With Climate change posing a huge threat to the entire world, now the coldest Antartica has just experienced its hottest day ever recorded this Feb. 9 by hitting a high of 20.75 degrees Celsius. The continent has also witnessed its other hottest day the same month, on Feb. 6 with 18.3 degrees C surpassing the
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Jammu The Jammu and Kashmir chief electoral officer on Monday issued notification for holding the second phase of panchayat by-elections in 55 blocks of 14 districts of the Union Territory, an official spokesperson said. The by-election for 12,650 panches and sarpanches in Jammu and Kashmir is to be held in eight phases from March 5
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Washington Thirteen US citizens deemed “high risk” for the deadly new coronavirus are being treated at a federally designated facility in the University of Nebraska following their evacuation from a cruise ship in Japan, officials said. A total of 338 Americans were flown home from the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan”s Yokohama, touching down
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Kolkata Veteran Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul died of cardiac arrest early Tuesday, family sources said. He was 61. Paul, who had gone to Mumbai to visit his daughter, complained of chest pain at the Mumbai airport during his return to Kolkata and was rushed to a hospital in Juhu but
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Beijing The death toll from China”s coronavirus epidemic climbed to 1,868 on Tuesday as 98 more people died while the total number of confirmed cases jumped to 72,436, officials said. Of the new deaths, 93 were reported from Hubei Province, the epicentre of the virus, three from Henan, and one each from Hebei and Hunan,
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Brussels External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met top leaders of the European Union and held wide-ranging talks on issues, including economic cooperation, climate change and capacity building, that would “benefit both India and EU”. Jaishankar, who was in Germany during the weekend for the Munich Security Conference, arrived here on Monday to prepare the ground
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Bengaluru, Feb 18: U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru has invited online applications for the recruitment of various posts on its official website. U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) is the lead centre of ISRO for satellite technology. Candidates interested and eligible for the posts can apply online at isro.gov.in on or before March 6,
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Archaeology aids human race in tracing their roots to find the first mark ever made by them. Several archaeological finds have been recorded from all around the world with the evolution of human knowledge and their quest for truth. Those archaeological findings have been preserved since then and they speak louder than words on those
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New Delhi India on Sunday flatly rejected UN chief Antonio Guterres”s offer of mediation on Kashmir and said the real issue needed to addressed is to vacate territories “illegally and forcibly” occupied by Pakistan. The assertion by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) came after Guterres said in Islamabad that he was concerned over the
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Karachi At least four people died and 15 were hospitalised after inhaling toxic gases emanating from a vegetable container in Pakistan”s port city Karachi, police said. The container was unloaded from a cargo ship in Kemari port area on Sunday night. “The initial investigation showed that as soon as people from Jackson market opened the
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