Category: Breaking News

Amid ongoing border tension between China and India following the June 15 standoff, the Indian newspapers and websites are banned in China.   Though Chinese newspapers and websites continue to be accessible in India, people in China can only access the Indian media websites with Virtual Private Network (VPN) server.   The Indian TV channels also can be accessed through IP TV as of now. And Express VPN has not been working in the Communist state for the past two days on the iPhone as well as desktops.   A virtual private network (VPN) is a powerful tool that gives users online privacy and anonymity by creating a private network…

In what is a remarkable milestone for global solidarity in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, over 30,000 people have now signed up with 1Day Sooner to be deliberately exposed to the coronavirus in a challenge trial to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development. Some epidemiologists estimate that a challenge trial could accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development by months, saving tens of thousands of lives.    Preparation for COVID-19 challenge trials has begun. On June 9, Belgium allocated $22 million for the construction of challenge quarantine facilities. On June 15, Anthony Fauci said that the National…

After the pandemic what really scared and bothered India was locusts’ attacks. It spread like wildfire and behaved like the same. The Union Ministry of Agriculture proudly said that India is the first country to control locusts by using drones. According to the information given by the ministry, all the groups of locust swarms are being tracked by teams of the state agriculture departments of Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, local administrations and officials of the Central Locust Warning Organisation, and control operations are underway.   “India is the first…

Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they kill US or UK troops there, a European intelligence official said. The official was unclear as to the precise Russian motivation, but said the incentives had, in their assessment, led to coalition casualties. The official did not specify as to the date of the casualties, their number or nationality, or whether these were fatalities or injuries. “This callous approach by the GRU is startling and reprehensible. Their motivation is bewildering,” the official said. US intelligence concluded months ago that…

As per the report from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported that recovered coronavirus cases have exceeded the active cases by 98,493 as of Saturday.   The total number of coronavirus recoveries in India exceeded active cases by over 1 lakh on Sunday, with recoveries reaching 3,09,712 and active cases reaching 2,03,051. The coronavirus recovery rate in India has reached 58.56%.     The total number of recoveries has fast outgrown the number of active Covid-19 cases, with the difference between the two nearing one lakh fast,…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday the Chinese threat to India and Southeast Asian nations is one of the reasons America is reducing its troop presence in Europe and deploying them to other places. This news comes after the China and India were involved in violent clashes earlier this month in Eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley .   This moment  comes at the time, when there is threats from China to India and countries in Southeast Asia and the challenges in the South China Sea are going to dictate the allocation…

In took a strong four decades after launching the drive for U.S. statehood, Washington, D.C., was poised to take a step toward becoming the 51st state as the House of Representatives on Friday approved its admission.   The initiative passed in the Democratic-controlled House by a vote of 232-180, with no Republicans supporting it. The Republican-controlled Senate is not expected to consider the legislation, and Republican President Donald Trump has publicly opposed the move, noting that statehood would result in electing more Democrats to Congress.   Voters in the city…

In an exclusive interview with India Today TV, renowned columnist and author Gordon G Chang shared his views on the India-China military standoff in eastern Ladakh. “There many explanations but the one that I think is the most persuasive is that China is lashing out from a sense of weakness. “India needs to reinforce its troops along the border but it also needs to hit them (China) where it hurts the most (which is) the economy,” Gordon Chang said about the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.   You got to…

As the fuel prices has increased for the 20th day, petrol crosses Rs 80 a litre mark in Delhi. The opposition party has took as an opportunity to surround the Modi government on this important issue, where the netizens of India has surrounded with the crisis. It is for the first time, diesel prices have gone higher than the petrol price at 79.88 rupees per litre in Delhi.   Petrol and diesel prices in India rose for the twentieth day in a row by making the retail fuel costlier by…

China should focus on fighting the resurgent coronavirus in Beijing rather than “disturbing” Taiwan with military drills near the Chinese-claimed island, Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang told reporters.   China’s air force has buzzed Taiwan at least eight times in the past two weeks, Taiwan’s military says, sending fighters and bombers into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone where they have been warned off by patrolling Taiwanese jets.   “China is very big, and has never given up the use of force to deal with Taiwan. China has always, with such a…