MOSCOW: The total number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-2019) worldwide equals 1,21,564. The World Health Organization (WHO) made the decisive step on Wednesday to declare a pandemic as more countries are rethinking travel or visa restrictions over the spread of coronavirus disease. Alexander Lukashev, director of the Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Within hours of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring Covid-19 a global pandemic on Wednesday, the Indian government in a bid to contain the rapidly spreading coronavirus took the unprecedented step of announcing that all visas for travel to India stand suspended until April 15. The announcement was made both through the Twitter […]Read More
PUNE: Indians must take more pride in its contribution to the global economy, says KV Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor To The Government of India. Speaking to Ashwin Ahmad, Subramanian quotes the late prominent economic historian Angus Maddison and states that India was the prominent economic superpower in the world from 1 AD to 1750 accounting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Evidence of the Islamic State’s presence in India has always been thin, despite the much publicised “Wilayat of Hind” declaration in February last year by its news agency Amaq. That declaration also coincided with the killing of one Ishfaq Ahmed Sofi by security forces in Shopian, South Kashmir. Sofi had declared his allegiance […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Democracy is India’s greatest asset and poses a challenge to the Beijing model, says former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale. India must remain an independent player in the global strategic affairs game and needs to play to its strengths, he told a seminar in Pune on March 3. Given below is the transcript of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: At a time when the world is gripped by panic over the Coronavirus pandemic, a United Nations panel has been doggedly visiting world capitals making the case for a seven-decade-old issue, the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Why the UN would want to spend so much money and time over an exercise […]Read More
PUNE: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar underlined the importance of trade in the current international order when he stated, “The pulls and pressures of the international system are today most evident in the trade domain.” Talking about the increasing focus on trade the minister added that the last few decades there had been what he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the political pecking order, Myanmar’s President is at roughly the same level as India’s President: Their posts are largely ceremonial and they play second fiddle, to Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Narendra Modi in India. It partly explains the limited media coverage accorded to Myanmar’s President U Win Myint who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. That old dictum may have to be completely revisited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after back to back visits of two world leaders to India this February. The first being Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka whom Delhi would like to qualify as […]Read More
NEW DELHI: February 26, 2019 — a red-letter day for India’s political will and military operations with the Balakot air strikes against Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists deep inside Pakistani territory. Air Marshal SBP Sinha, a fighter pilot who retired from service on December 31, 2018 as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Air Command, in conversation […]Read More
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