Tag: India
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India logs more than 100,000 virus cases in biggest spike so far
India, on Monday, reported its biggest-ever daily surge in coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, with the country crossing 100,000 infections for the first time. There were 103,558 new cases in the past 24 hours, data released by the Health Ministry showed. India’s national count was more than 5,500 cases higher than the previous peak…
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Indian minister tests positive after getting COVID-19 vaccine trial dose
Health Minister of the northern Indian state of Haryana Anil Vij, who was given a trial dose of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine in November, tested positive for the virus on Saturday. Vij, who is the holding charge of several ministries including health, said on Twitter that he had contracted the virus. He urged people, who…
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Muslim man arrested for trying to convert woman to Islam
Police in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh have arrested a Muslim man for allegedly trying to convert a Hindu woman to Islam, officials said on Thursday. The 20-year-old college student is the first to be held under a new anti-conversion law aimed at curbing `love jihad’, a term radical Hindu groups use in accusing…
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India suspends all international flights till next year
India virtually shut itself against the world on Thursday when it extended the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger services till December 31. The aviation authorities said the extended suspension was because of the COVID-19 pandemic. India is the second worst-hit country by the virus, after the United States. It has recorded 9,266,705 infections and…
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Facebook bans India’s ruling party leader over hate speech violations
Facebook has banned a politician from India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the centre of allegations that the social media giant did not apply hate speech rules to members of the ruling party. “We have banned Raja Singh from Facebook for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and…
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Twitter account of India’s Modi hacked
The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked early on Thursday, the social media company has confirmed. A series of tweets were sent from the account asking its followers to donate cryptocurrency to the prime minister’s relief fund. Twitter said it was aware of the activity and had taken…
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Sad! Fire razes isolation centre killing 10 COVID-19 patients
There was a fire outbreak on Sunday morning at a Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) isolation centre in India that left 10 COVID-19 patients dead. Ten other COVID-19 patients were injured in the tragedy that happened in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijaywada hotel that was converted into a COVID-19 care centre. The cause of fire was yet to be…
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India tops a million coronavirus cases as pandemic hits villages
India on Friday became the third country in the world to record more than one million coronavirus cases, behind only the United States and Brazil. This is as infections spread further out into the countryside and smaller towns. For India’s population of around 1.3 billion, experts say a million cases are still low and the…
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Railway coaches converted to COVID-19 centres as hospitals run out of beds
India’s government says it will provide 500 railway coaches to be converted into COVID-19 care centers as the nation’s capital is fast running out of hospital beds. “There should be infrastructure, there is need to be beds, patients are not being looked after, this is a deplorable state of affairs,’’ said a government official on…
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269 Nigerians stranded in India arrive Lagos, Abuja
The Nigerian in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on Saturday, confirmed the arrival of 269 Nigerians that were stranded in India in Lagos and Abuja. The commission, who announced their arrival on its Twitter handle, said that the the 269 Nigerians arrived Nigeria at 2:00 a.m. NiDCOM said that evacuees were received from India at the Lagos…