Europe strikes back: Sweden, Norway, and Netherlands seek refunds for unused USAID funds, demands transparency as Trump administration faces questions on spendingSweden, Norway, and the Netherlands are demanding refunds of millions of dollars contributed to the USAID's Water and Energy for Food proje...
24 Mar, 2025, 10.46 PM IST
Trump dismisses African nation as 'never been heard of', gets a fiery response as he's told to 'speak for himself'Donald Trump's speech to Congress included a remark mocking Lesotho, leading to backlash and disappointment from the country's Foreign Mini...
06 Mar, 2025, 12.18 PM IST
Emergency fundraisers offer a lifeline to groups who've lost foreign aidNonprofits are fundraising to help organizations affected by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid. Unlock Aid launched the Fore...
26 Feb, 2025, 09.03 PM IST
Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in Pakistan's hottest cityJacobabad, Pakistan, faces severe water scarcity due to US President Donald Trump's aid freeze, which blocked crucial funds for a USAID-bac...
21 Feb, 2025, 08.19 AM IST
Trump order set to halt supply of HIV, malaria drugs to poor countries, sources sayThe Trump administration has halted the supply of essential drugs for HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis through USAID, along with other medica...
28 Jan, 2025, 06.42 PM IST
Why Africa is still waiting for mpox vaccines amid global health concernsAfrica was expected to receive its first 10,000 mpox vaccines, highlighting a slow global response compared to other regions. The WHO began...
24 Aug, 2024, 05.17 PM IST
US VP Kamala Harris offers Vietnam support to counter Beijing in the South China SeaThe American vice president is on a seven-day trip to Singapore and Vietnam, as part of a broader strategy to gain allies against Beijing's...
25 Aug, 2021, 12.25 PM IST
Global supply of COVAX hit due to coronavirus crisis in India, USAID tells lawmakers"COVAX has suffered a big blow given the scale of the pandemic in India," Samantha Power, Administrator of the US Agency for International ...
28 May, 2021, 09.19 AM IST
US govt doing everything it can to help India fight COVID-19, says officialIn the last one week, six air shipments of vital assistance have landed in India, which is battling the second wave of the coronavirus pand...
08 May, 2021, 08.28 AM IST
COVID-19: India receives second shipment of medical supplies from USEarlier in the day, the United States delivered its first consignment of medical supplies including oxygen cylinders, Rapid Diagnostic Test...
30 Apr, 2021, 07.24 PM IST
India receives more medical supplies from international community"Two urgent flights operated by the Russian EMERCOM arrived today which brought a cargo with a total weight of 20 tonnes. These are oxygen ...
29 Apr, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
US ventilators to India grant via Red Cross on non-payment basisThe US will donate ventilators to India, as announced by President Donald Trump, through the Indian Red Cross Society as a grant, contrary ...
20 May, 2020, 09.30 AM IST
Civil society organisations urge Nadda to discontinue receiving donations from Johnson & JohnsonRecently, Johnson & Johnson had announced to provide an additional 10,000 courses of tuberculosis drug bedaquiline (BDQ) to the Indian gove...
30 Apr, 2019, 02.31 PM IST
Indo-American Rajiv Shah to be named Rockefeller Foundation PresidentRajiv J Shah will be the youngest person and the first Indian-American to lead the foundation, one of America's largest and most influentia...
05 Jan, 2017, 12.18 PM IST
Ranbaxy dragged into GOP’s fight with Hillary ClintonA divisive campaign has seen the Trump camp making allegations of corruption, thus far unfounded, against Bill and Hillary Clinton.
22 Sep, 2016, 01.29 AM IST
US to provide $27 million food assistance to PakistanUSAID Pakistan Mission Director Greg Gottlieb said that the additional funding supplements the $34 million that the US already provided in ...
20 May, 2015, 10.08 PM IST
- North Korea welcomes resumption of US food aid
North Korea welcomed Saturday a US decision to provide the impoverished country with food aid, saying the move will help promote "understan...
17 May, 2008, 11.38 AM IST