World

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Calling for an inclusive and cooperative global response against Covid-19 at a virtual NAM summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday that India, as a developing country and free society, had demonstrated during the crisis how democracy, Discipline and decision can together create a genuine popular movement. …

[ad_1] New Delhi: The growth rate of new coronavirus cases in India is now doubling every 12 days, according to announcements by government officials, who see this as a sign that the lockdown-based strategy of containment is working. But as India moves into its third lockdown, a closer look at …

[ad_1] The government has decided to allow hundreds of Thousands of Indians stranded in different parts of the world to return home in a “phased manner” beginning May 7, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Monday. Also read: COVID-19 | State-wise tracker for coronavirus cases, deaths and testing …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Even as Railways’ ‘Shramik Express’ trains ferried migrant workers to their home states, in some other places yet, the stranded workers gathered to demand the state governments to send them home resulting in clashes with the local police. Meanwhile, market places, private and public offices opened in …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he now believes as many as 100,000 Americans could die in the coronavirus pandemic, after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, but said he was confident a vaccine would be developed by the year’s end. Trump alternated during a two-hour …

[ad_1] New Delhi: As the noose around China is tightening following accusations that it was hiding information related to the coronavirus leak from Wuhan’s laboratory, the communist nation has now stepped up efforts to garner support in its favor. China’s Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi recently called on Nepal’s Prime …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the virtual summit of the Non-Aligned Movement on Monday and said that India’s fight against the Covid-19 crisis has shown how democracy, discipline and decision can come together to create a genuine popular movement. Addressing the summit, Prime Minister Modi said: “Today, …

[ad_1] “Murder,” said George Bernard Shaw, “is the extreme form of censorship.” And I have always argued that censorship is the mildest form of political murder. The free expression of suffocation strangles the political process. In Pakistan, the country’s army practices both censorship and murder with increasing impunity. On May …

[ad_1] The World Health Organization on Monday told member states that it will soon start sending out formal invites for the truncated version of its annual meet later this month. The World Health Assembly’s virtual meet comes at a time the global health body chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is at …

[ad_1] By Shruti Srivastava India is developing a group of land almost twice the size of Luxembourg to attract companies moving from China, according to people with knowledge of the matter. A total area of ​​461,589 hectares across the country has been identified for the purpose, the people said, asking …