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RCom, Aircel announce merger; create fourth largest telco in India

​Reliance Communications and Aircel will hold 50% stake each in the new combined entity, which will be listed later. Both companies will also transfer debt of Rs 14,000 crore each. As for the net worth of the new company, it’ll be around Rs 35,000 crore.​




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Apple CEO Tim Cook on India, Steve Jobs, missteps and more

Apple CEO Tim Cook is a man of few words. In an interview to Washington Post, the usually reticent CEO of one of the world's most valuable company talked about a number of things including the 'enormous India opportunity', Steve Jobs, mistakes made during his tenure so far and much more.




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WhatsApp privacy policy challenged in Delhi High Court: 5 things to know

A public interest litigation in the Delhi High Court (HC) challenges the change in WhatsApp's privacy policy.




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Three new coronavirus positive cases reported in Ludhiana: Deputy commissioner




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Covid-19: Punjab govt advisory for home quarantine

The Punjab government on Saturday issued advisory regarding the home quarantine of people returnees from aboard and other parts of the country.




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Punjab: Congress leaders' wives speak against booze home delivery

Even though reopening of liquor vends is a priority for the state Congress government, wives of two prominent leaders of the ruling party - cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu and MLA Amarinder Singh Raja Warring - have asked chief minister Amarinder Singh to reconsider home delivery of liquor during lockdown.




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Man who bit woman cop nabbed




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2 arrested for coffee estate labourer’s murder




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Schools told to collect text books from students; to be distributed to juniors




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Mysuru cop gives a dignified funeral to unidentified bodies




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Maternity hospital in Mysuru city records surge in patients following Nanjangud cluster case




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‘Allow refrigeration, air conditioning shops to open for four hours daily’




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45 discharges take Surat’s Covid-19 recovery rate to 53%




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Covid free Bharuch battling virus spread from ‘outsiders’




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Mother's Day: Seven months pregnant woman cop unfazed by coronavirus




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Covid-19 warriors spat at in Surat

Frontline health workers of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) were allegedly threatened with life and spat at by six persons including four women in Sanjaynagar locality on Saturday.




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Pigment worth Rs70L stolen from two consignments for export




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Attacks on cops will be strictly dealt with: Gujarat DGP

While speaking to reporters this Saturday, Gujarat DGP Shivanand Jha said once again that the administration will deal most strictly with those who attack police and Covid frontline warriors.




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Davanagere tally spirals to 69 as six more test +ve for Covid-19




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Economic activities in Hubballi to resume tomorrow




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Davanagere tally spirals to 67 as six more test +ve for Covid-19




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Seoul Shuts Down More Than 2,100 Nightclubs After Covid-19 Positive Man Visits Three

South Korea's had 18 new cases in 24 hours with all but one of them linked to a 29-year-old man who visited three clubs in Seoul's Itaewon district before testing.




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Spain PM Pedro Sanchez Says Coronavirus 'Has Not Disappeared'

Spain's health ministry reported 179 new confirmed deaths on Saturday, increasing the death toll to 26,478.




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Brazil's Supreme Court Throws Out Rules that Limit Gay Men Donating Blood

The move came as more nations review restrictions on blood donations imposed during the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis, with some countries imposing blanket bans, some waiting periods after gay sex, and others - like Italy - having no limitations at all.




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Global Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 2.75 Lakh, 85% of Fatalities in Europe and US

The US is the country with the most deaths at 77,280, following by Britain on 31,241, Italy 30,201, Spain 26,478 and France 26,230.




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Pak's Fiscal Deficit to Surge to 9%, Tax Tevenue to Miss Target This Year amid Covid-19 Crisis: FinMin

Pakistan, which has reported 26,435 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 599 deaths, has announced it will start lifting a countrywide lockdown from Saturday in a bid to restart economic activity.




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Three New York Children Die from Rare Illness Tied to Covid-19, Says Governor Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo had on Friday disclosed the death of a 5-year old linked to the coronavirus and a syndrome that shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease, which was the first known fatality tied to the rare illness in New York.




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2 Men Arrested in Mexico for Strangling Deaths Sister Nurses

Initial evidence shows the suspects, a nurse and a municipal market worker in their 20s, planned to rob the women




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Italy's Daily Coronavirus Death Toll and New Cases Fall with 194 New Fatalities, 1,083 Fresh Infections

The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 30,395 the agency said, the third highest in the world after those of the United States and Britain.




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US FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorisation to Quidel for First Covid-19 Antigen Test

The FDA said the authorisation is for an antigen test, which is a new type of diagnostic test designed for rapid detection of the virus that causes COVID-19.




