Con castillos inflables y granadas, las pandillas debilitan el control de Maduro en Caracas

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A Shocking Exit and a Sad Day for Tennis

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2021 French Open: What to Watch on Tuesday

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Media Groupthink and the Lab-Leak Theory

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After Dramatic Walkout, a New Fight Looms Over Voting Rights in Texas

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37th anniversary of Operation Blue Star: Damdami Taksal’s research for memorial project reflects lack of info on devotees killed

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Amig congress feud: Sons of two Congress MLAs being considered for govt jobs on compassionate grounds

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Two Rajasthan residents held with 500 cases of IMFL in Haryana

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Punjab CM provides Rs 1 crore aid to Bar Council for families of advocates who succumbed to Covid

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Kisan panchayat in Sirsa: Farmers ask government to withdraw all cases or face more protests

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Punjab to receive 7.8 lakh vaccine doses in June’s first fortnight

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Delhi: Home delivery of liquor via app, website allowed under amended excise rules

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Alapan didn’t walk out of Modi’s meet: TMC slams Prasad’s claim

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UP: Cop booked for using ‘fake papers’ to join force

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Row over wedding party in UP village: many say want to leave

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UP: Two women inmates not released despite parole after families refuse to take custody

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Surge in second wave to lower our India GDP forecast: Jeremy Zook, director (sovereign ratings), Fitch Ratings

"The rating would come under additional pressure from a worsening of the debt ratio trajectory resulting from weaker medium-term growth prospects or further widening of fiscal deficits."

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India Inc must contribute to the ‘stimulus’: Given bumper profits & cost-cuts of Rs 4 lakh crore, it could cut a cheque for the have-nots

The pandemic may have hurt thousands of small businesses and killed many MSMEs, but given their financial and management muscle, the larger corporations were able to sort out their supply-side disruptions fairly quickly.

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Let vax-data drive policy: Data must inform any shift to a one-shot vax regime

While a trial of Covaxin among 2-18-year-olds is to take off shortly, the government will need to marshal as many vaccine-candidates as possible to protect children’s health.

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Indian arbitration on a slow road to death: Greatest resistance to arbitration posed by govt depts & PSUs

The economy will require many measures for its revival in the time to come. Boosting arbitration should certainly be one of them. It is still not too late.

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The Radical Modesty of Biden’s Budget

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To Motivate Workers, Republican Governors Experiment With Pain

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Israel on Edge as Politicians Wrangle Over Coalition to Oust Netanyahu

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Asian Championships: Will Amit Panghal be third time lucky against Uzbek nemesis?

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US tire maker Goodyear faces allegations of labour abuse in Malaysia, documents show

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Joe Biden marks son Beau’s death with grave visit, remarks to military families

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Mass vaccination creates healthy oasis in Brazilian city

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Mindshare wins agency of the year at FOMG

In addition to the coveted Agency of the year award, Mindshare India also won two golds and three silvers.

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Second Covid wave dents ad spend on out-of-home media

The onset of the pandemic dealt a heavy blow to OOH (out-of-home) media in 2020, resulting in a 60% de-growth, according to the Ficci-EY Media & Entertainment Report 2021.

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Digital to the rescue

We ask experts if other filmmakers are likely to follow suit

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Back in the game

Armed with a phygital strategy, malls hope for an early rebound

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Connecting brands and their consumers

ANS Commerce is a full-stack e-commerce enabler with over 100 brands on its platform

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简报：广州疫情发酵封锁街区；台湾干旱加剧节水生活成常态

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The Internet’s Favorite Catalog of Weird Places Rewrites History

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Seattle Storm Coach Dan Hughes Retires Midseason

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Creating new companies: India Accelerator funded 27 start-ups in 2020; aims to mentor 100 start-ups in 2021

The pandemic year (2020), Bhatia said, has been tough on start-ups. “The funding funnel dried up, revenues declined, profits shrunk, and companies scaled down growth plans. Early-stage and mid-stage start-ups are the worst-hit, especially in travel and transportation space,” he said.

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NDA failed to do its job on the economy: Big job-creating schemes needed to revive consumer demand & small businesses

At the last count, the cumulative loss of salaried jobs, since the pandemic, was 12.6 million across urban and rural areas; as of April 2021, there were just 73.3 million of them.

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Horoscope Today, May 31, 2021: Taurus, Libra, Cancer, and other signs – check astrological prediction

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India: Inflation undone? Some inflation worries highlighted earlier have come to pass

As demand for goods and services pick up gradually (though worth noting that we are not forecasting a rapid rise in demand like last year), producers may feel more confident about passing on raw material cost increases to output prices, pushing core inflation higher.

