Topic: India
COVID-19 crisis: Indians forced to change rituals for their dead
Natasha Mikles, Texas State University
In the past several weeks, the world has looked on in horror as the coronavirus rages across India. With hospitals...
COVID in India: the deep-rooted issues behind the current crisis
Vageesh Jain, UCL
India finds itself in the throes of a humanitarian disaster. Until March 2021, case numbers were low in most parts of the...
UN providing equipment and supplies to help India fight rapid COVID-19 surge
The United Nations is supporting India as the country battles a major surge in COVID-19 cases which on Wednesday saw the overall reported death toll top 201,000, according to latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures. Confirmed cases stand at just under 18 million nationwide.
Global military spending grew nearly $2 trillion in 2020 despite pandemic, India third highest spender
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, global military spending rose to nearly $2 trillion in 2020, according to an analysis published Monday by the Stockholm International Peace...
Covid-19 infections surge in Nepal, fueled by mutant strains from India
Authorities in Nepal are grappling to contain the rapid rise of Covid-19 cases with experts fearing that thousands of people in the Himalayan state have caught the more infectious mutant strains emerging out of India.
COVID: US, UK, EU, France, Germany and Pakistan offer essential supplies to help India
The United States of America, United Kingdom, European Union, France, Germany and Pakistan will immediately make essential supplies proavailable to India, facing a Covid-19 surge, the leaders of countries said.
