Dhaka [Bangladesh], December 11 (ANI): Bangladesh has reported nine more deaths from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, taking the total number of fataliti...

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A fisherman rows his boat across Dal Lake during sunset, in Srinagar | PTI File Photo Text Size: Srinagar: An air show will be held here on September 26 where IAF's skydiving team Akash Ganga and Suryakiran Aerobatic and Display Team and paramotor flying will maneuver the skies over the famous Dal Lake, officials said on Saturday. The air show will be organised by the Air Force Station Srinagar and the Jammu and Kashmir administration as part of the ongoing celebrations commemorating ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav', they said.

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Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is the trade union affiliate of the RSS (Representational image) | Commons Text Size: New Delhi: Has the May Day, which is celebrated in India as Labour Day on 1 May every year, lost its relevance? Is it just a matter of time before India would officially replace ‘1 May' with ‘Vishwakarma Day' to honour the contribution of workers in nation building? Such questions are now raised increasingly on 1 May every year as the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the largest trade union in India, has shunned the celebration of 1 May as Labour Day as a relic of the obsolete past when Communists dominated the trade union movement in India.

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SK Mjumdar on an operational mission in NEFA in a Bell 47G2. Undated picture from the Majumdar family album Text Size: In late November 1953, the tall and lanky Flight Lieutenant S.K. Majumdar, an instructor with the Flying Instructors School or FIS at Ambala, Haryana, was leading a six Harvard aircraft ferry to Tambaram, Tamil Nadu. On arrival, he was instructed to return by a Dakota aircraft and report immediately to Air Headquarters. Upon reaching Delhi, Air Commodore Arjan Singh informed him that he was to be despatched pronto from Paatalok to the United States.

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Health workers administer Covid-19 vaccines at a special vaccination camp targeting 1 lakh doses in a single day, in Bikaner, on 8 September 2021 | PTI Text Size: New Delhi: The latest government report on Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) with Covid-19 vaccines has found that 61 per cent of the events analysed were causally related to vaccinations. However, none of these was fatal, i.e. resulted in death, the report says. The report concluded: '48 out of 78 cases for which causality assessment has been done were found to have consistent causal association to vaccination.

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PM Narendra Modi in 2017 | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint Text Size: As US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman presses all the buttons to underline the special relationship with India and is followed this week by Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attempting to do exactly the same, two seemingly unrelated questions are knocking against the shadows, behind the scenes. The first question is: Who is going to be the next foreign secretary of India? The incumbent, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, will retire mid-2022 and names of possible successors are already doing the rounds.

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File photo of college students in Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir | Representational image | ANI Text Size: In Agra, despite college authorities making it clear that no anti-India slogans were raised inside the campus, three Kashmiri students were arrested by police after a local Bharatiya Janata Party member filed a complaint after the India-Pakistan cricket match on 24 October. When they were brought to the Agra court, local lawyers roughed them up and declared that nobody from the Bar Association will plead their case.

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Twitter Inc. logo | Bloomberg Text Size: New Delhi: The government on Saturday issued a notice to Twitter giving it one last chance to 'immediately' comply with the new IT rules and warned that failure to adhere to the norms will lead to the platform losing exemption from liability under the IT Act. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said that Twitter's refusal to comply with the rules demonstrated the microblogging site's 'lack of commitment and efforts towards providing a safe experience for the people of India on its platform'.

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Viral poster featuring Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal | Twitter Text Size: New Delhi: A purported Aam Aadmi Party poster to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti, featuring Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal prominently and a small photograph of Mahatma Gandhi in the corner, has gone viral on social media. The poster seems to be a full-page advertisement in a newspaper, according to the images in circulation. Gandhi's famous quote, 'Be the change you wish to see in the world', is part of the poster. Kejriwal jayanti ki shubhkamnaein – MK Gandhi 😁 pic.

