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Tokyo adopts tougher virus rules, starts vaccinating elders

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Tokyo adopted tougher measures against the coronavirus Monday as it struggles to curb the rapid spread of a more contagious variant ahead of the Olympics in a country where less than 1 per cent of people have been vaccinated. Japan started its vaccination drive with medical workers and expanded Monday to older residents, with the first shots being given in about 120 selected places around the country. The tougher COVID-19 rules, just three weeks after a state of emergency ended in the capital, allow Tokyo’s governor to mandate shorter opening…

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Innovative India must capture all segments of financial market to fuel growth: IMF

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India is on the right track and is innovating on the policy side, including on digital identity and payments, but it also needs to capture all the segments of the financial market and institutions to make sure that every piece fits together like a puzzle to fuel growth in the country, according to a top IMF official. The goal is to have an economy and a financial system that can absorb shocks. ..Balance sheets can be better managed, Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) can be better managed, Tobias Adrian, Director of the…

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SC rejects plea against dismantling of decommissioned aircraft carrier ‘Viraat’

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The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea of a private firm seeking preservation of India’s decommissioned aircraft carrier ‘Viraat’ and its conversion into a museum. A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian took note of the fact that the Ministry of Defence has refused to accept the representation of private firm Envitech Marine Consultants Pvt Ltd that the decommissioned aircraft carrier be preserved. “You cannot do this. The (Bombay) high court had allowed you to give representation to the government. You…

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Documentary on Osho Rajneesh’s former aide Ma Anand Sheela to premiere on Netflix in April

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Ma Anand Sheela, who shot to global fame with the documentary “Wild Wild Country” on controversial spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh, will be back to the screen in “Searching for Sheela’”, scheduled to release on Netflix on April 22. Sheela was a crucial figure in helping Rajneesh establish Rajneeshpuram, a utopian city for his followers in rural Oregon, which functioned between 1981 to 1985. She was also the primary perpetrator of the 1984 Rajneesh bioterror attack in Oregon, US. Post the attack she fled to Europe as a fugitive accused of…

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Hardik had shoulder concern but will bowl soon: Zaheer

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Hardik Pandya did not bowl in Mumbai Indians’ lung-opener on Friday due to a shoulder concern but the India all-rounder will soon contribute in team’s cause with ball in his hand, team’s Director of Cricket Operations Zaheer Khan said on Monday. Mumbai Indians, the five-time champions, lost their opening game to Royal Challengers Bangalore by two wickets. “Hardik, as a whole package is always of great value, everyone knows that. It was a workload related thing in the previous game,” Zaheer said at the pre-match conference ahead of their game…

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EC trying to suppress facts by barring entry of politicians in Cooch Behar: Mamata

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Describing the incident of firing in Cooch Behar as a “genocide”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the Election Commission has restricted the entry of politicians in the district for 72 hours as it seeks to “suppress facts”. The TMC supremo, while addressing a press meet here, claimed that central forces “sprayed bullets aiming at the torso of the victims” in Sitalkuchi area, when the fourth phase of polling was underway in the state. “There was genocide at Sitalkuchi. I would like to visit Sitalkuchi by April…

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Electrical problem strikes Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility

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Iran’s Natanz nuclear site suffered a problem Sunday involving its electrical distribution grid just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich uranium, state TV reported. It was the latest incident to strike one of Tehran’s most-secured sites amid negotiations over tattered atomic accord with world powers. State TV quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for Iran’s civilian nuclear programme, announcing the incident. Kamalvandi said there were no injuries or pollution cause by the incident. The word state television used in its report attributed to Kamalvandi in Farsi…

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EV policy needs to be rejigged to make it more effective: Hero Electric

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The country’s electric vehicle (EV) policy needs to be “rejigged” and requires “course correction” in order to make it more effective to achieve envisaged sales targets, according to the country’s leading electric two-wheeler maker Hero Electric. Under the FAME-II scheme, which was launched in April 2019, the plan was to put at least 10 lakh high-speed electric two-wheelers on the road by March 2022. But with two years already over, the number of electric two wheelers on the road remains low at around 60,000 units. In 2020, just 25,735 units…

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Ibrahimovic sets up 2 goals before red card, Milan wins 3-1

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic set up two goals but was also sent off as AC Milan won 3-1 at relegation-threatened Parma to keep its small Serie A title hopes alive. Ibrahimovic had a hand in both Milan’s first-half goals on Saturday but was shown a straight red card on the hour mark for something he appeared to say to referee Fabio Maresca. Riccardo Gagliolo reduced the deficit but substitute Rafael Le o sealed the result in stoppage time as Milan moved to within eight points of league leader Inter Milan, which hosts…

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Biden orders gun control actions – but they show his limits

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President Joe Biden has put on a modest White House ceremony to announce a half-dozen executive actions to combat what he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violence in America. But he said much more is needed. And while Biden had proposed the most ambitious gun-control agenda of any modern presidential candidate, his moves underscored his limited power to act alone on guns with difficult politics impeding legislative action on Capitol Hill. Biden’s new steps include a move to crackdown on “ghost guns,” homemade firearms that lack…

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