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09 Jul

India will play leading role in global economic revival: says PM

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India will play a leading role in the global revival story and that the country has a strong history of overcoming every challenge. Speaking at the India Global Week 2020, PM Modi said, “In these times, it is natural to talk about revival. It is equally natural to link global revival and India. There is faith that the story of global revival will have India playing a leading role.”

08 Jul

Zoom’s message to users in India: We are not a Chinese company.

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The burning anti-China sentiment in the country has been creating quite a stir and the heat of that is being felt by many companies including Zoom. The platform has seen a massive growth this year, becoming one of the most popular choices among those who are working remotely. Seems the video-conferencing platform Zoom wants to ensure that it is in no way affected by the anti-China sentiment in the country. As there’s been a perception among some that Zoom is a Chinese company, considering its Eric S Yuan CEO has Chinese origin. He goes on to add in the post…

08 Jul

Kanpur ambush: Two cops arrested for tipping off Vikas Dubey about police raid.

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The suspended Station House Officer (SHO) of Chaubeypur, Vinay Tiwari, and beat in-charge K. K. Sharma were arrested on Wednesday on charges of allegedly providing a tip-off to wanted criminal Vikas Dubey about the police raid at his house on the intervening night of July 2-3 when eight policemen were shot dead in an ambush. Suspended Chaubeypur station officer Vinay Tiwari and another policeman were arrested on Wednesday on charges of leaking information about police action to gangster Vikas Dubey prior to last week's encounter in Kanpur, in which eight policemen were killed.Tiwari and beat in-charge of Bikru KK Sharma,…

08 Jul

Surge in coronavirus cases in Patna: Patna to Remain Under Lockdown From July 10 to 16, Essential Services Allowed.

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Keeping in mind the rising cases of coronavirus, the Patna district administration on Wednesday decided to impose complete lockdown in the state capital from July 10 to 16 to break the chain of the deadly virus. Except for the essential services, markets, offices and other commercial activities will be prohibited during the lockdown period in the state capital, the order said. While 749 cases were reported from Bihar, Patna alone registered 235 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, which is the highest one day record. Ravi in his order stated that there was an alarming surge in Covid-19 positive cases in Patna…

08 Jul

Reduction in syllabus a one-time measure, “Has Been Interpreted Differently” , says CBSE.

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Amid outrage and protests over the changes, the CBSE said the reduction or “rationalization” of syllabus for classes 9 to 12 had been "interpreted differently" and that it was a “one-time measure” to reduce the exam stress of students due to the health emergency and to prevent learning gaps.The national education board was responding to criticism it faced after k ey chapters like Democratic Rights, Food Security in India, Federalism, Citizenship and Secularism have been dropped from school courses to reduce the burden on students amid the coronavirus crisis. “The schools have also been directed to follow the alternative academic…

08 Jul

Cipla Set To Undercut

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Indian drugmaker Cipla Ltd has priced its generic version of Remdesivir, Cipremi, at 4,000 rupees ($53.34) per 100 mg vial, according to several sources, making it among the lowest priced versions of the COVID-19 treatment available so far globally. Cipla had earlier said pricing would not exceed 5,000 rupees. On Tuesday, Sovereign Pharma, which is manufacturing and packaging the drug for Cipla, said it had dispatched the first batch. Cipla business chief executive officer and executive vice president Nikhil Chopra said in an emailed statement that the company was launching Cipremi commercially on Wednesday and aims to supply over 80,000…

07 Jul

Covaxin trial to start at Belagavi hospital , India’s first COVID-19 vaccine to begin soon.

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Covaxin, the first possible vaccine against COVID-19, will be tested on a team of around 200 healthy volunteers in and around Belagavi. The clinical trials will be conducted by doctors and staff members of Jeevan Rekha, a multi-speciality hospital here, monitored by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Bharat Biotech International Ltd., the private company that has developed the chemical molecule, doctors at the hospital said. Jeevan Rekha is one of the 12 hospitals and health centres in the country chosen by the Union government for clinical trials of the vaccine, whose technical name is BBV152 COVID vaccine.…

07 Jul

Reopened monuments wear a deserted look on first day.

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India on Monday tentatively stepped out of a 75-day lockdown with malls, religious places and offices opening in several parts of the country under strict conditions limiting the number of people and mandating sanitisation of all premises. Monuments that reopened to the public on Monday after being closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic wore a deserted look on the first day, with more media persons than visitors at the sites. Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel had announced on July 2 that all Centrally protected monuments of the Archaeological Survey of India that were located outside containment zones would…

07 Jul

UGC decides to conduct Final Year university exam by September end.

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Final Year university examinations may be postponed until the end of September, but must be conducted in either online or offline mode, the University Grants Commission (UGC) decided on Monday evening. Students who are unable to appear for these examinations will be given the opportunity to appear for special examinations which will be conducted later, according to an official statement. The UGC had first released an indicative academic calendar for higher education institutions on April 29 in which it had prescribed that universities conduct their final-year or terminal semester examination from July 1 to July 15 and declare their results…

07 Jul

COVID-19 Patient’s Body Dumped Outside Bhopal Hospital.

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In a shocking breach of Covid safety protocol and basic human rights, a Coronavirus victim’s body was left on the pavement outside a hospital on Monday night, with the patient’s family clueless about it. All they knew was that an ambulance had taken him away to a Covid designated hospital.“My father’s body remained on the street for at least an hour. They simply dumped him in the open. No one, not even animals, deserves such treatment,” said the victim’s son. A magistrate has been asked to inquire into the case involving a power distribution company employee who was admitted to…