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🔍Quixplained: The optimal temperature for storage of front-runner Covid-19 vaccines
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Quixplained: Here’s how the front-runner Covid-19 vaccines need to be stored
Coronavirus vaccines: How are Covid-19 vaccines stored? Does India have the infrastructure to store the leading candidates from Pfizer-Biontech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-Oxford? Take a look.
🔍Five reasons the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is better news than the Pfizer and Moderna shots
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Five reasons the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is better news than the Pfizer and Moderna shots
Coronavirus vaccine: Here are five reasons why the Astrazeneca-Oxford preliminary results hold more promise, both in medical terms and for markets such as India.
🔍Explained: Why has the Northeast monsoon remained subdued this year?
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Explained: Why has Northeast monsoon remained subdued this year?
Rainfall over the Southern peninsular region has been deficient so far. The reason is a prevalent La Niña condition, along with a low pressure belt that is currently lying to the north of its normal position.
🔍Explained: What are desalination plants and what is their feasibility?
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Explained: What are desalination plants and what is their feasibility?
Desalination has largely been limited to affluent countries in the Middle East and has recently started making inroads in parts of the United States and Australia. In India, Tamil Nadu has been the pioneer in using this technology.
🔍Explained: What will be US Covid-19 caseload when Joe Biden takes charge?
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Explained: What will be US Covid-19 caseload when Joe Biden takes charge?
The model accounts for the fact that people live in interconnected social networks rather than interacting mostly with random groups of strangers.
🔍Explained: What is Germany’s new boardroom quota for women?
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Explained: What is Germany’s new boardroom quota for women?
The move has been called "historic" by Germany’s Federal Minister of Women Franziska Giffey, and is being seen as the next step in narrowing the gap of sexual inequality in the country.
🔍Explained: What is significant about former secretary of state John Kerry’s appointment as Biden’s climate envoy?
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Explained: What is significant about former secretary of state John Kerry’s appointment as Biden’s climate envoy?
"America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is," John Kerry tweeted after the announcement.
🔍Explained: Who needs to carry Covid negative report before entering Maharashtra, what if you don’t have it
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Explained: Latest Covid-19 guidelines for those travelling to Maharashtra
What are the rules for road, rail and air travel, and what happens if a passenger does not have the test reports? All your questions answered.
🔍Explained: With Karvy expelled from exchange, what happens to its clients
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Explained: The case against Karvy Broking Limited, and what next for its clients?
Stock exchange officials say all the existing clients of KSBL would have either got their securities back and got it transferred to another brokerage firm or would have received the value of their securities into their bank accounts.
🔍Explained: GSA’s role in US presidential transition process
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Explained: GSA’s role in US presidential transition process
Even as he urged his agencies to cooperate in the transition process, US President Donald Trump vowed to continue efforts to overturn the results of the election.
🔍Explained: GSA’s role in US presidential transition process
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Explained: GSA’s role in US presidential transition process
Even as he urged his agencies to cooperate in the transition process, US President Donald Trump vowed to continue efforts to overturn the results of the election.
🔍Simply Put | Corporates as banks: key issues
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Corporates as banks: What led to this recommendation, and why has it come in for criticism?
A recent RBI report has recommended that large corporate and industrial houses should be allowed ownership of private banks. What led to this recommendation, and why has it come in for criticism?
🔍Explained: 5 reasons why Oxford-AZ vaccine scores
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🔍Explained Ideas: How will history judge the Modi-Shah duo?
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Explained Ideas: How will history judge the Modi-Shah duo?
Narendra Modi is currently Amit Shah’s boss. But if their party requires, are they capable of one day switching places, asks Vinay Sitapati.
🔍3D printed swabs now in use worldwide: developers
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3D printed swabs now in use worldwide: developers
The cost of materials per 3D-printed nasal swab ranges from 26 to 46 cents; commercial swabs cost about $1 each, the authors said.
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🚨 *The Big Story*
In a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought individual plans from them to prepare a final blueprint of the country’s largest immunisation drive. In the meantime he told them to work towards bringing the positivity rate under 5 per cent and the fatality rate under 1 per cent.
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📰 *From the Front Page*
Former chief minister Farooq and Ommar Abdullah, Farooq's sister Suraiya Matto, National Conference offices in Jammu and Srinagar, and a Trust once owned by the Congress have illegally occupied state land, according to J&K administration’s fresh list of illegal beneficiaries of the Roshni Act.
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A jail term of up to 10 years and a minimum fine of up to Rs 50,000 are among the provisions included in a draft ordinance cleared by the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet to check “unlawful religious conversions” and “inter-faith marriages with the sole intention of changing a girl’s religion”. Such marriages, according to the ordinance, would also be declared null and void.
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Online retail service AliExpress, on-demand courier service Lalamove and at least 15 dating apps with Chinese links were among the 43 mobile apps banned by the Centre, citing “sovereignty and integrity of India”. The move follows the on 177 apps over two rounds in June and September this year.
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Taking note of the The Indian Express investigation into the pre-Matric scholarship scam, the Ministry of Minority Affairs listed five key preventive measures to plug the loopholes. Among the measures include conducting random checks, using fraud detection software and preparing a listor suspicious institutions.
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Hours after the Haryana government announced that it will seal state borders ahead of a farmers’ march against the Centre’s farm laws, state police conducted raids in the dead of the night and took several farmer leaders into preventive custody.
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Amid concerns that a Covid-19 vaccine would require an efficient, countrywide cold chain infrastructure, the dairy industry and its reliance on a temperature-controlled supply chain to carry out artificial inseminations could offer some answers to policymakers and public health professionals.
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From state capital Thiruvananthapuram to commercial hub Kochi, unconventional non-political movements have fielded candidates for Kerala’s upcoming local body elections. All of them depend on crowdfunding and hope to claim the electoral space available at a micro local level, where familiarity and accessibility matter the most.
