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Time to define Indo-US relations?

2:12 pm May 20, 2021

The second wave of the coronavirus has since grown into a tsunami; India is now the global coronavirus hotspot, setting records for the world’s highest number of daily cases. Mr Rajiv Bhatia,a distinguished Fellow, Gateway House and former ambassador to Canda published a paper on Indian Express website (7th MAY).It wrote:  “after intensive inter-agency consultations […]

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Biden to boost world vaccine sharing commitment to 80M doses

11:23 pm May 17, 2021

Washington: President Joe Biden will announce Monday that the US will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks, the White House said. The doses would come from existing US production of Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine stocks, according White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who said more details would be released in the coming days. It comes […]

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COVID: AstraZeneca pledges USD 250,000 as humanitarian aid to India

11:59 pm May 11, 2021

New Delhi: Drug major AstraZeneca on Tuesday said it has pledged USD 250,000 (over Rs 1.8 crore) in humanitarian aid to India to support relief activities amid the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping across the country. The aid to India is part of the USD 1 million which the British-Swedish multinational has earmarked for relief initiatives across communities which have been […]

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US recommends ‘pause’ for J&J vaccine over clot reports

US recommends ‘pause’ for J&J vaccine over clot reports

10:24 pm April 13, 2021

WASHINGTON: The U.S. on Tuesday recommended a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots, a development that could jeopardize the rollout of vaccines around the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced that they […]

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India tells overseas vaccine buyers it has to prioritise local needs

11:07 pm March 26, 2021

New Delhi: India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, said on Friday it would make domestic COVID-19 inoculations a priority as infections surge and had told international buyers of its decision. Reports that India will delay deliveries of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to a global programme to inoculate poorer countries triggered alarm on Thursday, with the head […]

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