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ASK TONY: We waited two weeks for Morrisons order, then RBS blocked it

My wife and I received a message from our bank saying there had been an 'unusual' request for payment on our account and it had declined to pay it. The payment was to Morrisons.




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ASK TONY: Husband's birthday Beatles treat fell victim to coronavirus

For my husband's 50th birthday I booked an apartment in Liverpool via Booking.com. He wanted to see all The Beatles memorabilia and we had tickets to see the tribute band.




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ASK TONY: Metro bank froze my account and it has £30,000 stuck in it! 

Despite my repeated calls and a letter to Metro Bank's chief executive, it was almost a month before it wrote back asking for proof of address and details of my travel for the past 6 months.




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ASK TONY: Why was hard-up son charged £51 to delay car loan payments

My son has been laid off due to the coronavirus, so he contacted Suzuki Finance to arrange a one-month payment holiday. It agreed to this, but said it will charge him £51 for this month.




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£186 vanished after my Wayfair account was hacked: ASK TONY

The homewares website Wayfair emailed to inform me my account details, including had been changed. I tried to check my account but my password had been changed.




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ASK TONY:I got a £994 bill... years after I left my student digs 

In June 2014 I moved out of a student house I had been living in for two years while at university. The accounts were in my name. We always paid the full amount of our energy bill on time.




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SC upholds Guv's decision asking Kamal Nath govt to hold floor test

Following the apex court order, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath had resigned on March 20, after 15 months of taking over as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh




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Did Prashant Kishor take a flight during lockdown? Centre asks airlines

On Thursday, Ministry of Home Affairs asked Ministry of Civil Aviation to find out




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Punjab Cong asks people to hoist national flag to protest against Centre

Gehlot suggests 15-point formula for post May 3 scenario to the Centre




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Has Congress outsourced task of defeating BJP, Sharmishtha asks Chidambaram

Sharmishtha is daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, who has been a Congress leader all his life




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SC asks parties to reveal pending criminal cases against poll candidates

The apex court said political parties will also have to upload reasons for selecting candidates with pending criminal cases on their website




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For a Nebraska City, Essential Employees Work as Virus Fears Grow

Industrial businesses in one Nebraska city implement safety procedures and adapt to social distancing guidelines in order to keep the doors open during the coronavirus pandemic. WSJ’s Erin Ailworth reports from Grand Island, Neb. Photo: Erin Ailworth




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Modi's $222-billion Make in India haul masks challenges to come

Right now, the campaign launched in 2014 is best known for its logo - a lion made of cogs - that has shown up on billboards from Hanover to San Francisco




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Coronavirus Update: Trump Says Task Force to Shift Focus

President Trump said the White House coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely and Airbnb plans to lay off a quarter of its workforce. WSJ’s Jason Bellini has the latest on the pandemic. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP




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2 arrested in slaying of Michigan guard over face mask order

Two men were arrested Friday in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded a woman wear a mask while shopping at a store. Genesee County authorities said Ramonyea Bishop, 23, was taken into custody at an apartment in Bay City. His alleged accomplice, Larry Teague, 44, was arrested Thursday near a motel in Houston. The men and Sharmel Teague, the wife of Larry Teague, are charged with first degree murder in the May 1 shooting of Calvin Munerlyn at a Family Dollar store in Flint. Munerlyn was shot at the store just north of downtown Flint a short time after telling Sharmel Teague's daughter she had to leave because she lacked a mask, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton. Teague argued with Munerlyn, 43, before leaving. Two men later came to the store and allegedly shot the security guard to death.. Bishop's sister, Brya Bishop, was previously charged with tampering with evidence, lying to police and being an accessory to a felony. Leyton has said she attempted to




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COVID-19: Indian-origin woman faces charges for refusing to wear face mask in Singapore

A 40-year-old Indian-origin woman in Singapore was charged with five counts, including use of criminal force, in a court here on Saturday for refusing to wear a face mask for protection against COVID-19 and assaulting a police officer who tried to ascertain her identity. Kasturi Govindasamy Retnamswamy was arrested after the incident that happened at a shopping mall on May 7 and was captured on video. Retnamswamy, who is a Singaporean, was remanded at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) for psychiatric evaluation after the incident, reported The Straits Times. She was taken to a court on Saturday and faced five charges, including use of abusive words and criminal force against a public servant. The next hearing is scheduled for May 22 after her remand in the IMH. According to the police statement on Friday, the woman insulted the mall staff and hurled abuses at a security officer who was trying to get her to put on her mask correctly. The widely-shared video of the incident shows a ..




