Every citizen has a legal right to return to their home, says State’s Chief Spokesperson on COVID-19

Asked about the incidents, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said he that he is aware of them.

First Shramik Special from Chennai Central will reach destination on Monday

The quarantine centres for Keralites returning from abroad and other States have accommodated 347 people in Thrissur district. They were sent to the c

The trio were among thousands of migrant workers who have set out on foot for their home states from Maharashtra in the last few weeks amid lockdown on account for coronavirus.

Most entering Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra are headed to Uttar Pradesh.

Both claim they are footing the bill

Most of them are from West Bengal

It follows letter seeking reimbursement

567 foreigners to be handed over to police

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Officials said they were stepping up safety protocols

They were atop a heap of mangoes on the Agra-bound vehicle coming from Hyderabad.

An alert loco driver of a goods train saved the lives of at least 20 migrant workers by applying the emergency brakes and halting the train just 100 metres away from them near Pune on Friday evening. The migrants were walking on the tracks between the Uruli and Loni stations. The incident happened barely 14 hrs after 16 migrants were killed on Aurangabad tracks.

Centre plans to raise the total borrowings to ₹12 lakh crore this fiscal

Sanjay Raut took to his official Twitter handle on Sunday to let know his suggestion via a post regarding the situation.

The funding will allow the National Science Resources Center to validate its LASER (Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform) Model. LASER, a systemic approach to reform, is a set of processes and strategies designed to help state, district and school leadership teams effectively implement and sustain
high-quality science education for elementary, middle and secondary school students.

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Breitburg and her team want to determine just how much stress they cause. Over the next five years they will conduct a series of lab and field experiments that examine how diel-cycling hypoxia and the associated acidification affects the growth and disease rates in striped bass, the eastern oyster and other ecologically and economically important Chesapeake Bay species. They will also study the animals’ behavioral responses to these changes.

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“Places of Invention,” a planned 3,500-square-foot exhibition at the National Museum of American History scheduled to open in 2014, will feature a selection of “hot spots” of invention and innovation—places where a critical mass of inventive people, networks, institutions, funding and other resources come together and creativity flourishes.

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To celebrate its 22nd anniversary in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a dramatic new image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known […]

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A new study of microorganisms living on the skin and in the intestines of North America vultures (black and turkey vultures) has turned up a […]

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Two rovers are active right now on the surface of Mars: Opportunity, which landed in January 2004, and Curiosity, which started exploration in August 2012. […]

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If you were an average person in the 18th and early 19th centuries, chances are your wardrobe was 50 shades of beige, with maybe a […]

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The Center for Tropical Forest Science, which manages a global network of temperate and tropical forest research plots, will utilize the funds to conduct workshops in the Americas and Asia to investigate how taxonomic, functional, and genetic dimensions of diversity affect tree communities and their resilience to global change.

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well,” Virginia Woolf once said. Woolf’s sentiment is one that the staff […]

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