Tag: India
India strips Twitter of immunity over user content
India has stripped Twitter of immunity from liability protection against user-generated content, accusing it, in court filing, of failing to…
Another Nigerian Udemba arrested for drugs in India
Another Nigerian Udemba Isaac has been arrested in India for possession of hard drugs.
Nigeria bans flights from Turkey, Brazil, India, South Africa
Nigeria extends the ban on flights from Brazil, Turkey and India by four weeks. South Africa has been added to…
Nearly 3,000 striking doctors resign in India
Nearly 3,000 striking junior doctors working in six government medical colleges in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh resigned…
COVID-19 cases decline in India, death toll still high
India on Saturday reported 173,790 new COVID-19 cases, its lowest in 45 days and a big contrast to its grim…
India logs lowest COVID-19 cases in weeks
India’s coronavirus caseload neared 27 million with 196,427 new infections recorded on Tuesday, the country’s lowest daily rise in cases…
India logs world record COVID-19 deaths, daily cases decline
India on Wednesday recorded an unprecedented 4,529 COVID-19 deaths, making it the highest single-day spike of fatalities anywhere in the…
India hits 25 million COVID-19 infections
India became the second country after the U.S. to report more than 25 million cases of COVID-19 after reporting new…
India releases new COVID-19 drug
India has begun the distribution of a newly developed drug, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), to treat Coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms.
Dead COVID-19 victims thrown into Indian rivers
Bodies of COVID-19 victims are being dumped in some Indian rivers, according to an official of the northern state of…
India tops 24 million COVID-19 cases, variant goes global
India’s tally of COVID-19 cases surpassed 24 million on Friday, amid reports that the highly transmissible variant was spreading across…
Lightning kills 18 elephants
A herd of eighteen wild Asiatic elephants were found dead in India’s eastern state of Assam, possibly because of a…
Nigerian Okechikwe Okeke arrested by India’s Narcotics Bureau
Another Nigerian, Linus Okechikwe Okeke has been arrested in Mumbai by India's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). He was caught with…
Little COVID-19 respite for India as calls for lockdown mount
India reported 366,161 new COVID-19 cases and 3,754 deaths on Monday, a little off recent peaks, taking its tally to…
COVID-19 disaster: No end in sight for pathetic India
India remains choked by the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, with 403,738 fresh cases and 4,092 deaths in the past 24…
Rich Indians flee country as COVID-19 crisis worsens
Everyone from middle-class Indians to migrant workers are getting out of the country as fast as they can as the…
India sets new COVID-19 records in daily cases, deaths
India set new COVID-19 grim records on Thursday with daily cases reaching 412,618 and death toll just shy of making…
India’s COVID-19 disaster spreads to Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Nepal is being overwhelmed by a COVID-19 surge as India's outbreak spreads to South Asian neighbours, the International Federation of…
India’s Modi suffers crushing defeat in West Bengal
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party suffers a crushing defeat in a big battleground state of West Bengal
India posts world record daily deaths from COVID-19
India posted a record 3,689 daily deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, although new cases dipped marginally as one more state…
India posts another COVID-19 daily world record
India posted a world record daily rise of 401,993 new coronavirus cases on Saturday as the country opened up its…
COVID-19: Germany to fly oxygen supplies to India
Germany’s Air Force said it is preparing to fly medical and oxygen supplies to India, where medicines and equipment are…
COVID-19: Pathetic India sets new world record
India set a new world record in daily COVID-19 cases on Wednesday with more than 379,459 announced by the Health…
Prince Charles saddened by India’s coronavirus crisis
Britain on Wednesday expressed sorrow over the bleak Coronavirus death toll in India.
India breaks COVID-19 world record again, at brink of catastrophe
India has reported another world record 349,691 COVID-19 cases in a single day, as well as its highest jump in…
India runs out of hospital beds, oxygen as COVID-19 crisis escalates
India broke another world grim COVID-19 record on Friday when it recorded an unprecedented daily cases of 346,786 and 2624…
India records world’s biggest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases
India marked a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, reporting 314,835 new daily cases, the highest one-day tally…
22 COVID-19 patients die in India after oxygen tank failure
Twenty-two people on ventilators for COVID-19 in India have died when an oxygen tank supplying them leaked.
Boris Johnson cancels India tour as COVID-19 cases explode
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled his April 25 visit to India due to the explosion of COVID-19 cases.
India in need of hospital beds, oxygen as COVID-19 cases rise
India’s capital New Delhi recorded 25,500 COVId-19 cases in a 24-hour period, with about one in three people tested returning…