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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Firm, individual from country sharing border with India can invest only after govt approval: DPIIT

12:31 am April 19, 2020

New Delhi: A company or an individual from a country that shares land border with India can invest in any sector here only after getting government approval, according to DPIIT. The decision, which is likely to impact foreign investments from countries like China, has been taken to curb “opportunistic takeovers or acquisitions” of domestic firms […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Trump directs halt to payments to WHO during coronavirus pandemic

8:01 am April 15, 2020

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the virus from spreading when it first surfaced in China. Trump, who had telegraphed his intentions last week, claimed the outbreak could have […]

Coronavirus: Latest updates on COVID-19 crisis around the world

China reports 46 new coronavirus cases, three deaths: NHC

3:07 pm April 11, 2020

Beijing: China has reported 46 new coronavirus cases, including four local and 34 asymptomatic infections, while three more people have died due to the global pandemic, taking the death toll in the country to 3,339, health officials said here on Saturday. According to China’s National Health Commission, the Chinese mainland reported a total of 1,183 […]

UK driver pleads guilty to manslaughter of 39 found dead in truck

2:12 am April 9, 2020

London: A British lorry driver on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck in southeast England. Northern Ireland man Maurice Robinson, 25, was arrested shortly after the bodies of 31 men and eight women from Vietnam were discovered in the truck in an industrial zone in Grays, […]

WHO ‘very China centric’: Trump

1:10 am April 8, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused the WHO of being “China centric” and said the world health body issued “faulty” recommendations at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. “The WHO really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric,” Trump said in a tweet, amidst allegations […]