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  1. 12 minutes ago

    "Does the CLC or any other public authority in government have accurate data about the number of stranded migrant workers or is there any reason why it does not want to make such information public?"

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  2. 32 minutes ago

    In the Centre’s first attempt, some districts had been categorised in a puzzling manner. The Centre’s second attempt, in similar vein, includes some surprising choices.

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  3. 52 minutes ago

    “COVID-19 cannot be used as an excuse to deny women’s rights to safe abortion, as the state of Texas has done in the USA,” the statement notes.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    A group of Punjab policemen were found accompanying controversial pop singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, aka , while he practised how to fire a deadly AK-47 assault rifle and moved freely between districts.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    “The emotional, physical or sexual exploitation of child labourers by employers is a reality. The very few child workers who have returned home, have not been paid their dues,” she said.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Abhijit Banerjee’s outright rejection of the strongman theory puts a question mark over the manner in which some prominent leaders choose to craft themselves and their images in popular perception. |

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  7. 2 hours ago

    | Former Chief Justice of Delhi A. P. Shah criticises the Supreme Court for its functioning during the coronavirus-related lockdown.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    "If we aren’t careful, we will be left with yet another useless app on our phones – without the desired results that actually are a matter of life and death these days."

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  9. 3 hours ago

    The Centre is planning to do away with the mandatory requirement of washing of coal before it is transported to thermal power stations.

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  10. 3 hours ago

    This remarkable resilience has drawn the attention of scientists eager to unravel the secrets of bats’ evolutionary détente with disease — a relationship that could someday yield novel therapies. But it’s also made bats the targets of loathing.

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  11. 4 hours ago

    A policeman deployed on the emergency 112 helpline service in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The number of novel coronavirus cases in Delhi crossed the 5000-mark.

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  12. 4 hours ago

    Over a quarter of the country’s 736 districts have no epidemiologists at the district level and 11 states have no epidemiologists at the state level as well.

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  13. 4 hours ago

    A disabled teenage student who was killed in north Kashmir was buried discreetly in a graveyard reserved for unidentified militants. The family of the slain boy, Hazim Shafi Bhat, said the police refused to hand over their son’s body.

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  14. 5 hours ago

    | reports on the latest COVID-19 updates such as the privacy concerns of the Aarogya Setu app.

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  15. 5 hours ago

    | In an interview with Karan Thapar, former Chief Justice of Delhi A.P. Shah says he is "thoroughly disappointed by the way the Supreme Court is functioning."

    'Supreme Court Has Let Down Migrant Workers,' Says Justice A.P. Shah
    In an interview to Karan Thapar, the former Chief Justice of the Delhi and Madras high courts, said he was disappointed with the way the SC has functioned at this time.
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  16. 5 hours ago

    With data provided by the National Health Authority showing a marked 20% fall in the number of critical non-COVID-19 procedures across the country since February this year, it appears that the lockdown has had an adverse impact on access to medical care.

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  17. 6 hours ago

    “The extreme slide in the headline index, which fell by over 40 points, shows us that the strict lockdown measures have led to the sector essentially grinding to a complete standstill,” Joe Hayes, an economist at IHS Markit, said in a press release.

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  18. 6 hours ago

    | reports on coronavirus updates from May 5: "63 Lakh RT-PCR Testing Kits May Land in India After May 10: Health Ministry"

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  19. 6 hours ago

    Members of the Koya tribe inhabiting the foothills of the northern Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh are worried. Their lives have been in disarray since India’s nationwide lockdown began on March 24.

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  20. 7 hours ago

    As is clear, despite claiming that the Centre is bearing 85% of the unsubsidised ticket costs, it is not shelling out an extra penny from its reserves. It has not committed to paying anything upfront at the moment.

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