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In a bid to speed up India’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, another Indian company, Shilpa Medicare has joined efforts to ramp up the manufacturing capacity of the Sputnik V vaccine. Last year in September, the Hyderabad-based Dr Reddy’s Laboratories had partnered with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) to conduct the […]
Israeli warplanes have continued air strikes at several locations of Gaza City early morning with the death toll nearing 200 as country’s caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said an end to hostilities was not imminent. Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flatten three buildings and kill at least 42 people on […]
Asked what the secretary-general expects from Sunday’s emergency meeting of the Security Council on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian escalation, Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: “What we would like to see is … a strong, unified voice for de-escalation, for a cessation of hostilities and a push to get the parties back […]
The United Nations (UN) Security Council will hold an open meeting on Sunday to discuss the escalation of tensions between Israel and Palestine. Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the UN, tweeted that the meeting will be held at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on Sunday. “China is deeply concerned […]
Gaza’s health ministry has said that a total of 103 people, including 27 children, have been killed since the Israeli airstrikes began from Monday. Over 580 others have been wounded, reported Al Jazeera. Israel has begun firing barrages of artillery shells into the north of the Gaza, destroying houses in […]
Amid intensifying conflict between Israel and Palestine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and expressed his concerns over the ongoing violence. According to US State Department spokesperson Ned Price, Blinken and Netanyahu discussed the ongoing violence in Jerusalem and the Secretary […]
India welcomed 1,200 oxygen cylinders from the British Oxygen Company that arrived from the UK on Thursday as part of COVID assistance to help deal with the record rise in virus cases that has put a strain on the healthcare infrastructure of the country. Apart from welcoming the aid from […]
As India continues to battle against second wave of the COVID-19, a consignment of 200 oxygen concentrators from Indonesia reached the Delhi Airport in early hours of Thursday. “Further deepening our millennia old civilisational links. Welcome shipment of 200 oxygen concentrators from our friendly maritime neighbour Indonesia,” tweeted Ministry of […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday informed that the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, first found in India in October last year, had been detected in sequences uploaded “from 44 countries in all six WHO regions”. “As of 11 May, over 4500 sequences have been uploaded to GISAID (platform of […]
TS Tirumurti, Ambassador of India to the UN on Tuesday expressed concern at the escalating violence between Israel and Palestine and urged both the sides to avoid changing the status quo on the ground. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the escalation in East Jerusalem and related events, […]
