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The committee in its preliminary report opined that the blowout and subsequent explosion has led to extensive damage to both the publicly-owned resources', including the Maguri-Motapung wetland and Dibru-Saikhowa National Park.

AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Thursday said no clear mortality benefit of convalescent plasma therapy was seen during a trial conducted among 30 COVID-19 patients.

German sportswear firm Adidas said on Thursday it expected to bounce back to profitability in the third quarter assuming there are no new major lockdowns as it benefits from more people exercising and dressing down as they work from home.

ITV, Britain's biggest freetoair commercial broadcaster, said more advertisers were starting to return after the COVID19 pandemic hit its broadcast and production revenue in its first half, causing earnings to halve.

UPSC CDS II Exam Notification 2020: Those willing to apply can check the notification at upsc.gov.in. A total of 344 vacancies have been released.

Israel's Government Companies Authority said it would recommend allowing Eli Rozenberg to buy control of cashstrapped El Al Israel Airlines.

The petition, by a doctor, had contended that such entities were "misrepresenting themselves as medical diagnostic laboratories".

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said media reports suggest that charge sheets filed in the case comprises of more than 10,000 pages.

Mangroves absorb excess water but they are being destroyed in Mumbai in the guise of infrastructure development, city-based environmentalist Debi Goenka said.

The dollar languished and just about everything else rose on Thursday, as markets took patchy U.S. economic data as a harbinger of ever more stimulus and brinkmanship on Capitol Hill as a sign that a deal on a new U.S. stimulus package is close.

Germany's Lufthansa said it does not expect air travel demand to return to precrisis levels before 2024 as a steep drop in revenue pushed it to its worstever quarterly operating loss of 1.7 billion euros ($2.02 billion).

The document was the first official acknowledgment from the central government of intrusion into Indian territory by the People’s Liberation Army amid the ongoing deadlock over troop disengagement.

Gold steadied on Thursday after hitting a record high in the previous session as dismal U.S. jobs data hammered the dollar, while increasing worries about a recovery in the pandemicravaged global economy kept demand solid for the metal.

China's major staterun commercial banks are conducting largescale internal testing of a digital wallet application, moving a step closer to the official launch of a homegrown digital currency, the 21st Century Business Herald reported on Thursday.

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Samsung Galaxy get the first look at the new Your Phone for Windows 10. The Samsung Galaxy Note10, Samsung Galaxy Fold, Samsung Galaxy S20 and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip can now run this test build. Support for Samsung Galaxy Note 20 is arriving later this...