India Mulls Narrowing Lockdown To Coronavirus Hotspots
India is considering plans to seal off coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, Mumbai and parts of the south while easing curbs...
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States Scramble For Funds As Virus Takes Toll On Coffers
A three-week nationwide lockdown is testing the resilience of India’s state governments, with analysts warning that essential public services and...
Small Businesses Struggle Amid Covid-19 Lockdown
Hundreds of thousands of cash-starved small businesses have either deferred or cut their workers’ wages this month, say industrialists and...
India Hesitates To End World’s Biggest Lockdown
India’s 21-day lockdown is set to end next week but several state leaders have called for an extension or only...
India Allows Export Of Anti-Malaria Drug After Trump Warns Of Retaliation
India, the world’s main supplier of generic drugs, said on Tuesday it will allow limited exports of the anti-malaria drug...
Trump Talks “Retaliation” If India Rejects Export Of Key Drug
US President Donald Trump has said "there may be retaliation" if India does not agree to export hydroxychloroquine, a key...
India Lifts Restrictions On 24 Drug Exports
India, the world’s main supplier of generic drugs, has lifted restrictions on the export of 24 pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines...
Scammers Try To Sell “Statue Of Unity”
Police in India lodged a case this week against an unknown online fraudster who tried selling the world’s largest statue...
Testing Times For India In Race To Stop Coronavirus Epidemic
India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the...
State Authorities Warn Lockdown Could Be Extended
Authorities in some states warned on Saturday that lockdowns to rein in the coronavirus pandemic could be extended in parts...
Curbs On Diagnostic Testing Kit Exports As Virus Spreads
India is restricting the export of most diagnostic testing kits, as coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation topped 3,350...
People Light Lamps To Challenge Covid-19 Darkness
Millions of Indians turned off their lights and lit up balconies and doorsteps with lamps, candles and flashlights on Sunday,...
Britain’s Labour Elects Keir Starmer As New Leader
Keir Starmer was elected as the leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party on Saturday, pledging to bring an end...
China Mourns Its Coronavirus Epidemic Deaths
China on Saturday mourned the thousands of “martyrs” who have died in the new coronavirus outbreak, flying the national flag...
COVID-19: Officials Warn Of Lockdown Extensions
The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in South Asia neared 6,000 on Saturday, even as authorities in some cities...
Covid-19 Lockdown Hits Poor, Tests Modi’s Support
Ravi Prasad Gupta, a worker at a pipe plant in Gujarat, for years proudly supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 1 Million
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the...
The Religious Retreat That Sparked A Major Covid-19 Manhunt
It was late on Sunday night when officials in Andhra Pradesh received the alert. Federal authorities said they needed to...
Modi Plans Staggered Exit From Covid-19 Lockdown
India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle...
Pak Court Overturns Conviction in Daniel Pearl Killing
A Pakistani court has commuted the death sentence of the main person accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of...
Cattle Being Fed Strawberries As Lockdown Hits Transport
As hundreds of millions of Indians remain locked down to stem the spread of coronavirus, some of its cattle are...
Stranded Migrant Workers Struggle Under Lockdown
India’s 21-day lockdown to fight the coronavirus has left hundreds of migrant workers stranded in Mumbai, with no money, little...
Infection Spikes With Search On For 9,000 Exposed To Delhi Cluster
India reported its biggest single day increase in coronavirus cases as officials on Thursday raced to track down some 9,000...
Covid-19 Patient Tries To Commit Suicide: Doctor
A person from Nizamuddin's markaz infected with the coronavirus tried to commit suicide at a hospital in Delhi, a doctor...
“Some Of Us Will Die”: Homeless Stranded By Covid-19 Lockdown
In a densely-packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and...
