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After Sunny Leone, it is Neha Kakkar’s turn to figure in Bengal college merit list

7:56 pm August 30, 2020

Kolkata: Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar’s name appeared at the top of the merit list of a college in West Bengal‘s Malda district, after actress Sunny Leone’s name figured in that of three other colleges of the state. The authorities of Manikchak College in Malda district said that they spotted the playback singer’s name after the first merit list was published […]

Laura cleanup begins; weeks without power or water ahead

10:28 pm August 29, 2020

Lake Charles: The destructive storm surge has receded, and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane stood at 14 deaths, […]

Moscow announces advanced trials for new COVID-19 vaccine

11:46 pm August 26, 2020

Moscow: The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957. The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive a government go-ahead has caused unease […]

Spectacles believed to be worn by Gandhi set auction record in UK

7:26 pm August 22, 2020

London: A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have broken all records for a UK auction house by selling for 260,000 pounds. The glasses, which were dropped through the letterbox of East Bristol Auctions in Hanham, south-west England, four weeks ago […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

East Turkistan body urges US to end trade deal with China

7:23 pm August 15, 2020

Washington: A US based international organisation striving for the restoration of East Turkistan’s independence has urged the Trump administration to end its trade deal with China and take action to stop genocide of the Uyghur and other Turkic people in the communist nation. In a statement, East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) has alleged that […]