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To cope with the effects of the lockdown, the Maharashtra government has decided to give financial aid and 5-kg ration to 5,600 sex workers of Mumbai every month till the Covid-19 pandemic is over. But NGOs point out that a larger share of sex workers are missing from government’s list of beneficiaries to get the financial aid.
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🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik, who had initiated a breach of privilege motion against Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami, was the target of ED raids on Tuesday.
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👉 The Allahabad High Court has said that “two adults are free to choose their partner” while hearing a plea challenging an inter-faith marriage.
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👉 Journalist Priya Ramani, on trial in a defamation case filed by former Union minister M J Akbar, told a Delhi court that she will not settle the case with Akbar and stands by her statement.
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👉 Stubble burning increased by 46 per cent in Punjab and dropped by 28.
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🚨 *The Big Story*
In a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought individual plans from them to prepare a final blueprint of the country’s largest immunisation drive. In the meantime he told them to work towards bringing the positivity rate under 5 per cent and the fatality rate under 1 per cent.
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📰 *From the Front Page*
Former chief minister Farooq and Ommar Abdullah, Farooq's sister Suraiya Matto, National Conference offices in Jammu and Srinagar, and a Trust once owned by the Congress have illegally occupied state land, according to J&K administration’s fresh list of illegal beneficiaries of the Roshni Act.
https://www.inexp.in/pNzypI
A jail term of up to 10 years and a minimum fine of up to Rs 50,000 are among the provisions included in a draft ordinance cleared by the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet to check “unlawful religious conversions” and “inter-faith marriages with the sole intention of changing a girl’s religion”. Such marriages, according to the ordinance, would also be declared null and void.
https://www.inexp.in/F-IwS8
Online retail service AliExpress, on-demand courier service Lalamove and at least 15 dating apps with Chinese links were among the 43 mobile apps banned by the Centre, citing “sovereignty and integrity of India”. The move follows the on 177 apps over two rounds in June and September this year.
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⚡ *Only in the Express*
Taking note of the The Indian Express investigation into the pre-Matric scholarship scam, the Ministry of Minority Affairs listed five key preventive measures to plug the loopholes. Among the measures include conducting random checks, using fraud detection software and preparing a listor suspicious institutions.
https://www.inexp.in/fdfuBh
👩💻 *Must Read*
Hours after the Haryana government announced that it will seal state borders ahead of a farmers’ march against the Centre’s farm laws, state police conducted raids in the dead of the night and took several farmer leaders into preventive custody.
https://www.inexp.in/BEUymM
Amid concerns that a Covid-19 vaccine would require an efficient, countrywide cold chain infrastructure, the dairy industry and its reliance on a temperature-controlled supply chain to carry out artificial inseminations could offer some answers to policymakers and public health professionals.
https://www.inexp.in/WQaUy2
From state capital Thiruvananthapuram to commercial hub Kochi, unconventional non-political movements have fielded candidates for Kerala’s upcoming local body elections. All of them depend on crowdfunding and hope to claim the electoral space available at a micro local level, where familiarity and accessibility matter the most.
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To cope with the effects of the lockdown, the Maharashtra government has decided to give financial aid and 5-kg ration to 5,600 sex workers of Mumbai every month till the Covid-19 pandemic is over. But NGOs point out that a larger share of sex workers are missing from government’s list of beneficiaries to get the financial aid.
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🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik, who had initiated a breach of privilege motion against Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami, was the target of ED raids on Tuesday.
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👉 The Allahabad High Court has said that “two adults are free to choose their partner” while hearing a plea challenging an inter-faith marriage.
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👉 Journalist Priya Ramani, on trial in a defamation case filed by former Union minister M J Akbar, told a Delhi court that she will not settle the case with Akbar and stands by her statement.
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👉 Stubble burning increased by 46 per cent in Punjab and dropped by 28.
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6 per cent in Haryana this year in comparison to last year, according to official data.
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👉 Cyclone Nivar is predicted to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and into a very severe cyclonic storm in the subsequent 12 hours.
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⌛ *And Finally...*
The Indian cricket team will go retro for the limited-overs series in Australia by donning the iconic dark-blue team kit from the 1992 World Cup. The jersey marked the introduction of coloured-clothing, white balls and floodlight at a 50-over World Cup.
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🤐 Delhi confidential: Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday sprang a surprise on the party, suggesting that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra should contest the by-election for Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu.
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👉 Cyclone Nivar is predicted to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and into a very severe cyclonic storm in the subsequent 12 hours.
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⌛ *And Finally...*
The Indian cricket team will go retro for the limited-overs series in Australia by donning the iconic dark-blue team kit from the 1992 World Cup. The jersey marked the introduction of coloured-clothing, white balls and floodlight at a 50-over World Cup.
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🤐 Delhi confidential: Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday sprang a surprise on the party, suggesting that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra should contest the by-election for Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu.
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Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Rahel Philipose
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Stubble burning cases up 46% in Punjab, down 28% in Haryana
The early start to harvesting this year could be one of the reasons for increased cases of stubble burning in Punjab, according to experts.
🔍Why Punjab’s granaries are overflowing: old stock, train suspension
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Why Punjab’s granaries are overflowing: old stock, train suspension
The granaries in Punjab are overflowing with wheat and paddy. Nearly 110 lakh metric tonne of wheat from the last procurement season is still lying in the open and covered godowns.
🔍Explained: How International Emmy winner ‘Delhi Crime’ came into being
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Explained: How International Emmy winner ‘Delhi Crime’ came into being
India's win at the 48th International Emmy Awards was born "out of sadness, anger, frustration, and ultimately, compassion," says its creator Richie Mehta.