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Sacred Heart School, Kalyan protects its students from online abuse by using state of art virtual private network




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Migrants on roads are no longer just the poor




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Dutch Restaurant Trials Glass Booths for Dining Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Organisers call the project 'Serres Séparées' (Separate Greenhouses) because they say it sounds better in French.




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Google Brings Back 2017 'Hip Hop' Doodle That Will Make You Groove Today

Thursday’s doodle is part of Google’s 'Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles' series.




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Bill Introduced in US Congress to Stop Predatory Acquisitions by China During Covid-19 Pandemic

The bill proposes to increase the scope of cases the CFIUS reviews and sends to the president prior to a financial transaction.




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South Korean Findings Suggest 'Reinfected' Coronavirus Cases are False Positives

As more and more South Koreans were released from treatment for Covid-19, authorities discovered some ostensibly cured patients were later testing positive again.




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South Korean LG Chem Says Visakhapatnam Factory Gas Leak Under Control, Investigating Cause

LG Chem said in a statement that the gas emitted in the leak can cause nausea and dizziness when inhaled. It said it was seeking to ensure casualties received treatment quickly.




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How Lax Rules, Missed Warnings Led to Japan's Second Coronavirus Cruise-ship Hotspot

The Costa Atlantica now hosts one of Japan's biggest clusters of the coronavirus, which infected one-fourth of the more than 600 people then on board.




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President Xi Warns Against Complacency as China Downgrades Covid-19 Risk Levels in All Regions

Xi said the spread of the virus overseas has not been effectively curbed yet and cluster cases were reported in a few areas in China, posing considerable uncertainty to the epidemic control.




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Vaccine Worked in Monkeys, Claim Researchers from China as Study Shows Covid-19 Adapting to Humans

They found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - that show how it may be evolving as it spreads in people.




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Pakistan Goes Ahead with CPEC Amid Mounting Debts, Further Economic Fallout Due to Covid-19

India has objected to the CPEC — a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking China's Xinjiang province with Pakistan's Gwadar Port — as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).




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Air India Opens Bookings for Foreigners, Visa Holders on Outbound Repatriation Flights

For flights between India and Singapore, the charge is Rs 18,000-20,000 per passenger, and it is Rs 50,000 per person for India-UK flights.




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Pakistan to Lift Lockdown From Saturday Despite Rising Covid-19 Curve

The decision is being taken because the country's large number of poor people and labourers cannot not afford to live under lockdown any more.




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'Stop Shifting Blame' - China Slams USA after Donald Trump Coronavirus 'Attack' Claim

Tension between USA and China has reached fever pitch in recent days as they have exchanged barbed comments on each other's handling of the coronavvirus.




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Bank of England Sees Worst Slump in 300 Years amid Coronavirus Lockdown

The BoE kept its benchmark interest rate at an all-time low of 0.1% and left its target for bond-buying, most of it British government debt, at 645 billion pounds.




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Trump's Admin Shelves CDC's Guide to Reopening Country After Coronavirus Lockdown

The guidance contained detailed advice for making site-specific decisions related to reopening schools, restaurants, summer camps, churches, day care centers and other institutions.




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Bangladesh Lifts Curbs on Mosque Prayers as Lockdown Eases

The mosques and devotees have been asked to comply with a set of safety protocols to hold prayer congregations, the Religious Affairs Ministry said.




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US Scientists Scramble to Study Life-threatening Syndrome in Kids Linked to Coronavirus

This emerging syndrome, which may occur days to weeks after a COVID-19 illness, reflects the surprising ways that this entirely new coronavirus infects and sickens its human hosts.




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UK Statistics Find Indians Among Ethnicities With Higher Risk of Covid-19 Deaths

When taking into account age in the analysis, black males were found 4.2 times more likely to die from a COVID-19-related death and black females 4.3 times more likely than white ethnicity males and females.




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Saudi Arabia Forms Police Unit to Enforce Coronavirus Curbs on Social Gatherings: Report

The kingdom had previously said such gatherings were prohibited and said on Thursday that those breaching the rules would be punished by law.




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Indian-origin MP in UK Says, Was 'Sacked' as Covid-19 Care Worker for Speaking Out Against PPE Shortage

Nadia Whittome, the youngest Member of Parliament in the House of Commons representing her birthplace of Nottingham in central England since her win in the December 2019 General Election, is now running a drive to encourage care workers to speak out if they have safety concerns.




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Boris Johnson Warns of 'Maximum Caution' as UK Considers Easing Lockdown

Johnson will address the nation on Sunday evening, his spokesman said, but warned against reports of a major easing in social distancing rules.




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For Indian Students Stranded in UK during Covid-19 Lockdown, The Door Back Home Opens, But at a Price

The cost of a return ticket to India as well as the mandatory 14-day quarantine period has left many Indian students in the UK to rethink their decision.




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70-year-old Woman Dies in Pakistan after Standing in Covid-19 Aid Queue for Five Hours

The deceased's family protested against NADRA and the government, saying elderly people should be given an area to sit with shade when aid is being distributed.




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German Journalist Accuses French Ex-president of 'Grabbing' Her, Files Sexual Assault Complaint

Giscard's French lawyer said Thursday that the 94-year-old former president retains 'no memory' of the incident. Giscard was president of France from 1974-1981.




