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Israel to vaccinate migrant Palestinian workers living in the country and West Bank

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Israel will provide Coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians with work permits, who have been residing in the country and the West Bank
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News Reports

NDTV Executive Editor Sanket Upadhyay called out by Netizens for mocking Bihari pronunciations

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Sanket Upadhyay tweeted that while the rest of the country pronounce the word vaccine correctly, in Bihar it is pronounced as 'bhaccine'
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News Reports

After a humiliating drubbing in Gujarat local body elections, state Congress chief and Leader of Opposition resign

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Congress was wiped out in local body polls in Gujarat, they secured only 3 municipalities and a few taluka panchayat bodies
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News Reports

Congress attacks the Modi government for a reduction in the unemployment rate: Read details

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Congress party posted a infographic showing unemployment dropping from 23.53% to 21.73% in one month, and attacked Modi govt for it
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Fact-Check

The Wire publishes fake news regarding new guidelines for digital media sites, gets fact-checked

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The Wire falsely claimed that the ministry will select members for the self-regulating body of the digital media portals under the guidelines
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News Reports

Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin shows 81% efficacy, phase 3 trials with 25,800 subjects completed

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The phase 3 trials involved 25,800 subjects. The trial, done in collaboration with ICMR, is the largest ever clinical trial done in India.
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News Reports

Feminism is not un-Islamic: Pakistan’s Aurat Azadi March explains ahead of Women’s Day after the rally was attacked last year

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"We are against all such archaic practices that have been traditionally used to oppress women," said the video posted by Aurat March
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News Reports

“#DismissAbhijitSarkar” hashtag trends on Twitter over Oxford faculty’s Hinduphobic rant against Rashmi Samant

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Abhijit Sarkar, an Oxford faculty member, had shared a deeply hatefu, vile rant against Samant. He had attacked her Hindu identity, her place of birth and even her parents.
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News Reports

‘Was shot at because I carried out Tiranga rally and opposed throwing of beef outside Hindu houses’: RSS activist narrates political violence in West...

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In December 2019, RSS activist Bir Bahadur Singh was shot at point-blank range in his back in Kolkata’s Metiabruz area in broad daylight
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News Reports

As Anurag Kashyap, Taapsee Pannu and others face raid by Income Tax department, ‘liberals’ descend to cry vendetta

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Liberals suffered a meltdown on Twitter after 22 locations linked to director Anurag Kashyap & others were raided by I-T Department
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News Reports

Metro car shed: Maha govt says it is ready to pay for disputed Kanjurmarg land, months after claiming it cost Rs 0

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The disputed Kanjurmarg land, which the Maharashtra government and Aaditya Thackeray boasted of being acquired for free of cost, is currently under litigation.
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News Reports

Is the Education ministry making madarsas teach Gita, Ramayana? A fact-check

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Will students at Madarsas have to learn Gita and Ramayana from now on? A fact-check
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News Reports

Around 300 schoolgirls released a week after being kidnapped by an armed group in Nigeria, govt denies paying ransom

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Nigeria has been witnessing an escalation in the incidents of mass kidnappings by criminal gangs seeking ransom money.
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News Reports

Jalgaon shocker: Police officials and hostel employees accused of forcing women residents to strip dance, complaint filed

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The resident girls in the hostel have alleged that police personnel and some outsiders, in connivance with some hostel employees, were allowed to enter the hostel under the pretext of interrogation.
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Entertainment

Man attacks Ajay Devgn’s car, hurls abuses for his tweet on ‘farmer protests’

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The man blocked Ajay Devgn's car outside Goregaon film studio for not speaking in support of farmers protest.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Police recover arms, bombs from the house of a worker of Indian Secular Front, an ally of Congress

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Police recovered shotguns, bombs & bomb-making equipment from the residence of Indian Secular Front worker Ziarul Mollah
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News Reports

Chinese court rules that a university book describing homosexuality as a mental disorder is correct

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The court upheld the ruling of a lower court that termed the description of homosexuality as a perceptual difference.
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News Reports

Income Tax raids conducted at around 22 locations linked to Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl in tax evasion case

