- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
CHINA has jailed a popular blogger for "defaming martyrs" after he suggested the death toll of the China-India border clash last year was higher than the official count of four. Qiu Ziming -- with over 2.5 million followers on China's twitter-like Weibo -- was sentenced to eight months in prison,…
INDIA reported on Tuesday (1) its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections since April 8 at 127,510 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,795. The new Covid-19 cases is the lowest in 54 days, while the daily positivity rate dropped to 6.62 per cent. The…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi has announced a number of welfare measures for children who lost their parents to Covid-19. It includes ensuring a corpus of Rs one million when they turn 18 and providing for their education. On eve of his government's second anniversary on Saturday (29), Modi said these children…
THE ongoing Covid crisis in India could affect the supply of vital drugs to the UK. The volume of medication being shipped to the UK is dropping and stocks could reach dangerously low levels in the coming months, reported The Telegraph. While one third of generic medicines used by the…
INDIA will have nearly 120 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines available for domestic use in June, the government has said. This marks a significant jump from the 79.4 million doses that were available in May. India has administered about 212 million doses, the most after China and the US, but…
RASHEEDA JALEEL lives in fear that she may not be able to feed her seven children as millions of Indian families are forced into poverty by a devastating new coronavirus wave. The 40-year-old, her husband Abdul Jaleel, 65, and the children already survive on just one meal a day. "When…
MONSOON rains are likely to hit India's southern coast around June 3, largely in line with typical patterns, the state-run India Meteorological Department said in its latest revised forecast. Earlier, the weather office had said the start of the monsoon would be on May 31. The latest weather forecast showed…
THE US department of defense has partnered with Gandhinagar-based National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) to step up efforts to recover the remains of its over 400 personnel who had gone missing in India during World War II. Scientific experts at the University will help the defense prisoner of war/missing in…
INDIA reported on Monday (31) its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections since April 11 at 152,734 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,128. The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 28 million, while the death toll has reached 329,100, health ministry…
MORE THAN 96,000 hectares (237,221 acres) of agricultural land has been inundated in parts of an eastern Indian state hit by a powerful storm this week, officials said, a year after the coastal region was ravaged by a super cyclone. Cyclone Yaas swept in from the Bay of Bengal on…
