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China brought enormous force to border without provocation: Jaishankar
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): China brought enormous force to the border, apparently referring to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), without provocation, said Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Monday.
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Jaishankar slams 'Vaccine Maitri' critics, calls them 'short-sighted'
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): While defending India's decision to export Covid-19 vaccines to other countries at a time when the cases are surging in the country, Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Monday said that those questioning New Delhi's decision to export shots are
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Women scribes slam Pak PM Imran Khan for linking rape with dress code
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): Women journalists across Pakistan have slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan for his remarks that women's dress code is the real reason or motive for rape.
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UK human 'challenge trial' launches to study COVID-19 reinfection
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 19 (ANI): A year-long trial launched Monday to study how the immune system reacts in people contracting coronavirus for the second time.
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Germany's Greens pick Annalena Baerbock as candidate for Chancellor
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): German green political party Alliance-90/The Greens has chosen its co-leader Annalena Baerbock as its candidate for German chancellor in the upcoming elections, Robert Habeck, the party's second co-leader, said on Monday.
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Study of combined use of AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines to launch in Spain
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Madrid, April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Clinical trials on the combined use of two vaccines, AstraZeneca and Pfizer, are set to begin in Spain, Raquel Yotti Alvarez, director of the Carlos III Health Institute, announced on Monday.
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EU to reinforce strategic focus for cooperation in Indo-Pacific region, sa
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 19 (ANI): The European Union should reinforce its strategic focus, presence and actions in the Indo-Pacific with the aim of contributing to the stability and security of the region, based on the rule of law, human rights and international law, said the European Coun
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Trump supports troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, slams Biden's timeline
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Florida [US], April 19 (ANI): Former US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) praised his successor President Joe Biden's decision of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan while criticizing his timeline.
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China blocks US-based think tank's website over critique on sanctions
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 18 (ANI): In light of the worsening ties between the United States and China, Beijing has blocked the Centre for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) website in China, after the Washington-based group released a piece criticising the country's sanctions on a Eur
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China's actions in Hong Kong rise to new levels of 'viciousness': Report
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): As China continues to suppress the will of the people in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law, media outlets worldwide have called Beijing's actions in the city "a new level of viciousness".
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Russia registers 8,632 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 8,632 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 9,321 the day before, taking the tally to 4,702,101, the coronavirus response centre said on Sunday.
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Biden defends not immediately raising refugee cap, says US 'can't do two t
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Saturday explained his initial decision to not increase the limit on refugee admissions to the United States stating that his administration "couldn't do two things at once".
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