Covid spreading in rural India; record daily rises in infections, deaths
Hopes that India’s deadly second wave of COVID-19 was about to peak were swept away on Thursday as it posted record daily infections and deaths...
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Australia makes it a criminal offence for its citizens to return home from India
Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as...
Vaccination centres close in Mumbai as India posts another record rise in COVID-19
All vaccination centres in India’s financial capital of Mumbai were shut for three days starting Friday due to a shortage of vaccines, said authorities, as...
India’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000 after record case surge
India’s COVID-19 death toll surged past 200,000 on Wednesday as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new cases...
Coronavirus swamps Indian hospitals as countries promise aid
India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday, as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to...
India records worlds highest number of infections, hospitals running out of oxygen
India reported the world’s highest daily tally of coronavirus cases for the second day on Friday, surpassing 330,000 new cases, as it struggles with a...
Non-stop cremations cast doubt on India’s counting of COVID dead
Gas and firewood furnaces at a crematorium in the western Indian state of Gujarat have been running so long without a break during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Modi appeals to keep Hindu festival symbolic as India’s infections surge
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to devotees to keep a key Hindu festival symbolic as the country reported more than 200,000 new...
India summons British envoy over “unwarranted” criticism of farm protests
India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom’s high commissioner over what it called “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” of Indian agricultural...
India steps up border patrols to stop arrivals from Myanmar
Indian security forces stepped up patrols on the border with Myanmar on Friday to stop refugees entering after some police officers crossed over to escape...
India to ship vaccines to Canada as diplomatic tension eases
India’s Serum Institute will ship COVID-19 vaccines to Canada within a month, its chief executive said on Monday, in a sign a diplomatic row triggered...
Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort
Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms breached barricades on Tuesday to enter the historic Red Fort complex in the capital and hoist flags after...
India’s drugs experts approve AstraZeneca, local Covid vaccines
Experts at India’s drugs regulator have recommended for emergency use two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other backed by a state-run...
India’s financial capital Mumbai hit by massive power outage
A major grid failure caused a widespread power outage in India’s financial capital Mumbai and surrounding areas on Monday, the first such blackout in more...
Syllouris pays respects to Gandhi on international day
House president Demetris Syllouris on Friday marked the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi at an event organised by the Indian High Commission that...
Cyprus honours Gandhi on 150th anniversary of his birth
Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides on Monday, accompanied by India’s High Commissioner to Cyprus, Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat, opened a photo exhibition on the life of Mahatma...
At least 10 dead in building collapse in India, dozens feared trapped
At least 10 people were killed on Monday and dozens were feared trapped when a portion of a three-storey residential building collapsed on the outskirts...
India, China accuse each other of firing in the air on tense border
India and China have accused each other of firing in the air during a new confrontation on their border in the western Himalayas, in a...
India cases surge to 3.6 million, U.S. cases top 6 million
India reported 78,512 new novel coronavirus infections on Monday, slightly fewer than its record set the previous day when it posted the biggest, single-day tally of infections...
India: the weight of history victimises Muslims
By Gwynne Dyer “India is emotional as decades of wait has ended,” declared India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laying the cornerstone of a new temple in...