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National Medical Commission allows medical graduates returned from Ukraine, China to appear in FMG exam

The National Medical Commission on Friday allowed final year students who returned to India due to Covid-19 or the Russia-Ukraine war and got degrees from their institutes on or before June 30, 2022, to appear in the Foreign Medical Graduate exam.

Jul 29, 2022

China's asteroid deflection test by 2026 to protect earth from doomsday space rocks

China's new move is expected to protect the earth if a doomsday asteroid approaches the planet

Jul 15, 2022

Heavy rains continue in China, blue alert issued

China's national observatory on Thursday issued a blue alert for rainstorms in some regions of the country.

Jul 14, 2022

Two Chinese embassy attaches kicked out by Fiji police from Kamala Harris's virtual address

Two Chinese defence attaches have been kicked out by Fijian police from a Pacific Islands Forum meeting at which the US Vice-President Kamala Harris was giving a virtual address, The Guardian reported.

Jul 13, 2022

World's biggest gambling hub shuts casinos in China amid Covid outbreak

Macau closed all its casinos for the first time in more than two years on Monday after a coronavirus outbreak in the world's biggest gambling hub, BBC reported.

Jul 11, 2022

World Population Day: India to become most-populated country by Nov 2023, says UN report

A report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, has sent shockwaves projecting India as the most populated country surpassing China by November 2023, with the overall global population reaching eight billion.

Jul 11, 2022

Women's hockey world cup: Error-prone India held 1-1 by China [details]

India were held to a 1-1 draw by China in a match in which both teams were jittery and made too many mistakes in the Pool B encounter and struggled for real threats on goal in the FIH Hockey Women's World Cup 2022 here on Tuesday.

Jul 6, 2022

Weather Alert: Typhoon Chaba on path to hit south China

Chaba, the third typhoon of the year, is heading toward the island province of Hainan in southern China, according to meteorological authorities.

Jun 30, 2022

China's UN envoy urges NATO not to fan another cold war using Ukraine crisis as excuse

China's permanent representative to the United Nations has urged NATO not to fan bloc confrontation or a new Cold War by using the Ukraine crisis as an excuse.

Jun 29, 2022

Mission Tianwen-3: China aims to beat NASA, ESA in returning Mars samples to Earth [Report]

China's Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission, said a media report

Jun 24, 2022

Artist's illustration of Chang'e 5 moon sample-return spacecraft

China's lunar lander Chang'e-5 finds source of water on Moon

China's lunar lander Chang'e-5, which had earlier confirmed the presence of water on the Moon, has now determined its source on the lunar surface.

Jun 15, 2022

Major escalation by Dragon: China makes second-largest incursion into Taiwan [details]

Taiwan detected 969 Chinese warplane incursions into the ADIZ last year.

May 31, 2022

China's Zhurong rover enters hibernation due to Martian dust storm

China's Mars rover Zhurong has been switched to dormant mode while waiting out a dust storm on the surface of the planet, according to the China National Space Administration.

May 25, 2022

Stock Markets: Sensex, Nifty recover previous losses led by gains in media, realty, metal stocks

Domestic equity benchmark indices erased all its losses they witnessed in the previous session to close sharply higher on Friday.

May 21, 2022

Hangzhou Asian Para Games too postponed due to rising COVID-19 cases in China

The Asian Paralympic Committee has further informed that a task force comprising the relevant stakeholders will now work on rescheduling the Games in 2023.

May 18, 2022

Shanghai reopens commercial outlets with Covid resurgence under control

China's financial hub Shanghai is gradually reopening commercial outlets such as shopping malls, convenience stores and pharmacies after weeks of closed management to ward off Covid-19.

May 17, 2022

Why Cybertruck's 'unbreakable windows' cracked?

Tesla stops taking Cybertruck orders in China, Europe

Electric car maker Tesla has reportedly stopped taking Cybertruck orders on its websites in China and Europe.

May 16, 2022

China's zero-COVID policy not "sustainable": WHO Chief as reports questioning Shanghai lockdown surface

The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China's zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is now known of the virus, in rare public comments by the U.N. agency on a government's handling of the pandemic.

May 11, 2022

Nepal shuts its international borders with India and China, here's why

Nepal has shut its international borders with India and China for a period of 72 hours ahead of the local polls slated for Friday, according to the Home Ministry.