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Indian-Americans from Boston send USD 600,000 worth medical supplies to COVID-hit India

9:20 pm May 7, 2021

Washington: A group of Indian-Americans from the US city of Boston have pooled in USD 600,000 to send medical supplies to India, which is experiencing a deadly wave of the coronavirus. A plane carrying the medical supplies, which includes 3,400 oxygen concentrators, will leave for India on Saturday (May 8) and reach Mumbai by Monday (May 10), reported local […]

Indian-American non-profit body raises USD 7 million for India COVID crisis

11:41 pm May 6, 2021

Houston: An Indian-American non-profit body has said that it has reached the 101,000-donor mark and raised over USD 7 million towards COVID-19 relief efforts in India from its Facebook campaign within 10 days. Started with a goal of USD 500,000 on April 25 as India started seeing a drastic increase in the number of cases reported daily, Sewa Internationa’s ‘Help India Defeat COVID-19’ campaign on Facebook has grown […]

US lawmakers applaud India’s decision to not allow Chinese companies to conduct 5G trials

9:53 pm May 6, 2021

Washington: Top US lawmakers have applauded India’s decision to not allow Chinese telecom companies to conduct 5G trials in the country. The Department of Telecom in India on Tuesday had approved applications of telecom companies Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and MTNL to conduct 5G trials but none of them would be using technologies of Chinese entities. ”India’s decision to exclude Huawei and ZTE from its […]

‘US’ HDT Bio begins Phase-III trial of COVID-19 vaccine in India

11:53 pm May 5, 2021

Washington: US-based biopharmaceutical company HDT Bio Corp on Wednesday announced to begin Phase III trial of its COVID-19 vaccine in India. The Phase III trial of the vaccine developed by HDT Bio in partnership with Gennova Biopharmaceuticals in India is expected to be an affordable one as compared to the existing vaccines in the west. ”This trial is a major milestone […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

11:39 pm April 30, 2021

DHAKA: India has tried to fight skyrocketing coronavirus infections by increasing its production of vaccines and banning their export, cutting off supplies to neighbors such as Bangladesh and Nepal as they struggle with infection surges of their own. These nations have imposed lockdowns as residents of big cities flee to the countryside seeking safety. They […]