India s PM Modi says feeling his nation s Covid pain Published: 10:07 PM, May 14, 2021
Police personnel patrol through a market area during a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus at a village on the outskirts of Amritsar. - AFP SHARE
NEW DELHI: India s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he feels the pain of all Indians battling the pandemic, in a televised address Friday following weeks of largely avoiding public comment on his country s devastating coronavirus wave.
The Hindu nationalist leader s government has been stung by criticism of its handling of the virus, with his address coming as the country of 1.3 billion reported 4,000 deaths for a third straight day and 343,144 new infections.
Indian drugmaker Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd said on Friday it expects to get 36 million doses of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in the next couple of months under its contract with Russia's sovereign wealth fund.
Pakistan s Babar dethrones India s Kohli in ODI rankings
14 Apr 2021 - 13:00
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New Delhi: Pakistan captain Babar Azam ended India counterpart Virat Kohli s more than three-year reign as the top-ranked one-day batsman in the latest official rankings published on Wednesday.
Babar s elegant stroke-making has often drawn comparisons with the prolific Kohli who is considered a modern batting great across formats.
Babar led from the front in Pakistan s 2-1 ODI series victory in South Africa last week and snapped Kohli s 1,258 day stay atop the official rankings, the governing International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement.
The 26-year-old is the third Pakistan batsman to achieve the honour following in the footsteps of Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf.
04 Apr 2021 - 15:35
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Mumbai: China s ByteDance has told an Indian court that a government freeze on its bank accounts in a probe of possible tax evasion amounts to harassment and was done illegally, according to a filing seen by Reuters.
ByteDance in January reduced its Indian workforce after New Delhi maintained a ban on its popular video app TikTok, imposed last year after a border clash between India and China. Beijing has repeatedly criticised India over that ban and those of other Chinese apps.
03 Mar 2021 - 0:17
FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker prepares to administer a dose of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine, marketed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) as COVISHIELD, against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Santiago, Dominican Republic February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas/File Photo
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The UK will receive 10 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses made by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the UK government said in a statement on Tuesday.
SII, the world s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, is mass producing the AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, for dozens of poor and middle-income countries. The UK has ordered 100 million doses of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine, of which 10 million doses will come from the Serum Institute of India, a UK government spokesperson told Reuters.