NEW DELHI: As part of the second phase of Vande Bharat repatriation mission, five flights are scheduled to carry back Indians stranded in the Philippines from May 19. While four flights are scheduled from Manila to Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Bengaluru and Jaipur, one flies from Cebu to Ahmedabad. In all, 7000 Indians have registered with the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Terror groups are expendable to Pakistan once they have served their purpose, Amar Sinha, National Security Advisory Board member and India’s ex-envoy to Afghanistan tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. So, does the rise in ‘Islamic State’ activity in Afghanistan over the last three years signal that shift away from the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sweden’s strategy to save the elderly from the coronavirus has been unsuccessful. With that frank admission, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi that the government is increasing funding by about $ 220 million to care for the elderly. Fifty percent of those above 70 years old, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: (Editor’s note: This interview was filmed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and India’s worldwide repatriation of its citizens) India is in the first week of Mission Vande Bharat and Operation Samudra Setu, with 15,000 people expected to be brought home in the first wave. The second week from May 16 will see bigger […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As 234 Kenyan nationals stranded in India by the lockdown landed safely in Nairobi on Friday, StratNews Global’s Amitabh Revi spoke exclusively to Rahul Chhabra, India’s high commissioner to Kenya. “We help countries in Africa with what they require with no strings attached unlike other countries,” he said. Chhabra gave details of efforts […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Week one of the biggest repatriation of Indians since the 1990 Gulf War, will see five flights operating from Singapore from May 7-13. Scheduled to return are 3,500 Indians registered with the High Commission. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global’s Amitabh P Revi, High Commissioner Jawed Ashraf describes the preparation for the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has been a pillar of support and assistance to the Maldives during the COVID-19 crisis, India’s High Commissioner Sunjay Sudhir tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India has transferred to the Maldives, $150 million of the $400 million available under the bilateral currency swap agreement. This will enable Maldives to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin has made another national address warning of a long and difficult road ahead as the Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t peaked. Tatiana Kukhareva, Head of Sputnik International, speaks to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on the situation in hotspot clusters especially Moscow, as well as the regions. As of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Global health reformer, Professor Ilona Kickbusch discusses the goal of accelerating the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus with an $8 billion fund and the ethics of lockdowns, tracing and tracking those infected, in this conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. With vast experience in the WHO, government and as […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s tourism and aviation sector was the first to be hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and will probably be the last to recover. In industry parlance it’s called a much larger head and tail. The crisis is seen as having a worse impact than 9/11 or the 2008-09 financial meltdown. According to KPMG, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The 300,000 Indians who make up 10% of the world’s seafaring community, have been hit extremely hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Captain Sanjay Parashar, Chairman of the International Maritime Foundation says nearly 60,000 crew on 200 cruise ships lost their jobs virtually overnight. In conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: 7 years in jail for breaking coronavirus quarantine rules, a Ruble 500,000($1=Rub74. 1Rub=Rs 1.03) fine for business not following a lockdown. Azmat Metov takes us through a day in the life of a citizen in this chat with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi. 106 people have died in Russia with 1,667 new […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Former top UN and Norwegian diplomat and minister Erik Solheim and StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi discuss the China origin virus, COVID-19, and the lack of global leadership in one of humanity’s most testing times. Speaking from Oslo, Norway, the ex-head of the UN Environment Programme highlights how most of the world […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Helen Clark, New Zealand’s Prime Minister for three terms and former head of the United Nations Development Programme, in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi discusses whether the UN Security Council taking over two months to discuss the pandemic proves it’s just a global talking shop and whether the world body is missing in action. She deplores […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Kenya steps up its battle against the coronavirus pandemic with bans on all road, rail and air travel in and out of the capital, Nairobi, and three coastal regions, the United Nations is working closely with the Kenyan government to offer communication support to ensure no panic and that a positive narrative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: You have two choices. Stay 1.5 metres apart or 1.5 metres underground. That is South Africa’s no-nonsense health minister Zweli Mkhize’s repeated warnings after the first China-virus cases were reported a month ago. Since then urgent and swift moves by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government in imposing tough restrictive steps and galvanising crucial support […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Mauritius’ first woman President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (2015-18), a biodiversity scientist, takes a magnifying glass to the weaknesses the coronavirus has exposed in humanity’s preparedness to deal with pandemics. In this exclusive conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi, she stresses how dealing with the virus is highlighting inequality especially for the poor in times of lockdowns. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Imran Garda, host of ‘The Newsmakers’ on TRT World speaks to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on Spain having the world’s second-highest number of people killed by the Coronavirus after Italy and why the health minister says there’s a ‘glimmer of hope. The journalist addresses the issues of whether Spain was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘Singapore prepared for a pandemic crisis for 17 Years After SARS, when the sun was shining. Spotting the coronavirus trend early, using high-tech tools and coordination for contact tracing, dealing severely with violators and transparent communication- those are the reasons for Singapore to be considered one of the best practice countries dealing with the pandemic. Anuraag […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Group Captain AK Patnaik details the Indian Air Force evacuation of 112 passengers ( 76 Indians and 36 foreign citizens) from the-then-epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic Wuhan, and the transport of 15 tonnes of medical supplies to China. The Flight Commander, 81 Squadron (Skylords) in this chat with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh […]Read More
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