- Monday, March 31, 2025
Indian citizens will be given priority to the covid vaccine despite the global demand for it, the Serum Institute of India (SII) has announced. The company has frozen the export of vaccines to other countries till the end of 2021. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of SII said, “We continue to…
INDIA’S foreign minister S Jaishankar will meet the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, on Monday (24) to emphasise the procurement of coronavirus vaccines. During his five-day visit to the country, the minister explore the possibility of joint production as well as procurement of coronavirus vaccine with American companies. He…
A FORMER editor of a leading news magazine has been acquitted of charges of sexually assaulting a former colleague in India. A court on Friday (21) cleared all the accusations filed against Tarun Tejpal, the founder and former editor of Tehelka magazine, who was accused of raping a female journalist in the…
HALFORDS has donated £100,000 to the HOPE hospital in Kolkata to fund treatment for Covid patients. HOPE’s small hospital in Kolkata is treating only Covid-19 patients, converting from a single 10 bed Covid ward during the first wave to what is now three wards with 52 beds. Many of these…
FIVE Indian construction workers have accused the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) of forced labour. According to the lawsuits filed on Tuesday (11), 200 construction workers were recruited from India to build a Hindu temple in New Jersey and were forced to work for more than 87 hours…
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not travel to Britain for the Group of Seven (G7) summit next month because of the coronavirus situation in the country. The foreign ministry said in a statement, "While appreciating the invitation to the Prime Minister by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to attend…
SAUDI ARABIA has announced 118 humanitarian projects worth more than $123 million for cash-strapped Pakistan in food security, health, education, and water during prime minister Imran Khan’s two-day visit to the country. Khan arrived in Saudi Arabia last Friday (7) for a visit aimed at enhancing ties after months of…
Dr Gaurav Sharma, one of the youngest and newly-elected MPs in New Zealand, on Wednesday took oath in Sanskrit in the country's Parliament. Sharma, 33, hailing from Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur, was recently elected as the Member of Parliament from the Labour Party for Hamilton West in New Zealand. India's High…
China on Wednesday said it was firmly opposed to India's decision to block 43 more Chinese apps on national security grounds, claiming the move violated WTO rules. India on Tuesday blocked 43 more Chinese mobile apps, including Alibaba Group Holding's e-commerce app AliExpress, in a fresh wave of web sanctions…
Amid a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths, as many as 2,000 normal and 1,300 ICU beds have been added in hospitals of Delhi in the past two weeks for COVID-19 patients, an official said on Wednesday. The official said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been monitoring the situation, and added…
