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China trying to consolidate position in Tibet by highlighting Mt. Everest on Tibetan side, says expert

As per experts, Nepal and China had signed a border dispute resolution agreement in 1960 according to which it was decided that Mount Everest will be divided, and southern part of it will belong to Nepal and Northern part to Tibet Autonomous Region which China claims as its own.




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Redditors Did a Lockdown Cooking Contest and Here Are the Best Recipes

The best three photos will be decided on the basis of the votes on the posts.




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IAS Officer With Month Old Baby, Telangana Woman Who Rode 1,400 Km: Supermoms And Coronavirus Warriors

These mothers deserve a huge round of applause!




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'I Couldn't Hold My Baby': What It's Like to Become a Mother During the Times of Coronavirus

With COVID-19 wearing out healthcare system of India thin, is India equipped to deal with the COVID-19 baby boom? Can it contain the impact it will have on women's mental and physical healthcare as well as India's deplorable child mortality rate?




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Elon Musk Tells Us How to Pronounce his Son X Æ A-12's Name and it is Not that Complicated

Tesla boss Elon Musk and his partner Claire Grimes Boucher welcomed their first baby on May 4 and baffled everyone with the choice of the name.




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Eight of Top-10 Firms Lose Rs 2.50 Lakh Crore in Market Capitalisation

In the top-10 list, only Reliance Industries Ltd and Bharti Airtel managed to close the trading week with gains.




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Dubai's Emirates Airline Reports 21 Percent Rise in Full-year Profit

The Dubai state carrier made 1 billion dirhams ($287.5 million) in the 12 months to March 31, compared to 871 million dirhams a year earlier.




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Akshaya Tritiya 2020 Amid Lockdown: 6 Ways To Buy Gold Online In India

Akshaya Tritiya is an auspicious day in the Hindu Calendar that is believed to bring good fortune and prosperity with the purchase of gold. In 2020, this day falls on 26 April, amid the nationwide lockdown. Apart from the tradition, gold




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Should You Buy Gold Or Not This Akshaya Tritiya?

While we are already facing an unprecedented situation with the outbreak of Covid 19 and to overcome it lockdown has been in place for quite a while now, the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya that falls on April 26, 2020 can




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3 AAA Rated Deposits That You Can Invest Even In Uncertain Times

We are living in unprecedented times. Businesses are getting impacted rapidly, interest rates are falling and a bank like Yes Bank, had to be bailed out. Even as interest rates are low, it is time to look at deposits from non




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Charlie Munger's 'Wait And Watch' Strategy May Work For Long Term Investors Amid COVID-19

Charlie Munger, the vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathway, the investment company controlled by billionaire Warren Buffet, is not looking at making investments amid the COVID-19 crisis. In a recent telephonic interview with the Wall Street Journal, Munger was asked if his investment




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Voluntary Provident Fund: Are There Benefits To Higher Than Mandatory EPF Contributions?

After extreme volatility recently seen the stock markets and mutual fund investments, you may be looking at more stable options to put your savings aside for the long term. One such conservative investment tool is the EPF (Employees' Provident Fund) that




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UTI Long Term Equity Fund:Twin Benefits of Wealth Creation and Tax Savings

As the time passes so quickly, another fiscal year is turning to an end soon, and most of the tax payers must be in the state of panic about keeping the things in order. They might also be planning to approach




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Maharashtra To Give Free Health Insurance To All Its Citizens

Maharashtra's Health Minister Rajesh Tope announced that all citizens of the state will be given a free health insurance scheme and will also become the first state in India to provide free cashless insurance to all its citizens. The announcement was




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6 Reasons Why It Is A Good Time To Buy Insurance Now

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis brings to light the need to have health and life insurance covers to face unforeseen emergencies. You can take now take advantage of the relaxed rules and options to either purchase a new policy or increase your




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2 Mutual Fund Options For Mitigating Impact Of Rupee's Weakness On Your Investments

