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Namibia implements urgent measures amid spike in COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Windhoek [Namibia], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The Namibian government on Friday took an urgent decision to step up preventive measures after a spike in both new COVID-19 cases and related fatality rate in the last three weeks.
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CAG pulls up Kerala govt over arrears in revenue, calls for urgent interve
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 11 (ANI): The cash strapped Kerala government has revenue arrears to the tune of Rs 20,146.39 crore of which Rs 5,765.84 crore is outstanding for more than 5 years, said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, calling for urgent intervention fr
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Climate change increases extreme rainfall, chance of floods: Experts
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 7 (ANI): Climate experts at the Newcastle University warn that, without urgent action, climate change will continue to cause an increase in the intensity of extreme rainfall that can lead to severe flooding.
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ICG airlifts South Korean facing severe medical emergency from oil tanker
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], June 6 (ANI): The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Sunday conducted a swift sea-air coordinated medical evacuation to airlift a South Korean national, who needed urgent medical attention, from an oil tanker ship off the Goa coast to a hospital near the state's Dabolim air
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126 Nobel Laureates press for strong action, say humanity taking colossal
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Ahead of the G7 summit in the UK, a scientific statement signed by an unprecedented 126 Nobel Laureates was delivered to the summit leaders. The statement read, "Without transformational action this decade, humanity is taking colossal risks with our common f
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China's urgent goal is to expand nuclear arsenal to prepare for possible '
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 3 (ANI): China's urgent goal is to expand its arsenal of long-range nuclear missiles in anticipation of an "intense showdown" with the US, Chinese state media said.
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DCGI waiver likely to bring foreign vaccines like Pfizer, Moderna a step c
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has done away with specific trials of COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved by other international regulatory bodies - a big move likely to clear the way for foreign vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna for the
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Hamas ready to negotiate with Israel on prisoner exchange
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Gaza [Palestine] June 1 (ANI): Hamas is ready for "urgent negotiations" with Israel on prisoner exchange, Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip and political bureau chief, said on Monday.
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Warning labels, limits on sugar, salt in junk food can curb alarming rise
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Recently during a multistakeholder session on childhood obesity in India, public health experts and doctors highlighted the need for urgent policy action to establish strong limits for salt, sugar, saturated fats and other harmful ingredients in packaged and
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Delhi floats global tender for 1 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The Delhi government has floated a Global Expression of Interest (EOI) for procurement of 1 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines on an urgent basis.
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Pakistan: Journalists being attacked is unacceptable, needs to be investig
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 29 (ANI): An escalation in attacks and harrasment against journalists in Pakistan needs to be investigated urgently by law enforcement, according to a report published in The Nation.
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Time to unite and work as 'Team India' to fight COVID: Kejriwal to Centre
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Calling on the Centre to play its part in the COVID-19 vaccination drive and urgently procure enough doses to inoculate people in the national capital and across the country, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that it is time to unite a
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