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Simultaneous raids are being conducted at the homes and linked properties in Mumbai, Pune and some other locations of Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap and others
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News Reports

PM Modi and his mother abused live on air by a caller on a BBC radio show on Sikhs in the UK

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BBC edited the program and the host offered apology after caller abused PM Modi and his mother during a live radio show
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News Reports

Rahul Gandhi attacks RSS, compares schools run by them with madarsas operated by radical Islamists in Pakistan

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Rahul Gandhi alleged that RSS is doing something "fundamentally different" to destroy the education system of India.
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Social Media

Ahmedabad netizens trend #WeWantKarnavati to get city name changed, this is why

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Ahmedabad residents said that the city was not 'established' by Mughal emperor Ahmed Shah but it was developed by King Karna Dev and hence it should be named after him.
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Editor's picks

Hours before the model code of conduct set in, Mamata Banerjee grants Rs 2.60 crore for Furfura Sharif shrine

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Furfura Sharif's cleric Abbas Siddiqui has forged an alliance with the Congress and the Left after floating his own political party named Indian Secular Front.
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News Reports

Ex Maha CM and Congress leader spreads misinformation about COVID vaccination. Here are the facts about pricing

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Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan spreads misinformation about Covid-19 vaccine pricing and allocation.
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News Reports

Take a shot every time Rahul Gandhi says ‘strategy’ and get drunk before noon: Rahul Gandhi’s bizarre monologue goes viral

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Rahul Gandhi thinks China has a 'vision' of 'modern Silk Road' with a 'nervous system' - we have no idea what he means by that.
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News Reports

West Bengal: Minor girl missing for 22 days, family accuses TMC leader and 5 others of abduction

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Faced with police inaction in recovering the victim and the barrage of incoming threats, the family members sat on a hunger strike on Monday night in the Fuara More area of Malda.
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Opinions

‘Standing up for the national anthem is enforced nationalism’: Here’s how The Wire is fanning separatism in J and K

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In essence, The Wire, in its article, has toed the separatists and terrorists' line in blaming the university for "enforcing" nationalism on students by simply asking them to comply with the university protocols, which include standing up for the national anthem, among other activities.
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World

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips into NYPD for employing $75,000 robotic dog named Digidog, implies the move is ‘racist’

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AOC termed NYPD's move to use the robot dog, Digidog, as racist in a series of tweets on Thursday.
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Editor's picks

Central government gives nod to ‘Maryada Purushottam Sriram Airport’ in Ayodhya, sanctions Rs 250 crores: Details

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The UP government has set the December 2021 deadline for completion of the Maryada Purushottam Sriram Airport in Ayodhya
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News Reports

Kerala: Health Minister Shailaja mocked on social media for Covid-19 vaccination photo

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Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja is being mocked on social media after she shared a photograph of herself receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.
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News Reports

‘Unauthorised access’: Lawyer sent behind bars for downloading Facebook photo of judge and sending birthday wish

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According to the complaint filed in the case, the lawyer had downloaded the Judicial Magistrate's picture from Facebook.
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Crime

Her husband used to talk vulgar to girlfriend in front of her: Here is what the lawyer of Ayesha, who jumped into Sabarmati river,...

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Ayesha, who committed suicide by jumping into the Sabarmati River in Gujarat on March 1, had a disquiet marital life
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Social Media

Twitter forces user to delete tweet highlighting Hindu victims of Godhra massacre, days after it refused to block fake news

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Users have accused the platform of deliberately censoring posts that highlight the Hindu victims of the Godhra Massacre.
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News Reports

Delhi Court takes cognizance of offences under sedition, promoting enmity between groups against Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Saifi and others

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A Delhi Court has taken cognizance of offences under sections 124A and 153A against Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Saifi and others.
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Politics

As Congress allies with rabid Islamist in Bengal, sympathetic journalists try to shift focus to Assam Congress

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While Rohini Singh desperately tried to sideline G23 rebel Congress leader Anand Sharma and promote Gaurav Gogoi, it must be pointed out that the latter, who is supposedly 'not entitled', is the son of the late Congress leader and former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi.
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Politics

