Covid vaccination drive kicks off in Sri Lanka with Made in India vaccines
A Sri Lankan nurse administers Covid-19 vaccines to a frontline health worker in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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The coronavirus vaccination drive kicked off in Sri Lanka today, a day after India gifted 500,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine to the island nation.
The drive began at the Army Hospital in Narahenpita as frontline workers fighting the novel coronavirus were vaccinated with the Made in India Covishield vaccines.
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India, China agree to continue engagement on UNSC agenda amid LAC standoff
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Tens of thousands of Indian and Chinese troops have been in eye ball to eye ball confrontation for more than nine months
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The Indian delegation briefed the Chinese side on India’s priorities during its UNSC tenure, a statement said
According to people familiar with the developments, the talks did not mean the start of a return to normal ties as they existed prior to India detecting Chinese intrusions along the LAC
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New Delhi:India and China on Tuesday discussed their priorities at the UN Security Council with both agreeing to continue their engagement on key issues on the UNSC agenda, an Indian statement said.
Terming the situation as ‘alarming’, Nitin Gadkari said that India witnesses the maximum number of road accidents in the world, ahead of the US and China.He further said that improved engineering, education, enforcement, emergency care services are some of the steps taken by the government to combat the problem
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Maternity ward death traps, with dead children piled on top of each other and blood-soaked corridors, are the new norm in Nicolas Maduro s socialist Venezuela.
Seven years of back-to-back recession and the highest inflation in the world has destroyed the country s healthcare system, with a critical shortage of doctors and nursing personnel, surgical equipment and medicine.
Wendy Dulcey, whose baby son Thiago died in December a month after he was born, recounted how she saw a partly-open fridge filled with the corpses of dead children at the hospital in Caracas.
The 39-year-old public official fell ill and was admitted to the University Hospital in the capital for an emergency C-section at only seven months.
In crisis-hit Venezuela, where the maternity wards are often death traps
Infant mortality went up by a third in a year, and maternal mortality by 65 per cent, according to the latest figures
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A priest officiates at the funeral of Wendy Dulcey s baby son, Thiago, who died a month after being born in Caracas, Venezuela
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Red roses and a burning candle frame the small white casket Wendy Dulcey is caressing at a hospital morgue in Caracas.
It contains the remains of her baby son who died on December 1, 39 days after he was born - a cruel fate befalling far too many in the crisis-hit South American country.