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Away from limelight, Jeevika Didis are silently fighting the coronavirus in rural Bihar.
The stall is located on one of the platforms of the Vadnagar Railway station.
Even as the world's urban population explodes, these eight cities face potential extinction.
The team visited several locations in Arunachal Pradesh to determine if the reported sites can be definitively correlated with known crash sites involving missing US servicemen.
This has raised questions about the prevalent view on the origin of ancient Russia.
The Andhra Pradesh Government on Wednesday approved Amaravathi town, the ancient seat of power of Satavahana rulers, as its new capital coming up in the Vijayawada-Guntur region, which is also known for its historical and spiritual significance.
In 2005, the Border Road Organisation was asked to construct 73 roads in the strategically important regions along the Sino-India border but there has been huge delay in implementation of the project which has apparently left the army unhappy.
The state government announced a compensation of Rs 20 lakh each to the victims' families, Guntur district Collector Kantilal Dande said.
The eggs, worth Rs 2.5 lakh, are sold at Rs 2000 to foreigners.
One of the best stories coming out of Bihar is about a place where Chandragupta Maurya, Buddha, Ashoka, Sher Shah Suri and India's Mona Lisa meet.
The 31 pre-historic tombs are scattered in an area of 800 square meters at the bottom of the Dongzhang Reservoir,\n\nwhich has dried up due to continual droughts.
The double-decker bus belonged to Awadh Depot and was going to New Delhi from Lucknow.
The 64 people missing after a massive landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province were presumed dead on Sunday, after rescuers failed to detect life at the site four days after they were buried under about 1 million cubic metres of mud.
More than 1,200 people are now known to have died in the quake-tsunami that smashed into Sulawesi, Indonesia said on Tuesday. The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that engulfed the coastal city of Palu. People there are growing increasingly desperate for food, fuel and water. Almost 200,000 people are in need of urgent help, the United Nations says, among them thousands of children.
The world's oldest Test venue was in danger of losing the annual Boxing Day match due to the redevelopment for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
A man and a woman were rescued from the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Tower, a 17-story building in the city that tipped over from the 6.4-magnitude quake early Saturday.
Besides Yadav, the CBI is likely to question Gayatri Prajapati, who was arrested in 2017 following a complaint of rape by a woman residing in Chitrakoot.
They also termed as 'unwarranted' and 'unfortunate', the submission of Muslim parties that the archaeological report be trashed.
The Muslim parties on Thursday took a U-turn on questioning the authorship of the 2003 report of the Archaeological Survey of India and apologised to the Supreme Court for wasting its time in the Ayodhya land dispute case.
We strongly urge India to take practical steps to correct its mistake, Wu said.
The deputy prime minister said the report will strengthen the party's position on the temple movement.
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The author's remarks come in the light of more than 50 historians, including the noted Romila Thapar, voicing their protest against the "highly vitiated atmosphere prevailing in the country, characterised by various forms of intolerance".
'Akahara' apprised a 5-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, of its stand following a direction whether it opposes the plea of the deity in view of the fact that its right as 'shebait' (devotee) over the property can only stand if the lawsuit of 'Ram Lalla Virajman' is allowed.
In what could be a turning point in the Ayodhya dispute, the Archaeological Survey of India has reported to the high court that its excavations found distinctive features of a 10th century temple beneath the Babri Mosque site.
At least 250 people have died amid massive avalanches and flooding in Afghanistan.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court also asked the ASI not to stop excavation work with the court's permission.
The ASI has moved an application to that effect before the special Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court.
'It is nobody's contention that uncomfortable questions regarding national security should not be raised. But that is a topic for another day and another time when the immediate threat has faded,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
When the hearings resume January 3, you wonder how many things will change and how many things will remain forever the same, as the Sheena Bora trial moves ahead.
Rawat had said there was a major reduction of Chinese troops in the Doklam area.
The special bench comprising Justice Sudhir Narain, Justice Rafat Alam and Justice Bhanwar Singh held ASI's application for extension of time as premature.
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The mudslide occurred on Sunday in Taining County, where about one lakh cubic meters of mud and rocks flowed downhill, burying a temporary shed at the hydropower station construction site and damaging its offices.
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