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Trudeau Warns Premature Reopening Could Send Canada 'Back Into Confinement'

Canada's death toll rose 3.5% to 4,628 from a day earlier, while cases approached 67,000. Nearly 60% of Canada's deaths have occurred in Quebec, where there are numerous outbreaks in nursing homes.




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France Records Lowest Covid-19 Daily Death Toll in a Month with 80 New Fatalities

The ministry said the number of people in intensive care units - a key measure of a health system's ability to deal with the epidemic - fell by 56, or about 2%, to 2,812. That is less than half the peak of 7,148 seen on April 8.




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Doctors Show Top White House Officials Buried CDC Report on Reopening Communities

Emails show the US's top public health experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who working on guidance to help deal with coronavirus, were quashed by political appointees.




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'An Absolute Chaotic Disaster': Obama Slams Trump's Handling of Coronavirus Pandemic

Trump has been criticised as abdicating any leadership role in guiding the country through one of its worst crises in a century, leaving states on their own to grapple with the pandemic and even bid against each other to obtain critical medical equipment on the open market or abroad.




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Anthony Fauci Among 3 Members of White House Virus Task Force Isolated After Contact With Patient

President Donald Trump, who publicly identified the affected Pence aide as spokeswoman Katie Miller, said he was 'not worried' about the virus spreading in the White House.




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Second Wave: Reopenings Bring New Cases in South Korea, Flares Coronavirus Fears in Italy

Around the world, the US and other hard-hit countries are wrestling with how to ease curbs on business and public activity without causing the virus to come surging back.




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Tesla Sues California County in Virus Factory Closure Fight, Threatens to Leave

Elon Musk has been pushing to re-open Tesla's Fremont, California, factory after Alameda County's health department said the carmaker must not reopen because local lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in effect.




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Fire Hits Moscow Hospital Housing Coronavirus Victims; One Killed

A fire at a Moscow hospital treating people infected by the new coronavirus killed one patient and forced the evacuation of about 200 others.




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UK Commuters Face Cycling or Walking to Work Once Covid-19 Lockdown is Eased

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce on Sunday the next phase of Britain's battle to tackle the health crisis, following a review by ministers of lockdown measures that have all but shut the economy and kept tens of millions of people at home for nearly seven weeks.




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Coronavirus Has Created a Rift Between US and China That May Take a Generation to Heal

In recent weeks, the Donald Trump administration has repeatedly lashed out at China over its handling of the outbreak, questioning its death toll and criticising its early response to the virus.




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Flowers via a Stranger: Chileans Compromise on Mother's Day Cemetery Visits Due to Covid-19 Curbs

In the capital, Santiago, where the largest cemeteries ordinarily attract tens of thousands of visitors with associated road closures and chaotic scenes, the national federation of cemetery workers this week urged people to stay away.




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Trump is Not Credible on Coronavirus Death Tolls. A Fact Check

The distortions in the US president's statements emerged over the past week alongside his relentless bragging about the US testing system, which failed in the crucial early weeks and remains globally subpar.




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China 'Shocked' by US Reversal on UN Coronavirus Action, Says Diplomat

Washington has halted funding for the WHO, a UN agency, after President Donald Trump accused it of being "China-centric" and promoting China's "disinformation" about the outbreak, assertions the WHO denies.




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Taliban Denies Having Missing US Contractor Mark Frerichs: Report

In a statement late Saturday by the US Embassy in Kabul, Washington also sought Pakistan’s help in locating Frerichs.




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China Reports First Coronavirus Case in Wuhan Since April 3 Among 14 New Infections

While China had officially designated all areas of the country as low-risk last Thursday, the new cases according to data published on Sunday represent a jump from the single case reported for the day before. The number was lifted by a cluster of 11 in Shulan city in northeastern Jilin province.




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'Twilight Zone': Poland Sees Zero Turnout in Bizarre Ghost Election Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

The EU member of 38 million people has found itself in the bizarre predicament in which the presidential ballot is formally neither postponed nor cancelled.




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Study Shows Ultraviolet Lamps Could Light the Way in Fight Against Coronavirus

A team at Columbia's Center for Radiological Research is experimenting with UVC, rays whose wavelength of 222 nanometers makes them safe for humans but still lethal to viruses.




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New wave of Swine flu could sicken millions

As countries grapple with the Swine flu, experts have warned that a new wave of the deadly virus is ready and could sicken millions.




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A cot mattress that mimics the womb

It's a dream come true for tired-out-moms, a revolutionary new cot mattress which mimics the sensation of the womb to keep babies happy at night.




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A sweeter broccoli to cut heart diseases

Scientists claimed to have developed a new variety of broccoli that is not only grown naturally, but also tastes sweeter and has 40% more anti-oxidants than the normal to reduce risks of heart disease and cancer.