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Humans in India survived Toba supervolcano eruption; Here’s how 74,000 year-old event developed Homo Sapiens

Some schools of thought suggest that the eruption pushed Earth into volcanic winter that lasted as long as six years and the planet Earth had to endure a longish cooling period of a thousand years.




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Rare ‘Supermoon’ on Holi this year! Check time, details, history of moon marvel

The term supermoon has only prevailed in the common lexicon for 40 years or so. It was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979.




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Delhi weather update: Light rains predicted in national capital

The weatherman has predicted a cloudy afternoon with possibility of thunderstorm and gusty winds accompanied by light rains in parts of Delhi.




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Air quality picking up in quarantined countries

Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.




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Race for corona vaccine hots up; US, China enter human-trials stage

At least two candidates have already entered the clinical evaluation stage, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).




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India to see Pink Super Moon this week; check date and timings

One of the major lunar events India is going to witness this week is a Pink Super Moon. This appearance of the moon is considered as the brightest and the biggest.




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Pink Super Moon: 7 things you need to know before witnessing it today

Witness the Pink Super Moon from your balconies today! One of the celestial events, which is an occurrence of a Super Moon, is set to take place today and can be witnessed by many from their balconies only.




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Supermoon 2020: Here’s why New Zealand won’t be able to see the phenomenon

According to NASA, this will be the largest of full Moons this year. Also termed as “Pink Moon”, this Supermoon marks the first full moon of the Spring season.




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Supermoon 2020: After a beautiful ‘Pink Moon’ on Tuesday night, viewers share pics on Twitter

Explaining the difference between a normal Full Moon and a Supermoon, Brown told The Guardian that the Supermoon is just closer to the Earth than the usual Full Moon.




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Scientists discover new ‘Super Earth’ in six-planet system

"The discovery of this exceptional system has been made possible thanks to the acquisition of a great number of measurements, as well as a dramatic improvement of the instrument and of our signal processing techniques," said Francois Bouchy, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland.




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ISRO’s Gaganyaan: COVID-19 interrupts future of the mission; check details

In the Gaganyaan mission, the first of three flights was scheduled within a year, initial two flights to be unmanned but with humanoids onboard.




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Massive planet ‘King’ Kepler-88 d discovered! Newly found exoplanet is 3 times bigger than Jupiter

The discovery was made by a group of astronomers led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (UH IfA). The new plant was discovered after studying six years of data.




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Super Flower Moon 2020: Date, timing in India, how to watch full moon; check details

Did you miss last month's Pink Supermoon? Don’t worry! You can witness another supermoon today.




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Super Flower Moon 2020: Last ‘supermoon’ of the year is truly amazing! Check images

Super Flower Moon 2020: Scintillating images of the full moon, also a 'supermoon', are being shared from across the world.




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Decision of supreme court bench gs singhvi,gopal gowda.2010

In 2010 recruitment of third gred teacher in Sanskrit Department of Rajasthan the rajasthan High court passed a order on 2 august to dismiss 3rd gred teachers after servicing more than 6 month in sanskrit dept.due to merit list changed by RPSC.This order challenged in supreme court & honorable bench of judge G S SINGHVI ,GOPAL GOWDA & C. NAGAPPaN passed stay order in september 2013 against high court`s dismiss order& issued notice .How Can i know what will happened the final decision of supreme court since it has been long time .




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Supreme Court says Virtual Courts are not against the concept of Open Court Hearing

In a recent plea by Bar Council of India chairman to Chief Justice of India, it was advised against continuation of hearing via video-conferencing after the lockdown ends, to maintain judicial transparency. The Supreme Court in a press report has sai




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India strongly protests against the recent order of Pakistan Supreme Court to allow elections in Gilgit Baltistan

Pakistan Supreme Court has passed an Order on 30th April to make amendments in the Gilgit Baltistan Order of 2018 to conduct the general assembly elections in that area.India has lodged a strong protest with Islamabad against these directions of the




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Farewell of Justice Deepak Gupta: A person for Young Lawyers to look up to

On the day of his birthday on 7th May, 2020 Justice Deepak Gupta had his virtual farewell which was graced by many esteemed members of the judiciary like JusticeD.Y Chandrachud, Justice Ravindra Bhat, Senior Lawyer Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, President of Sup




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The "Bois Locker Room" Chat Group

What has happened?In the late evening hours of Saturday, purported screenshots of chats between boys and girls in a group called the “Bois Locker Room” started making rounds on social media. By early morning of Sunday, the screenshots had




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Klose signs up as Bayern assistant coach

World Cup record scorer Miroslav Klose has signed a one-year contract to become Bayern Munich assistant coach under head coach Hansi Flick from next season, the Bundesliga champions said Thursday.




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Kidnapped Child In UP's Mathura Rescued Within 24 Hours: Police

Police on Saturday rescued the three-year-old child who was kidnapped from near his house in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, an official said.




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5 Killed In Clash Between Two Groups In Gujarat's Kutch: Police

Five persons were killed in a clash between two groups at Moti Hamirpar village in Kutch district of Gujarat on Saturday afternoon, police said.




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Covid-19 & e-learning: Coursera sees massive uptake in courses

When comparing the past 30 days with preceding 30, enrolments for epidemic courses increased by 360%.




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Remote working during Coronavirus lockdown: Backups are a job worth doing

To help you out, Windows has BitLocker, Macs have FileVault, and Linux has LUKS and cryptsetup, which can be used to create encrypted drives and partitions.