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Telangana police to rollout AI-based system to check face mask norm violations

The Telangana Police will soon rollout an Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based system through CCTVs to check face mask norm violations. Describing it as a first such initiative in the country,State DGP M Mahendar Reddy has tweeted that the system shall be enabled shortly across the three police commissionerates of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda which cover Hyderabad and its suburbs. He said the initiative involved leveraging computer vision and deep learning techniques on closed cirucuit television (cctvs) "#AI based #FaceMaskViolationEnforcement is being rolled out by TS police. Leveraging ComputerVision & #DeepLearningTechnique being implemented on surveillance CCTVs across the cities is #FirstOfItsKind in INDIA. Shall be enabled shortly across the 3Commissionerates *Hyd,Cyb&Rck," he said. The state government, which has made wearing a mask mandatory in public places, on Thursday issued orders imposing Rs 1000 as fine for those not complying with it. "In ...




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Entrepreneurs in rural belts switch to making face masks amid COVID-19 crisis

A number of entrepreneurs based in rural areas of the country have taken to manufacturing face masks amid dwindling demand for their regular produce in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, an official said on Saturday. Around, 500 rural entrepreneurs have so far produced and sold 3.5 lakh such masks under the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), he said. They produce around 2,500 masks per day for health professionals, policemen, media personnel and cleaning staff, the official said. In West Bengal, 38 entrepreneurs manufacture nearly 600 masks a day in blocks of Dinhata, Pathar Pratima and Manikchak in different districts of the state. The entrepreneurs, trained under SVEP -- under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) -- have sold 49,000 masks in the state till date, he said. Apart from West Bengal, the programme is active in the rural belts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Haryana, he added. The masks are made in hygienic ..




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Hockey India employees asked to check status on Aarogyasetu App before leaving for work

Hockey India employees will have to review their health status on 'Aarogyasetu' App before starting for office and they can travel only if their status is 'safe' or 'low risk', according to an advisory issued by the sports body. The Hockey India advisory outlined the preventive measures which all its employees need to be follow at office to contain the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. The highly-contagious disease has so far claimed nearly 2000 lives and infected over 59,000 in the country, forcing the government to enforce a lockdown till May 17. "With reference to the directive issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel & Training, Government of India ... All the staff members should download 'Aarogyasetu' App on their mobile phones immediately," the advisory said. "Before starting for office, they must review their status on 'Aarogyasetu' and commute only when the app shows 'safe' or 'low risk' status. "The staff members




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Too many questions? Take away the right to ask!


The Chhattisgarh government has nullified the community rights of a section of villagers under the Forest Rights Act, as it was being used by them to oppose mining in the region. But why are the local people up against mining? Shripad Dharmadhikary reports.




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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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Kobe Bryant, Basketball Legend and All-Star, Dies at 41

Kobe Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar and one of the greatest players in National Basketball Association history, died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. He was 41 years old. Photo: Associated Press




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New England Patriots' Plane Flies 1.2 Million Masks from China to U.S.

The Massachusetts governor struck a deal for N95 masks from China, but he needed a way to transport them. The New England Patriots plane ended up making the delivery. Photo: New England Patriots




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Voting : Frequently asked questions


Two sections for voters all over the country and one section for Karnataka voters, prepared by the Karnataka Election Watch Committee.




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Can’t Unlock Your iPhone’s Face ID with a Mask On? There’s a Mask For That

The coronavirus pandemic means we must wear masks. It also means unlocking an iPhone with Face ID is a challenge. WSJ’s Joanna Stern tracked down a woman who created a mask to get around it.




