UK

UK to receive millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from India’s Wockhardt

Editorial Bureau August 3, 2020

BENGALURU (INDIA) – Indian drugmaker Wockhardt Ltd announced on Monday that it would supply millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines to the UK and they include the shot being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. As part of a deal with the British government, the firm has

Asia

India, China diplomats to hold talks to ease tensions at Himalayan border

Editorial Bureau July 24, 2020

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – In a bid to ease tensions and seek ways to pull back troops from either side of the disputed border, Indian and Chinese diplomats are slated to hold discussions on Friday. This comes in the wake of a bloody stand-off between troops on both sides on June 15 in the Galwan […]

Asia

Floods caused by torrential rains leave 189 dead, millions displaced in India, Nepal

Editorial Bureau July 19, 2020

GUWAHATI/KATHMANDU (INDIA/NEPAL) – As many as four million people in the Indian state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal have been displaced by floods triggered by the monsoon rains and dozens are reported missing. The death toll has gone up to 189, according to government officials on Sunday. The Brahmaputra river, which flows through China’s Tibet, […]

Asia

Number of coronavirus cases crosses 1 million mark in India

Editorial Bureau July 17, 2020

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – The number of coronavirus cases in India crossed the million mark, according to data released by the ministry of health on Friday. Infections have moved to the smaller towns and villages as the country lifted its lockdown. The number of fatalities stood at 25,602, said the health ministry. Only the United […]

Asia

COVID-19: India seeks army help to run treatment facilities in Delhi as cases surge

Ren Leen June 24, 2020

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – The Indian government on Wednesday called in the army to manage new COVID treatment centres with thousands of additional hospital beds in New Delhi. On the same day, as many as 16,000 new coronavirus cases were reported, the highest daily increase since the outbreak began. At more than 456,000 confirmed coronavirus […]

Asia

Indian and Chinese military agree to disengage on disputed Himalayan border

Ren Leen June 23, 2020

NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Asia) – Indian and Chinese military commanders have agreed to step back from a confrontation over a disputed stretch of border where a clash last week left 20 Indian soldiers dead, government officials in New Delhi and Beijing said on Tuesday. “There was a mutual consensus to disengage,” an Indian government source said, […]

Asia

India, China commanders conduct parley on border

Ren Leen June 22, 2020

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – Indian and Chinese military commanders held a second round of discussions to ease tensions on their contested border on Monday as the public mood hardened in India for a military and economic riposte to China following the worst clash in over five decades. According to an Indian government source, corps commanders […]

Asia

India, China accuse each other of violating de facto border

Ren Leen June 20, 2020

NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Asia) – India and China on Saturday each traded accusations that the other had violated their shared de facto border, an area that this week became the site of the deadliest clash in half a century between the two nuclear-armed giants. A day after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to downplay Monday’s […]

Tech

Amazon signals entry into alcohol delivery in India with nod in key state – document

Ren Leen June 20, 2020

NEW DELHI (Technology) – Amazon.com Inc has secured clearance to deliver alcohol in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, according to a document seen by Reuters, signalling the U.S. e-commerce giant’s first foray into the country’s multi-billion-dollar sector. In a notice on Friday, West Bengal State Beverages Corp, the authorised

Asia

India conducts funerals of soldiers killed in China border clash

Ren Leen June 18, 2020

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – India prepared to conduct funerals on Thursday for some of the 20 soldiers killed in a brutal hand-to-hand fight with Chinese troops in a disputed mountainous border region, as the two governments sought to defuse the volatile situation. At the Galwan Valley in the western Himalayas, troops remained on alert three […]