India to continue export of Covid-19 related drugs
The Director General of Foreign Trade has notified lifting restrictions on 14 drugs yesterday, April 6.
Year: 2020
US employment plunges in March amid worsening coronavirus damage
The total unemployment rate rose from a 50-year low of 3.5 per cent to its highest level since August 2017.
UN helps Iraq overcome bottlenecks in battle against Covid-19
With a global shortage of supplies and equipment to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the UN health agency has assisted in successfully producing urgently needed laboratory items for testing suspected COVID-19 cases in Iraq.
India puts brakes on hydroxycholoroquine drugs exports to US
By IAR Desk India has banned all exports of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug that President
Sikhs in Afghanistan: Under Siege
The IS, perhaps chose to target the Sikhs to drive home the point that they too exist in the power equation in Afghanistan. The IS’s central group operates in Afghanistan through Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K). Territorially, the IS may have diminished and its hierarchy remains uncertain post the death of Abu-Bakr Al Bhagdadi in October last year.
Failing BRI to Health Silk Route: How COVID-19 is Changing Global Strategic Equations
Trends in January and February suggested a drop in Comprehensive National Power of China. The last week of March 2020 saw the epicenters of COVID-19 shifting westwards with US, Europe and UK emerging to be worst affected
China-India relations at new starting point: Xi Jinping
With joint efforts of both sides, the two countries have established a strategic and cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity, and are endeavouring to build an even closer partnership of development, Xi said.
India, China exchange felicitations to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations
Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, India and China have so far not been able to prepare and carry out the various activities that had been planned to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.
Only India, China to survive coronavirus, rest of the entire world economy will go into recession: UN
With two-thirds of the world’s population living in developing countries facing unprecedented economic damage from the COVID-19 crisis, the UN is calling for a USD 2.5 trillion rescue package for these nations.
Attend to Indians abroad, Prime Minister exhorts Heads of Missions
The Prime Minister emphasised that India had taken unprecedented and early steps in response to this pandemic from mid-January this year, including the world’s largest quarantine and lock-down, implemented by India.