Tag: India
COVID-19 cases in India top 6 million
India's COVID-19 cases topped six million on Monday as they surged closer to world leader United States humongous numbers.
Indian hospitals scramble for oxygen as COVID-19 cases top 5million
India’s COVID-19 cases surpassed the 5 million mark on Wednesday, with hospitals scrambling for oxygen that they need to treat…
India suspends AstraZeneca vaccine trials
Serum Institute of India has put on hold trials of AstraZeneca’s potential COVID-19 vaccine in the country until the British…
India to reopen schools despite rising cases
The Indian government, on Wednesday, said it would reopen schools for students in upper grades after more than five months of…
Incredible India: 90 year-old woman raped, brutalised
A very disturbing sexual assault has happened in India, with a 90-year-old woman the target of rape and assault.
India, China trade words over disputed border
India on Tuesday rejected Chinese allegations that its forces had crossed a disputed border and fired warning shots.
COVID-19: India breaks daily death record
India has reported its highest single day death toll so far from the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes.
India overtakes Brazil in COVID-19 cases, now second to US
India's COVID-19 cases surged past 4.2 million on Monday, overtaking Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of cases…
India set to topple Brazil in COVID-19 case records
With another world record 90,000 cases of COVID-19 reported on Sunday, India is now set to topple Brazil as the…
India becomes new epicentre for coronavirus
India, a nation of 1.4 billion people, is fast becoming the world’s coronavirus epicentre, as it has been reporting the…
India sets world record in single day COVID-19 cases
India has set the world record in reporting the biggest single-day jump in COVID-19 cases, logging 78,761 cases in one…
India records 77,266 new COVID-19 cases in single day
India’s COVID-19 tally reached 3,387,500 and deaths reached 61,529 on Friday, according to the latest data released by the Federal…
India collapsed house: 2 confirmed dead, 16 feared trapped
Two persons were reported dead and 16 others feared trapped on Tuesday after a residential building collapsed in Western India,…
25 rescued, 50 trapped in collapsed 5-storey building in India
At least 50 people are feared trapped in the debris of a five-storey building that collapsed on Monday in an…
COVID-19 cases in India now over 3million
The number of COVID-19 cases in India crossed 3 million today, 15 days after the country reported over 2 million…
10 COVID-19 patients die in fire at isolation centre, 10 injured
Ten COVID-19 patients died in a fire outbreak at an isolation facility in India on Sunday. Ten others were injured
India records highest single day COVID-19 cases, tally hits 1.63m
India recorded the highest ever single-day spike of 55,078 of fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, the second consecutive day the…
India to ease lockdown in rural areas
India will permit several activities in rural areas starting next week, including manufacturing and infrastructure building, to provide relief to…
Coronavirus: India extends lockdown of 1.3 billion people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has announced another nationwide lockdown after the number of coronavirus cases rose above 10,000.
Lockdown violators get unforgettable schoolboy punishment
Ten foreigners who broke a coronavirus lockdown in an Indian town were handed an unforgettable schoolboy-like punishment on Sunday by…
India locks down 1.3billion people
India on Tuesday announced a 21-day lockdown of the entire country of 1.3 billion people to halt the spread of…
Namaste replaces handshake: Watch Trump, Macron, Netanyahu, Prince Charles
Namaste, the Indian way of greeting is now the new way adopted by some world leaders. Gone is the hand…
Rana Kapoor founder of India’s Yes Bank accused of stealing $602m
Rana Kapoor, the arrested founder and former managing director of India's crisis-hit Yes Bank, faces a double charge of corruption…
Run on India’s Yes Bank, founder Rana Kapoor arrested
Rana Kapoor, founder of India's Yes Bank arrested Sunday on allegations of money laundering as anxious depositors stage a run…
Nigerian woman Oluchi arrested in India for serial fraud
A 38-year-old Nigerian woman, identified as Nawakoo Oluchi Chivoma has been arrested in India for allegedly duping a 21-year-old man…
Trump picks India’s order for $3b military equipment
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that India will buy $3 billion worth of military equipment, including attack helicopters,…
As Trump visits, India blocks out slums with 500 metre-long wall
India's government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attracted the rebuke of the country's media as it erected a 500…
Air India flight damaged while trying to dodge man
A DGCA official has revealed that an Air India aircraft’s fuselage was damaged on Saturday when its pilot decided to…
Man murders his wife by injecting her with pesticide
An Indian man has reportedly murdered his wife by injecting her with pesticides for disclosing his extra-marital affairs to his…
Photo: Snowfall hits northern Indian
A heavy snowfall hit Shimla, the capital of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday.