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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Mike Pompeo discuss cooperation to contain Covid-19

The two leaders discussed bilateral and international cooperation to contain Covid-19, including ensuring availability of pharmaceutical & medical supplies over the phone.

India plans to resume trade dialogue with China once Covid situation stabilises: Envoy Misri

Speaking to ThePrint, Ambassador Vikram Misri said India also expects China to respond to its RCEP concerns once the bilateral discussions resume.

India set to export HCQ to Malaysia as two nations look past recent tensions in ties

India is learnt to have added Malaysia to the list of countries where it exports hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug touted as a promising cure for Covid-19.

Discrimination against our moral fabric: India to its citizens in UAE after anti-Muslim posts

The tweet by Pavan Kapoor, ambassador of India to the UAE, comes a day after PM Modi said Covid-19 pandemic 'does not see race, religion, colour... before striking'.

China wants India to revise new ‘discriminatory’ FDI policy, says it violates WTO norms

China has labelled as discriminatory India’s new FDI policy that mandates firms from ‘border-sharing nations’ to seek govt approval before making investments.  

Need Covid data, facts out of China, best information flow coming from democracies: Pompeo

Speaking to South & Central Asian journalists, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised the roles democracies are playing across the world to fight the pandemic. Read the full interaction.

India questions Pakistan’s ‘deficiencies’ as 5 Kartarpur Sahib domes collapse due to winds

The fibreglass domes were restored overnight, but Indian officials say Pakistan must appreciate the sentiments of the Sikh community about the Gurudwara.

Democracies will emerge stronger from Covid-19, India will ‘provide solutions’: Mike Pompeo

US Secretary of State says he’s in regular touch with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, and highlights the countries’ cooperation amid the pandemic.

Stay put, be patient, Modi govt tells Indians stuck abroad, asks NRIs and OCIs to help out

Moving stranded Indians will heighten the risk of spreading Covid-19 in the country where they are as well as in India, the Modi govt has said.

India set to receive 6.5 lakh Covid-19 testing kits from China today

5.5 lakh rapid antibody testing kits from Wondfo Biotech Co and Zhuhai Livzon Diagnostics Inc and 1 lakh RNA extraction kits from MGI Shenzhen have been shipped.

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No insult to Ayurveda. AIIMS an attempt to bring good standards of medical education—Amrit Kaur

On 18 February 1956, 'Rajkumari' Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, moved the Bill in Lok Sabha for the establishment of AIIMS in Delhi. She wanted it to have the powers and functions of a university because it will 'probably make revolutionary changes in curriculum as well as in modes of teaching'.

Cash-strapped Karnataka hikes fuel tax by Rs 3/l, could earn Rs 2,500-3,000 cr more per yr

Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.

With an eye on China, IAF expands taxi track at Leh airport, new shelters being built

Expanded taxi track is smaller than those meant for civilian operations, but is long enough for fighters & military transport aircraft to operate.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.