NEW DELHI: In order to ensure early availability of its Covid-19 vaccine once approved, the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has already manufactured 40 million doses of the candidate developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca , under the category ‘at risk’ manufacturing and warehousing license from the …
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US President-elect Joe Biden was an early supporter of the US-India relationship, and his administration will continue to prioritize the defense and security partnership with New Delhi, a key area that has progressed during Donald Trump’s tenure as president, a senior official in the Barack Obama-era administration has said. The …
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US President Donald Trump vehemently refused to admit defeat in the recently concluded polls and vowed to legally resort to the “stolen” election, a claim for which he has not provided any concrete evidence. Trump has promised lawsuits in key states where President-elect Joe Biden secured a narrow victory, reiterating …
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The presidential race was floating in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to leave the then governor. George W. Bush read the top-secret daily summary of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence. Clinton was a Democrat and his vice president, Al Gore, was running against Republican Bush. Gore …
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Pfizer Inc said Monday that its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 based on initial data from a large study, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people. The shaken world economy disrupted daily life. Pfizer and …
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Early Sunday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (Archive) New Delhi: Residents lit firecrackers at Kamala Harris’ ancestral home on Sunday as India celebrated the victory of the vice president-elect of the United States, and her uncle hailed her achievement as historic and an inspiration …
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Waking up to the news that Kamala Harris had won the race to be the next vice president of the United States, joyous people in her Indian grandfather’s hometown lit firecrackers, offered prayers and carried posters. Groups gathered on the corners of the small village of Thulasendrapuram, with 350 inhabitants, …
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When the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, was in the financial capital of India in 2013, he had told the audience that his distant relatives live in Mumbai. Biden reiterated his claim two years later at an event in Washington, saying there are five Biden living in Mumbai. …
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The overall momentum of India-US ties, including growing security cooperation and focus on the Indo-Pacific, is unlikely to change under Joe Biden’s presidency, although experts believe there will be some rebalancing in certain areas. In a congratulatory message Saturday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled Biden’s “critical and invaluable” role …
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Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Kamala Harris has left girls dreaming big after being elected as the first vice president of Indian origin and the first black woman in the United States of America. Before the declaration of the final results of the presidential elections in …
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