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Cyprus and India see growth potential in renewables, trade and tourism

Kyriacos NicolaouOctober 22, 2021October 21, 2021

By Kyriacos NicolaouOctober 22, 2021October 21, 20210392

Cyprus and India reaffirmed the potential for further development and increased cooperation during the ninth Cyprus-India Intergovernmental Meeting on economic, scientific, technical and industrial partnerships...

Asia World

More than 20 dead after floods in south India

Reuters News ServiceOctober 18, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 18, 2021085

At least 22 people were killed after heavy rains lashed the south Indian state of Kerala over the weekend, officials said. Rainfall across the state...

Cyprus

Coronavirus: Measures over travellers from India tightened

Staff ReporterJune 14, 2021June 14, 2021

By Staff ReporterJune 14, 2021June 14, 202103518

Moving to bolster defences against the Indian (Delta) variant, the health minister on Monday issued a decree prohibiting arrival to Cyprus of any person who...

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Russia ships remdesivir drug to India as part of humanitarian aid

Reuters News ServiceMay 25, 2021May 25, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 25, 2021May 25, 20210358

Russia on Tuesday shipped a generic version of the remdesivir antiviral drug called Remdeform to India as part of its humanitarian aid contributions to the...

Asia World

Indian data hints at runaway virus spread as daily deaths hit record

Reuters News ServiceMay 19, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 19, 202101381

Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to the novel coronavirus, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway...

Asia World

Coronavirus: India’s daily Covid-19 deaths near 4,000 as WHO flags concern

Reuters News ServiceMay 15, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 15, 20210473

By Manas Mishra and Swati Bhat India reported a smaller rise in daily coronavirus infections on Saturday, but deaths stayed near the 4,000 mark, with...

Asia World

India’s Covid cases above 24 million as mutant spreads across globe

Reuters News ServiceMay 14, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 14, 20210821

The number of recorded COVID-19 infections in India climbed above 24 million on Friday amid reports that the highly transmissible coronavirus mutant first detected in...

Asia World

India’s Covid deaths cross quarter million mark, no sign of peak

Reuters News ServiceMay 12, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 12, 20210314

India said on Wednesday a record number of people were killed by the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, pushing its overall death toll over...

Asia World

Cow dung not a Covid cure warn Indian doctors

Reuters News ServiceMay 11, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 11, 202102178

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no scientific...

Asia World

Covid spreading in rural India; record daily rises in infections, deaths

Reuters News ServiceMay 6, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 6, 20210534

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...

Oceania World

Australia makes it a criminal offence for its citizens to return home from India

Reuters News ServiceMay 1, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMay 1, 202102252

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...

Asia World

Vaccination centres close in Mumbai as India posts another record rise in COVID-19

Reuters News ServiceApril 30, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 30, 20210913

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...

Asia World

India’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000 after record case surge

Reuters News ServiceApril 28, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 28, 20210723

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...

Asia World

Coronavirus swamps Indian hospitals as countries promise aid

Reuters News ServiceApril 26, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 26, 20210346

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...

Asia World

India records worlds highest number of infections, hospitals running out of oxygen

Reuters News ServiceApril 23, 2021April 23, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 23, 2021April 23, 202101374

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...

Asia World

Non-stop cremations cast doubt on India’s counting of COVID dead

Reuters News ServiceApril 20, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 20, 20210434

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...

Asia World

Modi appeals to keep Hindu festival symbolic as India’s infections surge

Reuters News ServiceApril 17, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceApril 17, 20210254

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...

Asia World

India summons British envoy over “unwarranted” criticism of farm protests

Reuters News ServiceMarch 9, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 9, 20210104

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...

Asia World

India steps up border patrols to stop arrivals from Myanmar

Reuters News ServiceMarch 5, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceMarch 5, 20210122

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...

World

India to ship vaccines to Canada as diplomatic tension eases

Reuters News ServiceFebruary 15, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceFebruary 15, 20210470

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...