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Maharashtra imposes 15-day lockdown to slow COVID-19 spread
Published On: April 14, 2021 10:56 AM NPT By: Reuters
MUMBAI, April 14: India’s richest state, Maharashtra, will be under lockdown from Wednesday night for 15 days to slow rising coronavirus infections, its chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Tuesday.
India's new coronavirus infections hit record of 184,372
Published On: April 14, 2021 09:59 AM NPT By: Reuters
BENGALURU, April 14: India’s new coronavirus infections reached a record of 184,372 in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Wednesday, as most of the south Asian nation battles a second surge in cases.
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100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks
Published On: April 14, 2021 09:26 AM NPT By: Associated Press
TOKYO, April 14: Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago.
Biden set to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
Published On: April 14, 2021 08:49 AM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 14: President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attacks that triggered America’s longest war, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Reuters names first woman editor-in-chief in its 170-year history
Published On: April 13, 2021 11:30 AM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, April 13: Reuters News has named one of its top editors, Alessandra Galloni, as its next editor-in-chief, the first woman to lead the globe-spanning news agency in its 170-year history.
India's 161,736 new coronavirus infections are world's highest
Published On: April 13, 2021 10:55 AM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI, April 13: India reported 161,736 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, hitting the world’s highest daily tally once again, for a total of 13.69 million cases, health ministry data showed.
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Attack on Iran’s Natanz plant muddies US, Iran nuke talks
Published On: April 13, 2021 10:29 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 13: The attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility is casting a major shadow over the resumption of indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran over resurrection of the international accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program.
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India reels amid virus surge, affecting world vaccine supply
Published On: April 13, 2021 10:21 AM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, April 13: The Indian city of Pune is running out of ventilators as gasping coronavirus patients crowd its hospitals. Social media is full of people searching for beds, while relatives throng pharmacies looking for antiviral medicines that hospitals ran out of long ago.
Japan says to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea
Published On: April 13, 2021 08:42 AM NPT By: Reuters
TOKYO, April 13: Japan plans to release into the sea more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station, the government said on Tuesday, a decision that is likely to anger neighbours such as South Korea.
Small but quick: Bhutan vaccinates 93% of adults in 16 days
Published On: April 12, 2021 03:45 PM NPT By: Associated Press
THIMPU, Bhutan, April 12: When plotted on a graph, the curve of Bhutan’s COVID-19 vaccination drive shoots upwards from the very first day, crossing Israel, United States, Bahrain and other countries known for vaccinating people rapidly.
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