Police in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state arrested two people this week in connection with a viral video showing two people — one wearing full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) — attempting to throw a corpse into the Rapti River in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district, India’s Zee News reported on Monday.
The Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a privately owned think tank based in Mumbai, said Monday over 10 million Indians lost their jobs during the “second wave” of coronavirus infections and 97 percent of Indian households reported a decline of income since the beginning of the pandemic.
Chinese blogger Qui Ziming, 38, was sentenced to eight months in jail on Tuesday under the latest addition to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) long list of censorship laws.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced the debut Monday of what it claimed to be a “simple, easy to say and remember” system for naming variants of the Chinese coronavirus, currently referred to by their origin countries.
Mutant strains of the Chinese coronavirus allegedly imported from India are responsible for a recent surge in new cases of the disease in China’s southern city of Guangzhou and neighboring cities, local government authorities claimed on Sunday.
Hindu priests in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state have erected a temple dedicated to “Corona Devi (Goddess),” a Hindu goddess created so that Hindus may pray to the Chinese coronavirus and ask it for forgiveness amid India’s punishing new wave of infections and deaths from the disease in recent weeks.
(AFP) — Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, state media reported Saturday.
Twitter has called on the Indian government to respect free speech after the social media giant received a visit from Indian police at its office in New Delhi over its labeling of a tweet by a governing party spokesman as “manipulated media.”
The Facebook-owned instant messaging application WhatsApp sued the Indian federal government on Wednesday to challenge newly passed regulations by New Delhi that could allow Indian security officials the right to trace people’s private messages.
A couple in southern India chartered an entire Boeing 737 plane on Sunday to stage a midair wedding ceremony without coronavirus restrictions, India’s aviation regulator said on Monday when announcing an official probe into the incident.
Police from the Indian national capital territory, Delhi, visited two Twitter India offices in the capital area on Monday allegedly to seek information about Twitter’s decision last week to label a tweet by India’s ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media.”
Jammu and Kashmir, India, declared an epidemic of the fungal infection mucormycosis, also known as “black fungus,” on Monday after the disease was found to be closely linked to a recent surge in Chinese coronavirus cases in the area.
A judge has sentenced a coyote to just two-and-a-half years of jail for trying to smuggle illegals to Florida from Sri Lanka, an island just off the coast of India.
Police in the central Indian district of Gadchiroli killed at least 15 members of a Maoist terror group on Friday in “a fierce gun battle,” the Hindustan Times reported.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday dismissed reports this week of a recent military buildup by China along its border with India as a “routine” activity. “[I]t is routine for the Indian and Chinese armies to make deployments along the border
Over 100 planes from India have landed in Britain following the country being placed on the UK’s list of travel prohibited countries over concerns about the Indian variant of the coronavirus.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval rating fell to 63 percent this month, the lowest such figure recorded by the U.S.-based data intelligence company Morning Consult since it began tracking the leader’s popularity in August 2019.
A lawmaker belonging to India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party told constituents she drinks cow urine “every day” to prevent Chinese coronavirus infection, local outlets reported Monday.
Police in India’s national capital territory, Delhi, arrested 25 people as of Sunday for placing posters with a message critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the walls of public buildings across a dozen separate locations in the capital.
(AFP) — Britain took a big step towards normal life on Monday with more easing of coronavirus restrictions, but there was even more misery in India where a powerful cyclone disrupted efforts to fight a devastating Covid-19 wave.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s borders policies have allowed at least 20,000 travellers from India to enter the country despite concerns over the novel variant of the coronavirus there.
Various Indian officials and politicians on Wednesday responded to a viral video of a most unpleasant “alternative therapy” by warning that people should not slather themselves in cow dung to ward off the Wuhan coronavirus.
Dozens of unidentified bodies — which locals suspect may be victims of the Chinese coronavirus — have washed up on the shores of the Ganges River in India’s eastern Bihar state in recent days.
China, the world’s largest polluter, is defending itself by claiming polluting is a human right in the name of development in the country.
Police in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh are investigating at least two cases of people using fake Chinese coronavirus E-passes — one bearing the name of former U.S. President Donald Trump and another of the famous Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan — to enter the region during an ongoing coronavirus lockdown.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — which viciously opposed travel bans during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, when its actions ensured the Wuhan coronavirus would infect the rest of the world — on Thursday agitated for isolating its regional rival India from the rest of the world to contain its coronavirus outbreak.
Vice President Kamala Harris has avoided visiting the southern border and holding a press conference on the crisis for 44 days since assuming the role from the President.
Delhi police have “arrested more than 90 people” in recent weeks for selling or attempting to sell medical supplies including oxygen and antiviral drugs to families of coronavirus patients at exorbitant prices, the Hindustan Times reported Thursday.
Police in Kerala, India, took legal action on Thursday against 480 Church of South India (CSI) priests for their role in organizing a retreat that has resulted in over 100 confirmed Chinese coronavirus cases, local media revealed.
ROME — Pope Francis sent prayers and condolences to the people of India on Thursday when so many “are suffering as a result of the present health emergency,” in reference to the large number of coronavirus infections.
The deaths of Chinese coronavirus patients due to oxygen shortages in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are “not less than a genocide,” Uttar Pradesh’s top court claimed Tuesday.
India’s foreign minister was forced to cut short his in-person attendance of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in London on Wednesday after two members of his delegation tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus.
Actors and musicians who are “prestigious award winners” will be at the front of the immigration queue, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated what were already harrowing scenarios of discrimination against Christians in India, the aid group Open Doors warned in an interview with Breitbart News this week.
Seychelles, the East African archipelago currently recognized as “the most vaccinated nation on Earth” because such a high percentage of its tiny population has been inoculated against Chinese coronavirus, reimposed emergency restrictions on Tuesday because infections have become “critical” once again.
India’s ambassador to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, held a virtual meeting on Tuesday with U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci to discuss India’s coronavirus crisis and the progress of its vaccination program.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday rejected pressure to lift a temporary ban on inbound flights from India, saying any early resumption of arrivals from that coronavirus hot spot would erode Australia’s stretched quarantine capability.
President Joe Biden is considering appointing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to a diplomatic post — likely U.S. Ambassador to India, according to a report Tuesday evening by Axios.
Leftist politicians in India are calling for the country to enter a “full lockdown” to curb transmission of the Chinese coronavirus as India continues to battle a massive surge in coronavirus cases and deaths nationwide.
With its growing economy, India has been high on London’s list of trade deal targets since Britain left the European Union last year.
