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Pfizer in talks with India over expedited approval for vaccine

Pfizer in talks with India over expedited approval for vaccine

Reuters 2021-05-03 14:13:43

Pfizer is in discussions with the Indian government seeking an "expedited approval pathway" for its Covid-19 vaccine, its CEO Albert Bourla said on LinkedIn on Monday, announcing a donation of medicin...

Critics label Australia’s India ban ‘racist’, breach of human rights

Critics label Australia’s India ban ‘racist’, breach of human rights

-- 2021-05-03 10:51:46

Australia's threat to jail citizens returning home from India has sparked condemnation, with critics labelling the Covid measure as "racist" and a breach of human rights. From Monday, any Austral...

India reports 368,147 new virus cases

India reports 368,147 new virus cases

Reuters 2021-05-03 10:44:26

India on Monday reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a twelfth straight day, taking its overall caseload to just shy of 20 million, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by 3,417. With 368,...

Narendra Modi congratulates Mamata 'Didi'

Narendra Modi congratulates Mamata 'Didi'

-- 2021-05-02 21:38:51

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday for her victory in the state assembly elections. Modi also assured that the central governme...

Modi's ruling party loses crucial Indian state election

Modi's ruling party loses crucial Indian state election

-- 2021-05-02 19:41:44

The incumbent chief minister's party in India's West Bengal state has defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in a state election held as the coronavirus pandemic surged to crisis levels. Modi...

India's virus deaths jump by record 3,689

India's virus deaths jump by record 3,689

REUTERS 2021-05-02 19:34:33

India's new coronavirus cases dipped marginally on Sunday but deaths due to the infection jumped by a record 3,689, with one more state going into lockdown as the nation's creaky healthcare system is...

Vaccination with Sputnik V may begin in India in 10 days

Vaccination with Sputnik V may begin in India in 10 days

-- 2021-05-02 17:50:39

Inoculation with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus infection may begin in India in 10 days, said a high ranked official of India's Dr Reddy's Laboratories in Hyderabad. The offici...

Mamata Banerjee wins Nandigram by 1,200 votes

Mamata Banerjee wins Nandigram by 1,200 votes

-- 2021-05-02 17:20:08

India’s Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has won West Bengal’s Nandigram assembly seat by 1200 votes, defeating BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. Earlier in the day, when the counting...

India reports 392,488 fresh Covid cases in 24 hours

India reports 392,488 fresh Covid cases in 24 hours

-- 2021-05-02 15:36:40

India's coronavirus (COVID-19) tally reached 19,557,457 on Sunday, with a single-day spike of 392,488 cases, said the federal health ministry. As many as 3,689 deaths were recorded since Saturday mor...

Mamata's Trinamool set to record landslide victory in India's West Bengal

Mamata's Trinamool set to record landslide victory in India's West Bengal

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-05-02 14:23:31

Mamata Banerjee looks set to win a third term in India’s West Bengal, the DMK is heading for victory in Tamil Nadu, the BJP is leading in Assam and the LDF in Kerala in the counting of votes for...

Myanmar protesters raise voices to 'shake the world'; more mystery blasts

Myanmar protesters raise voices to 'shake the world'; more mystery blasts

REUTERS 2021-05-02 13:30:16

Thousands of protesters were out early in Myanmar cities on Sunday, marching to oppose military rule more than three months after a coup that brought a halt to democratic reform and economic growth an...

Counting of votes in five Indian states starts amid pandemic

Counting of votes in five Indian states starts amid pandemic

-- 2021-05-02 11:35:33

India's election officials on Sunday started counting votes in five states from elections held in March and early April at the start of a surge in COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed the country's hea...

North Korea accuses Biden of maintaining hostile policy over its nuclear programme

North Korea accuses Biden of maintaining hostile policy over its nuclear programme

-- 2021-05-02 11:11:30

North Korea has hit out at the Biden administration as it prepares to unveil its strategy for dealing with Pyongyang and its nuclear programme. The foreign ministry said recent comments out of Wa...

Based on accords so far, US sanctions on oil, banks would be lifted: Iran negotiator

Based on accords so far, US sanctions on oil, banks would be lifted: Iran negotiator

REUTERS 2021-05-02 09:42:03

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Saturday Tehran expects US sanctions on oil, banks and most individuals and institutions to be lifted based on agreements so far in Vienna talks, Iranian...

Progress noted at diplomats’ talks on Iran nuclear deal

Progress noted at diplomats’ talks on Iran nuclear deal

AP 2021-05-01 21:21:23

High-ranking diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia and Britain made progress at talks Saturday focused on bringing the United States back into their landmark nuclear deal with Iran, but said t...

