India Unites 9/9: 1.3 billion lamps to combat coronavirus darkness
Lead us from darkness to light, and from despair to hope! This is a soaring message and prayer from Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorting 1.3 billion Indians to light 1.3 billion lamps/candles to conquer the evil coronavirus. On April 5, Sunday, the world will see a unique spectacle of collective national strength in India that […]
COVID-19: Modi tells CMs to trace Muslim sect members
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed the chief ministers of Indian states to help trace the members of a Muslim sect who gathered in Delhi for their annual meeting, but did not disclose coronavirus symptoms suffered by some of them, leading to a sharp spike in infections across the country.Mr Modi also asked them to […]
In corona shadow, India, China vow stronger ties on 70th diplomatic anniversary
Amid deepening gloom and despair triggered by a rampaging pandemic, India and China, the world’s most populous countries, have held the torch of hope and cooperation aloft by quietly observing the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations with warm greetings and felicitations between their top leadership. The 70th anniversary is a defining milestone in the […]
COVID-19: Modi, Macron call for human-centric globalisation
As the coronavirus pandemic ravages world, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron held telephonic talks and called for enhancing global collaboration to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The two leaders also underscored that the pandemic crisis offers a new opportunity to forge human-centric globalization. PM Modi expressed his condolences to President Macron […]
PM Modi mobilises Indian envoys in war against corona, calls for unity of all Indians
Extraordinary times require extraordinary solutions – with this can-do mantra Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an outreach to the Indian community abroad through the first-ever virtual conference with the Heads of India’s Embassies and High Commissions worldwide on March 30. Alluding to lockdowns and large-scale quarantine resorted to by most countries to mitigate and curb […]
No plan to extend coronavirus lockdown in India beyond April 14
Amid speculation of an extended shutdown in the event of a further deterioration of the coronavirus situation, India’s Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has clarified that there is no such plan. “I am surprised to see such reports. There is no such plan of extending the lockdown,” Mr Gauba said in New Delhi on March 30. […]
Covid-19: Nation-wise aid packages to save citizens and global economy
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe and threatens to devour humanity, the governments around the world have announced aid packages for their citizens to help survive the scourge. According to the World Health Organization, over 500,000 people were infected with across 200 countries while over 20,000 have perished and their numbers are fast rising. […]
COVID-19: G20 pledges $5 trillion, Modi bats for humane globalization
The leaders of the G20 countries – the world’s most powerful economies – joined hands to pledge $5 trillion to mitigate the social economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic during an extraordinary virtual summit on March 26. This was the first virtual summit of the G20 countries which together account for the maximum number of […]
COVID-19: Modi hopes for productive G20 virtual summit
In a move reminiscent of the 2008 global financial crisis, which birthed the G20 grouping, the leaders of the world’s most powerful economies are set to hold a virtual summit on March 26 to forge a collective response to preventing and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had proposed the G0 virtual […]
China rejects stigmatization politics of coronavirus, bats for global solidarity
China has launched a massive diplomatic outreach to counter the “Chinese virus” spin, which has largely emanated from the US. In view of the widening China-India cooperation and against the backdrop of enhancing cooperation in combating COVID-19, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi spoke to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and sought India’s understanding to “oppose […]