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India, China agree to solve shared border dispute 'peacefully'   

India, China agree to solve shared border dispute 'peacefully'  

-- 2020-06-06 16:47:35

India and China agreed on Friday to resolve a dispute over their shared border in the Ladakh region through diplomatic channels, the Indian foreign affairs ministry said in a statement, reports Reuter...

India overtakes Italy in coronavirus cases amid easing of lockdown

India overtakes Italy in coronavirus cases amid easing of lockdown

-- 2020-06-06 13:24:20

India has recorded close to 10,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Italy. The country now has the sixth-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, 236,...

Lightning strikes claim 36 lives in Myanmar in five months

Lightning strikes claim 36 lives in Myanmar in five months

-- 2020-06-06 13:24:17

Lightning strikes claimed 36 lives with some injured in different areas of Myanmar in the first five months of this year, an official from the Disaster Management Department said on Saturday. From Ja...

Thousands in Australia defy bans at Black Lives Matter protests

Thousands in Australia defy bans at Black Lives Matter protests

-- 2020-06-06 12:39:02

Thousands of Australians gathered in protests on Saturday embracing the cause of US protesters angered by the death of a black man in police custody, defying bans and police warnings that fines will b...

COVID-19 epidemics in India, South Asia growing but not exploding: WHO

COVID-19 epidemics in India, South Asia growing but not exploding: WHO

REUTERS 2020-06-06 12:11:39

The number of COVID-19 cases in India has been doubling every three weeks but the epidemic is not growing exponentially in the country and South Asia region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said o...

Japan aims to have coronavirus vaccines in use by June 2021

Japan aims to have coronavirus vaccines in use by June 2021

-- 2020-06-05 19:26:12

Japan aims to put coronavirus vaccines into use by June 2021, the health minister said on Friday, as the country strives to be fully ready to host the Tokyo Olympics, originally planned for this summe...

China's Hubei clears all confirmed COVID-19 cases

China's Hubei clears all confirmed COVID-19 cases

-- 2020-06-05 17:45:36

Central China's Hubei Province cleared all its confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the provincial health commission said Friday. As of Thursday, the last three COVID-19 patients in the province had...

India set to reopen temples, malls

India set to reopen temples, malls

Reuters 2020-06-05 17:28:47

India will throw open shopping malls, restaurants and places of worship that typically attract large crowds next week, officials said, even though coronavirus infections are rising at the fastest dail...

Japan’s pandemic deaths low, but future success uncertain

Japan’s pandemic deaths low, but future success uncertain

AP 2020-06-05 16:10:48

Japan has kept its deaths from the new coronavirus low despite a series of missteps that beg the question of whether it can prevent future waves of infections. Authorities were criticised for bunglin...

After Pakistan's lockdown gamble, COVID-19 cases surge

After Pakistan's lockdown gamble, COVID-19 cases surge

Reuters 2020-06-05 14:11:24

Four weeks ago, with its most important festival coming up and millions of people facing starvation as economic activity dwindled, Pakistan lifted a two-month-long coronavirus lockdown.   Prime...

India's urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis

India's urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis

REUTERS 2020-06-05 10:11:01

Rural parts of India have begun to see a surge in novel coronavirus infections, as millions of migrant workers returning from big cities and industrial hubs bring the virus home with them, according t...

Hong Kong legislature passes national anthem bill

Hong Kong legislature passes national anthem bill

Xinhua 2020-06-04 16:47:54

The Legislative Council (LegCo) of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passed the National Anthem Bill at the third reading debate on Thursday. The bill was approved with the supp...

ADB, ESCAP to help Asia Pacific region to address COVID-19

ADB, ESCAP to help Asia Pacific region to address COVID-19

-- 2020-06-04 16:40:56

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) Executive Secretary Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana on Wednesday...

Mumbai avoids brunt of cyclone

Mumbai avoids brunt of cyclone

-- 2020-06-03 18:24:06

Mumbai escaped the brunt of a cyclone on Wednesday after winds changed direction and the storm made landfall further south on India's western coast than expected, giving some respite to a metropolis a...

Modi, Trump discuss India-China border issues

Modi, Trump discuss India-China border issues

-- 2020-06-03 17:50:25

China on Wednesday said there was no need for a ‘third party’ to intervene in the ongoing China-India border friction after it emerged that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed th...

