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Tata starts discussion with Moderna to launch COVID-19 vaccine in India

Tata starts discussion with Moderna to launch COVID-19 vaccine in India

-- 2021-01-25 18:25:18

Tata Group's healthcare venture is said to have started initial discussions with Moderna Inc for a partnership to launch its COVID-19 vaccine in India. Tata Medical and Diagnostics could team up with...

Asia's 'most-wanted' drug boss arrested

Asia's 'most-wanted' drug boss arrested

-- 2021-01-25 14:58:44

Dutch authorities have arrested 57-year old Canadian national Tse Chi Lop at the request of the Australia Federal Police after a long probe into drug trafficking in the Asia-Pacific. Tse had been on...

China miners rescued after 14 days underground

China miners rescued after 14 days underground

-- 2021-01-25 14:37:59

Chinese rescuers pulled 11 gold miners to safety on Sunday with most of them in good condition after 14 days trapped underground after an explosion, but 10 colleagues were still unaccounted for, state...

US carrier group enters South China Sea amid Taiwan tensions

US carrier group enters South China Sea amid Taiwan tensions

-- 2021-01-24 22:34:57

A US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt has entered the South China Sea to promote "freedom of the seas", the US military said on Sunday, at a time when tensions between China an...

WHO recognises Medina as healthiest city

WHO recognises Medina as healthiest city

-- 2021-01-24 20:18:07

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised Medina of Saudi Arabia as one of the healthiest cities across the world. The holy city gained the accreditation after a visiting team of WHO said th...

Terror groups in Pakistan switch to new messaging apps

Terror groups in Pakistan switch to new messaging apps

-- 2021-01-24 16:48:30

Amid a raging debate over privacy offered by messaging platforms like WhatsApp, terrorist groups and their handlers from Pakistan are switching to new applications which include one developed by a Tur...

11 workers rescued from China gold mine after two weeks

11 workers rescued from China gold mine after two weeks

AP 2021-01-24 16:34:32

Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface on Sunday. State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one-by-one in baske...

Malaysia arrests 16 Vietnamese fishermen for trespassing

Malaysia arrests 16 Vietnamese fishermen for trespassing

-- 2021-01-24 11:02:05

Malaysian maritime authorities have arrested 16 Vietnamese fishermen from two boats they said were encroaching in Malaysia’s waters without a license, the Bernama state news agency reported. Th...

Saudi Arabia hopes for 'excellent relations' with Biden administration

Saudi Arabia hopes for 'excellent relations' with Biden administration

Reuters 2021-01-24 10:43:53

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Saturday the kingdom was optimistic that it would have “excellent relations” with the new U.S. administration of President Joe Biden and that...

Indian farmers to step up protests after rejecting govt offer to defer new laws

Indian farmers to step up protests after rejecting govt offer to defer new laws

Reuters 2021-01-23 13:20:19

Indian farmers on Friday rejected an offer by the government to defer three farm reform laws for one-and-half years, warning they would step up protests as they seek a repeal of the laws and a guarant...

Top Iran leader posts Trump-like golfer image, vowing revenge

Top Iran leader posts Trump-like golfer image, vowing revenge

Reuters 2021-01-23 11:45:39

The website of Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday carried the image of a golfer resembling former President Donald Trump apparently being targeted by a drone alongside a threat of revenge over the...

India inoculates more than one million people in a week

India inoculates more than one million people in a week

-- 2021-01-22 18:26:21

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday his country was completely self-reliant on coronavirus vaccine supplies as the world's second-most populous country inoculated more than one million...

Five killed in fire at Pune's Serum Institute’s Manjri plant

Five killed in fire at Pune's Serum Institute’s Manjri plant

Hindustan Times 2021-01-21 19:48:37

At least five were killed in a fire that tore through India's Covid-19 vaccine producer Serum Institue of India on Thursday. The deaths were confirmed by Pune district collector Rajesh Deshmukh. Nine...

UAE approves Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

UAE approves Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

Reuters 2021-01-21 17:27:09

The United Arab Emirates on Thursday said it has approved Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, state media reported citing the ministry of health, marking the third vaccine to be approved by the UAE....

