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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 […]

Religious and political events among factors that accelerated COVID-19 transmission in India:WHO

11:55 pm May 12, 2021

United Nations: The World Health Organisation has said a recent risk assessment of the situation in India found that “resurgence and acceleration” of COVID-19 transmission in the country had several potential contributing factors, including ”several religious and political mass gathering events which increased social mixing”. The WHO, in its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update, published Wednesday, said […]

US closes in on 100 million Americans fully vaccinated

11:24 pm April 30, 2021

New York: Disneyland reopened Friday and New York’s mayor predicted the big city will be up and running again at full strength by July 1, as the number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 closed in on 100 million. Visitors cheered and screamed with delight as the Southern California theme park swung open its gates […]

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

India cases up as scientists appeal to Modi to release data

2:39 pm April 30, 2021

NEW DELHI: Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported more than […]

As COVID engulfs India, diaspora watches with despair

2:31 pm April 30, 2021

Los Angeles: Bad news, knowing no time zones, arrives in a jarring burst of messages, calls and posts informing millions of members of India’s worldwide diaspora that yet another loved one has been sickened or lost to the coronavirus. Sometimes it comes in a barrage of WhatsApp messages first thing in the morning, and sometimes […]

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