Tag Archives: India

• Coronavirus: India’s daily virus cases soar past 100,000 for first time 5 April 2021 | Sheikh Saaliq This post has no comments yet

  India reported its biggest single-day spike in confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began Monday, and officials in the hard-hit state home to Mumbai are resuming the closure of some businesses and places of worship. ...

• Coronavirus: India’s COVID-19 situation turning from ‘bad to worse’ 30 March 2021 This post has 2 comments

  The Centre on Tuesday said the COVID-19 situation is turning from "bad to worse" and is a huge cause for worry, especially for some states, warning that the whole country is at risk and any complacency at this stage will have "heavy costs" ...

• Pakistan PM Khan desires peace with arch-rival India | Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam This post has no comments yet

  Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday replied to a letter written by his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, and said Islamabad desires peaceful relations with New Delhi, an official source told Reuters. ...

• Coronavirus: India detects new variant of coronavirus; experts urge caution 24 March 2021 | Aniruddha Ghosal This post has no comments yet

  A new and potentially troublesome variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India, as have variants first detected in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, health officials said Wednesday. ...

• Coronavirus: India records highest daily spike in Covid-19 cases this year 17 March 2021 This post has no comments yet

  India recorded its highest daily tally of coronavirus cases this year with 28,903 new infections, taking the total COVID-19 tally to 1,14,38,734, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated today. ...

• China bristles at Quad summit, says ‘it will end up nowhere’ 16 March 2021 | Sutirtho Patranobis This post has 2 comments

  China on Monday said the Quad “will end up nowhere” if it does not abandon its ideological bias and cold war mentality, underscoring its opposition to the bloc. Beijing said the Quad's ideology is “detrimental to the international order". ...

• Myanmar going under China points to need for QUAD 14 March 2021 | NS Venkataraman This post has no comments yet

  Considering China's present economic and military strength and the greed to become the super power of the world at any cost, the economic, military, and political strength of the four QUAD partners are vitally needed. ...

• India summons British envoy over ‘unwarranted’ criticism of farm protests 9 March 2021 | Alasdair Pal This post has no comments yet

  India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom’s high commissioner over what it called “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” of Indian agricultural reforms in the British parliament. ...

• Tibet official urges China to start construction on Brahmaputra dam within year 8 March 2021 | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

  China should aim to begin construction of a controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river within the year, a senior Tibetan Communist Party official said in comments published on Monday. ...

• Coronavirus: India records 18,711 new Covid-19 infections 7 March 2021 This post has no comments yet

  The daily rise in new coronavirus infections were recorded above 18,000 for the second consecutive day taking India's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,12,10,799, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. ...