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Third largest diamond in the world found in Botswana
17 Jun

Third largest diamond in the world found in Botswana

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A diamond believed to be the third largest ever found has been put on display in Botswana. The stone - weighing 1,098 carats - was shown to President Mokgweetsi Masisi, two weeks after the diamond firm, Debswana, unearthed it. The huge gem is only slightly less heavy than the world's second-largest diamond which was also found in Botswana in 2015. Botswana is Africa's largest producer of diamonds. "This is the largest diamond to be recovered by Debswana in its history of over 50 years in operation. From our preliminary analysis it could be the world's third largest gem quality stone."…
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Streets water-logged in Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal: IMD predicts more rainfall
17 Jun

Streets water-logged in Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal: IMD predicts more rainfall

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Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal received incessant rain on Wednesday and Thursday. According to reports, Bengal will continue to receive heavy rainfall along with thunderstorms over the next two days. In Kolkata, several arterial roads and alleys were seen to be submerged in water and large parts of the city remained waterlogged throughout the day, after overnight rainfall on Wednesday. The southern parts of Kolkata received more rainfall than the north, leaving streets and alleys waterlogged in Ballygunge Circular Road, Loudon Street, Southern Avenue and places in Kasba, Behala and Tollygunge. The weather department has predicted that West…
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Police complaint filed against actor Swara Bhaskar over Ghaziabad assault video
17 Jun

Police complaint filed against actor Swara Bhaskar over Ghaziabad assault video

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Delhi Police have lodged complaint against multiple personalities over the Ghaziabad assault video. The names include actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head. The complaint was lodged by advocate Amit Acharya at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe but an FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer…
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PM Modi Calls For “Repair And Prepare” As India Emerges From Pandemic
17 Jun

PM Modi Calls For “Repair And Prepare” As India Emerges From Pandemic

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As India emerges from a devastating second wave of Covid-19 infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the focus must be on repairing and preparing the health infrastructure as well as the economy for future challenges.To prepare a base for a sustained higher growth rate, the government continues to unleash reforms and has also extended free food distribution schemes to aid the poor hit hard by the pandemic. "Over the past year, we have witnessed a lot of disruption in different sectors. Much of it is still there," PM Modi said at the VivaTech Summit. In his address, he…
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Shenzhou-12 launch declared success in boost to China’s space power ambitions.
17 Jun

Shenzhou-12 launch declared success in boost to China’s space power ambitions.

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China launched aspacecraft on Thursday, June 17, 2021, carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction for the longest stay in low Earth orbit by any Chinese national. A Long March 2F rocket transporting the Shenzhou-12, or Divine Vessel, bound for the space station module Tianhe blasted off at 9:22 a.m. Beijing time (0122 GMT) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province. The launch time saw bright blue skies with near perfect visibility at the launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert. Among the astronauts in China's space mission, Nie Haisheng…
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Madhya Pradesh: Transfer-tired Lokesh Kumar Jangid officer vents anguish, gets showcaused
17 Jun

Madhya Pradesh: Transfer-tired Lokesh Kumar Jangid officer vents anguish, gets showcaused

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An IAS officer in Madhya Pradesh has been sent a show cause notice by the government following his corruption allegations against the state’s bureaucrats on a private social media group of IAS officers, which got leaked. Lokesh Jangid sought three years’ deputation to home state Maharashtra citing personal reasons. But in the leaked posts, he indicated that he was being repeatedly transferred because of his inability to tolerate corruption. In four-and-half years, he claimed he was transferred nine times. The state government issued showcause notice to the officer for "indiscipline" and sought reply within a week. Confirming the notice, cabinet…
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India logs 67,208 COVID-19 cases, 2330 deaths in last 24 hours
17 Jun

India logs 67,208 COVID-19 cases, 2330 deaths in last 24 hours

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India on Wednesday reported 67,208 new COVID-19 cases as 2330 more patients succumbed to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. India’s overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,97,00,313 with 3,81,903 deaths so far. According to the Health Ministry, a total of 1,03,570 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, with 2,84,91,670 being cured of Covid till date. The Health Ministry said that a total of 26,55,19,251 people have been vaccinated so far in the country. 38,52,38,220 samples have been tested up to June 16 in the country including…
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‘Pure business’ at Biden-Putin summit
17 Jun

‘Pure business’ at Biden-Putin summit

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President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their summit on Wednesday with an agreement to return their nations’ ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow and a plan to begin work toward replacing the last remaining treaty between the two countries limiting nuclear weapons. But the two leaders offered starkly different views on difficult simmering issues including cyber and ransomware attacks originating from Russia. Putin insisted anew that his country has nothing to do with such attacks, despite U..S. intelligence that indicates otherwise. Biden, meanwhile, said that he made clear to Putin that if Russia crossed certain…
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Twitter loses legal shield in India
16 Jun

Twitter loses legal shield in India

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Twitter has lost its legal protection in India from prosecution over users' posts because of its failure to comply with new digital rules, government sources said today as a case was filed in Uttar Pradesh against the social media giant over tweets that the police say attempted to incite communal trouble.Twitter has not yet complied with all the provisions of the rules that came into force on May 25, sources in the Ministry of Electronics and IT said. “Due to their non-compliance their protection as an intermediary is gone. Twitter can face liability for violating any Indian law just as…
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Congress leader makes sensational claims about Covaxin
16 Jun

Congress leader makes sensational claims about Covaxin

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On Tuesday, Congress leader Gaurav Pandhi made some controversial claims about the component of Bharat Biotech and ICMR's Covaxin. Sharing an RTI document on his Twitter account, the Congress leader claimed that Covaxin contains the serum of a newborn calf. His claims were based on an RTI response from the Central Drugs Controller General to Vikas Patni, the man who filed the query. Gaurav Pandhi wrtes, "In an RTI response, the Modi Govt has admitted that Covaxin consists newborn calf serum .....which is a portion of clotted blood obtained from less than 20 days young cow-calves, after slaughtering them. THIS…
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