Italy’s decision to take extra precautions with Chinese travelers paid off on Wednesday as two flights from China landed in Milan and half of the passengers tested positive for Covid-19.
Travel bookings surged in China on Tuesday after the National Immigration Administration announced passport applications will once again be processed as of January 8, 2023. The policy change ends years-old travel restrictions just as the biggest coronavirus wave of the entire pandemic sweeps across China. Several other countries, such as Japan and India, announced their own restrictions on Chinese travelers in response.
Festive Christmas celebrations were held across India this week despite the looming threat of attacks by Hindu extremists, who disrupted Christmas masses and vandalized churches last year.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Thursday called for a return to wearing face masks in public places, citing the enormous surge of coronavirus cases in China and rising caseloads in some other countries, including the United States.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers and was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.
Russian Foreign Ministry official Zamir Kabulov said on Wednesday that Russia and India are taking steps to use their respective national currencies for trading with each other, instead of U.S. dollars or euros.
The State Department is offering up to $50k to “counter stigma against the transgender community in India” by creating activist groups.
India’s top diplomat, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, told the nation’s Parliament this week that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stationed more troops on India’s border with China than ever in response to repeated invasions by the Communist Party’s armed forces.
The Indian government’s Border Roads Organization (BRO) announced a “major infrastructural development” project this week in Arunachal Pradesh, a mountainous border region on the other side of occupied Tibet where Chinese soldiers brawled with Indian border patrol just weeks ago.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) published a report on Friday that found coal use surging around the world, with the United States and India leading the pack in 2021 at 15 percent and 14 percent growth in coal consumption, respectively.
China announced on Sunday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staged “a series of tactical drills” in occupied Tibet, forcing soldiers to endure “an altitude of 4,600 meters under the harsh cold of -20 C [-4ºF]” to enhance combat capability on the Indian border.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a phone conversation on Friday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to congratulate each other on skyrocketing bilateral trade and hint at future “security” cooperation, according to Russian media.
Retired Indian General MM Naravane, who served as chief of army staff until last April, lobbed a torrent of insults at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Thursday over its latest invasion of India’s northern border, calling their methods “prehistoric” and accusing them of “hooliganism.”
India’s NDTV reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources, that the nation’s Air Force had scrambled jets multiple times in the past month in response to “enhanced Chinese air activity” on their mutual border, news whose urgency is exacerbated by a brawl prompted by an invading Chinese military force.
The Democrats’ pending EAGLE Act that is being pushed by West Coast investors would create new corporate scandals by allowing more CEOs to hire more subordinate and silent visa-workers instead of outspoken American professionals.
The Indian Army announced in a statement on Monday that Chinese soldiers had invaded the country on their mutual border in the Himalayas, resulting in a violent clash that left, according to some reports, dozens of soldiers injured.
Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group pumped some $500 million into its Indian subsidiary on Thursday, evidently seeking to diversify its supply chain after coronavirus lockdowns and anti-lockdown riots crippled its massive iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou, China, last month.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday observed a moment of silence for the passing of former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, the leader who guided China into global influence after the atrocity of Tiananmen Square.
Villagers from a mostly Christian fishing community in India’s southern Kerala state have been demonstrating for months against a $900 million port project, which they believe is damaging the environment and ruining their livelihoods.
The armed forces of India published videos this week showing the nation’s soldiers ordering birds of prey known as “kites” to seize and destroy small drones mid-air.
A bizarre scene unfolded in Kerala, India, as mobs of fanatics of the Argentine and Brazilian soccer teams brawled with sticks and iron bars in a cemetery near a FIFA World Cup event, reports detailed on Monday.
Indian government officials joined pharmaceutical giant Bharat Biotech on Thursday to deny reports that Bharat’s indigenously-developed Chinese coronavirus vaccine, Covaxin, is being rushed to market under intense political pressure.
At a time when immigration into Britain is at a record high, the UK government has agreed a visa deal with India that will allow more migrants into the country.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping visited Beijing’s Central Military Commission (CMC) command center on Tuesday, telling soldiers there to prepare to “fight and win” any future wars.
Cargo data cited by The Hindu on Sunday showed Russia has become the top supplier of oil to India, with deliveries accounting for 22 percent of India’s total crude imports, vaulting past Iran with just over 20 percent and Saudi Arabia with 16 percent.
The British government’s Department for International Trade (DIT), currently trying to negotiate a trade deal with India, has confirmed it has neither produced nor seen any research on whether such a deal could have a negative impact on British workers.
Police in the Indian state of Gujarat arrested nine people Monday in connection with the collapse of the pedestrian suspension bridge in the town of Morbi, which collapsed on Sunday, sending its many occupants tumbling over 30 feet into the fast-moving Machchhu river. The official death toll from the catastrophe stands at 135, but the search for more bodies continues.
Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday that India feels no “moral conflict” over buying oil from Russia, although he also took pains to minimize the impact of India’s discounted Russian energy purposes.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday claimed the rollout of an experimental aerosolized coronavirus vaccine in Shanghai was a smashing success, because test subjects love inhaling the sweet-smelling gas.
U.S. President Joe Biden has raised eyebrows for congratulating “Rashee Sanuk” for becoming Britain’s new Prime Minister.
Britain is “now in the hands of an Indian” with Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, a major Hindi-language newspaper has claimed.
Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister “would be a historic landmark” due to his migration background and religion, according to AFP.
Russia’s trade volume with India is exploding, even as India’s Western allies slap sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. India’s greatly increased imports of Russian oil and fertilizer are key elements of the trade boom.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit to Riyadh this weekend that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is interested in joining the BRICS coalition, a trade and security organization led by Russia and China.
The Boeing Company is set to outsource to India hundreds of coveted white-collar American jobs, beginning this year, while making billions from taxpayer-funded contracts with the Defense Department.
A United Nations General Assembly debate on a resolution to condemn the Russian colonization of eastern Ukraine pivoted abruptly to South Asia on Wednesday as the permanent representative of Pakistan accused India of “modern-day colonialism” in the disputed region of Kashmir. India’s representative dismissed the complaints as “frivolous” and off-topic.
Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday defended his country’s friendly relations with Russia by reminding Western critics that Moscow was willing to supply India with arms at a time when the United States and its allies “saw a military dictatorship next to us as the preferred partner.”
Police in Uttar Pradesh, India, recently announced the arrests of 15 people related to a scam operation, allegedly run by a Chinese citizen, that used data pilfered from old memory cards and circuit boards to scam Indians into fake business “investments” and loans, India’s Times Now News reported on Tuesday.
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended the referendums, claiming that more than 100 international observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, and Latvia who observed the voting recognized the outcomes as legitimate.
Apple is scaling back production of its new iPhones after an anticipated increase in demand failed to materialize, according to reports from Bloomberg.
