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Will Covid-19 Vaccines Achieve Herd Immunity? Experts Explain

FRANKFURT/LONDON — Governments and officials are voicing hopes that Covid-19 vaccines could bring “herd immunity”, with some calculating that immunising just two-thirds of a population could halt the...

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The Crown Director Reveals The Diana Scene That Left Him 'Biting His Fingers...

“I don’t know what the reality is - it’s probably nowhere near as exciting as what we’ve created,” laughs Benjamin Caron, executive producer on the fourth season of The Crown, and director of two of...

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Kashmiris Struggle With RTI Delays Due To Modi Govt’s Ill-Planned Article 370...

NEW DELHI—The Narendra Modi government’s hasty abrogation of Article 370, the constitutional provision which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, has led to months of confusion and delay for...

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‘Soorarai Pottru’ Director Sudha Kongara On The Women In Her Films, Working...

The year was 2003, and Sudha Kongara’s family was readying to leave for a holiday to Shimla. Usually, the group, about 12 or 13 people, would take a train to Chandigarh and then drive to Shimla. That...

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Trump Is Getting Ever More Brazen In His Attempts To Steal The Election He Lost

WASHINGTON ― Having lost his election for a second term, President Donald Trump, his campaign and his allies are ever more openly just trying to steal it.In recent days, his campaign has welcomed the...

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Michael B. Jordan Revealed As People's 'Sexiest Man Alive' In The Most 2020 Way

Michael B. Jordan is People magazine’s 2020 “Sexiest Man Alive.”The 33-year-old actor, known best for his performances in “Creed” and “Black Panther,” was revealed Tuesday night as the winner of this...

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Sudarshan TV Can Telecast Episodes Of 'Bindas Bol' Show With 'Modifications':...

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has said in an order dated November 4 that private news channel Sudarshan TV, through its broadcast of the show Bindas Bol — UPSC Jihad violated the...

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What Is The Feluda Paper Strip Test For Covid-19? 5 Things To Know

The indigenously developed Feluda (FNCAS9 Editor-Limited Uniform Detection Assay) paper strip test for Covid-19 will be launched in Delhi on Thursday and be available in other states by November end,...

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Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Produces Strong Immune Response In Older Adults -...

The UK’s coronavirus vaccine has shown to produce a strong immune response in older adults – suggesting one of the groups most vulnerable to serious illness and death from Covid-19 could build...

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‘Aashram’ Review: Bobby Deol’s Series Is Tacky, But It Exposes Hindutva's Lies

In one of Aashram’s most significant scenes, a marriage procession of a Dalit man has arrived at the gates of a dominant caste colony. The groom is on a white, decked-up horse. The elders of his family...

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5 Ways To Tackle Our Tiredness When We're All Doing So Little

If there’s one thing that 2020 has taught us, it’s that pandemics are exhausting. Dr Sumera Shahaney, head of clinical operations at Thriva who also works in the UK’s NHS, has witnessed a rise in what...

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UK Scientists Relied On Wikipedia During Early Stages Of Coronavirus Pandemic

The UK’s scientific advisers to the government were forced to scour Wikipedia in the early stage of the pandemic because of a lack of data about the spread on coronavirus in other countries.A BBC...

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Parliamentary Panel Questions Twitter Over Kunal Kamra's Tweets On Supreme Court

NEW DELHI — A parliamentary committee questioned Twitter on Thursday over the recent tweets by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra targeting the Supreme Court and the chief justice of India (CJI), and sought...

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What To Say To People Who Say You're Being 'Too Safe' Amid COVID-19

It’s no secret people have different approaches to health and safety as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic.While many are heeding public health experts’ advice to stay home and avoid gathering with...

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BTS Fans Took Over Modi At Bengaluru Tech Summit Hashtag, Here's How It Happened

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Bengaluru Tech Summit, 2020 (BTS2020) virtually on Thursday and most of the tweets related to his speech were posted with #PMModiAtBTS2020 (see here and...

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Why India Pulled Out Of RCEP And How The Deal Will Benefit China: An Expert...

