Updated on 03/11/2022 07:13 pm India accidentally fired a missile at Pakistanreported the Ministry of Defense this Friday in New Delhi, calling the incident “deeply regrettable”. India, a predominantly Hindu country, and Pakistan (a Muslim majority) have fought three wars since independence from the former British colony in 1947, two of which over the disputed […]
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The crisis in Ukraine shows the limits of India’s “neutrality”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine upsets India’s traditional policy of balance between Western countries and Russia and puts New Delhi in a difficult diplomatic situation, experts say. Last week India, like China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Russian “aggression” against Ukraine. Russia, which vetoed […]
India Says Safety Concerns Restrict Use Of Merck’s COVID-19 Pill
India has not included Merck’s COVID-19 pill in its national disease treatment protocol due to known safety concerns that have restricted its use elsewhere, stated the director of the state Indian Council for Medical Research, Balram Bhargava. “We have to remember that this drug presents important safety problems“, he claimed. “It can cause teratogenicity, mutagenicity, […]
2021, the year of unicorns for India’s emerging tech sector
2021 was a great year for Sumit Gupta – she turned 30, got married, and watched her start-up become one of the tech industry’s new unicorns in India. Affected by the pandemic and after busy months trying to expand and secure funding for its CoinDCX cryptocurrency platform, the Gupta team finally took a few days […]
Pure air or coal? The thorny dilemma facing India
Thick gray dust floats over the Singrauli open pit coal mine in India, where gigantic excavators carry the fuel that contributes to economic growth, but also to the country’s environmental pollution. Singrauli’s open pit mines illustrate the dilemma facing the world’s second most populous country and explain its resistance to the phase-out of coal, proposed […]
India detects the first two cases of the omicron variant
Updated on 02/12/2021 07:53 am India announced Thursday that it had detected the first two cases of the contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus on its territory, a few months after a devastating wave of infections left more than 200,000 dead in the country. Two men, aged 66 and 46, tested positive in the southern […]
IEA: China and India will be “the giants” that will spearhead green energy
Considered two of the most polluting countries in the world, China and India will be “the Giants“That will head”the emergence of the new global energy system“Renewable for the next five years, said the director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol. “China and India will be the giants that alone will account for half […]
India defends at COP26 the “right” of developing countries to fossil fuels
Updated on 11/13/2021 12:20 pm Developing countries also have the “right” to emit greenhouse gases. greenhouse effect and they cannot be asked to give up coal and hydrocarbons, defended on Saturday the representative of India in the COP26 making clear the lack of agreement. Indian Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav argued that less industrialized nations, with […]
High efficacy of Indian Covaxin vaccine against COVID confirmed
Covaxin, a vaccine developed by India’s medical research agency and Bharat Biotech International Ltd., was 77.8% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in an interim analysis of a long-awaited study. The researchers concluded that Covaxin, which uses traditional inactivated virus technology, induced a robust antibody response two weeks after the second dose was administered. There were […]
For India, WTO project on fisheries favors rich countries
Updated on 11/12/2021 01:13 pm The World Trade Organization (WTO) draft text to ban subsidies that facilitate overfishing is weak, unbalanced and mainly favors rich countries, declared a senior official from the Indian Trade Ministry. The revised draft text, which was presented on November 8, will be discussed at the Ministerial Conference from November 30 […]