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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday led the first Muslim prayers attended by thousands in Hagia Sophia since the controversial reconversion of the iconic Istanbul cathedral into a mosque. The highest administrative court revoked the sixth-century monument’s status as a museum on July 10 and Erdogan then ordered the
The Assam government will release 376 prisoners in the next few days to decongest jails across the state after 535 inmates tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Thursday. Of the 376 prisoners to be released, 111 are presently lodged in Guwahati Central Jail, he said. The rest of
Pharmaceutical firm Cipla is all set to launch Favipiravir, developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in a cost-effective process, for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, according to an official statement on Thursday. An off-patent anti-viral drug, Favipiravir, originally discovered by Fuji Pharma in Japan, has shown
A 14-year-old girl, who was undergoing treatment at the Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur, was allegedly sexually assaulted by another coronavirus patient in the washroom, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on the night of July 15, when the girl had gone to the
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has granted in-principle approval to setting-up of the first central university in Ladakh with a centre on Buddhist Studies, at a meeting convened on Monday. This move comes before the first anniversary of the parliamentary enactment through which Ladakh was made a union territory, states a