UN stands ready to step up support to India: UN chief Guterres on ‘horrific’ COVID outbreak
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world organisation stands ready to step up its support to India to combat the horrific COVID-19 wave in the country that has infected more than 18 million people and killed over 200,000. With the entire @UN family, I stand in solidarity with the people of India […]
Biden sells economic plan in GA, calls for rich to pay more
Duluth (US): President Joe Biden took his pitch to Georgia Thursday night for USD 4 trillion in spending to rebuild the nation’s aged infrastructure and vastly expand the federal social safety net, choosing a new political battleground to make his case that Americans want a more activist government. With his visit to a state he […]
India declines UN’s offer of assistance from integrated supply chain, says it has ‘robust system’
United Nations: India has declined assistance offered by the United Nations of its integrated supply chain for COVID19-related material, saying the country has a “robust system” to deal with the required logistics, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “One of the things we did is we offered the assistance of our integrated supply […]
EU member countries rushing medical supplies to India
New Delhi: Several member nations of the European Union are rushing in medical supplies like oxygen concentrators and ventilators to India in line with an announcement made by the bloc to support the country in its fight against a devastating second wave of coronavirus infection. EU member countries France, Ireland, Belgium, Romania, Luxembourg, Portugal and […]
Explosive-laden ‘drone’ boat targets Saudi port of Yanbu
Dubai: A remotely piloted boat packed with explosives targeted the Saudi port of Yanbu in the Red Sea on Tuesday, the kingdom said, with the blast sending black smoke into the sky off the coast. Saudi Arabia claimed to have intercepted and destroyed the attack boat. However, private security firms suggested commercial traffic near the […]
China says its South Asian FMs meet on COVID-19 is ‘open’ to India
Beijing: China, which is hosting a meeting of Foreign Ministers of some South Asian countries to deal with the COVID-19 situation, said on Tuesday that the virtual conference is open to all countries in the region, including India. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are invited to the virtual Foreign Ministerial level meeting being […]
China’s state-run airline suspends cargo flights rushing COVID-19 medical supplies to India
Beijing: China’s state-run Sichuan Airlines has suspended all its cargo flights to India for 15 days, causing major disruption to private traders” efforts to procure the much-needed oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from China despite Beijing offering “support and assistance” to the country to deal with the latest surge of COVID-19 cases. In a […]
Pak gets another 1 million COVID-19 vaccines from China
Islamabad: Pakistan has received another batch of one million doses of coronavirus vaccine from China to help it stem the spread of COVID-19 that has infected over 800,000 people and claimed more than 17,100 lives in the country. Three planes of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) airlifted from China the consignment of one million Chinese-developed […]
COVID-19: Saudi Arabia to ship 80 metric tonnes of oxygen to India to meet growing demand
Dubai: Saudi Arabia is shipping 80 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India as the country is running low on supplies due to an unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases. India logged a record of 3,49,691 new coronavirus infections in a day on Sunday, taking its total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,69,60,172. The death toll […]
Pak PM Imran Khan expresses solidarity with India over COVID-19 crisis
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday expressed solidarity with the people of India battling the deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying “we must fight this global challenge confronting humanity together”. A record single-day rise of 3,46,786 coronavirus cases pushed India’s tally of infection to 1,66,10,481, while active cases crossed the 25-lakh mark, […]
