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‘WHO-led COVAX initiative secures contracts of 2bn COVID-19 vaccine doses’
GENEVA: COVAX, an international initiative for Covid-19 vaccines led by the World Health Organization (WHO), has secured contracts of 2 billion doses, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
"We are ready. COVAX is ready.…
‘China ready to work with WHO Covid-19 probe team’
BEIJING: China is ready to receive a World Health Organization (WHO) expert team which would conduct investigations into the origins of the novel coronavirus, a senior health official said here Saturday.
China and the WHO have reached a…
Tripartite move to support int’l peace conference on Palestinian issue
RAMALLAH: A senior official said that there is a joint Palestinian-Egyptian-Jordanian move to support holding an international peace conference to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The move came as a result of a consultative…
Spl variant: Too early to impose travel ban, says Covid task force member
NEW DELHI: The discovery of a new and more potent strain of SARS-CoV-2 found in parts of Europe including the UK, The Netherlands, Denmark and Austria has sent an alarm across the world as the British government stated the new mutated form…
Khalistan is Pak project, threat to national security: Canadian report
NEW DELHI/OTTAWA: In an eye-opening report, Terry Milewski, one of Canada's veteran journalists, has warned that the Khalistan project is sponsored by Pakistan and it is detrimental to the national security of not only India but Canada as…
SL endorsed as Vice Chair of Indian Ocean Rim Association
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has been endorsed as the Vice Chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Council of Ministers from 2021 to 2023 and will take over the position from 2023 to 2025, the Foreign Ministry in Colombo said in a statement…
Indian Foreign Secretary arrives in Kathmandu for 2-day visit
KATHMANDU: In a bid to repair ties with Nepal that have hit all time low following the boundary dispute, Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has arrived in Kathmandu on Thursday morning for a two-day visit.
The announcement…
India calls Pak ‘dossier’ to UN ‘pack of lies with no takers’
UNITED NATIONS: India's UN Mission has dismissed as "a pack of lies with no takers" the dossier that Pakistan gave UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alleging that India was fomenting terrorism against it from Afghanistan.
The dossier…
Xi finally congratulates Biden on victory
WASHINGTON: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday became the latest world leader to congratulate US President-elect Joe Biden.
"Promoting the healthy and stable development of China-US relations is not only in the fundamental…
India-US relationship runs deep: Kamala Harris’ uncle
CHENNAI: The India-US relationship runs very deep and it doesn't matter who becomes next the President of the United States of America, said G. Balachandran, uncle of US Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Balachandran is a former…