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The Finance Ministry on Tuesday said more than 42 crore people have received Rs 68,820-crore financial assistance under the government's Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.

Twentysix scientists, most of them working at universities in Italy, have signed an open letter questioning the reliability of the data presented in the earlystage trial results of the Russian COVID19 vaccine, named "SputnikV".

Russia summoned Germany's ambassador on Wednesday to accuse Berlin of using the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to discredit Moscow and demanded that Germany immediately hand over medical data about his illness.

Air quality is seen as an upper class luxury that the poor can't afford, but that is not true as the poor are the biggest victims of it, Tharoor asserted.

U.S. crude oil production is expected to fall 870,000 barrels per day to 11.38 million bpd this year, a less steep decline than previously forecast, the U.S. government said in its latest monthly outlook on Wednesday.

A project involving 13 of the world's largest banks and aimed at launching digital versions of major currencies in 2020 is no longer likely to get going this year, the company set up to run the effort said.

While Pompe disease is a rare inborn error of metabolism, SMA is a disorder affecting the nervous system.

The FCRA registration of the association will be valid for a period of five years, the sources said. Langar services in Golden temple are provided by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.

United Airlines said Wednesday it plans to add new nonstop flights to Africa, India and Hawaii as it reconfigures its network in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

A wildfire fanned by strong winds forced the evacuation of a boarding school and six residential areas southeast of Athens on Wednesday, Greece's fire brigade said.

Innumerable studies in the last decade have pointed out the two broader, harmful effects that lead to multiple but not smaller in any sense side effects of late-night snacking.

Holding banners reading "Help!" and "We are not the problem", Spanish bar, restaurant and nightclub owners gathered in central Madrid on Wednesday to ask the government for tax cuts and support to survive the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

The phase three trials of AstraZeneca were stopped in the UK on Wednesday and the pharma firm said it has halted global trials, including large late-stage trials, of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine.

The QIP launch follows the trend of many banks and NBFCs hitting the market to raise funds to soften the hit of potential bad loans triggered by COVID-19.

Ali Kotarumalos, a journalist who reported on major news events in Indonesia for The Associated Press for more than three decades, has died. He was 68.

Indonesia's capital will reinstate widescale social restrictions as novel coronavirus cases and deaths increase and as hospitals fill up, Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan said on Wednesday.