Cyclone ‘Nisarga’ makes landfall in India; 60,000 evacuated

Cyclone ‘Nisarga’ makes landfall in India; 60,000 evacuated

Hindustan Times 2020-06-03 16:48:48

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday said that it has evacuated around 60,000 people from the state’s coastal region of Konkan, and brought 7,003 fishing boats back to the shore with the help...

Mumbai streets deserted as the city braces for first-ever cyclone

Mumbai streets deserted as the city braces for first-ever cyclone

Reuters 2020-06-03 15:39:42

Bracing for the first-ever cyclone to hit Mumbai in living memory, people in India’s most populous metropolis stayed off the streets and scrambled to protect their homes before the torrential ra...

India's COVID-19 cases cross 200,000

India's COVID-19 cases cross 200,000

-- 2020-06-03 11:25:46

India’s coronavirus infections crossed 200,000, the health ministry said on Wednesday, and a peak could still be weeks away in the world’s second most populous country. Cases jumped by 8,...

Hong Kong pro-democracy group files complaint to UN over alleged abuse

Hong Kong pro-democracy group files complaint to UN over alleged abuse

-- 2020-06-02 17:45:14

A Hong Kong pro-democracy group said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it described as abuse of anti-government protesters held in custody in the Chinese-ruled city...

South Assam landslides leave 20 dead

South Assam landslides leave 20 dead

-- 2020-06-02 17:06:41

At least 20 people have died in a series of landslides that took place in Assam of India on Tuesday. The dead are largely from three different districts of the Barak valley region in southern Assam. S...

Indonesia cancels this year's hajj pilgrimage

Indonesia cancels this year's hajj pilgrimage

Reuters 2020-06-02 14:00:59

Indonesia has cancelled the hajj pilgrimage this year for people in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation due to concerns over the coronavirus, the religious affairs minister said on Tuesda...

Red alert as Mumbai braces for first-ever cyclone in its history

Red alert as Mumbai braces for first-ever cyclone in its history

-- 2020-06-02 12:08:46

The Indian city of Mumbai could be in for a weather phenomenon that has never occurred in its documented history. A cyclone developing over the Arabian Sea—the second to be forming near India i...

Singapore rushes to build housing for 60,000 migrant workers after virus outbreak

Singapore rushes to build housing for 60,000 migrant workers after virus outbreak

Reuters 2020-06-02 10:22:13

The Singapore government is racing to create additional housing for about 60,000 migrant workers by the end of this year, as it seeks to reduce the density in dormitories which have seen mass outbreak...

India's coronavirus infections overtake France

India's coronavirus infections overtake France

Reuters 2020-06-01 18:47:46

India's cases of coronavirus crossed 190,000, the health ministry said on Monday, overtaking France to become seventh highest in the world, as the government eases back on most curbs after a two-month...

‘WHO should intervene to end internet shutdowns amid pandemic’

‘WHO should intervene to end internet shutdowns amid pandemic’

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-06-01 18:06:15

The World Health Organization (WHO) should press four governments including Bangladesh that have shut down the internet to minority populations during the Covid-19 crisis to restore internet access, H...

Armenian Prime Minister tests positive for coronavirus

Armenian Prime Minister tests positive for coronavirus

Reuters 2020-06-01 13:40:49

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday said he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, speaking during a Facebook live video. “I didn’t have any symptoms, I decided to t...

India expels two Pakistan embassy officials for 'espionage'

India expels two Pakistan embassy officials for 'espionage'

-- 2020-06-01 10:30:13

India on Sunday expelled two officials working at the Pakistan embassy in New Delhi after they were held for espionage, the foreign ministry has said in a statement. “Two (Pakistani) officials...

Japan considering re-opening door to selected countries

Japan considering re-opening door to selected countries

Reuters 2020-06-01 10:09:19

Japan is considering re-opening its borders to travellers from selected countries which have low levels of coronavirus infections, as it begins to ease restrictions put in place earlier this year to c...

Saudi Arabia reopens mosques with strict regulations

Saudi Arabia reopens mosques with strict regulations

-- 2020-05-31 18:07:40

Saudi Arabia’s mosques opened their doors to worshippers on Sunday for the first time in more than two months as the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, eased restrictions imposed to combat the co...

COVID-19: India records highest single-day spike of 265 deaths, 7,964 cases

COVID-19: India records highest single-day spike of 265 deaths, 7,964 cases

-- 2020-05-30 16:34:10

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,971 and the number of cases climbed to 1,73,763 in India registering a record single-day spike of 265 deaths and 7,964 cases till Saturday 8:00am, according to...