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Malia and Sasha Obama share their admiration for their mother Michelle in new Netflix documentary

Malia, 21, and Sasha, 18, appear in the new Netflix documentary 'Becoming,' which chronicles Mrs. Obama's 34-city tour for her memoir of the same name.




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Michelle Obama says she had to give up her 'aspirations' to have kids

The documentary was released on Netflix on Wednesday and sees the former first lady narrate parts of her life from when she was a child to meeting Barack, their time in the White House.




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Plain sailing for India as Iran opens Chabaha port

The new strategic route opened by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani connects Iran, India and Afghanistan, bypassing Pakistan, and reflects a growing convergence of interest between countries.




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AirAsia outfits 'too revealing' say Malaysian lawmakers

The uniforms of air stewardesses for AirAsia and Firefly could arouse passengers as they are 'too revealing', according to a Senator Abdullah Mat Yasim in Malaysian Parliament yesterday.




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Iranian minister mocked for 'passing off child's NASA fancy dress costume as regime astronaut suit' 

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, Tehran's information and communications technology minister, last week tweeted a picture of the silver outfit and sparked ridicule.




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Exposed: The conspiracy theorists who claim coronavirus is linked to 5G

Some conspiracy theorists who believe that 5G is helping to spread the coronavirus, have taken to burning 5G communication towers (pictured). This theory has been spread by a bizarre group.




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Planet Nine is a MIRAGE according to experts who say it is a sprawling disk of icy debris

New research suggests Planet Nine is a mirage and nothing more than 'collective gravity.' The team say it is a sprawling disk of icy debris that formed when the solar system was born.




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United Arab Emirates

Embassy of India, Abu Dhabi
Plot No. 10, Sector W-59/02
Diplomatic Area, Off-Airport Road,
PO Box No.4090,
Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Telephone: 00-971-2-4492700, 4447729
Fax: 00-971-2-4444685, 4447768 (Consular)
E-Mail:amboffice@indembassyuae.org (Ambassador's office),hoc@indembassyuae.org (Gen),commerce@indembassyuae.org (Eco & Com Wing),cons@indembassyuae.org (Consular Wing), edu@indembassyuae.org (Education Wing)help@indembassyuae.org (Community Welfare Wing)
Website:www.indembassyuae.org

Ambassador
M.K. Lokesh
Deputy Chief of Mission
Ms. Namrata S. Kumar




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Iraq

Embassy of India, Baghdad

Building No. 22, Street No.16,
Mohalla No. 609, Al Mansour District
Baghdad.


Telephone:

00-964 7704439731(M)- Ambassador,

00-964 7704439706(M)-HOC;

00-964 7704444899 (Consular)

00-870 772223446(SAT)- Gen.


E-Mail: 
amb.baghdad@mea.gov.in (Ambassador),

hoc.baghdad@mea.gov.in (For Commercial/Education/ITEC matters), adm.baghdad@mea.gov.in (Admin),

cons.baghdad@mea.gov.in (For Consular/Labour /Visa/Passport matters)

Ambassador: Shri George Raju

Head of Chancery: Shri Bharath Kumar Kuthati




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Iran

Embassy of India, Tehran
No. 22, Mir Emad Street,
Dr. Beheshti Avenue,
P.O. Box No.15875-4118, Tehran,
Iran.

Telephone: 00-98-21-88755103-5, 88755102 (Visa enquiry)
Fax: 00-98-21-88755973, 88745557 (Commercial Wing)
E-Mail: amb.tehran@mea.gov.in (Amb), hoc.tehran@mea.gov.in (HOC)
Website: www.indianembassy-tehran.ir

Ambassador
D. P. Srivastava
Deputy Chief of Mission
Sibi George




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We speak to freeskier Andri Ragettli about his viral indoor workout

Andri Ragettli, who is a 22-year-old professional skier, was keen to stress that others should not try such moves at home as it is extremely dangerous.




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External Affairs Minister meets Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Iran on the sidelines of CICA Summit 2019 in Dushanbe





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Prime Minister arrives in Paris on the first leg of his visit to France, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain[ph]Photo Courtesy : Lalit Kumar [/ph]





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Prime Minister departs for bilateral visits to France, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain[ph]Photo Courtesy : Lalit Kumar[/ph]





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Minister of State for External Affairs calls on Barham Salih, President of Iraq in Iraq





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Minister of State for External Affairs calls on Adil Abdul Mahdi, Prime Minister of Iraq in Iraq





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Minister of State for External Affairs inaugurates bust of Mahatma Gandhi during his visit to Iraq





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Minister of State for External Affairs meets Mohamad Ali Alhakim, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq in Iraq




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External Affairs Minister meets Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Iran on the sidelines of 74th session of UNGA in New York




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External Affairs Minister meets Inia Seruiratu, Foreign Minister of Fiji on the sidelines of 74th session of UNGA in New York





