By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian troops killed a suspected militant during a gunbattle in the federally-controlled Jammu and Kashmir region on Tuesday, two officials said, as violence escalated in the territory at the heart of the decades of tensions with Pakistan. Fighting between Indian security forces and militants broke out in the …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is struggling to export its surplus of COVID-19 vaccines as logistical hurdles delay their use in many countries despite low levels of inoculation, vaccine producer the Serum Institute of India (SII) and a government official said on Tuesday. The SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker that …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Serum Institute of India (SII) plans to launch the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for children in the country in six months, its CEO said on Tuesday, adding global vaccine supplies were outstripping the absorption capacity of many countries. The Novavax shot, which the world’s largest producer of vaccines calls Covovax, has shown …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) -Two police personnel were killed and at least 14 others injured when militants attacked their bus on Monday on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, police said, hours after police shot dead two militants at a nearby checkpoint. Kashmir police said on Twitter that militants opened fire …
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By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – India’s western state of Gujarat has acknowledged more COVID-19 deaths than its official tally, according to a court document filed on Monday, lending weight to fears that the country’s actual toll was much higher than reported. Reuters and other media have reported, based on figures collected from crematoriums …
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(Reuters) – India batsman Rohit Sharma has been ruled out of the three-test series against South Africa due to a hamstring injury and will be replaced by Priyank Panchal, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday. Rohit, who replaced Virat Kohli as India’s white-ball skipper last week, picked up the injury to his left …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s targets to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and increase its share of renewables in the energy mix were “very ambitious yet very much achievable”, environment secretary, Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, said on Monday. Separately, Britain’s president of the COP26 climate conference, Alok Sharma, said he urged companies in India and in other …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India reported its lowest tally of active COVID-19 cases in 18 months on Monday, but a sharp drop in the use of protective face masks is causing concern after a rise in the number of infections with the Omicron variant. Many people have been standing or sitting close to each other …
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(Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter handle was “very briefly compromised,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a tweet early on Sunday. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the Prime Minister’s personal twitter handle @narendramodi was immediately secured, PMO India’s tweet said, adding any tweet shared during the brief period …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India has detected 25 cases of the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said on Friday, adding that there was no immediate plan to authorise vaccine boosters. Vaccine supplies have surged in India in recent months thanks to the Serum Institute of India …
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