COVID-19 pandemic

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National College Tests To Be Held Despite Surging Virus Infections

More than 2 million Indian students will sit for admission tests to medical and engineering schools next week, the government…

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India Set To Mass Produce COVID-19 Vaccine: Modi

India is ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his…

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Surviving India’s Worst Plane Crash In 10 years

Seated on the last row of the plane, Muhammed Junaid sensed something was amiss when Air India Express flight IX…

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Japan To Mark 75 Years Since Hiroshima, Nagasaki Atomic Bombing

Thursday marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima,…

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“Covid-19 Virus Has Been Circulating In Bats For Decades”

An international team of researchers has discovered that the lineage that gave rise to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is…

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Travel Bans Cannot Be Indefinite: WHO

Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely, and countries are going to have to do more to reduce…

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Covid-19 Cost Jobs At A Third Of Small Firms Open In May

One small firm in three around the world was obliged to cut jobs to stay open through the coronavirus pandemic…

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Amid Pandemic, Atrocities Against Dalits See A Rise

The Centre and states need to step up to clamp down on rising atrocities against Dalits amid the Covid-19 pandemic,…

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CAA Protests: UN Experts Seek Release Of Activists

In a statement published on June 26, several experts from the United Nations have called upon India to immediately release…

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Dalits Call For Centuries Of Oppression To Be Acknowledged

Spurred on by the anti-racism protests in the United States, Dalits (a marginalised community once referred to as "untouchables") have…

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How A Mosquito Spit Vaccine Could Stop The Next Epidemic

Five years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica…

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People In Wuhan Fear Covid-19 Testing Could Rekindle Disease

As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the…

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Ease Lockdowns Slowly, Be Ready For Virus To Jump Back: WHO

Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the…

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Covid-19: UN Chief Salutes India for Helping Others

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres salutes countries helping others in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, his spokesman has said,…

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Virus Fallout Inflames Divisions Among Communities

The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui’s hand by health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under…

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“Terrorists May See Window Of Opportunity”: UN Chief

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a "window" into how a bio-terrorist attack might unfold across the world, UN chief Antonio…

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Covid-19 Crisis Could Plunge Half A Billion Into Poverty: Oxfam

The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the…

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Explainer: Do Men Fare Worse With COVID-19?

Death and infection tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic spreading around the world point to men being more likely than women…

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“Solidarity With India, Lockdown Comprehensive, Robust”: UN

The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top official at the world body's…

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“India Led World In Eradicating 2 Pandemics, Should Show The Way”: WHO

The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael J Ryan, on Tuesday said that India has a tremendous…

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