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Twitter lays off more employees from public policy team
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Twitter lays off more employees from public policy team

New Delhi, Dec 23: Twitter has laid off more employees from its remaining public policy team, after laying off an unknown number of engineers in its infrastructure vertical last week.A member of the Twitter public policy team tweeted late on Thursday that she has been laid off."Yesterday was my last...
Fuel tanker tunnel blast kills at least 19 in Afghanistan
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Fuel tanker tunnel blast kills at least 19 in Afghanistan

Kabul, Dec 18: At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital Kabul, a local official said on Sunday. The Salang Tunnel, which is around 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion....
Noakhali
International

Noakhali's Gandhi Ashram at 75: Still at work to bring peace, rural development

Noakhali (Bangladesh), December, 18: Created to heal wounds of pre-partition riots, Gandhi Ashram at Bangladesh's Noakhali still works to carry forward Mahatma Gandhi's mission of peace, social harmony and rural development, 75 years after it was set up. Gandhi came to Jayag here on 29th January,...
7 British-Indians win 2022 Young Dentist Award in UK
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7 British-Indians win 2022 Young Dentist Award in UK

London, Dec 16: Seven British-Indians have received the Young Dentist Award in recognition of their excellence in dentistry across the whole of the UK.The 2022 Dentistry Awards, feted as 'dentistry's biggest party', took place late last month at The Athena in Leicester.While Kiran Shankla and...
China continues to amass forces, build military infrastructure on border with India: Pentagon
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China continues to amass forces, build military infrastructure on border with...

Washington, Dec 15: The US Pentagon has said that China continues to amass forces and build military infrastructure across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India. Addressing a briefing, Brigadier General Pat Ryder, Press Secretary of the Department of Defense (DoD), said the DoD continues to...
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Health & Fitness

World's first gene editing therapy frees girl from her incurable cancer

Guwahati, Dec 13: A 13-year-old patient, Allysa, from Leicester has been declared cancer-free after receiving the world's first base-edited T-cells treatment for Leukaemia. Alyssa was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic Leukaemia (T-ALL) in 2021. She had tried all the conventional therapies...
PLA troops approach LAC in Arunachal, clash with Indian soldiers
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PLA troops approach LAC in Arunachal, clash with Indian soldiers

New Delhi, Dec 12: Chinese troops approached the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh last week, but Indian troops firmly contested their way, leading to a clash between the two, sources said on Monday. Although no loss of life or major injuries were reported but both some Indian and Chinese troops received...
UK royals had a problem with Meghans acting career, reveals doc series
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UK royals had a problem with Meghan's acting career, reveals doc series

Los Angeles, Dec 9: The first three episodes of 'Harry & Meghan', the highly-anticipated Netflix docuseries about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, dropped on Thursday after a frenzy of speculative reporting in the British media about the content and how damaging it would...
Taliban carry out 1st public execution since Afghan takeover
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Taliban carry out 1st public execution since Afghan takeover

Islamabad, Dec 8: The Taliban authorities on Wednesday executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year, a spokesman said. The announcement underscored the intentions by Afghanistan's new rulers to continue...
Sitharaman, Harris among Forbes 100 most powerful women
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Sitharaman, Harris among Forbes' 100 most powerful women

New Delhi, Dec 7: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and US Vice President Kamala Harris are among Forbes' 19th annual list of 'World's 100 Most Powerful Women' of 2022. While Harris is ranked third, Sitharaman is at number 36 on the list that was released on Tuesday highlighting...
India offers support for diplomatic efforts as Russia, Ukraine trade blame for failure to negotiate
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India offers support for diplomatic efforts as Russia, Ukraine trade blame for...

United Nations, Dec 7: Even as Russia and Ukraine faced off in the UN Security Council accusing each other of not wanting to settle their conflict through negotiations, India has reminded them of its call for dialogue and diplomacy and offered to support such efforts. "India has called upon both...
Amitabh Bachchans portrait finds way into Worlds largest-ever canvas painting to be launched in Doha
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Amitabh Bachchan's portrait finds way into World's largest-ever canvas painting...

Doha (Qatar), Dec 6: Versatile Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan's portrait features prominently among a host of luminaries on the world's largest-ever canvas painting, which is bidding to get into the Guinness book of records. Besides Bachchan, portraits of a host of worldwide personalities drawn...
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