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27 Jul

Hyderabad Techie start selling veggies to support family.

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A techie from the city who lost her job due to the Covid-19 situation and lockdown is selling vegetables at Srinagar colony. And 26-year-old Undadi Sharada is proud that she has been able to survive a tough situation, without sticking to "false prestige"."There is nothing to be ashamed of. It was a question of survival. I did not even have to think for a moment about how we would see ourselves through in a crisis," said Undadi Sharada. Sharada gets up at 4am, goes to the market to wholesale mark to buy vegetables and sells them practically spending 12 hours…

27 Jul

Can’t Do Tea, Come For Dinner: BJP MP’s Anil Baluni Reply To Priyanka Gandhi Invite.

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Ahead of the August 1 deadline for vacating her government bungalow in Delhi's Lutyens' zone, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday sent an invitation for tea to BJP leader Anil Baluni, who has been allotted the house, sources said.It is learnt that the invite has been sent to the BJP's Rajya Sabha MP, seeking his convenience and confirmation. The response came today. "I returned home after treatment for cancer. Now, the doctors have asked me to stay at home," Mr Baluni has written to Ms Gandhi Vadra, sources said. The dinner party, the 49-year-old BJP member of the…

27 Jul

Modi launches three new testing facilities, says India now better placed in Covid fight.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched three "high throughput" Covid-19 testing facilities at Kolkata, Mumbai and Noida, and said India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against Covid-19 as a result of "right decisions taken at the right time"Speaking after virtually launching Covid-19 testing facilities, th Prime Minister said that these hi-tech state-of-the-art testing facilities will boost the testing capacity by almost 10,000 daily tests in each of the three cities. Today, deaths due to coronavirus in our country are less than in big countries. And our recovery rate is very much better…

27 Jul

Tiger Shroff’s mother warns Anurag Kashyap to not mess with her son

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The war of words on Twitter between multiple Bollywood celebrities doesn't seem to be coming an end anytime soon, and Anurag Kashyap has found himself stuck in the middle of another such controversy. After he and Ranvir Shorey managed to patch things up, the filmmakers has now rubbed Tiger Shroff's mother, Ayesha Shroff, the wrong way with his recent tweet. Retweeting a collage of Tiger and Taimur Ali Khan, Anurag wrote: "This is nepotism by media ..? Why?? Because this is what you the audience wants to see .. So isn’t it nepotism by you the audience too??" Not taking kindly…

27 Jul

Star kids will always have easy access, says Sonu Sood

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Star kids will always have easy access, says Sonu SoodThe tragic death of Sushant Singh Rajput reignited the debate of nepotism in Bollywood. Actor Sonu Sood recently joined the bandwagon of the actors talking about the insider-outsider debate in the film industry.Opening about the same to a news portal, Sonu reportedly said that star kids will always have easier access than those who don't belong to the film industry. He also added that he feels proud when an outsider comes to the city and makes it big. Elaborating further, he added that pressures are real as thousands of people come to the city for work every day but only…

27 Jul

Jayashree Ramaiah post “depression”

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New Delhi: Kannada actress Jayashree Ramaiah, who is an ex-contestant of 'Bigg Boss Kannada', recently created quite a stir with her Facebook posts like "I quit world" and "depression". Jayashree reportedly went live on Facebook recently and said that "she wants death as she is unable to deal with depression". The video is not available on Facebook now. Her now-deleted post immediately drew attention and friends and colleagues started reaching out to her. "Thanks a lot, Sudeep sir for your care and you saved me along with his team members and my loving friends and fans love you all!! Sorry for…

27 Jul

Phase 1 human trials results ‘encouraging’

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Developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and National Institute of Virology, Covaxin got the nod for human clinical trials from the Drugs Controller General of India last month. Besides Covaxin, another experimental shot developed by Zydus Cadila has also begun human clinical trials. Earlier this week, AIIMS, Delhi, administered the first dose of Covaxin to a 30-year-old man. Even as Phase 1 human trials of Biotech’s Covaxin India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine candidate, are on at most of the 12 sites selected by ICMR across the country, the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, has claimed “encouraging”…

27 Jul

Indian government banned 47 more Chinese apps

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New Delhi: The Indian government has banned 47 more Chinese apps, after 59 China-based apps were banned in June-end. The order to ban the 47 apps was issued on Friday, sources said. Among the newly-banned apps are Tiktok Lite, Helo Lite, SHAREit Lite, BIGO LIVE Lite and VFY Lite. These 47 apps were acting as clones of the 59 Chinese apps that were banned earlier. The government had issued the order to ban 59 apps with Chinese links on June 29, stating that these were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and security of the country. The banned apps included popular ones like…

27 Jul

Covid-19 test results in 36 minutes

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Scientists in Singapore have developed a method to improve the speed of obtaining Covid-19 laboratory test results in 36 minutes or by up to four times. The new method, developed by scientists at the Nanyang Technological University's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, has demonstrated a way to improve “the speed, handling time and cost of Covid-19 laboratory tests”, the university said on Monday. The current testing method requires highly trained technical staff and can take a few hours befo results are finalised.

26 Jul

Centre trying to topple governments elected by people amid pandemic: Priyanka Gandhi.

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has said that leadership is recognised in times of crisis but the BJP government at the centre has made its intention clear by attempting to topple the governments elected by the people when the country is facing pandemic.Taking part in the online campaign #SpeakUpForDemocracy launched by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Twitter, Priyanka Gandhi tweeted (roughly translated from Hindi): "Leadership is recognised in times of crisis. In coronavirus national crisis, the country needs a leadership that works in the public interest. But the BJP government at the centre has made its intention and its character…