(Reuters) – China warned on Thursday that a “forced decoupling” of its economy from India, following a border clash in the Himalayas last month that killed 20 Indian soldiers, would harm both countries. The Chinese ambassador said that China was not a strategic threat to India and that “the overall …
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The first batch of five French-made Rafale fighter jets arrived at an Indian Air Force (IAF) base, Indian officials said, as the country seeks to modernize its armed forces amid security challenges with Pakistan and China. The planes landed Wednesday at Ambala Air Base in the northern state of Haryana. …
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Coronavirus infections in India passed 1.5 million and deaths approached 35,000, but the results of tests in the city of Mumbai cast further doubt on official data in the world’s second most populous nation. Despite the number of cases skyrocketing and more areas imposing blockades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said …
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India’s slums are resisting the surge in coronavirus thanks to “collective immunity,” according to a new study. About 57 percent of the nearly 7,000 people surveyed in the crowded slums of Mumbai were found to have antibodies in their blood, the highest immunity rate in the world, determined the study …
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More than half of people living in the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a study commissioned by the city that raises new questions about India’s official case numbers. India is already the third most affected country after the United States and Brazil, with almost 1.5 million …
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