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Sequential fall in major ports traffic in April

Volumes for POL and coal were weak, with POL volumes declining by 4.3% CAGR vs Apr’19 and coal volumes declining by 10.2% CAGR vs Apr’19.

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Inflexion Points: Sustainable agriculture for the economy’s sake

Need to reduce farm sector’s vulnerability to critical resources, not be sanguine about its pandemic-year showing

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Banks move Supreme Court against RTI disclosure, seek direction to RBI

Public disclosure of information pertaining to commercial confidence, business strategies, internal system, risk management, gas, etc would not serve any larger public interest, but would adversely affect the competitive position of banks in a highly competitive private banking sector in our country, they told the top court.

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Chipping Away at Democracy

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The Veterans Who Bury Their Own

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Facing Elimination, the Knicks Must Find Another Gear

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Think Your Weekend Plans Were Ruined? Try Being a Mayoral Candidate.

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More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

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Vietnam detects hybrid of Indian and UK Covid-19 variants

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UK PM Boris Johnson marries fiancee in secret ceremony: Reports

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Slip (and Slide) Onto a Water Toy in Your Backyard

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Make The World Better With One Of These Nine Ideas

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Become an Outdoor Scientist

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How an art show explores ways of seeing a contagion

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When the Central Vista had space and light for all

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How to enter into a relationship with the wild

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How successive Indian presidents patronised sports and became champions too

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Why the father-son tale in Pebbles is both heart and brilliant craft

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Why our collective suffering should make us care better for others and our nation

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Tracking economy with mobility and luminosity

High-frequency indicators are increasingly becoming popular to track various segments of the economy

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Across the Aisle: A bigger calamity awaits us, writes P Chidambaram

However, there is one thing about the future that is no longer uncertain. It is about the economic conditions of the people of the country. It will be worse than it should be, inequality will increase and the vast majority of the people will be poorer, deeper in debt and unhappy.

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Covid relief items: Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma-led GOM to examine GST cut

“(To examine) medical grade oxygen, pulse oxymeters, hand sanitisers, oxygen therapy equipment such as concentrators, generators and ventilators, PPE kits, N95 masks, surgical masks, temperature checking equipment and any other items required for Covid relief,” it said.

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Island Residents Protest at the Willows Inn After Workplace Allegations

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Weekly Horoscope, May 30 – June 8: Gemini, Cancer, Taurus, and other signs — check astrological prediction

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Firm Initiatives: Corporates show big heart with Covid-19 care

The ed-tech firm has also tweaked its leave policy to incorporate additional Covid privilege leave (paid leave). Employees can avail the same in case they or their immediate family members are impacted. Byju’s is also working to enable vaccination support for its staff.

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Rest of IPL 2021 matches to be played in UAE: BCCI

“The decision was taken at a special general meeting held virtually, where members unanimously agreed to resume IPL,” the BCCI said in a statement.

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Possibility of India-UK FTA higher now than ever: Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK Minister for Investment

A modern comprehensive free trade agreement involves much more than movement of goods — they cover services, they cover digital business, they cover SMEs.

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If we give responsibility to govt, accountability also lies with them: Shobana Kamineni, executive vice chairperson, Apollo Hospitals

The panelists discussed the idea of Indian industry integrating with and competing in the rest of the world, the reforms, and the impact of the pandemic.

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Boris Johnson Married in Stealth Ceremony, Reports Say

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Chelsea wins the Champions League, its chaos conquering City’s plan.

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Northern Arc executes Rs 350-crore MLD deal for Shriram Transport

This is the latest in a series of MLD transactions structured, executed and invested in by Northern Arc, through which it has facilitated debt funding for its partners across MSME financing, CV financing and gold loans.

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Tata Digital acquires majority stake in BigBasket

The transaction valued at about $1.2 billion is estimated to give BigBasket a post-money valuation of close to $2 billion.

