ROME, APRIL 1 : Italian authorities have granted the rescue vessel, Open Arms, permission to bring more than 200 rescued migrants to Sicily, the ..|News Track
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Wednesday received 6,00,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine that would be used for the vaccination of Chinese workers living in the island nation, a senior health official has said.
The vaccines arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport on Wednesday where it was officially handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by China s Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong, according to reports by Xinhua news.
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga were present at the occasion. An official certificate signing ceremony took place between the Chinese Ambassador and State Minister of Pharmaceutical Production, Supply and Regulation Channa Jayasumana, after which the vaccines were handed over to President Rajapaksa.
India has declined 28 places in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2021, and is now one of the worst performers in South Asia, trailing behind neighbours Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar - it is now ranked 140 among 156 countries.
According to the report, India has closed 62.5 percent of its gender gap till date. The country had ranked 112th among 153 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2020. Noting that the decline also took place on the economic participation and opportunity subindex, albeit to a lesser extent, the report said India s gender gap on this dimension widened by 3 percent this year, leading to a 32.6 percent gap closed till date.
On Wednesday, Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy join an election campaign and said that only TRS had the right to seek votes from the people for the by-election to Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly Constituency. Let us share that participating in the election campaign for TRS candidate Nomula Bhagath at Kamareddygudem village of Thripuraram mandal in the constituency, Reddy said opposition candidates were fearing to venture out as they were expecting the people to question them on the contribution of their party leaders for the development of Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency. Congress candidate K Jana Reddy should tell people what he did to solve the issues of the constituency before asking for votes in the by-election, he said.
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