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Harsh Mariwala | Twitter | @hcmariwala Text Size: New Delhi: Training in retail and advertising from the bottom-up was crucial to building Marico from scratch, said Harsh Mariwala, the company's founder and chairman. In a conversation with ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on ‘Off The Cuff', Mariwala along with business guru Professor Ram Charan spoke at length about Marico's journey as a company as well as its flagship coconut oil brand Parachute. 'All my uncles and a lot of my friends said, ‘Please change the brand name [of Parachute],' I don't know why but I decided to continue the brand name and I think the decision has paid off,' said Mariwala, who has authored the upcoming book ‘Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico' with Charan.

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Patients at a Covid treatment facility in India (Representational image) | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint Text Size: New Delhi: India could witness a steep fall in the Covid-19 cases by 1 July but a third wave is likely to hit the country in the next six to eight months, according to the government-appointed National Covid-19 Supermodel Committee, which makes projections on the likely spread of the pandemic. Prof M. Vidyasagar of IIT Hyderabad, who heads the three-member committee, told ThePrint cases could drop to about 15,000 a day by 1 July.

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Representational image of an Indian marriage | Photo: pxhere.com Text Size: Arranged marriages occupy an awkward place in contemporary Britain. For some, they're equivalent to forced marriage. Others see them as a quaint custom in need of adjustment to the modern ideal of western-style 'love marriages'. However, my decade-long research with British Indians paints a rather different picture of this practice. Far from being a homogeneous tradition, modern arranged marriages involve a variety of matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own version to suit modern identities and ambitions.

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Representational image | Women in Afghanistan| Photo credit: David Mark/Pixabay Text Size: ‘Burn my degrees, photos of me without hijab': Afghan women in India tell families back home With the Taliban's return in Afghanistan, women students in India have been telling their families back home to destroy all proof of their education to avoid being targetted, reports Rishika Sadam. Escape from Kabul: How I negotiated with Taliban to make it to the safety of Indian embassy In this first-person account, Nayanima Basu recounts her last day in Kabul after the Taliban took over when she had to dodge bullets, navigate chaos and negotiate with the militants to reach the Indian embassy.

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Representational image | Women vendors of the Ima Keithel have been forced to shut their businesses due to the lockdown | Yimkumla Longkumer | ThePrint Text Size: The nation and statewide lockdowns imposed in India left an approximate 17 million to 19.3 million women unemployed in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, between March and April 2020. Personal and non-professional services, comprising operators of small-scale enterprises such as tailors, dressmakers, petty shopkeepers, barbers and beauty-parlour owners, as well as domestic helps and part-time workers witnessed relatively high volatility compared to other sectors.

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File image of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Photo: ANI Text Size: It's a busy week for diplomacy. Later today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with US President Joe Biden, for their first in-person summit. On 24 September, the Prime Minister will attend the first in-person Quad leaders' meeting. On 25 September, he will address the United Nations General Assembly, or UNGA. On the margins, PM Modi is expected to meet separately with his counterparts Scott Morrison of Australia and Yoshihide Suga of Japan.

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England women cricket team players during a Test match against India | Twitter | @englandcricket Text Size: New Delhi: In June this year, when the England and Indian women cricket teams were playing a Test match at the Bristol County Ground, almost half the English team and at least one batter in the Indian team were on their period, a report in The Telegraph says. The report talks about the anxiety women athletes face during menstruation and how talking about periods is still considered a taboo in sport.

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Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks during an Apple Inc. event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California | Bloomberg Text Size: Los Angeles: Steven Spielberg, the father of the modern movie blockbuster, signed a multi-year deal to provide films for Netflix Inc., promising a stream of new pictures for the online video leader. The multi-film agreement with Amblin Partners builds on an existing relationship, the parties said Monday in a statement. They've already teamed up on last year's 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' and the Leonard Bernstein biopic 'Maestro,' which is in preproduction.

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Representational image | PTI Text Size: Maternal and child healthcare services in India – including antenatal care, natal care (institutional delivery, or births delivered in a medical facility), postnatal care, and childcare – are meant to be free of cost in public health facilities. Several policies and programmes have been designed to promote and support the provision of these services. For example, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)1 and Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK)2 encourage institutional delivery with the objective of reducing maternal and infant deaths.

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