Author: Uma B V

BEIJING, Dec 1 – According to state media, Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan called for additional improvements to COVID-19 prevention. Controlling measures, urging “objective functions” of diagnostics, treatment, and quarantine policies as the virus lose pathogenicity. Her comments come as cities throughout China refine 20 new measures that the government released almost three weeks ago to combat outbreaks in a more targeted manner. On Wednesday, she said, the pathogenicity of the Omicron virus weakens, more people are immunized, and experience in containing the virus accumulates. China faces new challenges and situations concerning the pandemic and virus that the country must…

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022 Live Updates: On Thursday, voting for the first round of the Gujarat Assembly elections began at 8 am. 788 candidates were vying for the 89 seats that are up for grabs across 19 districts. 14,382 polling places will be open to casting votes until 5 p.m., according to the state’s chief electoral officer’s office. BJP leader JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will all campaign for the saffron party on Thursday for the second round of voting. Amit Shah is to hold a roadshow in Sanand at 11.30 AM, and PM…

SEOUL, Nov 29 – President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea urged China to assist in preventing North Korea from continuing its prohibited development of nuclear weapons and missiles and warned of an unprecedented joint response with allies if the North conducts a nuclear test. Yoon urged China, North Korea’s closest ally, to uphold its obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council in an extensive interview with Reuters on Monday. He claimed that failing to do so would result in an influx of military resources into the area. Yoon said in his office, “What is certain is that…

BEIJING, Nov 28 – The Shenzhou-15 spacecraft will launch at the Chinese space station on November 29 at 11:08 p.m. (1508 GMT) The China Manned Space Agency announced on Monday. This is the last mission in China’s plan to complete the crewed orbital outpost. Three male astronauts, Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu, will be aboard, the agency announced at a press conference. In a week, the space station will be delivered to them by the three astronauts who arrived in early June. The Shenzhou-15 crew will welcome the Tianzhou-6 cargo ship during their stay, hand over the Shenzhou-16…

SHANGHAI, Nov 25, – China reported another record-high daily COVID-19 infection rate on Friday, Cities across the nation enacted laws and restrictions to stop outbreaks. The new local COVID-19 infections on Thursday surpassed the previous record for the second day in a row, which was set in the middle of April when Shanghai’s commercial center was crippled by a two-month-long citywide lockdown affecting its 25 million residents. China reported 32,695 new local cases on Thursday, up from 31,444 the previous day, of which 3,041 were symptomatic and 29,654 were asymptomatic, excluding imported infections. Large-scale outbreaks are numerous and dispersed, with…

India, Nov 24- The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was repealed in some areas of Nagaland, Assam, and Manipur earlier this year Centre has asked the police forces of the affected states to assess their readiness to handle security challenges and take the lead in counterinsurgency operations moving forward. At a special conference of DGPs of these states and regional heads of 12 central agencies, it was explained that special units of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are being set up in the Northeast to train police personnel in…

Washington, Nov 23- The United States Supreme Court granted permission for the publication of Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House of Representatives committee on Tuesday, dealing a setback to the Republican former president who had accused the Democratic-led body of being politically motivated. The Supreme Court dismissed Trump’s Oct. 31 emergency appeal to stay a lower court’s order upholding the Ways and Means Committee’s request for his tax returns as a legitimate element of the panel’s legislative activity. There was no public protest from the ruling. The committee, which has demanded Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020, will…

Belagavi(Belgaum) Border Dispute Bengaluru, NOV 23 – Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has stated that his government has completed all necessary arrangements to take the state’s border issue with Maharashtra to the Supreme Court. The news comes after Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde administration selected ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai to work with a legal team on the court case. Mr. Bommai told reporters on Monday that the state has assembled a team of senior lawyers to contest the issue in the Supreme Court when heard. Mr. Bommai said the lawyers’ team includes former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, Shyam Diwan, former Karnataka…

Gujrat, Nov 22- PM Narendra Modi unleashed a major offensive on the Congress for calling him names and promising to show him his “aukat” (status or position) instead of focusing on development concerns in Gujarat, where Assembly elections are scheduled for early next month. Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a direct attack Speaking at a public gathering in Surendranagar, where people will vote in the first of two phases on December 1, the Prime Minister urged voters to “punish” the “Narmada demonstrators” by supporting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra. In response to Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry’s…

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 20,4:32 Am – Nations concluded this year’s United Nations climate conference on Sunday with a hard-fought agreement to establish a fund to assist third-world countries hit by climate disasters, even as many criticized its lack of ambition in addressing the emissions that cause them. The agreement was praised as an achievement for reacting to the already terrible consequences of global warming on backward nations. However, several countries claimed they felt forced to abandon harsher promises to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius for the agreement on the loss and damage fund to be implemented. COP27…