Indian currency rupee against the dollar has tumbled to a historic low of 76.91 per US dollar on April 22, 2020 and as per reports it may touch levels of 80 as the pandemic Covid 19 brings with it a lot




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Delay In EPFO Pandemic Withdrawal Claim Processing: Here's Why

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has granted provision to allow withdrawal of funds from the fund balance to tackle liquidity crunch. Nonetheless, while the institution has received many such withdrawal request there has




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SBI Launches New Fixed Deposit Scheme For Senior Citizens

On Thursday, the State Bank of India (SBI) introduced a new scheme for senior citizens called "SBI Wecare Deposit" for senior citizens in its retail term deposit segment. The scheme aims at safeguarding the interest of senior citizens in fixed deposits




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SBI’s New FD Scheme For Senior Citizens: Is It Really Lucrative?

Recently, amid falling interest rates, SBI as an incentive to attract senior citizens launched a special retail deposit scheme called ‘SBI Wecare Deposit' with a marginally higher premium of 30 bps. Usually senior citizen investor community on FDs is provided a




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Contributing To EPF A/c For 20 Years: You Are Entitled To This Benefit

EPFO's retirement fund EPF apart from a reasonable return provides a handful of other benefits which most of the subscribers are not aware of such as the EDLI scheme that offers insurance up to Rs. 6 lakh, pension etc. Also, there




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Mother's Day 2020: Google Celebrates Moms with Interactive Doodle That Let's You Design Cards

Google explained that its latest doodle was inspired by a surge in searches for 'Homemade Mother’s Day card' and similar searches for 'virtual' gifts and ideas for the holiday.




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Microsoft Admits Surface Laptop 3 Develops Mysterious Screen Cracks & Will Repair For Free

Corrective measures are finally in place. At least the repairs will be free, after users have struggled to get the repairs done over the past few months. And if you have already paid for a repair for this issue, you can get a reimbursement.




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Broadband Buying Guide: Spectra Plans Start at Rs 899, Speeds up to 1Gbps & Unlimited Voice Calls

Spectra is competing with the likes of Reliance JioFiber, Airtel Xstream broadband and ACT Fibernet, to name a few. And the company has some rather unique plans, in terms of what is bundled, depending on the duration you choose to pay for in one go.




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15 ‘outsiders’ test positive in Saurashtra districts




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24-year-old man kidnapped, assaulted for ‘matri karar’ with woman




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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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Quarantine facilities set up for repatriates




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Coronavirus Patient Kills Self at Mumbai Hospital

The patient was found to have hanged himself with his pyjamas from a steel rod on the ninth-floor terrace of the hospital.




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State Varsities to Implement Academic Calendar Within Month After Lockdown is Lifted: Bengal Edu Minister

Partha Chatterjee said the institutions have also received the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines in this regard and the issue came up in the meeting held during the day.




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62 Fresh Coronavirus Infections Reported from Single CRPF Unit in Delhi, Active Cases Climb to 231

The 31st battalion of the force in Delhi has about 137 positive cases. All personnel are admitted at a quarantine facility in Mandoli area and undergoing treatment.




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Six Cops of Khajuri Khas Police Station in NE Delhi Test Corona-positive

The area assistant commissioner of police and Khajuri Khas station house officer are taking precautions and have restricted themselves to self isolation.




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Mizoram Becomes Coronavirus-free With Recovery of Lone Patient

Mizoram Health Minister Dr R Lalthangliana said the state's lone COVID-19 patient, a pastor, was discharged from Zoram Medical College (ZMC) on Saturday afternoon after 45 days of intense treatment.




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Not Anticipating 'Worst Situation' Due to Covid-19 in India, Says Harsh Vardhan

Vardhan said the doubling time of coronavirus infection cases in the country for the last three days has been about 11 days and 9.9 days for the last seven days.




