Tag: India
COVID-19 kills 4 million in India, death toll under-reported
India's COVID-19 death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly official 415,000 fatalities, a report by Center…
Biden names Garcetti Los Angeles mayor as ambassador to India
U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti to be the U.S. ambassador to 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…