On Sunday, 15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, raising several questions about India’s decision to walk out of the world’s largest trading bloc last...

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Princess Diana Interview: The Row Over Martin Bashir’s Bombshell Explained

The Duke of Cambridge has welcomed an investigation into the BBC’s 1995 Panorama interview with his mother Princess Diana, saying it “should help establish the truth behind the actions” that led to the...

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Douglas Stuart, Writer Of 'Shuggie Bain', Wins Booker Prize

LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for Shuggie Bain, a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned down...

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7 Hindi Movies To Watch If You’re Itching To Travel

For those of us who love to travel, 2020 has been a bit of a dampener, to put it mildly. Plans of beach vacations or backpacking trips for 2020 had to be put on hold as we tried to come to terms with a...

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How Syama Harini Of ‘Vada Poche’ Is Laughing Off Tamil Comedy’s Rules For Women

People are fond of asking Syama Harini if her stand-up comedy is about “women’s issues”, she recently shared on Amazon Prime’s Comicstaan Semma Comedy Pa. To that question, her answer is that her...

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Donald Trump Jr. Has The Coronavirus

Donald Trump Jr. has the coronavirus, report both Bloomberg News and CNN.The US president’s son tested positive for the virus earlier this week, according to Bloomberg. He has been quarantining at a...

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Here's When You're Most Infectious With Covid-19, With And Without Symptoms

People with Covid-19 are most likely to be highly infectious in the first five days after they develop symptoms, a new study confirms, highlighting the need for abrupt isolation.The research, published...

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How ‘Moustache’ Came To Life: Author S. Hareesh And Translator Jayasree...

We begin our Zoom call by comparing Jayasree Kalathil’s cloudy London skies with my rainy evening in Kerala, as we wait for S. Hareesh to join us. Just as I am about to ask another casual ‘weather’...

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Little Things Therapists Recommend Doing For Your Mental Health Every Day

We have now reached, if you can believe it, the eight month mark into the flailing mess of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is probably (read: certainly) far longer than any of us imagined it might take...

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Honeymoon Already Shaky: Joe Biden Hits A Nerve On Twitter With Money Plea

US President-elect Joe Biden, hat in hand, appealed to voters Friday for funding for his administration’s transition into the White House.Ah, nope would be Twitter followers’ stunned response.“Here’s...

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23 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week (Nov. 13-20)

Woof — it’s been a long week.If you feel like you’ve been working like a dog — or like the cat-astrophic news cycle is making you want to claw up your furniture — let us offer you the internet...

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10 Best Mammootty Films To Watch Online

The ‘new-gen wave’ may have put a dent in the notion of superstardom, but some of Kerala’s stars have been exceptional performers first and foremost. If you have been missing Mammootty’s stellar...

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The Crown: How Gillian Anderson And Emma Corrin Were Transformed Into...

The pressure to create authentic hair and make-up design on the new season of The Crown felt higher than ever, one of the show’s creative leads has told HuffPost UK.Season 4 of the Netflix series...

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Gulfisha Fatima Granted Bail In Delhi Riots Case

NEW DELHI ―  Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat on Saturday granted bail to Gulfisha Fatima, a 28-year-old MBA graduate, in connection with a Delhi riots case. Fatima was granted bail in...

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A Brain Infection Made Me Forget Nearly Everything. Here's How I Became...

I’ve forgotten many things in my life: my keys, the answers to test questions, my friend’s birthday. I never imagined I could forget how to walk. But that’s exactly what happened when I was 27 and...

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7 Best Underrated Malayalam Movies To Watch Online

In this list are Malayalam films that didn’t light up the box office, or even receive awards from critics. Nevertheless, on the right day and when you are in the right mood, these movies can tell you...

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Judge Brutally Dismisses Rudy Giuliani's Suit To 'Disenfranchise' Pa. Voters

A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s campaign’s lawsuit to overturn the election in Pennsylvania on Saturday, calling out Rudy Giuliani’s attempt to “disenfranchise almost 7 million...

