was easy to feel out of touch with loved ones. Hence, CMU, Snap researchers recently developed a smartwatch app that uses heart rate to communicate between co
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