Fire at building site for Serum Institute, vaccine output not hit

Fire at building site for Serum Institute, vaccine output not hit

Reuters 2021-01-21 17:17:20

A big fire has broken out at a plant being built for the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, but it will not affect production of coronavirus vaccines, a source close to...

Twin suicide bombing leaves 13 dead in Baghdad

Twin suicide bombing leaves 13 dead in Baghdad

-- 2021-01-21 15:37:16

A twin suicide bombing killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 30 in a Baghdad market on Thursday in the first such attack in years, security and medical sources said. There was no immediate...

Indian govt ready to put controversial farm laws on hold

Indian govt ready to put controversial farm laws on hold

-- 2021-01-21 13:51:13

India's government has offered to put three controversial farm laws, that have sparked major protests, on hold for 18 months. Farmers have been camped at Delhi's borders since 26 November to protest...

China sanctions Pompeo, other Trump admin officials

China sanctions Pompeo, other Trump admin officials

REUTERS 2021-01-21 10:39:04

China has imposed sanctions on 28 US individuals including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over “crazy actions that have gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs”, its fo...

Modi's Gujarat renaming Chinese dragon fruit as a lotus

Modi's Gujarat renaming Chinese dragon fruit as a lotus

-- 2021-01-21 10:23:23

The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has decided to change the name of dragon fruit as it feels the original name is associated with China, drawing deris...

Pandemic, rising food prices leave 350 million people in Asia hungry: UN

Pandemic, rising food prices leave 350 million people in Asia hungry: UN

-- 2021-01-20 13:50:48

United Nations agencies are warning that more than 350 million people in the Asia-Pacific region are going hungry as the coronavirus pandemic destroys jobs and pushes food prices higher. The report i...

India to start COVID-19 vaccine exports Wednesday

India to start COVID-19 vaccine exports Wednesday

-- 2021-01-19 22:06:23

India, one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, will start exports of COVID-19 vaccines as early as Wednesday, government sources said, paving the way for many mid-and lower-income countries to se...

Thai court hands out record 43-year sentence for insulting king

Thai court hands out record 43-year sentence for insulting king

AP 2021-01-19 18:22:56

A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting or defaming the monarchy, l...

Pandemic review panel critical of China, WHO delays

Pandemic review panel critical of China, WHO delays

Reuters 2021-01-19 13:03:24

An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial Covid-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health O...

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 95 million

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 95 million

-- 2021-01-19 12:52:15

Amid a second wave of Covid-19 infections, the total caseload worldwide has now surpassed the 95 million mark. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count stood at 95,517,587 wi...

Indian opposition seeks inquiry into security leak

Indian opposition seeks inquiry into security leak

REUTERS 2021-01-19 11:14:23

Indian opposition parties called on Monday for an investigation into chat messages from a top TV anchor that they said showed prior knowledge of air strikes carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

12 workers trapped in China gold mine still alive

12 workers trapped in China gold mine still alive

-- 2021-01-18 19:34:55

Twelve workers who were left trapped underground after an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China a week ago are still alive, according to a note retrieved from the site. A total of 22 workers were...

Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen

Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen

Reuters 2021-01-17 18:35:59

The company that bought the ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut last August had possible links to two Syrian businessmen under U.S. sanctions for ties to President Bashar al-Assad, according to...

India's COVID-19 vaccination drive tumbles due to app glitch

India's COVID-19 vaccination drive tumbles due to app glitch

Reuters 2021-01-17 17:02:45

India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive hit a bump on the first day due to glitches in an app called Co-Win that is being used to coordinate the campaign, according to several officials involved in t...

Indonesia’s quake death toll reaches at least 73

Indonesia’s quake death toll reaches at least 73

REUTERS 2021-01-17 11:59:18

At least 73 people have been killed after an earthquake struck Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province on Friday, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on Sunday, the latest in a string of disas...

Sanitation worker gets India’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot

Sanitation worker gets India’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot

Reuters 2021-01-16 19:06:36

Sanitation worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Saturday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched one of the world's largest immunisation campaign...