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Foreign minister S Jaishankar has reacted to the comment of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he never considered Sushma Swaraj as an 'important political player', and slammed the disrespect. Pompeo made this comment on former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj in his book 'Never Give an Inch: ...

Washington, Jan 24 (PTI) Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that he was awakened to speak to his then Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj who told him that Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear attack in the wake of the Balakot surgical strike in February 2019 and ...

After registering a drop on June 22, the number of doses administered improved again on the third day since the government’s revised vaccine policy came into action.While the pace of the vaccination drive has picked up significantly this week, India needs to administer 82 lakh doses daily on an ...

India ought to realistically expect around a 1.3 billion doses of vaccines from August to December and not the 2 billion that the Centre has projected, said epidemiologist, public health expert and author Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya, in an interview to The Hindu.Dr. Lahariya, who was formerly with the World ...

During his interaction over videoconferences was with 46 District Magistrates across eight States on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need to remove vaccine hesitancy and said that the Central government was making every effort that a fortnightly supply schedule for vaccines to various States be provided ...

The Centre on Wednesday despatched three-member multi-disciplinary teams headed by Joint Secretary level officers in the Health Ministry. to Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, following surge on daily new cases in these States. After ...

Four cases of the SARS-CoV-2 variant strain from South Africa and one case of the Brazil variant have been detected in India, the Health Ministry confirmed on February 16, 2021.Stating that India should continue its vigil to contain the COVID virus despite the fall in number of active COVID ...

Wireless Set Recovered from Slain Nagrota Terrorists Points to Pak Handlers, Meds Show Lahore MarkingsA wireless set, medicines made in Pakistan were found in possession of terrorists slain in an encounter in Nagrota on Thursday.  A preliminary assessment of investigators stated that the exchange between the alleged terrorists suggests ...

The United States has revoked the terror tag for the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an Islamic extremist organization that has been blamed by Beijing for attacks in its western region of Xinjiang. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo signed off on the order removing ETIM from the list ...

Reacting to former National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq’s remarks, Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said on October 29 that “there was no pressure on Pakistan at all regarding the release of Wing Commander Abhinandan”.The decision was taken after an October 24 meeting of the high-powered selection panel headed by ...