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The Naupada police in Thane city have arrested a burglar for allegedly stealing a donation box from a Lord Hanuman temple earlier this week. What left even the police amused, however, was that they saw the thief on CCTV footage touching the Lord’s feet before committing the theft. According to the Naupada police, they reported…
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Only fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can visit the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair. It will hold for two weeks from January 31, 2022, organizers said today. The event, which is the largest in the world in terms of footfall. It last held in early 2020 before the coronavirus outbreak. This year too, it will organize…
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The young man arrested over rape threats to Virat Kohli’s nine-month-old daughter is an IIT Hyderabad graduate with a history of online trolling using multiple identities, the police said today. But to his family and friends, he was a diligent topper planning higher studies in the US. Ram Nagesh Srinivas Akubathini, 23, is a software…
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Walmart announced on Monday that it has started using fully driverless trucks to make grocery deliveries. The retail giant is working with Silicon Valley startup Gatik to move its deliveries toward autonomous trucking. Certainly, two Gatik trucks are running without a safety driver on a seven mile loop, 12-hours a day since August. The autonomous…
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Content espousing hate surged in India around key events from elections, Covid and protests against the CAA, Facebook’s internal documents. The documents reveal how despite the spike in inflammatory and anti-minority content in India, Facebook’s senior officials downplayed the threats. Revelations are raising the question of whether they did enough to combat it. A document…
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The fourth wave of Covid-19 pandemic has taken hold in Germany, as the country rushes to placate its debilitating effects. Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked unvaccinated people to get the jab, calling it a “duty to the rest of society to protect others”. Coronavirus case numbers have surged across Europe in recent weeks, with experts…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the country’s first world-class railway station at Habibganj in Bhopal on 15 November. Habibganj railway station in Bhopal is the first world-class model station in the country and has all the facilities that are available at international airports. Public-private partnership developed it and built by a private company named…
India will soon release a policy document on administering a booster dose (third dose) of Covid-19 vaccine, a key member of the country’s Covid task force said on Thursday. Dr NK Arora, co-chair of INSACOG, a 28-lab consortium set up to monitor genomic variations in SARS-CoV-2. Urged people not to take a booster dose right…
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