Reuters 2020-12-07 15:31:47
India reported 32,981 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, data from the federal health ministry showed on Monday. Cumulative cases now total 9.68 million, the second-highest tally in the worl...
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At least one person has died and 227 have been hospitalised by an unidentified illness in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The patients had a wide range of symptoms from nausea to fits and f...
-- 2020-12-07 12:12:02
The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases has crossed 67 million, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). According to the data compiled by JHU, the total caseload globally reached 67,00...
Reuters 2020-12-07 09:44:35
Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, has sought emergency use authorisation in the country for AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday, according to several...
BBC 2020-12-06 18:52:12
Suhaila Siddiq, Afghanistan's only female lieutenant general and one of a small number of women to hold a ministerial post in the country, died in hospital on Friday at the age of 72. She had Alzheime...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-06 18:31:14
A father facing acute financial problems threw his five children into the Jamber canal in Pattoki on Sunday, causing the death of two children while the other three went missing. Citing rescue source...
Xinhua 2020-12-06 16:58:26
A total of 43 people were placed under quarantine after a frozen-food sample in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province tested positive for novel coronavirus, local authorities said Saturday. Authori...
Reuters 2020-12-06 10:56:47
Pfizer has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said on Sunday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections...
-- 2020-12-05 20:54:52
India's ambitious plan to modernise old and important colonial-era government buildings in Delhi will kick off next week. To start with, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation sto...
Reuters 2020-12-05 18:57:22
Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia's first mass vaccination against the disease, the city's coronavirus task force said. The task force s...
-- 2020-12-05 18:52:02
Kuwaitis voted in legislative polls on Saturday with the Gulf state mired in its worst economic crisis in decades, which poses a challenge for the government’s often stormy relationship with a p...
-- 2020-12-05 18:27:37
Qatar’s foreign minister has said there has been movement on resolving the diplomatic dispute that has pitted the Gulf neighbours against each other but he could not predict whether a breakthrou...
-- 2020-12-05 17:04:29
South Korean authorities urged vigilance on Saturday as small coronavirus clusters emerged in a third wave, centred in the Seoul area, with infections near nine-month highs, reports Reuters. The Kore...
-- 2020-12-05 16:33:50
India's government is considering rolling back some parts of its agricultural reforms after they triggered the biggest protests by farmers in years, officials said on Friday. Tens of thousands of far...
Reuters 2020-12-05 12:27:41
Eighteen people have died after being trapped in a mine in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, the region’s second such accident in ju...
Reuters 2020-12-04 18:29:43
Philippine police on Friday threatened to cane people who violate social distancing protocols as the Southeast Asian nation fights the spread of the coronavirus during the festive season. The Philipp...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-03 17:56:42
China on Thursday said it was within its legitimate rights to build a dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), but gave the assurance that the hy...
Reuters 2020-12-03 15:34:58
Indian government ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock over laws passed earlier this year seeking to deregulate the agriculture sector that has ign...
-- 2020-12-03 12:32:48
Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a Muslim man for allegedly trying to convert a Hindu woman to Islam. He's the first to be arrested under a new anti-conversion law that targets "lo...
-- 2020-12-03 10:45:25
Iran has moved to stop UN inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment under a new law approved by its parliament. The bill would require the government to resume enriching uranium...
-- 2020-12-02 23:21:00
China’s plan to develop a dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet is now at a "preliminary planning and demonstration" stage, a Chinese official in New Delhi said on Wednesday. Brahmaputra River,...
-- 2020-12-02 22:59:44
China is forcing restaurants, e-commerce platforms and delivery services to report their use of single-use plastics. The Ministry of Commerce of China said it had established a nationwide system for...
-- 2020-12-02 10:56:32
India may not need to vaccinate all of its 1.3 billion people if it manages to inoculate a critical mass and break the transmission of the coronavirus, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In...
Reuters 2020-12-01 18:05:46
India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a sectio...
-- 2020-12-01 16:52:41
A bill requiring Iran’s government to step up uranium enrichment closer to the level needed for a nuclear weapon, and ignore other restraints on its nuclear programme agreed with major powers, c...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-01 15:42:49
China will build a ‘super’ dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet, a state media report said on Nov 29, in a move that coul...
Global Times 2020-12-01 15:26:16
The cruise industry in China is coming back to life as routes to the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea will resume in December on a trial basis, following an 11-month suspension due to the COVID-19...
REUTERS 2020-12-01 14:39:43
China has provided North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his family with an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a US analyst said on Tuesday, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources. Harry...
-- 2020-11-30 23:03:21
A senior Iranian official said on Monday an opposition group was suspected alongside Israel in the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, an attack that has raised the prospect of a new sta...
-- 2020-11-30 22:45:01
A volcano in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province erupted on Sunday, spewing ash and smoke as high as four kilometers into the sky and forcing more than 2,700 residents to seek refuge, the co...
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