Aries Today’s Full Moon can produce a surprise, dear Aries, bringing warmth, emotion, and color to your feelings and possibly your social life as well. There can be a sudden discovery or recognition of your feelings. The need to assist–or for assistance–can emerge. Your need for others or place in […]
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Sushant’s death embroiled in a web of theories
On the morning of Sunday, June 14, Sushant Singh Rajput, a 34-year-old actor with a seemingly promising movie career ahead of him, was found dead at his rented apartment in Mumbai’s Bandra in what the police suspected was a case of suicide. The death triggered dark conspiracy theories of how […]
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SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years
Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. It was the first splashdown by US astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and […]
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Uttarakhand to develop 6 city forests to increase green cover in urban spaces
The Uttarakhand forest department will develop six city forests in Kumaon region, including two in the plains and four in hilly districts, said forest officials. The forest department has also started searching for land in municipal areas, said officials. Tejaswini Patil, chief conservator forests (CCF) Kumaon region said six city […]
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Uttarakhand’s Covid-19 count rises to 7,593; over 1.75 lakh samples tested so far
Uttarakhand on Sunday reported 146 new Covid-19 positive cases, taking the state tally to 7,593. The state also recorded three deaths due to the disease. Maximum 51 infections were reported from Dehradun district, according to the bulletin released by the state health department. The rest of the cases were reported […]
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Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa tests positive for Covid-19
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa tweeted late on Sunday evening that he had tested positive for Covid-19. The chief minister said that though he was fine, he was being hospitalised as a precaution on the advice of doctors. He also asked all those who had come in contact with him to go […]
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Syria condemns deal between Kurds and US firm as ‘theft’
Syria on Sunday condemned an agreement between Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast and a US oil company, describing it as “theft” and an “affront to national sovereignty”. The foreign ministry denounced “an agreement signed by the SDF militia and a US oil company to steal Syrian oil… supported by […]
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Amit Shah admitted to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram after testing Covid-19 positive
Union home minister Amit Shah has been admitted to Medanta Hospital in Haryana’s Gurugram and is believed to be stable, after being diagnosed Covid-19 positive earlier on Sunday afternoon. The Home Minister had tweeted that he is “fine” but was getting hospitalised in keeping with the advice of his doctors. “On displaying […]
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Saudi Arabia concludes downsized hajj amid Covid-19 pandemic
Muslim pilgrims circled Islam’s holiest site along socially distanced paths Sunday in the final ritual of the hajj, the smallest in modern history as Saudi authorities sought to prevent a coronavirus outbreak. Only up to 10,000 Muslims took part in the hajj, a far cry from the 2.5 million who […]
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IPL 2020 to be held from Sep 19 to Nov 10, Chinese sponsors retained
The sports ministry has given permission for staging the postponed Indian Premier League (IPL) in the United Arab Emirates and the union home ministry’s final clearance will come soon, it was announced in the IPL Governing Council meeting here on Sunday. It paves the way for the tournament planned from […]
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‘Mind your business’: Punjab CM to Kejriwal on demand for CBI probe into hooch deaths
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday hit back at his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal for demanding a CBI probe into the state’s hooch tragedy, saying the AAP leader should “mind his own business”. Amarinder Singh further asked the Delhi chief minister “not to exploit the tragic affair for reviving […]
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Bengal fixes Covid-19 tests, kits rates after hospitals found fleecing patients
Flooded by complaints of exorbitant rates being charged from Covid-19 patients for medicines, PPE kits, swab tests etc by private hospitals and laboratories, the West Bengal government has issued seven new advisories, fixing the rates. The government has also imposed curbs on use of critical care medicines carrying different price […]