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The Style Evolution Of Dan Levy, One Of People's Sexiest Men Alive

2020 has been a Schitt show.As in, the year we’ve been endlessly rewatching “Schitt’s Creek” as well as the moment the beloved show and its co-creator Dan Levy swept the Emmy Awards in September to...

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The Best Hand Pie Recipes For A Small Thanksgiving Dessert

Everything Thanksgiving: Get all our Thanksgiving recipes, how-to’s and more!COVID-19 has changed the way we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, resulting in smaller gatherings and a breaking of...

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For This 26-Year-Old, Bangladesh’s First Transgender Madrasa Offers Hope

DHAKA, Bangladesh ― A’s family adored her until she was five-years-old and they found out that she was transgender. When friends started saying tui to hijra re (you are a hijra), and neighbours would...

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Threatened Species Rely On Ecotourism To Survive. So What Happens When The...

Most years, the Beaufort Sea is freezing over by November and a busy season of polar bear viewing is winding down in the Arctic. As the ice takes hold, the flow of tourists slows to a trickle in the...

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MP Govt Asks Police To Investigate Temple Kissing Scenes In Netflix's 'A...

NEW DELHI — Madhya Pradesh on Sunday asked police to investigate after a member of the ruling BJP objected to scenes in the Netflix series A Suitable Boy, in which a Hindu girl kisses a Muslim boy...

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India's COVID-19 Vaccine COVAXIN's Final Trials Could End In 2 Months: Harsh...

NEW DELHI — India’s health minister said on Sunday a locally-developed COVID-19  vaccine candidate could complete its final trials in a month or two, raising hopes for a rapid roll-out in a country...

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Women Workers Raped, Abused In Palm Oil Fields Linked To L’Oréal, Unilever,...

SUMATRA, Indonesia — With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls – and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her...

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Joe Biden To Name Foreign Policy Hand Tony Blinken As Secretary of State:...

US President-elect Joe Biden will tap Tony Blinken as his secretary of state on Tuesday, Bloomberg and The New York Times reported Sunday night. The move elevates a longtime Biden aide with deep...

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Kerala Govt Won't Implement Controversial Amendment To Police Act: Pinarayi

The Left alliance led-Kerala government on Monday withdrew a controversial amendment to the Kerala Police Act, hours after CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the amendment ordinance will be...

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Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine Shows 70% Protection - Here Is What We Know So Far

A coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, can stop 70% of people from getting Covid-19, data shows.The UK government has already...

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Experts Explain Why Mondays Are So Psychologically Hard

As far as days of the week go, Monday arguably has the fewest fans.Multiplestudies suggest that people’s moods are typically at their lowest on Mondays. The day is the subject of a number of songs with...

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How The Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine Works

A potential Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University has been shown to be 70.4% effective, it has been announced.The jab is effective in preventing many people getting ill...

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Kashmiri Property Dealers 'Fear The Future' As Land Laws Change

SRINGAR, Jammu and Kashmir —  A, 45, has been a property dealer in Srinagar for the past twenty years, making money from the commission he earns by facilitating the sale and purchase of residential...

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Trump Administration Finally Clears Way For Biden Transition To Begin

Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, said the transition between US President Donald Trump and US President-elect Joe Biden can begin, releasing millions of dollars...

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Biden Announces More Cabinet Picks, Including First Latino Homeland Security...

US President-elect Joe Biden announced another wave of senior staff picks for his administration on Monday, including the first Latino person to be nominated for secretary of the Department of Homeland...

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The Pandemic’s Effect On Climate-Changing Pollution Was ‘Just A Tiny Blip’

As nations went into lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, factories halted and cars sat idle, clearing the skies above polluted cities and sending climate-changing emissions to historic lows....

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How Wearing A Face Mask Can Affect Your Health

HuffPost UK reader Helen asked: “What is the damage to your health by wearing masks?There’s very little evidence that wearing face masks – we’re talking the blue surgical ones and cloth coverings that...

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A Kashmiri Geologist On What It Takes For A Woman To Climb Mountains In The...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Asiya Qadir recalls that she was taunted not once, not twice, but almost every time that she went to do field work in the two years that she studied geology at Kashmir...

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