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Team India rings in New Year at Centurion; Ashwin, Kohli, Anushka celebrate
Centurion: Team India players and support staff celebrated the arrival of the New Year in style at their team hotel here. Veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin shared a group photo on social media.…
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Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh tests positive for COVID-19
New Delhi: Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh on Saturday informed that he has tested positive for COVID and has “mild symptoms”. Nagesh also requested all those who came in contact with him…
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Swiggy receives 9,500 orders per minute on New Year’s Eve
New Delhi: Online food delivery platform Swiggy on Saturday said that it broke its record of 5,500 food orders per minute on December 31, ending the night with an order peak of…
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Massive protest outside Uttarakhand police HQ over hate speech against Muslims
Dehradun: A large number of people on Saturday gathered outside the Uttarakhand Police Headquarters in Dehradun protesting against the hate speeches delivered by several prominent Hindutva leaders against Muslims at a ‘Dharm…
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Parents breathe a sigh of relief as Co-WIN registration opens for 15-18-year-old children
New Delhi: With the Co-WIN portal opening its registration slot for COVID-19 vaccination for children aged between 15 to 18 years from today onward, the parents are breathing a sigh of relief.…
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New Year High: Telugu states sell liquor worth Rs 300 cr
Hyderabad/Amaravati: The New Year celebrations in Telugu states saw liquor sales of nearly Rs 300 crore. In Telangana, tipplers guzzled liquor worth Rs 172 crore in a single day, while in neighbouring…
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‘Will only say Happy New Year’: Wankhede ducks question on NCB tenure
New Delhi: The extension given to Narcotic Control Bureau’s (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede ended on December 31, but it is understood that he will continue in the post till further…
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Jamia among 6000 entities whose foreign funding licence has ended
New Delhi: IIT Delhi, Jamia Milia Islamia, Indian Medical Association and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library are among nearly 6,000 entities whose FCRA registration deemed to have ceased on Saturday. These entities either…
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Afghan man sells 10-yr-old daughter to keep family from starving
Herat: A man in west Afghanistan’s Herat province sold his 10-year-old daughter for marriage without telling his wife, in order to keep his other children alive and fed. The desperate father took…
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Hyderabad: Customer complains of fungus in Karachi Bakery sweets
Hyderabad: A customer from the city has complained that the packaged sweets he purchased from the Karachi Bakery branch in Khajaguda have fungus formed on them. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)…
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KTR urges Centre to transfer defence land for skyways in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Telangana’s minister for municipal administration and urban development K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday urged the Centre to transfer defence land for construction of two skyways and ministry of home affairs land…
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Customers contest Ola CEO’s claim ‘all electric scooters dispatched’
New Delhi: Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Friday claimed that the company has dispatched electric scooters to all its buyers. “Update on December deliveries: we have dispatched vehicles to all who purchased.…
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India supplies 5 lakh Covaxin doses to Afghanistan
New Delhi: India supplied humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 Covaxin doses to Afghanistan on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The doses were handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in…
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Indian Express slammed for Islamophobic front-page ad, contributors register protest
The Indian Express, a prominent nationwide English daily newspaper, is under fire for an ‘Islamophobic’ front page advertisement funded by the Uttar Pradesh government. The ad promoted the UP govt’s claim that…
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US knee-deep in pandemic chaos as New Year rung in
New York: The latest surge of coronavirus with the variants of Omicron and Delta combined has kept the US in complicated chaos of understaffed medical services as well as cancelled flights, while…
