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An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)Opinion
Farrukh Dhondy | Vaccines on the way amid talk of conspiracies, Bill...

When the vaccine was announced, instead lining up for a shot, I read all manner of lunatic anti-vaccine propaganda

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary addresses the media after resigning from his post following corruption allegations against him, in Patna. (PTI)India
Tainted Bihar minister Mewalal Chaudhary quits hours after taking...

Chaudhary has been facing flak from the opposition parties ever since he took oath as the cabinet minister along with CM...

20 Nov 2020 11:46 AM IST

JuD chief Hafiz Saeed being produced at a court in Lahore. (PTI)India
Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed gets 10 years in jail in...

Saeed was already sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in February this year in two terror financing...

20 Nov 2020 11:39 AM IST

Children wave from a tram during a joy ride in Kolkata, Nov. 14, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
Devi Kar | Prepare kids for future as worries rise amidst COVID

It is such a difficult time for school-leavers that the past seems unnaturally alluring while the future looks pretty...

20 Nov 2020 11:06 AM IST

Workers prepare a campaign vehicle for the BJP, ahead of the GHMC elections, in Hyderabad, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
Sriram Karri | Can KCR's gameplan stop Modi juggernaut?

BJP has already pushed TRS into a spot by making GHMC elections about nationalist Hindutva, a template it has not really...

20 Nov 2020 10:56 AM IST

Janata Dal (United) President and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrives at party office, in Patna, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
Anand K Sahay | BJP's hopes for its own CM in Patna get dashed

Bihar is the only state in north India, besides Jammu and Kashmir (now a UT) and Punjab, where the BJP has not had its...

19 Nov 2020 5:50 PM IST

Border Security Force Personnel (BSF) stand guard in a motor launch. (PTI)Opinion
Dilip Cherian | MHA hard put to find officers ready to serve in...

A year after the change in the status of J&K and Ladakh, there is an acute shortage of IAS, IPS and other all-India...

19 Nov 2020 5:42 PM IST

Medical staff attending to patients with COVID-19 wear protective equipment in a unit dedicated to treatment of the coronavirus at UW Health in Madison, Wis. Conditions inside the nations hospitals are deteriorating by the day as the coronavirus rages through the country at an unrelenting pace. (AP)World
US hospitals overwhelmed as COVID-19 deaths top 250,000 in the country

The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 in the U.S. has doubled in the past month and set new records every...

19 Nov 2020 2:55 PM IST

An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. (AFP)Science
Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine 'encouraging' for older age groups

Older individuals are at disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19 and so any vaccine adopted for use must be effective...

19 Nov 2020 2:38 PM IST

Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) President and former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi arrives at the assembly to take oath as the Protem Speaker in the new Legislative Assembly, in Patna. (PTI)India
Jitan Ram Manjhi sworn in as pro-tem Speaker of Bihar assembly

Manjhi, a multiple-term MLA and founding president of the Hindustani Awam Morcha, was administered oath of office by...

19 Nov 2020 1:57 PM IST

Chief of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) General Angus Campbell delivers the findings from the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry, in Canberra on November 19, 2020. (AFP)World
Australian special forces unlawfully killed 39 people in Afghanistan:...

Australia launched the inquiry in 2016, amid reports from whistle-blowers and in the local media of the alleged killing...

19 Nov 2020 1:38 PM IST

Without practicing social distancing, people queue for social grant payments at a post office in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. The African continent has surpassed 2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 as health officials warn of infections starting to creep up again into a second surge. (AP)World
African continent hits 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases

African health officials also worry that the continent will suffer as richer countries buy up supplies

19 Nov 2020 1:25 PM IST

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