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Budget 2024: Here's what India's elderlies want
If any amount you receive from NPS is reinvested in the annuity plan, it remains tax-exempt. Howeve…
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Russian recklessness around Ukraine's nuclear sites has Norway telling its citizens to 'dust off' their fallout shelters
"Ukraine has the most production of nuclear power in Europe and if an accident happens we will all …
Abbie Shull
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China tells citizens to avoid mail from abroad and open packages with gloves, claiming that Omicron is spreading through foreign post
Experts say the coronavirus is unlikely to spread by mail as it does not last long on surfaces. But…
Sinéad Baker
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Smoke from California's wildfires likely killed more than 1,200 people – nearly 50 times the number who perished in the flames
Researchers at Stanford University estimate that wildfire smoke killed at least 1,200 people over a…
Susie Neilson
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An Oklahoma bank CEO who responded to a tweet from Mark Cuban used his advice to get cash into customers' hands in less than a week
Mark Cuban helped CEO Jill Castilla provide financial assistance to her community in a matter of da…
Laura Grace Tarpley
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The WHO Africa chief said rolling out booster shots 'makes a mockery of vaccine equity' as the US plans to offer them to most citizens
Only 2% of Africa's population have been fully vaccinated, WHO Africa Director Dr. Matshidiso Moeti…
Marianne Guenot
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What life is like for 2 women stranded in a tiny cabin in the Arctic, where polar bears and freezing temperatures are constant challenges
The coronavirus caused an unexpected extension of their trip, but the two women remain focused on s…
Monica Humphries
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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who spent months on the ground in Bakhmut, said the Kremlin's claims about inflicting heavy losses on Ukraine are 'wild and absurd science fiction'
Prigozhin, who spent months with his troops in war-torn Bakhmut, said Russia would have destroyed t…
Matthew Loh
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China sentences citizen-journalist to 4 years in prison for reporting on early days of Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
Zhang Zhan, 37, was convicted of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" by a People's Court in Sh…
Ashley Collman
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Mexico's president asked citizens to avoid giving out Christmas presents this season to limit the spread of the coronavirus
"Let's leave Christmas presents for another time," Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sai…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Trump looks to temporarily bar US citizens returning from abroad if they're suspected of having COVID-19
A legal resident may be denied entry if an officer reasonably thinks the person was exposed to or i…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A 90-year-old British grandmother is the first person in the West to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside clinical trials, as the UK starts inoculating its citizens
Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, received her first dose of Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine o…
Sarah Gray
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North Korea told citizens to stay inside, claiming (with no scientific basis) that a storm of yellow dust coming from China was carrying COVID-19
On Wednesday, North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper warned people of the "danger of invad…
Bill Bostock
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A Chinese city plans to monitor its citizens and rank them by healthiness with an app, making its emergency COVID-19 surveillance regime permanent
Hangzhou is proposing a permanent app similar to the country's coronavirus health app that controll…
Sinéad Baker
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HDFC Bank Parivartan signs MoU with IISc, pledges Rs 107.76 cr
HDFC Bank Parivartan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Sc…
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Extreme heat causes more deaths than storms, fires, and floods in the US. Cities are responding by naming heat czars and looking for ways to cool urban areas.
Illness from extreme heat, like heat stroke, is the top cause of weather-related deaths in the US. …
Tim Paradis
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This proposed city of $420,000 floating pyramids is seeking 'citizens'
But Wayaland still in a very early phase of the design process. This month, the firm launched a cro…
Leanna Garfield
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Returning wolves could save Rome from the herds of wild boar invading the city, say wildlife experts
Italy's growing wolf population could be the answer to wild boars terrorizing Romans in the streets…
Bethany Dawson
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North Korea's COVID-19 crisis is quickly spiraling out of control — officials say more than 1.4 million people are now suffering from 'fever'
The country's poor healthcare system, lack of testing capabilities, and dearth of vaccines created …
Julie Gerstein
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A prison inmate in a pre-release work program was the first recorded human case of the bird flu in the US
The virus outbreak is highly contagious to birds — so much so that almost 27 million chickens and t…