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CNN — Maldives has banned tourists from South Asia, cutting off an escape route for wealthy Indians fleeing their own country’s Covid-19 crisis. The atoll nation’s Ministry of Tourism and
Labor Party’s Sadiq Khan has won second term as London mayor after beating Conservative (Tory) rival Shaun Bailey with a small majority. Although Khan failed to win an outright majority
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More than 30 sick climbers have been evacuated from Mount Everest base camp. After Nepal eased quarantine rules in an effort to lure back climbers, fears are now growing that
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TEAM CLARION: In an apparent response to media coverage of spiraling Covid deaths and worldwide circulation of pictures of burning pyres in crematoriums, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has come
In the summer of 2020, an Indian journalist went to cover ‘normalcy’ in occupied Kashmir and returned with a lasting interaction with a girl named Nafeesa, giving him sleepless nights.
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Ordu or Altınordu is a port city (the city of oxygen) on the Black Sea coast of Turkey, historically also known as Cotyora or Kotyora, and the capital of Ordu
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Dozens of South Asians came together for an online meet on Sunday and expressed grief, solidarity amid the suffering inflicted by the pandemic in the region and worldwide. The huddle
Continue readingCovid-19 Pandemic in So. Asia: ‘Peace Mongers’ Call for Cooperation, Empathy
American Pharma major Merck has developed a drug called Molnupiravi which works to completely eliminate the new Coronavirus from the body. Merck is working closely with leading Indian Pharma giant
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Adil Najam, a Pakistani academic and intellectual who serves as the inaugural dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and previously served as vice-chancellor of the
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The science behind pleasure and happiness is sourced in the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. It draws heavily on research summarized in the book The Hacking of the American Mind,
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DR. ZAKIR HUSAIN: If the trilateral economic association between Israel, India and the UAE goes well, it would be a game changer in the regional economic and security cooperation. A
AMARTYA SEN at the Nobel website: Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes
Continue readingAmartya Sen, Gulzar on Rabindranath Tagore (Video)