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  India to hold national 'cow science' exam

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 06:26pm on January 06, 2021

  India will hold a mass nationwide online ‘cow science’ exam next month, in the latest push by the Hindu nationalist government to promote and protect...

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  Indian wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel retires from cricket

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 03:08pm on December 09, 2020

  India's Parthiv Patel, who was the youngest Test wicketkeeper when he made his debut against England in 2002, on Wednesday retired from all cricket. Overshadowed...

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  Indian farmers clash with police over reforms

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 04:02pm on November 26, 2020

  Indian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Thursday in clashes with several thousand farmers marching to New Delhi to protest against recent agricultural...

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  England to play four Tests in India: Ganguly

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 11:59am on November 25, 2020

  India will host England for four Tests in early 2021 in what could become the key clashes in deciding who reaches the world Test championship...

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  India first priority for vaccine delivery: Serum

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 10:01am on November 24, 2020

  India will be given first priority for the delivery of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine after its British developers claimed success following mass testing, the world's largest...

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  British man survives malaria, COVID-19 and cobra bite in India

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 09:59am on November 22, 2020

  A British charity worker who survived coronavirus, dengue and malaria was recovering after a potentially deadly snake bite in western India's Rajasthan state. Ian Jones...

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  Delhi quadruples mask fines as virus cases soar

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 07:54pm on November 19, 2020

  Officials in India's capital on Thursday quadrupled the fines dished out for people not wearing face masks as coronavirus cases soar in the megacity, overwhelming...

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  India passes eight million coronavirus cases

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 10:37am on October 29, 2020

  India on Thursday passed eight million coronavirus cases and the world's second-worst-hit country is bracing for a new wave in the pandemic. There have now...

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  India's capital chokes on 'severe' smog as farm fires soar

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 04:45pm on October 23, 2020

  New Delhi was blanketed in noxious haze Friday as air pollution levels in parts of the city soared to ‘severe’ levels, hours after US President...

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  The mystery of India's low coronavirus death rate

  Agence France-Presse. New Delhi | Updated at 12:05pm on October 11, 2020

  India, with its population of 1.3 billion people, has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus cases, now more than seven million, but far fewer reported...