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Students from various organisation protest over the NEET-UG and UGC-NET examinations issue outside Ministry of Education in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP NEET-PG postponed, CBI to probe NEET-UG allegations, NTA chief removed, as panel set up for agency overhaul With questions being raised about the “integrity of certain competitive examinations”, the Health…
The world’s second-biggest economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s fiscal revenue in the first quarter fell 2.3% from a year earlier, as some special factors including previous tax cut policies weighed, the Finance Ministry said on April 22. The world’s second-biggest economy grew faster than expected…
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“In 2020, deaths around the world rose by 10.8% compared to 2019, and in 2021, they rose by 7.5% relative to 2020.” | Photo Credit: Reuters COVID-19 (coronavirus) replaced stroke to become the second-leading cause of death globally in 2021, causing 94 deaths per one lakh population and slashing life expectancy by 1.6 years, an…
File photo used for representational purpose only. Children infected with the Omicron variant remain infectious for three days on average after testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and Stanford University in the U.S. noted that school policies that require students with COVID-19 to…
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Climate change, urbanisation and the destruction of forests add to the risk of pandemics. A UK health expert’s warning that a new pathogen could cause a pandemic as deadly as the Spanish Flu – which killed 50 million people – has sent alarm bells ringing in a world that is yet to completely emerge from…
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None of his colleagues contracted COVID-19 from the incident. Singapore: A 64-year-old Singaporean of Indian origin was sentenced to two weeks’ jail on Monday on pleading guilty to one count of breaching a COVID-19 regulation by failing to wear a mask that covered his nose and mouth while outside his home in 2021. Despite knowing…
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