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Parts of Mohali without water supply for 72 hours

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AKTU, forensic science institute sign MoU to boost technical education

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Chandigarh: Two who lost jobs due to Covid arrested for stealing laptops, mobiles

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Punjab & Haryana High Court puts brakes on privatisation of electricity department

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UP: Former Hindu Yuva Vahini leader among 3 held for relative’s murder

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Punjab & Haryana HC dismisses plea challenging order directing private schools to upload balance sheets online

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UP: Three children drown after jumping into Baghpat pond

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Punjab: 116 cases of mucormycosis at PGI in May; early treatment essential, say docs

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IICF gets tax exemption certificate, Trust hopes for more donations

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Tricity’s daily toll climbs to 18

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Explained: Drug shown to block multiple coronavirus variants in mice

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Help curb spread of Covid in rural UP: CM Yogi Adityanath

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Jaishankar meets Blinken, other top officials; US underlines Covid cooperation, India help

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Chandigarh teacher, who was on duty in containment zone, dies a month before his child’s birth

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One crore vaccine shots in June: Uttar Pradesh sets new target

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Gujarat seeks Centre help to jab all above 18 for Class 12 exam

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Went extra mile for our workers amid pandemic: NTPC

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Govt to clarify 100% FDI norm applicable to refiner-cum-retailer BPCL

“Up to 100% FDI is allowed in private sector in refining, and BPCL is getting privatised by government. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade needs to clarify,” a senior finance ministry official said.

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Covaxin production to be ramped up to 6-7 crore doses by July-August: Health ministry

According to a statement released by the health ministry, Covaxin production will be doubled by May-June 2021 and then increased nearly sevenfold by July-August. It is expected to reach nearly 10 crore doses per month by September, the statement added.

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Preparing bank for growth stage once economy opens up: Padmaja Chunduru, MD & CEO, Indian Bank

Improving digital penetration, with focus on new age digital products and end- to -end solution for digital lending will also be our focus areas.

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RTI disclosure: Supreme Court to hear banks’ plea seeking direction to RBI in July

HDFC further said that the apex court in earlier judgments had clearly held that even if public interest is considered while determining whether certain information has to be disclosed or not, such determination has to be on case to case basis, backed with reasons in writing.

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RBI Annual Report: Asset quality of banks needs to be closely monitored, warns RBI

In its semi-annual financial stability report, RBI had earlier said that the bad loan ratio of banks could rise to 13.5% under the baseline stress scenario by September 2021.

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Centre accuses Twitter of trying to dictate terms to it

In a hard-hitting reply, the government said protecting free speech in India is not the prerogative of “only a private, for-profit, foreign entity like Twitter, but it is the commitment of the world’s largest democracy and its robust institutions”.

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Covid-19: Govt eyes 51 crore vaccine doses by July

By July, there would be a total of 51.6 crore doses, VK Paul, member, health, Niti Aayog and chair of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19, said. He said the government was doing everything to increase development, production and supply of ‘made in India’ vaccines.

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Intelligence officials told White House they have unexamined evidence to pore over on virus’ origin.

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DMX Wanted a New Beginning. Swizz Beatz Is Seeing It Through.

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Activists Demand Justice for Ronald Greene

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San Jose Gunman Detested Workplace Long Before Rampage, Police Say

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U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins

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2 Dead and Up to 10 Missing After Boat Overturns Off Florida, Officials Say

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Dianne Morales Tries to Calm a Sudden Crisis in Her Campaign

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Wall Street chiefs testify before House financial services panel.

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No intention of selling stake in Petronet, IGL, says BPCL

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Stock market ‘bubble’ a worry for RBI

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RBI Annual Report for 2020-21: ‘Fall in provisions, sharp forex gains led to higher RBI surplus’

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Lockdown hit: Credit card transaction value falls by 1 lakh crore

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Government approves financial assistance to 67 families of journalists who died of Covid

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Uttar Pradesh: At 3,278, lowest single-day new cases in second wave reported

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Govt: Not concealing Covid deaths

Lav Agarwal, joint secretary, ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW), said at a media briefing on Thursday that there was no question of concealing Covid deaths and such reports were baseless and false.

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Railways deliver highest daily O2 load of 1,195 MT

These trains had started LMO deliveries on 24th April, 2021, in Maharashtra with a load of 126 MT.

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Reading Vaccine Findings Right: Covid vaccines get a reality check

Both the UK and the double-mutant variants seem to be subdued by the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, but the hardier double-mutant is less responsive

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Behind Reserve Bank of India’s bonanza to the Centre

Even though income fell 10.96%, expenditure decreased by a whopping 63.10% enabling RBI to provide this bonanza

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Choose security & privacy: Both govt & WhatsApp need to moderate their stances

Can’t have security trumping privacy and vice versa

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Fielder’s Choice? Cubs Turn a Simple Grounder Into a Wild Run.