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Prime Minister meets Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran on the sidelines of 74th session of UNGA Summit in New York [ph]Photo Courtesy - Lalit Kumar[/ph]




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External Affairs Minister meets Mohammed Ali Alhakim, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, on the sidelines of the NAM Ministerial Meeting 2019 in Baku[ph]Photo Courtesy: Gajendra Singh, Photo Division[/ph]





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External Affairs Minister calls on Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran in Tehran





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External Affairs Minister meets Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Minister of Iran in Tehran





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Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran arrives in New Delhi [ph]Photo Courtesy: Chandan Kumar Shah [/ph]





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Prime Minister meets Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran during Raisina Dialogue 2020 [ph]Photo Courtesy: Lalit Kumar[/ph]





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External Affairs Minister meets Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran during Raisina Dialogue 2020 [ph]Photo Courtesy:Hemant Joshi [/ph]





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LJP to contest Bihar elections with development an issue: Chirag Pawan

He said that if the manifesto is released before the Assembly elections, caste will not be an issue, but the focus will be on development of the state




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New antiviral drug combo shows promise against COVID-19: Study

A two-week course of an antiviral therapy, started within seven days of experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, may improve clinical recovery of patients and reduce their hospital stay duration, according to the first randomised trial of this triple drug combination. The study, published in the journal The Lancet, involved 127 adults from six public hospitals in Hong Kong, and tested the effectiveness of an antiviral drug combination in reducing the load of the novel coronavirus in their bodies. According to the researchers, including those from the University of Hong Kong, treatment involving combination of the drugs interferon beta-1b, plus the antiviral therapy lopinavir-ritonavir and ribavirin, is better at reducing the viral load than lopinavir-ritonavir alone. They stressed on the need for larger phase 3 trials to examine the effectiveness of this triple combination in critically ill patients, adding that these early findings were only observed in patients with mild to moderate ...




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Iran reports more than 1,500 new virus cases

Iran warned Saturday that coronavirus infections were rising in the southwest despite falls in other regions, as it announced more than 1,500 new confirmed cases. "All provinces are showing a gradual drop in new infections... except for Khuzestan, where the situation is still concerning," health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in televised remarks. The health ministry stopped publishing provincial figures for the coronavirus last month. It has instead opted for a colour-coded system of white for low-risk parts of the country, yellow for medium-risk and red for high-risk areas. Latest reports have shown Khuzestan red along with a few other provinces, including the capital Tehran and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom, where Iran reported its first cases in February. Early last week, Iran's official daily caseload hit its lowest level since March 10, but it has since climbed again steadily. Jahanpour said 1,529 new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the ...




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Got drug controller nod for Favipiravir's clinical trial on COVID-19 patients: CSIR DG

The Drug Controller of India has allowed clinical trial of Favipiravir medicine, developed indigenously a CSIR laboratory, on coronavirus patients, Director General Shekhar Mande said on Friday. He said the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad has developed the technology to make the drug Favipiravir. The technology has been transferred to a private company, IICT Director S Chandrashekar said. The company will now tie up with hospitals for clinical trials so that the drug could be tested on patients suffering from COVID-19. Approval from patients will be necessary as per the protocols, he said. Mande said Favipiravir is used in countries such as China and Japan to treat influenza. Whenever, a virus enters a cell, it tries to create multiple replicas. Favipiravir stops the replication process, he explained. The CSIR has already tied up with Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd to evaluate Mycobacterium W (Mw) for faster recovery of hospitalised COVID-19 patients and minimise




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Odisha's poor medical aspirants get online classes to sustain focus on NEET exam

Meritorious students hailing from poor sections of the society in Odisha have been provided smartphones to help them attend online classes during coronavirus-induced lockdown to sustain their focus on the NEET exam scheduled on July 26 for admission in medical colleges. These wards of humble vegetable sellers, fishermen and marginal farmers are students of "Zindagi foundation" run by a non-governmental organisation for talented students of Odisha, to help them give wings to their dreams. The man behind the initiative is academician Ajay Bahadur Singh, who was forced to quit medical studies due to his father's kidney ailment in 1990 and had to sell tea and sherbet to help his family survive. There are 19 medical aspirants, both boys and girls, at present under the project from remote corners of Odisha who will be undertaking the national level undergraduate medical entrance exam on July 26 next to qualify for admission in medical colleges. The lockdown caused by the ...




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Virat, Anushka donate Rs 5L each for Mumbai police welfare

Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh on Saturday informed that India cricket skipper Virat Kohli and his wife actor Anushka Sharma have contributed Rs 5 lakh each for police welfare amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. "Thank you, @imVkohli and @AnushkaSharma for contributing Rs. 5 lacs each towards the welfare of Mumbai Police personnel. Your contribution will safeguard those at the frontline in the fight against Coronavirus. #MumbaiPoliceFoundation," Singh tweeted from his official handle. Earlier, Kohli and Sharma had given undisclosed amounts to the PM CARES fund and Maharashtra Chief Minister's Relief Fund to support the fight against COVID-19. Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus positive cases in the country.




