Thursday, March 18, 2021

India expected to register largest increase in child and maternal deaths in South Asia in 2020: United Nations

A UN report also noted that India could spend nearly $10 billion on COVID-19 testing and healthcare utilisation by September 2021, the biggest share of the overall costs in the region.
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Arvind Subramanian resigns from Ashoka University after P.B. Mehta’s exit

He says he has been devastated by circumstances involving professor’s resignation
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India has assured support at U.N. Human Rights Council, says Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary

Jayanath Colombage’s statement comes just days before member countries vote on a new resolution on the island nation’s rights record.
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Atlanta attacks | Hundreds of Asian Americans turn to social media to air their anger, fear, hopelessness

From Phoenix to Philadelphia, Asian American organisations nationwide organised events aimed at showing unity.
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Helicopter crash kills 9 Afghan troops in central province

In a statement, it said that four crew members of the MI-17 helicopter along with five security personnel were killed in the crash, in the Behsud district of Maidan Wradak province
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Women greengrocers plan to dump vegetables on Manipur streets

The move was to protest the failure of the government to allot market places after the all-woman markets were shut down last year in the wake of COVID-19.
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India reports highest single day COVID spike in 24 hours this year

India, on Thursday, reported its highest single day spike, this year, in new COVID cases with 35,871 cases and 172 deaths in the last 24 hours, as pe
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