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  1. 15 minutes ago

    Prominent politicians, intellectuals, and activists of the global organisation Progressive International, have written on the role of solidarity in light of the protests in the US.

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  2. 8 hours ago

    This clearance is not a standalone event. It has history – a series of events in which environmental laws were moulded and interpreted to suit the company and in ‘national interest’.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    Anaemia was prevalent in 72% of pregnant women and 69% of women who were not pregnant. In addition, teenage pregnancy (15-19 years age group) was at 61.4% and 13.6% of them were already mothers.

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  4. 10 hours ago

    Despite abundant evidence available to support the fact that police officers target African Americans, lawmakers have a dismal reform record.

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  5. 11 hours ago

    Only 3% of the tested samples of migrant labourers reaching Uttar Pradesh have come back positive of COVID-19.

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  6. 11 hours ago

    With the lockdown restrictions imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the SC has asked the NCR states to hold a meeting to consider a common policy for inter-state movement.

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  7. 11 hours ago

    The Adani group has expressed its inability to take over three airports it won after aggressive bidding last year, dealing a blow to the government’s privatisation plan.

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  8. 12 hours ago

    "Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 93, was one of the leading lights of the ‘middle of the road’ cinema of the 1970s and ‘80s, which fell in the gap between purely commercial masala and art house films."

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  9. 12 hours ago

    Tata Teleservices, which reported a loss of Rs 13,225 crore for the financial year 2020, is planning to sell its residual business in the current financial year to pay off loans.

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  10. 12 hours ago

    The United States is expected to designate at least four additional state-run Chinese media outlets as foreign embassies, increasing restrictions on their operations on American soil.

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  11. 13 hours ago

    Unknown miscreants have vandalised a statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian embassy in the US with graffiti and spray painting, prompting the mission officials to register a complaint with the local law enforcement agencies.

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  12. 13 hours ago

    India implemented a “draconian” lockdown that was porous and has ended up decimating its economy and flattening the GDP curve instead of that of the novel coronavirus infections, industrialist Rajiv Bajaj said on Thursday.

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  13. 13 hours ago

    "The motto for which the council was created was not being fulfilled and I felt I was not doing anything remarkable for the freedom of media," Gupta said.

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  14. 14 hours ago

    Un-remunerative prices of several crops have been the root cause of widespread agrarian distress. This can be alleviated by substantially raising the MSP of crops or by reducing the cost of cultivation or by increasing the crop productivity.

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  15. 14 hours ago

    More than 70 people from Jamil’s immediate surroundings have already died from the disease. And there is no other place to be. Staying indoors – under hot tin roofs – is unbearable; for those like Jamil who have been thrown out, it is impossible.

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  16. 15 hours ago

    Tens of thousands of people in the Philippines may have been killed in the war on drugs since the mid-2016, amid “near impunity” for police and incitement to violence by top officials.

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  17. 15 hours ago

    Prosecutors on Wednesday levelled new criminal charges against four Minneapolis policemen implicated in the death of a black man pinned by his neck to the street during an arrest that sparked more than a week of nationwide protest and civil strife.

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  18. 15 hours ago

    Facebook and Instagram users who tried to use the (hashtag Sikh) were unable to do so for the past three months, the two social media platforms admitted on Wednesday night.

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  19. 16 hours ago

    This is the first time India has seen more than 9,000 new cases in a day.

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  20. 16 hours ago

    Feminist activists and academics from around the world have issued a statement in solidarity with Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, two arrested members of Pinjra Tod.

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