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Mask, social distancing best bet to fight new variant

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  • 2021-12-06 --

Dr. U.S. Vishal Rao

Delta was declared a Variant of Concern (VoC) by the WHO after five months since its first occurrence. However, the B.1.1.529 variant, popularly known as Omicron, was Read more...

He can dwarf any rider

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  • 2021-12-06 --

Hyderabad: Gattipally Shivpal has become the first dwarf in the country to obtain a driver’s licence.

The 42-year-old man from Hyderabad, with a height of about three feet, toldRead more...

Army gets it wrong! 14 die

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  • 2021-12-06 --

Huge uproar across nation after forces in Nagaland open fire on  coal mine workers mistaking them for insurgents of banned outfit

Kohima/New Delhi: A day after six civilians Read more...

Braj in the Mughal era

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  • 2021-12-05 --

Two intellectuals across disciplines collaborate to bring out a book on the region of Braj under the Mughals

By Shafey Kidwai

The pre-colonial syncretic culture manifes Read more...

1971: 'The Sahibs are crying inside'

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  • 2021-12-05 --

By Syed Badrul Ahsan

As the 50th anniversary of our triumph on the battlefield in 1971 is at hand, it is only proper that we travel back to the time when the bandwagon of freedom was begi Read more...

Women better educated, neo-natal mortality declines, says NFHS

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  • 2021-12-05 --

By M.A. Siraj

Karnataka has been a pioneer among India’s states in addressing the vital need to go into human development. Though Madhya Pradesh stole a lead in coming out with the Read more...

OMICRON: Time for relook at curbs?

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  • 2021-12-06 --

By Nischith N | NT

Bengaluru: When Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were lifted, public transport started witnessing a gradual rise in footfalls. As the number of cases came down, people Read more...

Omicron spreads, cases jump to 21

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  • 2021-12-06 --

As many as nine people have tested positive for the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Rajasthan’s Jaipur on Sunday, according to the state health department.

In Maharashtra’s Read more...

Rich repository of State’s botanical treasures

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  • 2021-12-05 --

By M.A. Siraj

Lalbagh is to Bengaluru what Kew Royal Botanical Garden is to London. Its centrality to the city’s history and geography lends it an iconic status. It is for the firs Read more...

Blood Brothers: India, Bangladesh & the ties that bind

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By Krishnan Srinivasan

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh independence, as also the birth centenary of the father of Bangladesh’s independence Sheikh Mujibur Rehma Read more...

Exploring Expo 2020

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By Sandhya Mendonca

As the metro sped to Expo 2020, we were eager, enthusiastic and energetic. We had just arrived from a 7 degree chill that seeped through fur caps and three layers of c Read more...

Bollywood couple to say ‘I do’ in royal ‘mandap’ in Rajasthan?

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  • 2021-12-05 --

Bollywood actors Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal’s wedding preps are going on in full swing. Six Senses Fort Barwara, in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, is being decked up. As part of the prep, n Read more...