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Chennai/Tiruchirappalli: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday boycotted an online meet by Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on the National Education Policy 2020, saying it did not get a favourable response from the Centre for a ministerial-level discussion...

Singapore: Singapore will close schools from Wednesday as authorities warned new coronavirus strains like the one first detected in India were affecting more children in the city-state, news agency AFP reported.The government has been tightening restrictions following a recent...

Washington: Microsoft Corp. conducted an investigation into co-founder Bill Gates's involvement with an employee almost two decades ago after it was informed in 2019 of his attempt to start a romantic relationship with that person, the Bloomberg reported.The board...

Yerevan: Armenia will activate the response procedures envisioned by the Collective Security Treaty and the Armenian-Russian strategic system amid the border tensions with Azerbaijan, acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday."Armenia will further activate the procedures stipulated by...

Moscow: Palestine has plans to appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israeli attacks on media agencies' offices in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal told Sputnik on Monday."From our side we’re going to...

Moscow: South Korea's SK bioscience has obtained the European Goof Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification which could open path for the export of COVID-19 vaccines to the EU."SK bioscience, which has become a global hub for COVID-19 vaccine production, has...

Moscow: Taiwan plans to prohibit foreigners without local residency from entering the island for a month from Wednesday, as its daily local COVID-19 infections reached a new peak of 333 new cases on Monday."Because of the rising COVID-19 epidemic...

Ahmedabad: An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 hit Gujarat's Gir Somnath district in the early hours of Monday, officials said.No casualty or damage to property was reported, they said.The earthquake was recorded at 3.37 am with its epicentre one km...

Moscow: Andrea Meza of Mexico was crowned Miss Universe at the televised event held in Florida, US, on Sunday."The new Miss Universe is Mexico!!!!" the organizers of the pageant said on Twitter.Miss Mexico (Andrea Meza, 26) finished ahead of...

Guwahati: The COVID-19 caseload in Assam mounted to 3,28,629 as 3,650 more people tested positive for the disease, while 56 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 2,179, a bulletin issued by National Health Mission said.Kamrup Metropolitan reported the...