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59% people say won't rush for coronavirus vaccine: LocalCircles survey

The survey received more than 25,000 responses from citizens across 262 districts of India

Terrorism new way of waging war, threatens to do what World Wars did: India

Terrorism has emerged as one of the means of waging war in the contemporary world and it threatens to engulf the planet in a carnage similar to the one witnessed during the two World Wars, India said

Northern Railway cancels few trains due to ongoing farmers' protest

Due to agitation being conducted by farmers of Punjab over new agri laws, some trains run by Northern Railway have been cancelled

The dissent of man

Book review of Voices of Dissent

Russia agrees to produce coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in India

Russia's sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year in India of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19

India had over 74 mn Covid infections by Aug: ICMR's 2nd serosurvey

Seroconversion was also documented among individuals without a history of known contact with a COVID-19 case, and among those without any prior SARS-CoV-2 testing

India 4th major host of greenfield FDI projects during 2004-2015: Report

India was the fourth major host of greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) projects and eight major host of cross-border M&A deals between 2004 to 2015, according to a research paper released on Wednesday. The paper, titled 'Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and Pacific', pointed out that India received 8,004 greenfield FDI projects and 4,918 counts of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals between 2004-2015. According to the paper, posted on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) website, the US received the most greenfield FDI projects between 2004 to 2015, followed by China and the UK. "With 13,308 counts, the US is the largest recipient of greenfield investment accounting for almost 10 per cent of the total counts. Among the developing countries, the PRC, India, the Russian Federation, Brazil, Mexico, Viet Nam, Romania, Thailand, and Malaysia are major recipients of greenfield investment," it said. The paper said while the People's Republic of China (PRC) has already ...

India on course to exceed 2015 Paris agreement targets, says report

India is the third largest emitter of CO2/ NOx and is home to nine of the 10 most polluted cities globally

India, RCEP and economic theory

As things stand, the RCEP is dead in the water without India and can not last as an effective trading bloc

India's Covid-19 count crosses 9.1 million mark with 44,059 new cases

With 511 more persons succumbing to the virus, the toll has mounted to 1,33,738, according to Health Ministry

Serum Institute to focus on supplying Oxford Covid vaccine to India first

Poonawalla said the company will be able to produce 400 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine by July 2021 and scale up further from there

India expected to export smartphones worth over $1.5 bn in 2020: techARC

The techARC report said a total of 12.8 million mobile phones were exported from India between January and September this year. Of this, 10.9 million were smartphones

India to host G20 summit in 2023 instead of 2022

India will now host the Group of 20 Summit in 2023, a year later than what was decided earlier, the grouping leaders announced on Sunday.

G20 Summit: India is exceeding Paris Agreement targets, says PM Modi

India is not only meeting its Paris Agreement targets but has also been exceeding them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the G20 summit held virtually

India to launch deep sea mission in 3-4 months for exploration of minerals

India will soon launch an ambitious 'Deep Ocean Mission' that envisages exploration of minerals, energy and marine diversity of the underwater world, a vast part of which still remains unexplored

Indo-Pak wars' veteran retired Major General RN Chibber passes away

Major Gen (retd) RN Chibber, who had participated in 1962, 1965 and 1971 wars, died at his residence, a defence spokesman said

Questionable testing may be the reason India's Covid-19 numbers are down

Rather than showing India is gaining control over Covid-19, the slowing momentum may largely reflect spotty testing levels and a heavy reliance on questionable kits

US may impose tariffs on India, Italy for taxing internet firms like Google

The US will soon issue results of probes into Austria, Italy and India's decisions to tax local revenue of Internet companies such as Facebook Inc., which could pave the way for retaliatory tariffs

Covid-19 vaccine should be available for public by April 2021: Serum CEO

Probably by 2024, every Indian will get vaccinated, he said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit

China sees rising India as 'rival'; wants to curb its ties with US: Report

China perceives a rising India as a "rival" and wants to constrain its strategic partnership with the US, its allies, and with other democracies, the State Department said in a report