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Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO Chief Scientist, revealed on Monday that, compared to the delta form of Covid-19, reinfections in the omicron variant are three times more common 90 days after the virus first strikes. Dr Swaminathan told CNBC-TV18 that while data on the virulence and transmissibility of variations would take …

India’s spinners wasted no time in dismissing New Zealand’s last hitters in the second test at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday, thrashing the tourists by a record 372 runs and clinching the series 1-0. It was India’s largest margin of victory in a home match, surpassing their 337-run triumph over …

Dr Angelique Coetzee, the head of the South African Medical Association, told Republic Media Network on Thursday that the Omicron strain of COVID-19 has minor symptoms and that infected people do not lose their sense of smell or taste. “If you want to know if it’s Omicron, if you can’t …

Twitter’s co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, has stepped down, and IIT Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal has been named the company’s new CEO. Parag Agrawal attended Central High School. He passed the joint admission examination with a 77th-place finish. He went on to Stanford University to pursue a doctorate in computer …

Munawar Faruqui, a comedian, said on Sunday that he would be calling it quits after 12 of his concerts were cancelled in the last two months, the most recent in Bengaluru. The performance in Bengaluru was supposed to take place on Sunday, but it was cancelled after the police advised …

After a 21-month restriction, international scheduled commercial flights to and from India will restart on December 15, according to an order issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Friday. While the change may lower costs on some high-volume routes, it comes at a time when foreign travel is facing …

Making your country’s test debut is an accomplishment in and of itself, but scoring a century is the cherry on top. In Kanpur, Shreyas Iyer made his test debut against New Zealand, and he made an impression. He hit a fantastic century in a difficult scenario. Iyer got out to …

According to data from the National Family Health Survey-5, India’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR), or the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime, has decreased from 2.2 to 2, while the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) has climbed from 54 to 67 percent. The data from Phase 2 …

Gautam Gambhir, a BJP MP from East Delhi, is said to have received a death threat from ‘ISIS Kashmir.’ He has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police. The death threat was sent to Gambhir’s official email address.   In light of the threat, he has requested robust security arrangements. “This …

In a rare moment, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who had received an invite from an auto-rickshaw driver on Monday kept his promise and shared dinner with him and his family in Ludhiana. The AAP supremo had interacted with a large group of auto-drivers as a part of his campaign …