Newscraving Desk: Jammu The Jammu and Kashmir police Friday shot down a drone carrying 5 kg IED in Kanachak area of Jammu, officials said. A senior police official said that it was in the wee hours today that a general information was received by Jammu district police that a drone has been spotted near International […]
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Published by Reuters By Carl O’Donnell and Jeff Mason (Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not revised its masking guidance, even as the Delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps the United States, driving up infections, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday. Walensky declined to say if the CDC is considering
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Published by NJ.com The Lambda variant of the coronavirus is a strain of the initial COVID-19 virus that was initially discovered in Peru in Aug. 2020, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). On June 14, 2021, the agency named the strain after the Greek letter “Lambda” and declared it a “variant of interest,” meaning
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Published by Reuters By Emily Chow ZHENGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Workers driving construction vehicles rescued stranded residents and delivered food to those still trapped on Friday after days of torrential rain swamped the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. As floodwaters began to recede, rescuers in the city of 12 million used digger trucks, inflatable boats
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Published by DPA Bangladesh is reimposing its anti-coronavirus shutdown for two more weeks to stem the tide of infections and deaths from the virus after a nine-day recess that allowed Muslims to celebrate the Eid al-Adha festival. “None will be allowed outdoors unless it is urgent,” police officer Aynal Hossain said on Friday at a
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Published by Al-Araby One person was shot dead when rioting erupted in western Iran late Thursday in sympathy with the drought-hit province of Khuzestan which has seen a week of protests, state television reported. Two people also suffered gunshot wounds in the rioting in the town of Aligudarz in Lorestan province, which neighbours Khuzestan, the
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Published by Reuters By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian farmers, protesting against new agriculture laws they say threaten their livelihoods, started a sit-in on Thursday near parliament in the capital, renewing a push for repeal of the laws. In the longest-running growers’ protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, tens of thousands of farmers
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Published by AFP Berlin (AFP) – More than half of all European adults are now fully vaccinated, the EU said Thursday, as several countries across Europe and Asia battle fresh outbreaks blamed on the fast-spreading Delta variant. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said cases in her country were rising “exponentially”, while in Japan the delayed
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Published by Reuters By Eric M. Johnson VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, and three crewmates soared high above the Texas desert aboard his space venture Blue Origin’s New Shepard https://graphics.reuters.com/SPACE-EXPLORATION/BLUEORIGIN/jbyprzzympe/blue-origin.jpg launch vehicle on Tuesday and returned to Earth, a historic suborbital flight that helps to inaugurate a new era of
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Published by Al-Araby The pandemic and the subsequent coronavirus restrictions had turned the lives of people across the world upside down. It affected many aspects of life including Eid celebrations for the Muslim community. Pre-covid I would attend morning Eid prayers at my local mosque. My neighbours and I would exchange food and I would
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