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NBSAP to NBAP: The downward spiral


From its promising beginning and grand proclamations at international fora, the nation's Biodiversity Plan has undergone a massive erosion, as MoEF has consistently put economic values above environmental ones. Kanchi Kohli reports.




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Indira Gandhi’s elite environmentalism : a paler shade of green


Darryl D’Monte reviews Indira Gandhi – A Life in Nature , a new book focussing on Indira Gandhi as a naturalist.




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Srirangapatna: Through prisoners' eyes


Poornima Dasharathi travels back in time to bring alive the adventures, sights and sounds in the erstwhile kingdom of Mysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, as recounted in the memoirs of two English prisoners of war.




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Advertising mirages to mask reality


An environment magazine recently carried a Gujarat government-funded NGO's advertisement portraying vast tracts of Saurashtra and Kachchh supplied with drinking water through pipelines forking off of the Sardar Sarovar Canal. Reports in the print media were telling quite a different story. Himanshu Upadhyaya digs deeper.




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A mother's plea: protect our seafarers from pirates


A permanent solution should be sought to defend ships and their crew who, refusing to be party to unscrupulous trade, end up being eliminated, with their deaths portrayed as suicides, writes Shabeena Zaheer who lost her son.




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Meira is good choice for Speaker: Sonia

Congress President Sonia Gandhi looked and sounded pleased as punch at having outmanoeuvred her rivals and enacted a coup of sorts by bringing in the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha, and that too a Dalit.




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'Rahul could become a desirable leader'

'I feel Rahul Gandhi's emerging influence may do good to the Congress.' Political analyst Cho Ramaswamy on the post-election scenario.




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EVMs: conspiracy of silence?


Why have the media bought the view that EVMs are infallible when some experts – and the Supreme Court – disagree? Ravikiran Shinde dissects the issue.




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Old conflict resurfaces at Athirappilly falls


Kerala's electricity board is preparing to build the seventh dam across the 144-kilometers-long Chalakudy river. The fate of the picturesque Athirappilly waterfalls hangs in the balance, with locals battling against the project. Sudhirendar Sharma has more.




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Combating biopiracy - the legal way


Can something be 'novel' if it is already well known? Patent offices in some countries require only that the patented bits be novel in their own country, and completely ignored the knowledge of other nations. Countries like India that are rich in biodiversity and traditional knowledge are seeking to end this biopiracy. Kasturi Das looks at the issues involved.




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The promises of Tadri: Mirage or reality?


As environmental clearance on the proposed Tadri port in Karnataka is awaited, Dina Rasquinha and Aarthi Sridhar discuss how assumed future benefits of the port have been projected in complete disregard of the natural, environmental gifts that the region enjoys.




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Gonds nourish aspirations at annual fair


In what is supposed to be an annual religious and cultural gathering, nothing is more mixed up than the speeches. Talks that start with the fine points of Gondi religion, its practice and ritual, inevitably delve into subjects with deeper socio-political resonance. From interior Maharashtra, Aparna Pallavi reports on the annual Kachhargarh fair.




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The transformation of Kavthepiran village


Amongst a number of other problems, this village in Sangli district, Maharashtra, was ridden with alcoholism and disease for over two decades. Since 2001, that began to change. Kavthepiran made a turnaround, banned alcoholism, and won a national award for 100 per cent sanitation this year. Vinita Deshmukh reports.




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अंखिया लागेला पर खेसारी लाल ने काजल राघवानी संग मचाया धमाल, देखें VIRAL VIDEO

खेसारी लाल यादव (Khesari Lal Yadav) और काजल राघवानी (Kajal Raghwani) के इस वीडियो को यूट्यूब पर अभी तक 1 करोड़ से भी ज्यादा बार देखा जा चुका है.




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इरफान खान के बेटे ने शेयर की पिता की UNSEEN फोटो, NSD के दिनों की तस्वीर Viral

इरफान खान के बड़े बेटे बाबिल (Irrfan Khan Son Babil) ने पहले ही पिता के साथ वीडियोज और फोटो शेयर करके अपना दुख जाहिर किया था.




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पापा सैफ अली खान को खाना खिलाती दिखीं नन्हीं सारा, Throwback फोटो Viral

यह सारा के बचपन के दिनों की फोटो है (Sara Ali Khan childhood Photo With Saif Ali Khan) , जिसमें वह पिता सैफ अली खान की गोद में बैठी दिख रही हैं.




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सलमान खान के फार्महाउस में घोड़े की सेवा करती दिखीं जैकलीन, Video Viral

जैकलीन फर्नांडिस (Jacqueline Fernandez) ने सलमान खान के फार्महाउस में बीत रहे समय का एक वीडियो शेयर किया है, जिसे उन्होंने 'छोटी सी फिल्म' करार दिया है.