New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Air India's Director of Operations, Captain Amitabh Singh, who led the team that evacuated Indians from China's Wuhan city in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak there, has said that it was a "challenging operation".
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): A meeting of high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) was held here on Thursday to review, monitor and evaluate the preparedness and measures taken regarding the management of novel Coronavirus in the country.
New Delhi [India], Feb 12 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing and ratification of the protocol amending the agreement between India and Sri Lanka for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion in respect to taxes on income.
Bhaktapur [Nepal], Feb 12 (ANI): Ever since the Nepal government announced its plan to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-hit Wuhan in Bhaktapur province, locals here are demonstrating against the same as the proposed isolation centre is extremely close to human settlements.
New Delhi [India], Feb 11 (ANI): A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded life term to convict Brijesh Thakur in connection with the sexual assault of over 40 girls at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
Kathmandu [Nepal], Feb 10 (ANI): Nepal National Human Rights Commission has directed the government to immediately evacuate Nepalis citizens from the Hubei province of China, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Feb 10 (ANI): The Income Tax Department on Monday summoned Tamil actor Vijay over charges of tax evasion and his alleged links with financier Anbu Chezhiyan.
Bangkok [Thailand], Feb 9 (Sputnik/ANI): Thai commandos forces have begun operations to take the Terminal 21 shopping mall where an armed soldier is holed up with as many as 16 hostages.
Kathmandu [Nepal], Feb 8 (ANI): Amid coronavirus outbreak, family members of the Nepali students studying in China are urging the Nepal government for evacuating their wards stuck in the Hubei province.
New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): The special flight of Air India which was deployed for evacuating Indians from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan to New Delhi had made an emergency landing at the airport in the national capital on February 2.
New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): An estimated 80 Indian students are still living in the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the Rajya Sabha on Friday, adding that 70 of them chose to stay behind at the time of the evacuation operation.
New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday informed Rajya Sabha that India had offered all its neighbouring countries including Pakistan to evacuate their people from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan but only Maldives chose to take up the offer.