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Strange superstitions: The intervention of tradition and science results in the questioning of age-old practices

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Rachana Ramesh

I ndia is a country where traditions breathe simultaneously to global technology. We constantly find ourselves at the junction where these two meet, most times in the state Read more...

GOP lawmaker apologises for cursing Democrat over mask

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Washington: A senior Republican lawmaker apologised late Tuesday for using an expletive when Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked him to put his mask on while in the Capitol. The con Read more...

New Covid wave batters Afghanistan’s crumbling healthcare

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Kabul: Only five hospitals in Afghanistan still offer COVID-19 treatment, with 33 others having been forced to close in recent months for lack of doctors, medicines and even heat. Read more...

California varsity in $250m payout for doctor’s sex abuse

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  • 2022-02-10 --

The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $250m (£185m) to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist. Multiple women accuse the university&r Read more...

Network woes: ICICIdirect faces investors’ ire

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Users of investment platform ICICIdirect faced difficulty in trading on Wednesday morning due to “unprecedented network issue”, which halted services briefly. However, the services have Read more...

‘Budget capex not as high as it sounds’

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Amid FY23 Union Budget’s focus on investments, leading domestic credit rating agency Crisil on Wednesday said that the capital expenditure is “not as high as it sounds”.

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The Uncensored Library: The digital home of press freedom

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  • 2022-02-10 --

NT Features

The press wields immense power in a society that calls itself democratic. It is a building block of opinions, helps shape movements and controls policies through well-informed Read more...

US officials in Louisville city seize over 2,000 pounds of drugs

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  • 2022-02-10 --

New York: The law enforcement officers in the US city of Louisville seized nearly 300 shipments containing over 2,000 pounds of illicit drugs that arrived from many countries, including India, in J Read more...

California varsity in $250m payout for doctor’s sex abuse

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  • 2022-02-10 --

The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $250m (£185m) to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist. Multiple women accuse the university&r Read more...

Blast rocks Abu Dhabi; govt says it’s a cylinder

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Dubai, Feb. 9: A fire struck downtown Abu Dhabi early Wednesday, with authorities initially blaming a gas cylinder for an explosion caught on camera in social media. The blast struck Hamdan Street Read more...

Glenmark Pharma, SaNOtize Research launch nasal spray for COVID-19 treatment

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  • 2022-02-10 --

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and its partner Canadian biotech firm SaNOtize Research on Wednesday launched Nitric Oxide nasal spray for the treatment of adult patients with COVID-19, who have a high ri Read more...

Taxpayers can update ITRs only once a year

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  • 2022-02-10 --

A taxpayer would be permitted to file only one updated return for an assessment year, a government official said on Wednesday. Speaking at a CII event, CBDT Chairman J B Mohapatra said the intent o Read more...