India to resume regular international flights from March 27The Indian government had previously planned to resume scheduled international flight operations from December 15 onwards. But this plan wa...
09 Mar, 2022, 03.00 PM IST
India extends ban on regular commercial international passenger flightsThe Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended the ban on regular commercial international passenger flights until further orde...
02 Mar, 2022, 10.19 PM IST
Regular international flights likely to resume in April: ReportsThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in January had extended the suspension on international flights from and to India till Feb...
16 Feb, 2022, 02.06 PM IST
India extends international passenger flight ban till February 28 amid Omicron surgeInternational flights were first suspended in March 2020 after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to tackle the first wave of the Covid-19 p...
20 Jan, 2022, 10.12 AM IST
Pakistan to reduce inbound international flights to contain coronavirus spread: NCOC"In view of prevailing global and regional disease trends, Pakistan has decided to reduce inbound international travel from May 5 to May 20...
01 May, 2021, 04.33 PM IST
Pakistan bans travel from 12 countries amid spike in coronavirus casesThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) notified a fresh list of countries categorised into A, B and C after emergence of South African and Braz...
21 Mar, 2021, 12.25 PM IST
Over 200 million vaccine doses administered globallyIn total 201,042,149 doses had been given worldwide by 1000 GMT -- a figure that does not include the latest data from China and Russia, wh...
20 Feb, 2021, 05.35 PM IST
South Africa launches COVID-19 vaccination programme with Johnson & Johnson shotsAuthorities in South Africa have recorded almost half of the COVID-19 deaths in all of Africa and over a third of confirmed infections on t...
17 Feb, 2021, 06.44 PM IST
Britain bans direct flights from UAE, shutting world's busiest international routeBritain said it was adding the United Arab Emirates, Burundi and Rwanda to its coronavirus travel ban list because of worries over the spre...
29 Jan, 2021, 01.26 PM IST
Over 580,000 surgeries in India may be cancelled due to COVID-19: StudyThe CovidSurg Collaborative, a 120-country research initiative formed to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on surgeries, has projected that, b...
15 May, 2020, 04.53 PM IST
COVID-19: 'None of us is safe until all': UN chief; Nations pledge USD 8 bn for medicine researchUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' remarks came as the world leaders on Monday pledged 7.4 billion euros (approximately USD 8.2 billion...
05 May, 2020, 11.59 AM IST
Coronavirus crisis threatens to cut off clean electricity lifeline for poorThe nascent industry fears being starved of new capital as investors shun risk amid an expected recession - a crunch that could force weak ...
20 Apr, 2020, 12.58 PM IST
Saudi king to chair G20 video summit on coronavirus on March 26Saudi Arabia's King Salman will chair an emergency virtual summit of G20 leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday to ad...
25 Mar, 2020, 01.57 PM IST
Africa’s rare mountain gorillas also at virus riskAs the coronavirus infects more people around the world, Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to about a third of the world’s mountain goril...
25 Mar, 2020, 10.00 AM IST
Covid Red: Indian cases 1.7 times more in IranOf the 276 infected Indians overseas, 255 are in Iran, 12 in UAE, five in Italy, and one each in Hong Kong, Kuwait, Rwanda and Sri Lanka, M...
18 Mar, 2020, 11.37 PM IST
Rwanda's first coronavirus patient is an Indian"The patient had no symptoms upon arrival in Rwanda and reported himself to a health facility on March 13, where he was immediately tested,...
16 Mar, 2020, 01.41 PM IST
India declares Covid-19 a ‘Notified Disaster’Apple CEO Tim Cook said the tech giant’s retail operation outside China was going online for two weeks to fight the global viral pandemic. ...
14 Mar, 2020, 10.55 PM IST