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Chhattisgarh CM Baghel Writes to PM Modi, Requests for Rs 30,000 Crore Aid

The chief minister wrote to the prime minister, reiterating that a financial aid of Rs 10,000 crore should be given immediately from this package to get the state's economy back on track.




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Jharkhand Grapples with Ill-equipped Infrastructure as Covid-19 Cases Among Returning Migrants Rise

Even RIMS, the only state-run super-specialty medical institute in Jharkhand, does not have the required equipment to deal with the crisis. At present, there is one ventilator for every 70,000 people in the state.




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More Central Teams for 10 States That Have Witnessed or are Witnessing High Covid-19 Cases: Health Min

According to the health ministry statement, the central teams comprises a senior official from the health ministry, a joint secretary-level nodal officer and a public health expert.




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Kerala CM Extends Mother's Day Wishes, Says State Has Brought Down Infant Mortality Rate

Vijayan said while the national average for IMR was 32 per 1,000 births, the state has only seven.




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AIIMS Experts Visit Ahmedabad, Say Timely Treatment is Key

The two interacted with resident doctors of the hospital seeking their inputs about treatment of COVID-19 patients and provided expert guidance.




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Covid-19: Mumbai Police ASI Who Died on Friday Tests Positive

He died in the early hours of Friday after being admitted in a civic hospital on Wednesday with Covid-19-like symptoms, an official said.




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Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: Don't Walk Back Home, Kejriwal Appeals to Migrant Workers; 5 Air India Pilots Who Operated Cargo Flights to China Test Positive

Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 62,000-mark today as the country recorded 62,939 cases with the death toll rising to 2,109.




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Delhi School Teacher Involved in Distributing Ration Tests Covid-19 Positive

The teacher had last come to school on April 28 and started showing COVID-19 symptoms from May 2. His test report came on Friday, an official of North Delhi Municipal Corporation said.




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JNU Exam 2020: Varsity Announces Academic Calendar, Exams to be Over by July 31

Even if the examination results are not ready by July 31, JNU students will have the opportunity to provisionally register and move on to the next semester.




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INS Jalashwa Arrives in Kochi with 698 Repatriated Indians from Maldives Under Vande Bharat Mission

The arrival marks Indian Navy's first massive evacuation exercise from foreign soil during the Covid-19 lockdown.




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West Bengal Govt Forms Teams for Surveillance Support, Monitoring of Treatment at Covid-19 Hospitals

The state health department has also set up a dedicated helpline for issues regarding the non-availability of PPEs and other supplies.




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Corrupt Past of MGNREGS Returns to Haunt MP Govt as it Reaches Out to Workforce Hit by Coronavirus

The labourers from Madhya Pradesh, who usually migrate to states like Maharashtra and Delhi have been hit hard due to the lockdown as the closure of commercial activities forced them to return empty-handed.




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SP Founder Mulayam Singh Yadav Discharged from Hospital in Lucknow

The party patriarch had gone to hospital on Wednesday for a routine check-up but the doctors admitted him for observation.




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Centre Proposing to Do Away with Interstate Migrant Workmen Act, Alleges Congress

Congress said Parliament should assert itself and called upon the Centre and the states to jointly formulate an action plan to ensure safe return of migrants to their homes




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Punjab Ministers Walk Out of Pre-cabinet Meeting after Tiff with Chief Secretary over Excise Policy

The development led to the deferment of the cabinet meeting which was scheduled to be held on Saturday. Now, it will be held on Monday.




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Ensure Audit of PM CARES Fund, Rahul Gandhi Asks PM Modi

On March 28, the Centre set up the PM CARES Fund with the primary objective to deal with any kind of emergency situation like the one currently posed by the COVID-19.




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BJP against Introduction of Creamy Layer Provision for SC-ST People Despite Apex Court's Order: Sushil Modi

The deputy chief minister said that the BJP-led government at the Centre has strengthened provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 through an amendment bill which was passed by Parliament.