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Customers are learning to adapt to the new norm: Deb Deep Sengupta, MD, SAP Indian Subcontinent

In order to ensure business continuity during these challenging times, the German enterprise software maker SAP is actively engaged with its workforce and customers to help navigate this challenging business environment.




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The Covid-19’s impact on start-ups: Make use of the opportunity the coronavirus has provided

There are sectors that have benefited immensely on account of Covid-19-induced work-from-home compulsion. Some, like healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment start-ups have seen a direct bump in their revenues.




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upGrad starts courses at Rs 10k

Edtech firm allows learners to start certified Master’s degree at Rs 10,000; receives more than 50,000 interests.




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Women’s cricket gets a start-up boost

The 2017 women's World Cup in England was the turning point with 180 million watching the game out of which 156 million were from India, says Lahoti.




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Keeping up the spirit: Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on industries – a look at where F&B industry stands

In other words, we can speculate, but frankly, we don’t have much to go by till we know that work can be resumed to some extent.




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Student Support: La Trobe sets aside Rs 60 crore

La Trobe was amongst first Australian universities to 'pause' teaching activities to ensure right decisions were made on how to deliver quality education.




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IIT-M start-up develops unique coating material to ‘inactivate’ coronavirus

The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras’ (IIT-M) incubated start-up Muse Wearables has developed new methods for coating textiles with nanoparticles-based antimicrobial agents that can ‘inactivate’ the human coronavirus on contact.




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Still hiring! Walmart, other superstores buck U.S. employment trend

Amid the carnage of the U.S. employment report for April was one bright spot: superstores led by Walmart Inc, added more than 90,000 jobs.




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Coupon on new benchmark bonds settles at 5.79%

Market participants have been anticipating the coupon on the new 10-year bonds to settle at levels close to 5.85%, around 15-18 basis points lower than the yield on the current benchmark bonds.




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Indian exchanges aim to attract overseas rupee trading volumes onshore

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the rupee-dollar derivatives trading on the two exchanges on Friday.




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FM Nirmala Sitharaman to meet PSB chiefs on Monday; to review credit flow, support to NBFCs

The meeting, to be held via video conference, will also dwell on credit disbursement since March, with the focus on Covid-19-related credit sanction and offtake.




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Analyst Corner: Jindal Steel & Power Rating ‘buy’ – Volume uptick in April beat sector trend

Company faring better than peers on operational front due to its focus on exports; lower costs to aid margin; ‘Buy’ maintained.




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Fiscal slip up 2 ppt, need to structure package carefully

A Rs 4 lakh crore extra borrowing acknowledges huge fiscal slippage; raise loan-guarantee component in package.




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Ease labour laws now: UP gets it right, but relaxation must become permanent

Just to have employment levels rise meaningfully—let alone goals such as playing host to companies moving out of China, or raising manufacturing’s share in the GDP to 25%—the Centre and the states must quickly ease labour laws.




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Jio offers new top-ups, annual plans with cheaper, additional data

Mobile subscribers get access to 4G data at a price as low as Rs 3.5 per GB but if the floor price is fixed as demanded by telecom operators, the mobile internet prices will rise 5-10 times from the current level.




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Google Duo users will soon be able to make ‘group’ video calls from their PC and laptops

Google Duo group video calling for web will arrive in the coming weeks starting as a preview on Chrome.




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Covid-19: Armed Forces set up quarantine facilities for those returning from overseas

The Indian Navy has also set up a facility at Visakhapatnam, which too can take in 200 people with all the facilities available inside.




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TDP chief urges PM Modi to set up scientific experts’ committee to probe Vizag gas leak incident

Following the gas leak incident, the National Green Tribunal ordered LG Polymers India to pay interim damages of Rs 50 crore and issued notices to the company, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), state and Centre.




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Facebook now rolling out its biggest update for desktop users; here are all the features worth talking about

Social media giant Facebook is now rolling out its biggest update for desktop users, after first announcing it at its F8 developer conference last year.




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Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day, says Health Minister Harsh Vardhan

The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.




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ICMR teams up with Bharat Biotech to develop COVID-19 vaccine

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, the Health Ministry said.




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Catching Cybercriminals Exploiting the Pandemic Follow Up

Read additional insights from The DomainTools Security Research Team's recent presentation on CovidLock including results from participant polls and supplemental Q&A.




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Great Demand in Ontario for Nursing-Related Occupations

Ontario introduced some changes in its immigration through the In-Demand Skills Stream of Employer Job Offer that provides an avenue to the skilled and experienced candidates in occupations related to nursing in Canada. In July this year, the Ontario…




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Nova Scotia Achieves A Record Immigration Driving Up the Provincial Population

Nova Scotia Province had a record-breaking growth in population and the credit goes to immigrants as well as interprovincial migrants.Impressive Performance by the ProvinceAs per the estimates of Statistics Canada the growth in population was 12,339…




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Winter Itineraries Updates for Maharajas' Express

The latest details of the recently launched Maharajas’ Express winter itineraries are the new update on the Indian Luxury Trains website. Maharajas’ Express, dubbed as India’s answer to the Orient Express, has announced its winter itineraries across the choicest of...



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World shares mixed amid hopes for business pickup; oil slides

il prices slid and world equity markets see sawed Wednesday as investor hopes for a pickup in business activity were weighed against downbeat economic data and low fuel demand highlighted by a rise in U.S. crude stockpiles to three-year highs.