DUE TO 'RIGHT DECISIONS TAKEN AT RIGHT TIME' INDIA BETTER PLACED IN COVID-19 FIGHT: PM MODI India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against COVID-19 as a result of "right decisions taken at the right time", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, asserti
XI TO DELIVER SPEECH AT AIIB'S ANNUAL EVENT President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the fifth annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to be held via video link on Tuesday in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua
US ELECTIONS 2020: TRUMP FACES HEADWINDS WITH POLLS 100 DAYS AWAY With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump's presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position as his re-elec
IN FRESH PROPOSAL, RAJASTHAN GOVT REQUESTS GUV TO CALL ASSEMBLY SESSION TO DISCUSS COVID-19 SITUATION The Ashok Gehlot government has sent a fresh recommendation to Governor Kalraj Mishra asking for a session of the Rajasthan Assembly on July 31. The Governor had returned an earlier reco
XI STRESSES NATION'S COMPETITIVENESS President Xi Jinping has highlighted the need to make the economy more competitive, innovative and able to resist risks as part of efforts to further bolster the real economy, especially the manufacturing sector, and improve the level of entire industria
FROM PING-PONG DIPLOMACY TO TIT-FOR-TAT HOSTILITY, US-CHINA TIES SPIRAL DOWN What started with ping-pong diplomacy almost 50 years in the past plunged into tit-for-tat hostility this week as China retaliated on Friday to the US' closure of the Chinese language consulate in Houston by orde
SONA PROTESTS TO PERSIST DESPITE BANS — RIGHTS GROUP MANILA — Mobilizations set on Monday will push through despite the issuance of protest bans just days before President Rodrigo Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address, according to human rights monitor Karapatan.
INDIA, CHINA AGREE TO ANOTHER MEETING OF COMMANDERS India and China on Friday agreed another meeting of the senior commanders may be held soon so as to work out further steps to ensure expeditiously complete disengagement and de-escalation and restoration of peace and tranquillity in the
XI STRESSES BUILDING DOMESTIC AUTOMOBILE BRANDS, IMPROVING COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE EFFICACY Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday stressed the importance of mastering key and core technologies and building strong domestic automobile brands
MIKE POMPEO SAYS FREE WORLD MUST CHANGE CHINA OR 'CHINA WILL CHANGE US' US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has called on "free nations" to triumph over the threat of what he said was a "new tyranny" from China, in a provocative speech likely to worsen fraught US-China relations.
