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New Delhi, July 9 : The Andaman Islands — Great Andaman, Little Andaman, and North Sentinel Islands — have been home for milleniums to four tribes: The Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa, and Sentinelese.Their languages are known by the same name as th…

Jaipur, July 9 : : Villagers in Rajasthan’s water-starved Barmer district broke into a dance after they got regular water connections.For the five villages, getting water was a long trudge away from home. Internationally renowned dancer Madanlal won …

Panaji, July 9 : Goa’s Covid-related state-level curfew may not wind up just yet, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant hinted on Friday.”We need to think about continuing with the state curfew for some more time,” Sawant told reporters here.The current phase…

Lucknow, July 9 : The initiative by the Uttar Pradesh electricity department to rely on women to realise power dues from villagers, seems to be paying off.Engaging rural women of self-help groups (SHGs) as ‘Bijli Sakhis’ as part of a state government…

Bhubaneswar, July 9 (IANS/ 101Reporters) Even as the Covid-19 pandemic has caused severe damage to the education system in the country, the students in Odisha are facing a challenge of a different kind.The Odisha government has been on a spree to shut …

New Delhi, July 9 : Its a love letter to a city. Even as she explores cuisines and eateries synonymous with Kolkata, the author, who has been living there forever, discovers her city anew with every page — first with surprise, and then gratitude. Au…

New Delhi, July 8: Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) have been victims of the worst kind of theft in their entire history.Never before were they denied the right to choose their way of life and never before were th…

New Delhi, July 8: A grand geopolitical drama with seismic implications is unfolding in Afghanistan. The United States is leaving Kabul with its mission largely unaccomplished.Pakistan-backed Taliban fervently wants to fill the emerging vacuum left beh…

New Delhi, July 8 : The UK’s Presidency programme for UN climate summit named COP26 has been unveiled to drive forward climate ambition and action against key issues alongside two weeks of intensive climate negotiations in Glasgow.Beginning with the …

Gurugram, July 7 : Gurugram is the first district in 14 states and four Union Territories (UTs), securing the top position with the highest recovery rate at 99.44 per cent.Gurugram’s recovery rate is far better than the national average of 97.1 per c…