Tag: India
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…
COVID-19: India clears Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
India’s drug regulator has confirmed the approval of a third coronavirus vaccine – Russia’s Sputnik V – as the country…
COVID-19 cases soar in India, daily record broken
India has announced 152,879 fresh COVID-19 cases, its biggest-ever one-day spike, taking the total to 13,358,805.
India breaks record with COVID-19 cases, deaths
India reported another record number of new COVID-19 infections on Friday with daily deaths also hitting their highest in more…
COVID-19: New Zealand to suspend travels from India April 11
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday that New Zealand will suspend all travel from India after a surge of…
India slashes petrol, diesel prices as global crude prices fall
India today slashed petrol and diesel prices for the first time in 2021 after a sharp fall in global crude…
Nigerian Michael Nzube dies in India while in police custody
A 33 year-old Nigerian Michael Nzube has died in India in a hospital, while under police custody. He died on…
734 doctors die of COVID-19 in India
India’s main association of physicians, on Thursday, said more than four times as many doctors had died than the government…
Truck runs over sleeping workers, crushes 15 to death
At least 15 labourers were crushed to death by a truck in India early Tuesday while they were sleeping by…
10 newborn babies die in hospital fire
Ten newborn babies died on Saturday in a fire at a state-run hospital in western India, officials said.
India’s COVID-19 deaths cross 150,000 mark
Deaths due to COVID-19 pandemic crossed the 150,000 mark in India on Wednesday, reaching 150,114, said the data released by…
Indian experts approve AstraZeneca, local COVID vaccines
Experts at India’s drugs regulator have recommended for emergency use two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University…
India’s COVID-19 cases surpass 10.1 million with 146,756 deaths
India’s latest data from the Federal Health Ministry reveals that the COVID-19 tally rose to 10,123,778 after 24,712 new cases…
India takes stricter COVID-19 precautions
Mumbai, India’s financial hub, rolled out precautionary measures on Tuesday in the wake of the discovery of a mutant COVID-19…