With its biggest single-day spike in Covid-19 infections, India became the world’s seventh worst affected country, having over 1,90,500 cases and 5,394 fatalities. India’s caseload rose by 8,392 infections along with 230 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country Monday entered its “unlockdown 1” phased opening allowing most activities across the country and limiting the lockdown […]
The Chinese troops have captured more than 60 square kilometres of Indian-patrolled territory in the last month – equally divided between the northern bank of the Pangong Lake and the Galwan River sectors, Business Standard quoting government sources has reported. The report claims Chinese troops now block access to several Indian “Patrolling Points” (PPs) along the LAC, […]
New Delhi: The implementation of a March 2018 Supreme Court verdict, highlighting the plight of construction workers, could have helped mitigate the migrant crisis that unfolded during the Covid-19 pandemic. Issued by a bench of Justices M.B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, both now retired, the order called for the central government to implement two 20-year-old laws that seek to […]
Two officials of Pakistan High Commission in Delhi were apprehended for indulging in espionage, officials said onm Sunday. “India declares two Pakistan High Commission officials persona non grata for indulging in espionage activities,” they said. The Indian government has ordered the two Pakistan High Commission officials to leave country within 24 hours, and issued demarche […]
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the country’s apex medical research body, is reviewing the benefits of drugs ivermectin and doxycycline as potential therapy for Covid-19. The combination of these two drugs has been hailed by doctors in Bangladesh for yielding “astounding results”. “We are closely studying the drug ivermectin and its possible […]
In a span of two weeks, the Indian coast is bracing for yet another cyclone, this time along the west. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has turned on its cyclone-watch over a low pressure system that formed on Sunday. It presently lies over the Southeast and east-central Arabian Sea, just off north-Kerala and Karnataka coast as […]
New Delhi: The move to update Nepal’s new map — which includes a stretch of land high in the mountains that India claims as its own — has gathered momentum, with the ruling Left alliance moving a constitution amendment bill today. The opposition Nepali Congress has said it would vote in favour of the amendment, […]
India registered its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases on Sunday with 8,380 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s tally to 1,82,143, while the death toll rose to 5,164, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood to 89,995, while 86,983 people have recovered and […]
In first public remarks from the political establishment on tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Saturday that dialogue at the military and diplomatic levels are on between India and China to resolve the situation. He said India wants good relations with its neighbours. Speaking to Aaj Tak, Singh said: […]
Why, when the Chinese PLA comes bullying its way along the borders in Ladakh, am I invoking an outrageous American political satirist, P.J. O’Rourke? Among his finest pieces is his ‘A Brief History of Man’. You can find it in his collection Republican Party Reptile. In less than a thousand brilliant words, it spans the entire […]