Assam elections: Priyanka Gandhi wants to give taxpayers’ money to housewives for free, law to nullify CAA

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Priyanka Gandhi has also promised to bring in a law to nullify the effect of the Citizenship Amendment Act in Assam.
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Opinions

Brown Sahib’s colonial hangover: How Congressis are perpetually in awe of Gandhi siblings mingling with gareeb Indians

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The Congress sympathisers and leaders have displayed unwavering support in building a cult around the Gandhi siblings
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News Reports

Watch: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav lashes out at journalist when questioned about his party leader’s involvement in Hathras murder

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SP leader Gaurav Sharma alias Gaurav Songra is the prime accused is the murder of a man on March 1. Songra was accused by the victim's daughter in a molestation case filed in 2018.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: BJP alleges evangelists built a Christian cross-shaped structure at Hindu holy site, police ‘clarifies’, leaves crucial question unanswered

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BJP leaders have alleged that the huge Christian Cross symbol was put up illegally in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh where Hindus believed Sita Maa's footprints existed
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Law

Special Prosecutor in Delhi Riots case shows court a Newslaundry article that created a false narrative against the investigation

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Special Public Prosecutor slammed Newslaundry in court, said they reported false information under his name in Delhi riots reportage
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Politics

Sourav Ganguly may attend PM Modi’s Brigade Ground rally in Kolkata on 7th March: Local media

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Sourav Ganguly may attend PM Modi's rally at Brigade Ground in Kolkata on March 7, according to reports in local media.
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News Reports

Remember Agra kidnapping case where a girl was shrouded in Burqa? Here is why she planned the abduction herself

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On Monday night, the police recovered the girl from a PG in Delhi's Tilak Nagar area. On being asked about the abduction, she claimed to have gone to Delhi to prepare for NEET examination.
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Entertainment

Aamir Khan shelves Mahabharat amidst controversies because ‘now is not the right time’: Reports

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Aamir Khan has shelved his 'Mahabharat' project amidst controversies because the 'timing' is not right, reports say.
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News Reports

Miami-based art collector sells 10-second video artwork for $6.6 million, brings focus on NFTs and the value of ‘digital assets’

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NFT-authenticated 10-second video artwork by Beeple sold for $6.6 million and it made people wonder if NFTs are the next big thing in tech world.
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News Reports

New book documents the journey of three men who created history by becoming the first gay ‘throuple’ to become legal parents: Details

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'Three Dads and a Baby', set to release on the 9th of March, has been written by one of her fathers, Dr. Ian Jenkins.
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News Reports

Watch: Pakistani teacher tells students not to play sports, but to join Jihad in Kashmir or Palestine, kill ‘blasphemers’

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While quoting from Islamic texts, the cleric said, "...Anyone who dares to speak about any of our Prophets, it is your duty to cut them into pieces. "
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Cricket

Mohali won’t see IPL matches in 2021, Punjab CM requests BCCI to change their decision: Details

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Captain Amarinder Singh has expressed his 'surprise' at the exclusion of the Mohali Cricket Stadium from IPL 2021 venues.
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News Reports

Dr B R Ambedkar’s grandson claims PM Modi took vaccination from Christian nurse as he does not ‘believe in Hindu nurses’

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Prime Minister Modi on Monday took the first dose of coronavirus vaccine in Delhi's AIIMS. He was administered the dose of made-in-India Bharat Biotech's COVAXIN.
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Opinions

Rahul Gandhi has made his choice: He prefers street power to political power

Nupur J Sharma -
Congress, the Left and ISF have now formed a 'secular' alliance to fight the Bengal polls and are in the process of finalising their seat-sharing formula
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World

Former CIA Director, who supported torture and lied about civilian deaths in drone strikes, says he is embarrassed to be a ‘white male’

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John Brennan appeared on MSNBC on Monday where he proudly declared that he was embarrassed to be a White Male.
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Crime

A woman molested, a father murdered, a Samajwadi Party leader accused: Here is all you need to know about the Hathras case

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"Aatankwadi hain woh", Hathras victim Pooja exclaimed, expressing her angst against the SP leader for killing her father
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