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Washington, July 7 : Some states in the US are witnessing spikes in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations as the highly contagious Delta variant is spreading rapidly in the country.Increasing cases have been reported in states with lower vaccination ra…

New York, July 7 : US President Joe Biden is urging young Americans to “think twice” and get vaccinated even as the rise of the more transmissible Covid-19 Delta variant now accounts for 50 per cent of virus cases in many parts of the country. “It se…

London, July 7 : Britain reported another 28,773 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, the highest daily increase since late January, according to official figures released on Tuesday.The total number of coronavirus cases in the country now…

Yangon, July 7 : Myanmar’s Health and Sports Ministry imposed a stay-at-home order in two townships of Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory and three more townships of Bago region, state-run media reported on Tuesday.So far, the ministry has imposed the stay-…

New Delhi, July 6 : The Hindu community in Sindh has been protesting against government inaction and the injustice being committed by it towards the Hindus.The Hindus in Sindh had given the government 60 days’ time for initiating a legislation on the…

Kolkata, July 6 : Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has rubbished sanctions against Myanmar’s military junta, describing them as “inappropriate intervention”. Instead, Wang Yi urged Myanmar’s many stakeholders to settle the political crisis through “i…

New Delhi, July 6 : The government on Tuesday strongly rebutted the allegation leveled by international human rights groups that Father Stan Swamy, who passed away on Monday, was detained illegally.A Jesuit priest and an activist, Stan Swamy passed a…

New Delhi, July 6 : External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will go to Russia on a two-day official visit on Wednesday.A statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said that during the visit from July 7 to 9, Jaishankar will meet his counterpart…

New Delhi, July 6 : The Taliban have gained a lucrative new source of income, taking over the main trade gateway into Tajikistan, and beginning to collect customs revenues, as some of Afghanistan’s neighbours tacitly cooperate with the insurgent grou…

London, July 6 : A German doctors have found that an experimental drug may cure long Covid, after a 59-year-old man’s symptoms faded within hours.Doctors at Erlangen Eye Clinic in Germany gave the drug BC 007 — originally designed to fight heart fai…