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SC allows govt to bring African cheetah to India

8:46 pm January 28, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the government to introduce the African cheetah to a suitable habitat in India on an experimental basis to see whether it can adapt to Indian conditions. Stating that the rare Indian cheetah is almost extinct in the country, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had sought the […]

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

Anxious wait for parents of students in Wuhan

7:42 pm January 28, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: With the situation in Wuhan, the centre of the new corona virus outbreak, continuing to worsen, parents of Kerala students in the Chinese province are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping that their children would reach home as early as possible. S Vijaykumar, whose daughter Akhila Jasmine is a fourth year student at Wuhan university, […]

Bangladesh allows education for Rohingya refugee children

7:32 pm January 28, 2020

Dhaka: Rohingya children living in Bangladesh refugee camps will be allowed to receive a formal education after a change of heart by Dhaka in a move welcomed by right activists. Nearly one million Rohingya, including more than half a million children, live in the squalid and crowded camps near the southeastern border with Myanmar, where […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Hong Kong halts trains from mainland China as virus spreads

7:27 pm January 28, 2020

Beijing: Hong Kong’s leader has announced that all rail links to mainland China will be cut starting Friday as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Tuesday that both the high-speed rail station and the regular train station would be closed. China’s death toll from a new viral […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Bangladeshi ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ seeks to reunite Indian man

3:33 pm January 28, 2020

Krishnanagar: In a reel-to-real story, a Bangladeshi man, on a two-day visa to India, ran from pillar to post in West Bengal’s Nadia district to trace the family of a mute Indian man he had rescued 14 years ago from a then unfenced portion along the international border. However, unlike the Bollywood flick ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, […]