Imran Khan vows to implement China-Pakistan economic corridor projects

Imran Khan vows to implement China-Pakistan economic corridor projects

-- 2021-05-01 20:47:53

Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed his determination to complete all China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects. In a meeting on Friday to review progress on the CPEC projects, Imran Khan...

Over-18s vaccination drive in India hit by shortages

Over-18s vaccination drive in India hit by shortages

BBC 2021-05-01 20:45:47

India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day, as its nationwide vaccine drive launches amid a supply crisis. Some 3,523 deaths were officially...

Interpol refuses red notice against Zakir Naik for third time

Interpol refuses red notice against Zakir Naik for third time

-- 2021-05-01 20:37:14

Interpol has for the third time rejected India’s request for a red notice (RN) to provisionally arrest television evangelist Zakir Naik while questioning the very basis of invoking money launder...

Pakistan to reduce inbound international flights to 20pc

Pakistan to reduce inbound international flights to 20pc

-- 2021-05-01 20:18:08

Pakistan plans to reduce the number of inbound international flights to 20 per cent of current numbers to curb rising COVID-19 cases, the official body overseeing the country's pandemic response said...

12 die as Delhi hospital runs out of oxygen

12 die as Delhi hospital runs out of oxygen

-- 2021-05-01 19:36:45

The oxygen crisis in the Indian capital is escalating with each passing day. A week after 50 patients on ventilator died at two private hospitals in Delhi, 12 more people lost their lives at another l...

একদিনে ৪ লাখের বেশী সংক্রমণ, বিশ্ব রেকর্ড দেখতে হল ভারতকে

একদিনে ৪ লাখের বেশী সংক্রমণ, বিশ্ব রেকর্ড দেখতে হল ভারতকে

-- 2021-05-01 18:08:46

ভারতে নতুন করে ৪ লাখ ১ হাজার ৯৯৩ জন করোনাভাইরাসে আক্রান্ত হয়েছে, যা ২৪ ঘণ্টার হিসেবে শনাক্তের সংখ্যায় বিশ্বের মধ্যে সর্বোচ্চ। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। একদিনে কোভিড-১৯ আক্রান্ত হয়ে ৩ হাজার ৫২৩...

Kabul on high alert amid 'deadline' for US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

Kabul on high alert amid 'deadline' for US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

-- 2021-05-01 17:30:46

Kabul security was ramped up on Saturday as the city braced for reaction from the insurgent Taliban as US troops still present under President Joe Biden's orders, beyond the May 1 withdrawal deadline...

India Covid cases pass 400,000 for first time

India Covid cases pass 400,000 for first time

-- 2021-05-01 16:20:39

India posted a record daily rise of 401,993 new coronavirus cases on Saturday as the country opened up its massive vaccination drive to all adults, although several states warned of acute shortages....

Scientists say India government turned a blind eye to warnings amid coronavirus surge

Scientists say India government turned a blind eye to warnings amid coronavirus surge

REUTERS 2021-05-01 15:44:15

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who a...

18 die in fire at Covid hospital in India

18 die in fire at Covid hospital in India

-- 2021-05-01 11:03:54

At least 18 people died in a fire that broke out at a Covid hospital in the western Indian state of Gujarat in the wee hours of Saturday, officials said. There were 70 patients when the blaze started...

44 killed, over 100 injured in stampede at Israeli holy site

44 killed, over 100 injured in stampede at Israeli holy site

-- 2021-04-30 20:05:51

At least 44 people have been killed and 150 people hospitalised following a stampede around midnight Friday in Israel at Mount Meron during Lag BaOmer festivities, according to the Israeli Health Mini...

India extends ban on international flights until May 31

India extends ban on international flights until May 31

-- 2021-04-30 19:24:41

India has further extended the suspension of scheduled international flights until May 31 amid an aggressive sweep of the second coronavirus wave. "However, international scheduled flights may be all...

Singapore to block visitors from Bangladesh, other South Asian countries

Singapore to block visitors from Bangladesh, other South Asian countries

REUTERS 2021-04-30 18:24:34

Singapore will block entry to visitors with recent travel history to Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka from May 2 due to sustained increases in COVID-19 cases in the region, its health ministr...

Indian states run out of COVID vaccines, nationwide inoculation delayed

Indian states run out of COVID vaccines, nationwide inoculation delayed

REUTERS 2021-04-30 18:14:10

Several Indian states have run out of COVID-19 vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive, authorities said on Friday, as new infections in the crisis-hit country surge...

Pandemic, coup may push nearly 50pc Myanmar citizen into poverty by 2022

Pandemic, coup may push nearly 50pc Myanmar citizen into poverty by 2022

-- 2021-04-30 17:03:24

The dual impacts of the pandemic and Myanmar's political crisis triggered by a military coup could result in nearly half the population, or as many as 25 million people, dropping into poverty by 2022,...