Thu 03 June 2021: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone on Thursday about COVID-19 vaccine supplies to India as part of the US strategy for global vaccine-sharing. “I deeply appreciate the assurance of vaccine supplies to India .. . I also thanked her for the all […]
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Thu 03 June 2021: Indonesia’s most active volcano Merapi erupted four times with lava downfalling as far as 1,500 meters from its peak to the southwest on Thursday from 00:00 to 06:00 a.m. local time, according to the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center. “In those six hours, Merapi also experienced 43 avalanche […]
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Wed 2 June 2021: The Delhi High Court today questioned actor-environmentalist Juhi Chawla for directly filing a suit against setting up of 5G wireless networks in the country without giving any representation to the government on her concerns related to the technology. Justice JR Midha said the plaintiffs, Juhi Chawla and two others, were required […]
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Wed 02 June 2021: A local government administration in Uttar Pradesh has been accused of filing a “false and unfounded” police report against eight Muslim leaders who had opposed the “illegal” demolition of their mosque, in a case filed in an Indian court, The Guradian reported. According to the The Guradian the bulldozing of the Masjid […]
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Tue 02 June 2021: Thousands of doctors across India are putting on black armbands and calling for the arrest of a hugely popular guru who has claimed yoga can prevent COVID-19 and that conventional medicine has killed thousands of coronavirus patients. Baba Ramdev, the creator of a successful traditional medicine empire, said last month the pandemic showed […]
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Wed 02 June 2021: The process to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan by September is up to 44% complete, Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Tuesday. The military gave the range between 30 -44% due to security concerns amid the pullout. CENTCOM said 300 C-17 cargo planes of material have departed Afghanistan while 13,000 pieces of […]
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Tue 01 June 2021: The United States’ largest military base in Afghanistan, the Bagram air base, will be handed over to the Afghan security forces, Afghan broadcaster 1TV reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed US military spokesman. The US presidential administration pledged to finish the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11. According to media […]
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Tue 01 June 2021: Anger and fear in the Arabian Sea islands with 97 percent Muslims, whose administrator plans slew of measures that threaten livelihood and ecology. A series of regulations proposed by an administrator belonging to India’s governing party in a set of islands in the Arabian Sea has caused widespread resentment and fear […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: A shocking video of a body of Covid patient being thrown in a river has surfaced from India’s Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of bodies buried in shallow graves by the Ganga and some dumped in the river made headlines around the world a couple of weeks ago. The Indian government has […]
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Mon 31 May 2021: As Twitter faces allegations of not complying with the IT rules in India, a Twitter spokesperson on Monday informed that the microblogging company “strives to comply” with applicable laws in India. An official statement by the spokesperson informed, “As we have stated earlier, Twitter strives to comply with applicable laws in […]
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