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Amy Cooper, White Woman Who Called 911 on Black Birder, Sues Over Firing

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Biden Orders Intelligence Inquiry Into Origins of Virus

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Naomi Osaka Says She Won’t Talk to Journalists at the French Open

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Our Collective, Violent PTSD

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Juan Williams, a Liberal Outlier at Fox News, Is Leaving ‘The Five’

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Oklahoma Attorney General Resigns, Citing ‘Personal Matters’

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Post-Covid patients to get free medical care: Uttar Pradesh Government

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Uttar Pradesh government nod to phased diversion of oxygen to industry

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, wife both stable, says hospital

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1 crore people hit, 3 lakh houses damaged: CM Mamata Banerjee

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Saurabh Patel: Yet to restore power supply to Jafrabad, parts of Una and 450 villages

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Solar Make-in-India needs a long-term strategy

If the priority is strategic localisation of supply chains, make incentives contingent on time-bound and realistic targets

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Second wave of Covid-19: A wave of our own making

Chartered-flight wedding to sidestep corona-norms further evidence of why citizens are also to blame for the Covid spread

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Tax refund: Govt likely to raise allocation for key export scheme

While the revenue department will take a final call on the hike, sources said the total allocation for FY22 may finally jump to about Rs 25,000-30,000 crore.

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Message tracing: WhatsApp challenges new IT rules in Delhi High Court

Against clause which requires it to provide first originator of 'mischievous messages'

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Demerit Goods: Higher rates likely on pan masala and gutkha to curb tax evasion

The move is expected to help check massive tax evasion in these sectors. Currently, assorted tobacco items, pan masala and aerated water are among the products that attract the highest GST rate of 28% and also ‘compensation cess’.

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Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle — And Thousands of New Species

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A filibuster fight is looming in the Senate.

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After Skirting Filibuster Fight for Months, Democrats Near a First Battle

By BY CARL HULSE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2St5lEY

Armed conflicts have helped virus spread, a U.N. official says.

By BY RICK GLADSTONE from NYT World https://ift.tt/3vvqRri

A Week After No-Hitter, Corey Kluber Hits the Injured List

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‘Witch Hunt,’ Meet Grand Jury

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Manitoba is now the worst hot spot in North America, with its hospitals overwhelmed.

By BY IAN AUSTEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/3yzOlxk

Republicans are planning a counteroffer to Biden’s latest infrastructure pitch as talks stall.

By BY EMILY COCHRANE AND JIM TANKERSLEY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3bVWJ0r

Puerto Rico, recovering from a spring surge, lifted a curfew that had been in effect throughout the pandemic.

By BY ALLYSON WALLER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2SpwFny

Republicans Promise Counteroffer as Infrastructure Talks Falter

By BY EMILY COCHRANE AND JIM TANKERSLEY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/34hCmGR

Greene’s Holocaust Comparisons Cause New Headaches for G.O.P.

By BY CATIE EDMONDSON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2T9WgBc

A.P. Begins Review of Social Media Policy After Journalist’s Firing

By BY KATIE ROBERTSON from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3ww3SMU

Bengal: 17,005 new Covid cases, 157 more die

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Bengal: Covid positive, ex-CM Buddhadeb hospitalised

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Paediatric syndrome linked with Covid-19 resolved after six months: small study

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RBI asks banks to ‘quickly’ implement Covid package, step up credit flow

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Insurance FDI rules set, govt looks to whet investor appetite

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E-Courts: Supreme Court’s digitalisation vision will ease access to justice

The Supreme Court’s e-Courts Committee Draft Vision for Phase III has the potential to prove transformative

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Data central to effective climate action

A data-driven approach to climate resilience necessitates certain fundamental reforms in India’s data-ecosystem

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Ensuring the same rights: The govt must work on allowing same-sex marriage, can amend the Special Marriage Act to stave off religious backlash

If it wants to avoid a religious backlash, it can start with recognition under the secular Special Marriage Act, along with removal of the anti-privacy 30-day notice period requirement.

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India can’t afford labour unrest

Renault-Nissan episode shows firms must be mindful of workers’ safety, but workers also must behave responsibly

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Crude oil imports seen dropping in May

Indian refiners shipped in cargoes contracted earlier and refrained from backing out of deals in April despite a second wave of the coronavirus triggering demand destruction fears.

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‘We want justice.’ Activists demand accountability at Police Headquarters in New York.

By BY TÉA KVETENADZE from NYT New York https://ift.tt/2StPfLq

Iran Talks Loom as a New Test of Biden’s Israel Ties

By BY MICHAEL CROWLEY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3vn2PPf