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Daily COVID-19 count in India lowest in 88 days
India logged 53,256 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 88 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,99,35,221,…
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Sri Lanka shuffles senior health official after Rajapaksa reveals wrong COVID-19 death figures
A senior health official in Sri Lanka has been transferred after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa expressed his unhappiness over not being…
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Support from all sides needed to nurture economic recovery hit by 2nd wave of COVID: RBI Guv
Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das has pitched for policy support from all sides — fiscal, monetary and sectoral — to…
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Rupee slips 33 paise to 73.65 against US dollar in early trade
The Indian rupee slipped 33 paise to 73.65 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday, amid the strengthening…
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Popular IKEA enters Bengaluru with eCommerce and mobile shopping app
Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA announced on Thursday the launch of its eCommerce services and mobile shopping app in Bengaluru.…
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Sri Lanka- India extends USD 100 million Line of Credit for solar energy projects
India has extended a USD 100 million Line of Credit to Sri Lanka to help the island nation finance various…
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UK expands COVID-19 vaccination drive to cover all over-21s
Around 1 million people in the UK aged 21 and 22 will begin to be called forward on Wednesday to…
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China successfully launches first crew to new space station
China successfully launched its longest crewed space mission to date on Thursday, sending three astronauts to its new orbiting station,…
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Biden, Putin discuss ambassadors, nuclear weapons and more
Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin of Russia spent more than three hours discussing issues Wednesday at their summit in…
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Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccines protect against Delta variant: Lancet study
The Delta variant of coronavirus, first identified in India, doubles the risk of hospitalisation compared with the Alpha variant first…
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