30 Groups Trying To Develop Vaccine To Cure COVID, 20 Keeping Good Pace: Centre
A total of 30 groups, including big industry and individual academics, are currently engaged in developing a vaccine to cure novel coronavirus in India, and at least 20 of them are keeping a good pace, Professor K. Vijay Raghavan, the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India, said on Thursday. The Council of […]
1 lakh Indians to be brought back by end of Vande Bharat phase 2 mission: MEA
At least, 5000 Indians have come back by land borders of neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh recently. Last week, the government had added 141 more flights to West Asian countries for the second phase of the Vande Bharat Mission, its massive repatriation programme for citizens stranded abroad because of Covid-19-related travel restrictions. The flights were added due to […]
India waits for China’s diplomatic words to ‘translate into action on ground’ at LAC in Ladakh
New Delhi: The Indian Army is waiting for the diplomatic words spoken by China about “resolving differences” to translate into action on the ground, as it continues to keep a close eye on the troop build-up in the Galwan Valley, the Hot Springs area and the ‘Finger’ area of the Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh. As reported […]
US is willing and able to mediate between India-China on raging border dispute: Trump
President of United States Donald Trump has said that his country has informed both India and China that they are ready to mediate between the two nations. The statement comes as tensions between India and China in Ladakh are at it’s highest. According to reports over 10,000 Chinese troops have intruded into Indian territory and […]
India matches up to China’s military in standoff near Karakoram Pass
India has decided to not back down from a standoff with China — along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh — that centres around a strategic bridge being built near Daulat Beg Oldi, the last military post south of the Karakoram Pass, and has moved troops to counter Chinese forces stationed in the region, according […]
India underlines faith in HCQ: drug’s benefits outweigh risks
A day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended the allocation of patients in the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) arm of its multi-country Solidarity Trial to find an effective treatment for Covid-19, India reiterated its faith in the continued prophylactic use of the anti-malaria drug for the novel coronavirus disease. There is enough experience in the country of using HCQ, and sufficient data from observational […]
China may have posted 5,000 soldiers across LAC, officials say as tension grows along border
China may have marshalled close to 5,000 soldiers on its side of the disputed border in the Ladakh sector where India has also sent military reinforcements to strengthen its defences as growing tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) threatens to plunge the bilateral relationship to a new low, people familiar with the development […]
In Ladakh, like in Doklam, China must learn to deal with the assertive Indian soldier on LAC
Are the Chinese taking revenge for the 2017 Doklam stand-off in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh? Over the last fortnight, as Indian and Chinese soldiers beat each other up at a remote, god-forsaken site in the eastern part of the Union Territory, which also saw action during the 1962 border conflict, the world has speculated why Asia’s largest […]
Stand-off with China in Ladakh is India’s worst border tension since Kargil in 1999
New Delhi: India is witnessing its worst-ever border tensions since the Kargil battle in 1999, with China bringing forward at least 5,000 troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. Transgressions have been reported at multiple locations in eastern Ladakh — three in the larger Hot Springs area and one in the ‘Finger’ […]
Pak diplomat’s kin, who crossed over from Attari, exempted from quarantine at Amritsar
A Pakistan diplomat’s wife and two children, who crossed over from Attari-Wagah border, have become the first to avail the benefit of new guidelines issued by the Ministry of External Affairs designed to facilitate the return of diplomats and their families amid coronavirus induced pandemic. “Wife and two kids of Pakistan diplomat crossed into India on May 23. […]