- Sunday, June 16, 2024
The United States on Thursday (15) voiced alarm over the targeting of religious minorities in both India and Pakistan, warning against a search for internal scapegoats during the coronavirus pandemic. In a rare statement of US concern over India, Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, pointed to…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,649 in India and the number of cases climbed to 81,970 on Friday (15), the health ministry said. The country has reported 100 new deaths and 3,967 new cases due to coronavirus in the last 24 hours. India, second largest populous country after…
Billionaire Anil Agarwal announced a proposal to delist Vedanta from the Indian stock exchanges on May 11. The promoter group Vedanta Resources will buy out the 48.94 per cent non-promoter shares at Rs 87.5 per share, a premium of Rs 9.9 percent over its May 11 market price. The promoter…
Britain on Thursday (14) said it was in discussions with Swiss pharma giant Roche to mass purchase its coronavirus antibody test after scientists found it to be “100 percent” accurate, the government said Thursday. “This test developed by Roche appears to be extremely reliable, it’s got the green light from…
Narendra Modi’s grand announcement of a $265-billion rescue package for India is little comfort to Manish Verma, one of millions left destitute and desperate 50 days into a crippling coronavirus lockdown. “I don’t trust Modi. We don’t understand such big figures,” Verma told AFP, trudging out of New Delhi under…
THE total number of COVID-19 cases in India has jumped by 3,722 in past 24 hours, increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 78,003 on Thursday (14), said the health ministry. The country is likely to surpass China in total number of cases soon. The overall confirmed cases on…
Scrapping the money-spinning Indian Premier League this year because of the coronavirus pandemic would cost more than half a billion dollars, but cutting players’ pay was not yet being considered, a top official has told AFP. The world’s richest Twenty20 tournament is staring at a first wipeout in its 12-year…
India’s enormous railway network tentatively ground back to life Tuesday as a gradual lifting of the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown gathered pace even as new cases surged. The country of 1.3 billion imposed a strict shutdown in late March, which prime minister Narendra Modi’s government has credited with keeping cases…
THE London High Court has awarded a £60 million divorce settlement to an interior designer following a “bitter break-up” with her multi-millionaire Indian businessman husband. Simrin Choudhrie had fought a long legal battle with Bhanu Choudhrie, who had earlier tried to legally gag her from revealing “pillow talk” information after…
Air India is planning to operate 149 repatriation flights to 31 countries between May 16 and May 22 during the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission to bring back home Indians stranded abroad amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown, officials said. During the first phase of the Vande Bharat mission, Air India and its subsidiary…
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