Tag Archives: India

• China and India fail to set ambitious new climate targets at key talks 12 December 2020 | Daisy Dunne This post has no comments yet

  The leaders of China and India failed to set ambitious new climate targets at a key summit co-hosted by the UK today. Chinese president Xi announced a new pledge to cut China’s CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by over 65 per cent by 2030. ...

• India, Nepal to start flights under air bubble arrangement 10 December 2020 | Rezaul H Laskar This post has 3 comments

  India and Nepal have decided to start flights under a bilateral air bubble arrangement, people familiar with developments said on Thursday, marking another step by the two sides to normalise ties hit by a border row earlier this year. ...

• Farmers reject government offer to amend laws, will intensify stir | Vishwa Mohan and Neel Kamal This post has no comments yet

  Talks between the government and farmers’ groups agitating against the new agri laws broke down on Wednesday with the unions rejecting the Centre’s offer to amend the legislations. ...

• Protesting farmers call for nationwide strike on 8 December 7 December 2020 This post has one comment

  Thousands of farmers protesting against the Centre's new agri laws for the past 11 days here have called on people to join their 'Bharat Bandh' on Tuesday in large numbers, as police increased deployment at various Delhi border points. ...

• India fails to end deadlock with farmers, talks to resume next week 6 December 2020 | Reuters Staff This post has one comment

  India’s government failed on Saturday to break a deadlock with farmers protesting over agricultural reforms and will meet again on Wednesday, the agriculture minister and union leaders said. ...

• Coronavirus: Sikyong aspirant Kaydor Aukatsang tests positive 5 December 2020 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has 7 comments

  One of the aspirants for the position of Sikyong, or Tibetan political leader, Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang (aka Kaydor Aukatsang), has tested positive for Coronavirus, and is self-quarantining in Delhi. ...

• India plans dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream 1 December 2020 | Neha Arora and Devjyot Ghoshal This post has no comments yet

  India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. ...

• China eyes 60 GW of hydropower on Tibet’s Brahmaputra river | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

  China could build up to 60 gigawatts of hydropower capacity on a section of the Brahmaputra river, known as the Yarlung Tsangbo, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, Chinese state media reported on Monday. ...

• Chinese scientists claim Coronavirus originated in India 30 November 2020 | Times Now Digital This post has one comment

  Chinese researchers have now claimed that Wuhan virus originated in India with a Chinese study hinting that the human-to-human transmission may have started in India months before the outbreak in Wuhan. ...

• India’s economic contraction slows as vaccines boost recovery hopes 27 November 2020 | Manoj Kumar This post has no comments yet

  The contraction of the Indian economy eased off in the three months to September amid signs of a pick up in manufacturing, and economists expect a steady recovery next year if progress on coronavirus vaccines feeds consumer demand. ...