'But India, increasingly, is not that far behind, which is a story I never expected to tell.'
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Some workers in India were also make to work on Sundays and national holidays "in sweltering heat, without adequate supply of clean drinking water or any breaks".
Meet Arshad Khan, a teenager from Kohat district, who had been making tea at the Itwar Bazaar for three months. A random Instagram snap by photographer Jiah Ali thrusted Khan into the limelight and ever since that moment, he's become every girl's dream boy and by looking at him, we agree.
A member of the body that oversees the sustainability of the London Olympics has resigned in protest at a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemical because of the American company's ties to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster that killed thousands in Madhya Pradesh.
Russia introduced a raft of punitive economic measures and sports sanctions on Saturday after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane earlier in the week
The 184 passengers on board the Air India Express plane from Dubai that crashed on Friday evening had waited a long time to get tickets on the repatriation flight, part of the Centre's Vande Bharat Mission to bring back Indians stranded abroad in the coronavirus pandemic. For some, the homecoming never happened. 18 people were killed, including the two pilots.
Barcelona's Champions League last-16 second leg match with Napoli scheduled for March 18 will take place without spectators due to fears over the spread of the coronavirus, a club spokesman said on Tuesday. The match will take place at Camp Nou after a 1-1 draw in Napoli, but no supporters will be allowed to enter the stadium.
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India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
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Interacting with state chief ministers, Modi underscored the enormity of what he described as the world's biggest vaccination exercise, which begins from January 16, saying over 30 crore citizens will get the jabs in the next few months in India against only 2.5 crore people vaccinated so far in over 50 countries in around a month.
Pakistan's former president Asif Ali Zardari was on Tuesday acquitted in a corruption case dating back to the 1990s when his slain wife Benazir Bhutto was prime minister.
'We are talking about history, about things that transpired.' 'If we don't know our history, we will never be able to evolve as individuals.'
Bangladeshi police on Monday arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in the murder of an Italian aid worker in Dhaka last month for which the dreaded Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.
DRDO to develop an army version of the medium range surface-to-air missile.
Fast bowler Mohammed Shami's wife Hasin Jahan, who has accused her husband of torture and having extra-marital affairs, slammed social networking site Facebook for blocking her account.
Workplaces around the globe are changing by the day and so are the rules.
'The vitriol against Deepika Padukone, who is a hugely popular star, will fade over time. But let's not forget what caused it,' says Shuma Raha.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Jassi had married Sukhwinder against the will of her family.
'Neerja always believed and said, "Do not tolerate any injustice" and that is what we are doing: Not tolerating injustice.'
According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Centre, more than 4,000 people in the US have died due to COVID-19 and nearly 190,000 have been infected by it.
Former BJP president of Bharuch and senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member Shirish Bangali and general secretary of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha Pragnesh Mistry were shot dead in the district by two unidentified gunmen on November 2 last year.
Though the two shooters, held for the south Mumbai shooting incident, have claimed that fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar was not their target, the picture would be clear only after the arrest of the "mediator" who gave them the killing contract, a senior police official said on Friday.
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While there were no surprises on policy issues from either side, there were far less interruptions and tense moments between Pence, 61, who comes from Indiana and his Democrat challenger Harris, 55, who is from California.
Even as there is strong public sentiment against reopening Sterlite's copper plant in Tamil Nadu come reports that four farmers groups have come out in support of the factory.
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Uber and Ola continued to operate in New Delhi while their licence applications were pending approval.
The former Big Boss contestant posted objectionable content on her social media pages on September 6 and 21 against Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and other members of the Nehru-Gandhi family, following which Rajasthan Youth Congress General Secretary Charmesh Sharma filed a complaint.
'Do the Muslims of India think that they are receiving justice from their nation and particularly from the Supreme Court?'
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The NASA contract engineer had received a poor job review and feared that he could be fired.
Murali Pradhan (30), who was undergoing treatment at Old Care hospital, succumbed to his burn injuries, according to HPCL sources.
The Heilongjiang Provincial Higher People's Court said that it rejected the appeal of Wang Wenxiang, founder and chairman of Xinheng Group.
Noting that it was his government that had recommended a CBI probe into the actor's death, Kumar said the incident saddened both the state and the country.
Rafi Bhat, a 33-year-old professor on contract with the Kashmir University's Sociology department, had left the varsity premises on Friday and had been missing since then. Reports had suggested he had joined the terror group but his father had repeatedly told the police Rafi would not pick up arms.
Sterling says that money is not a determining factor and ruled out discussing a new contract until at least the end of the season.
Two persons, including a guard of the Mathura jail, have been arrested in a firing incident, believed to be a fallout of gang war, that took place inside the jail premises two days ago.
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