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NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Amazon.com’s Prime Video streaming service on Tuesday (March 2) issued a rare apology to its Indian viewers for some scenes in…
View More Amazon issues rare apology in India after complaints that Tandav series hurt Hindu beliefs
NEW DELHI (THE STATESMAN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The watershed development during the external affairs minister, Mr S Jaishankar’s visit to Mauritius for Tuesday’s (Feb 23)…
View More India-Mauritius free trade pact the first of its kind: The Statesman
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inoculated with the first dose of a home-grown coronavirus vaccine on Monday (March 1), kicking…
View More PM Narendra Modi takes home-grown vaccine as India widens immunisation drive
NEW DELHI/BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – After the deadliest fighting in decades, India and China are setting up demilitarised areas along their Himalayan border – a move…
View More China-India demilitarised zone upsets defence officials in Delhi
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – India’s Mr Mukesh Ambani is back to being the wealthiest person in Asia. Despite a brutal week for markets, his Reliance…
View More India's Mukesh Ambani is again richest Asian as China's Zhong Shanshan loses US$22 billion
NEW DELHI – India’s vaccination drive is expected to speed up substantially after the federal government roped in the private sector. It will provide a…
View More India brings in private sector to speed up Covid-19 vaccination drive
NEW DELHI (XINHUA) – The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has asked tech giant Google to increase the newspaper publishers’ share of advertising revenue to 85…
View More Indian newspaper publishers demand greater revenue share from Google
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan and India on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to a cease-fire along the troubled border between the two countries after a year…
View More Pakistan and India Renew Pledge on Cease-Fire at Troubled Border
NEW DELHI (XINHUA) – India’s drugs controller has rejected vaccine maker Bharat Biotech’s request to conduct clinical trials of Covaxin on children and asked the…
View More India rejects Bharat Biotech's request for Covid-19 vaccine trials on children
NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – India will start vaccinating people over the age of 60 and those above 45 who suffer from co-morbidities starting March 1,…
View More India to start giving Covid-19 shots to the elderly at a cost
NEW DELHI (THE STATESMAN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The virtual foreign ministers’ meeting of the Quad hosted by the new US administration last week sent a…
View More Economic dimension key to Quad success: The Statesman contributor
RAINI (REUTERS) – Growing up in a remote tribal village high in the Indian Himalayas, Mr Kundan Singh loved to play on a field by…
View More 'No other option': Deadly India floods bare conflicts from hydropower boom
BARNALA (REUTERS) – More than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India’s northern Punjab state on Sunday (Feb 21) in a show of strength…
View More Protesting Indian farmers vow to amass more supporters outside capital Delhi
BENGALURU (REUTERS) – South Africa has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million Covid-19 vaccine doses the company had sent…
View More South Africa asks India's Serum Institute to take back 1m Covid-19 vaccine doses: Report