China: SARS-like virus can spread from one human to another, says expert

Zhong Nanshan, a scientist at China’s National Health Commission, had helped uncover the scale of the SARS outbreak in 2002-’03 in which 774 people were killed.

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· Yesterday · 11:06 pm

US tells Pakistan to take ‘sustained action’ against terror groups operating from its soil: Report

Acting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells is on a four-day visit to the country at present.

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· Yesterday · 10:21 pm

Delhi: Akali Dal says it will not contest elections due to differences with BJP over Citizenship Act

Rajouri Garden MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa said his party was not ready to accept the BJP’s request to reconsider its opposition to the amended citizenship law.

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· Yesterday · 10:12 pm

Mallya petition: Before recusing himself, SC judge says businessman has not repaid ‘a single penny’

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde will reconstitute the bench to hear the businessman’s plea against two orders of the Karnataka High Court.

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· Yesterday · 10:00 pm

Opposition is spreading lies and confusion despite being rejected at elections: PM Modi

A number of BJP leaders have accused the Opposition of sponsoring nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens.

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· Yesterday · 09:31 pm

The big news: IMF lowers India’s GDP growth estimate in 2019-’20 to 4.8%, and nine other top stories

Other headlines: Mamata Banerjee said West Bengal Assembly would discuss an anti-CAA resolution, and J&K police chief backed the idea of deradicalisation camps.

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· Yesterday · 09:09 pm

IMF lowers global growth projection for 2020-’21 due to sharp slowdown in India

The monetary fund said the Indian economy is projected to grow 4.8% in 2019-'20. In October, it had predicted an expansion of 6.1%.

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· Yesterday · 08:54 pm

Kerala CAA petition: ‘No explanation is acceptable,’ says governor after meeting chief secretary

Arif Mohammad Khan has criticised the Pinarayi Vijayan government for challenging the citizenship law in the Supreme Court without consulting him.

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· Yesterday · 08:18 pm

Saibaba birthplace row: Uddhav Thackeray meets Shirdi temple trust members, strike called off

The people in the temple town of Shirdi started protesting after the chief minister said the religious leader was born in the village of Pathri.

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· Yesterday · 08:00 pm

Bengaluru: Over 100 homes in suburb razed, police allege residents are ‘illegal Bangladeshis’

The residents of Kariyammana Agrahara in Bellandur said they were not given prior notice, and claimed that they had documents to prove their citizenship.

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· Yesterday · 07:35 pm

We don’t have information about ‘tukde-tukde gang’, home ministry says in reply to RTI query

Activist Saket Gokhale, who had filed the application, said he would ask the poll panel to take note of Amit Shah’s repeated use of the term in speeches.

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· Yesterday · 07:16 pm

Scroll.in’s Mridula Chari, Vinita Govindarajan win Ramnath Goenka award for environment series

This is the second straight year Chari has won the coveted journalism award.

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· Yesterday · 06:55 pm