DOZENS DEAD AFTER BLOODY DAY IN MYANMAR Activists say 38 protesters have been killed in one of the bloodiest days yet in Myanmar since the military toppled the government. Security forces opened fire in an area of Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, with protesters usin
CORONAVIRUS | DENMARK, NORWAY, ICELAND SUSPEND USE OF ASTRAZENECA VACCINE Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Thursday temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine over concerns about patients developing post-jab blood clots, as the manufacturer and Europe's me
PHILIPPINES TO CONTINUE ASTRAZENECA VACCINATIONS AMID SUSPENSIONS IN EUROPE MANILA - Philippine health authorities said on Friday they saw no reason to halt using the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country despite suspension of inoculations in Denmark, Norway and Iceland due to
ANOTHER REPORT THAT CASTS A SHADOW OVER INDIAN DEMOCRACY The fifth annual democracy report by Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, titled ‘Autocratisation goes viral’, has downgraded India from “the world’s largest democracy” to an “electoral a
BIDEN'S $1.9TN COVID RELIEF BILL PASSES US CONGRESS President Joe Biden's $1.9tn (£1.4tn) relief bill to help Americans deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has cleared its final hurdle in Congress. The House of Representatives approved the massive ec
QUAD LEADERS' VIRTUAL SUMMIT TO BE HELD ON MARCH 12 The first ‘Quadrilateral Security Dialogue’, also known as the Quad leaders' virtual summit, is all set to take place on March 12. On Tuesday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in an official
INDIA SUMMONS ENVOY OVER UK DEBATE ON FARM LAWS India summoned the British high commissioner on Tuesday and conveyed its strong opposition to the "unwarranted and tendentious" discussion on India's agri reforms in the UK Parliament, describing it a "gross interference" in politics of anothe
US FOR INDIAN ROLE IN AFGHAN PEACE PROCESS US Secretary of State Tony Blinken has suggested that the involvement of India in a UN-convened conference to discuss a unified approach to supporting peace in Afghanistan, the Afghan media has reported. Blinken, in a lette
PFIZER/BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE NEUTRALIZES BRAZIL VARIANT IN LAB STUDY NEW YORK - The COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE was able to neutralize a new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Brazil, according to a laboratory study published in the New
NEPAL SUPREME COURT SCRAPS RULING NCP The Supreme Court of Nepal on Sunday scrapped the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and revived the two original parties that had joined hands in 2018 to form the ruling party. With this decision, the original ruling alliance between th