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Biotech policy : task force report


Suman Sahai comments on the recently released report of Task Force on Biotechnology policy.




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Adding millets to the basket


To improve food security and to bring extensive lands now left fallow into cultivation again, the government must support millets just as it supports rice and wheat. Karuna M reports.




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Parastatals and task forces - the new decision-makers


In the name of good governance, decision-making powers in Karnataka are being given to parastatal organizations and non-elected task forces. Kathyayini Chamaraj asks for a re-look at outsourcing government.




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Bhama Askhed Dam: Just another pawn


A dam that was sanctioned upon its claims of being able to irrigate 30,000 hectares in a semi-arid area of Maharashtra does not even have canals 18 years after initiation, but spawns industrial development! Findings by Parineeta Dandekar typify the issues of many large dams in the state.




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क्या है Face Mask पहनने का सही तरीका, ध्यान रखें ये बातें

दुनियाभर में मास्क पहनने को लेकर जरूरी एडवाइजरी जारी की गई है. N-95 और सर्जिकल मास्क की कमी नजर आ रही है जिसके चलते लोग घर पर ही मास्क बना रहे हैं.




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Assam CM asks panchayats to resume MGNREGA works

Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday addressed panchayat presidents and secretaries of the state through a telephone conference and urged them to ensure resumption of work under MGNREGA.




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3 easy ways to disinfect your DIY face mask

Most of the pharmacies are out of stock for masks and sanitizers at this time.




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Home Minister asks CM Mamata Banerjee to arrange for return of migrant Bengal workers

Home Minister asks CM Mamata Banerjee to arrange for return of migrant Bengal workers





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The many masks of Kim Jong-un: Why North Korea was not willing to show its authoritarian leader

What happens when the leader of a paranoid regime armed with nuclear weapons disappears from sight for days? It gets a lot of attention. That is exactly what appears to have happened in the case...




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Things that every person who has been asked to quarantine should strictly follow

Things that every person who has been asked to quarantine should strictly follow





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ABC of coronavirus: This little munchkin will show you how to make a mask

ABC of coronavirus: This little munchkin will show you how to make a mask





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China asks Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of coronavirus originating from Wuhan lab

China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove Covid-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan. "Pompeo cannot present any evidence because he does not have any," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. "This matter should be handled by scientists..instead of politicians," Hua said.




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LLR Covid-19 hosp now Level-3 hosp, task force appointed




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Kanpur: Women groups make masks, feed poor from savings




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If liquor shops could open, why should temple remain close: asks ABAP




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Rly security asked to shift migrants from near tracks to shelter homes




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Getting a curfew pass issued a herculean task in Patiala




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Circular asking teachers to attend colleges draws flak




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Fact Check: No, Govt Employees Have Not Been Asked to Work for 10 Hours for Six Days a Week

another report falsely claimed that the government was planning to cut allowances like LTA, leave encashment, medical, etc of central government employees.




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This Photo of a Cat Basking in the Sun with a Snake is Making Us Miss Our Friends in Lockdown

A couple of days ago, a Twitter user named Ditch Pony posted two photos of her kitten cheerfully hanging out with a black snake.




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This Indian Student From Harvard Has Found How to Decontaminate N95 Masks With Microwave

This process could be particularly useful in India, where complex methods like VHP decontamination are unlikely to be very useful across many parts of India if N95s or other PPEs were to become scarce.




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Christ, the Redeemer, Wears a 'Mask' to Spread Awareness During Coronavirus Pandemic

Christ the Redeemer appeared to wear a mask that covered his mouth and nose.




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King of the Jungle? Mask Stolen from Chicago's Iconic Lion Statue

To make it tougher for thieves to steal them, a new mask and has now been put on with cables that are a lot tougher to cut.




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Shashi Tharoor is Geared up to Celebrate Onam With the Most Malayali Mask Ever

Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor has decided to go festive and fashionable while ensuring he has kept coronavirus at bay this Onam.




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We Have All Seen Many a 'Bois Locker Room' But Here's a Shocker: We Weren't Asking For It

'Bois locker room' may have shocked the Internet, but ask any woman, and they will tell you that it doesn't shock us.