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Biden's Sexual Accuser Asks Him to Drop Out of Presidential Race, Is Being Represented by Trump Donor

Attorney Douglas Wigdor is well known for his work on prominent cases related to sexual harassment and assault. He represented six women who accused Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, of sexual misconduct.




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Post Nat'l Outrage Over Black Man Getting Shot to Death While Jogging, Arrests Made After 2 Months

Gregory McMichael, 64, previously told police that he and his son chased after Ahmaud Arbery because they suspected him of being a burglar. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, has said she believes her son, a former football player, was just jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood before he was killed on a Sunday afternoon.




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'Enemies Remain Enemies': North Korea Lashes South as Kim Jong Un Praises China's Xi Jinping

Kim sent Chinese leader Xi Jinping a diplomatic communication congratulating him for China's "success" in controlling the novel coronavirus epidemic.




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China, US Commit to 'Creating Favourable Conditions' for Trade Deal Implementation Despite Coronavirus Row: Official

Last week, US President Trump threatened new tariffs against China after claiming there was evidence linking Covid-19 to a top-security lab in Wuhan.




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Croatian Air Force Plane Crashes Killing Two Crew Members

Croatia's Defense Ministry says an air force training plane crashed in the southwest of the country, killing two crew members.




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Georgia Police Arrest Two for Shooting Death of Unarmed Black Man

The two white men were identified by police as Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Gregory McMichael, 64, who both live in Brunswick.




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US Companies Got Emergency Govt Loans Despite Having Months of Cash

Some of the companies that took loans said publicly they were financially secure, with some seeing increased demand for their products around the time they asked for the aid.




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Caught on Video, NYPD Social Distancing Patrols Turn Violent

One newly surfaced video of social distancing enforcement gone wrong in New York City shows a police officer running at a black man and throwing him to the ground for mouthing off.




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'The Govt is Failing Us': Laid-off Americans Struggle in Coronavirus Crisis

Alejandra has not heard anything from the state -- though she has gotten a fundraising email from Republican Senator Rick Scott, who set up the current unemployment system during his tenure as governor.




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Pakistani Man Shoots Wife Dead for Not Serving Him Hot Meal for Sehri, Arrested

The father of the deceased filed a complaint with the police alleging that his 19-year-old daughter was killed by her husband for failing to serve him a hot meal for Sehri in the ongoing month of Ramzan.




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Google Doodle Brings Back Video Game Pac Man Live Today

While PAC MAN is controlled using the arrow keys on keyboard or by clicking on the maze; Ms. PAC MAN can be controlled with the WASD keys.




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Singapore Coronavirus Infections Touch 21,707 with 20 deaths: Health Ministry

Singapore on Friday reported 768 new cases of coronavirus, mostly among the foreign nationals living in dormitories, taking the total number of infections in the country to 21,707 with 20 deaths, the health ministry said.




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'Can Learn from Smallpox for Covid-19 Response': Remembering Humanity's Triumph Over a Virus, 40 Yrs On

On May 8, 1980, representatives of all World Health Organization (WHO) member states gathered in Geneva and officially declared that the smallpox-causing variola virus had been relegated to the history books, two centuries after the discovery of a vaccine.




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To Mask or Not to Mask? World Leaders Scrutinised Over Covering Face Amid Pandemic

As a consensus has emerged that masks, even homemade ones, do help -- though levels of protection vary -- political leaders have had to adjust their messaging.




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China's New Prototype Spacecraft Returns to Earth, After Completing a Number of Assignments: Official

The spacecraft -- which was launched Tuesday -- arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of the key test.




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Milan a Ticking Coronavirus 'Bomb', Viroligist Warns

Lombardy region, which has recorded more than 80,000 infections, is the epicentre of Italy's outbreak, one of the worst in Europe in terms of deaths and infections.




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COVID-19: Indian-American Senator Appointed Member Of Committee to Address Washington's Economic Recovery

Senator Manka Dhingra is an Indian-American attorney and the first Sikh elected to any state legislature in the United States.




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Melinda Gates Slams Trump Administration's Handling of Covid-19, Gives it 'D-minus'

She asserted that more money is required for testing and vaccine development in the US and across the world.




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Spanish Cat Who Died of Pre-existing Respiratory Condition Tests Positive for Coronavirus

The cat, named Negrito, was the sixth feline to be detected with the disease globally. It belonged to a household in the Barcelona area where several family members had caught the virus.




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Trump Says Some White House Personnel Now Wearing Masks after Staffer Tested Positive

Trump, asked if those who serve him food would now cover their faces, told Fox News in an interview that such White House staff had already started wearing face masks.




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Trump Praises Attorney General William Barr for Dropping Michael Flynn's Case

The action on Thursday was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.




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Venezuela Incursion Carried Out by 'Rogue Group', US Govt Had Nothing to Do With it: Trump

Trump said the incursion 'was not a good attack,' carried out by a 'rogue group' that included Venezuelans and 'people from other countries.'




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US Driving Wedge Between Communist Party, Chinese People Over Covid-19: China

US is currently weighing punitive actions against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.




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Japan Lowers Bar to Coronavirus Testing, Drops Temperature Guideline

Japan's guidelines had previously specified that those who had had a fever of 37.5 Celsius or more for four consecutive days.