News Articles on {?keyword?} | ABS-CBN News

Gandhi's glasses go on sale in UK

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 11 08:39 AM

LONDON - A "rare and important" pair of iconic glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi look set to sell for tens of thousands of pounds after a British auction house put them up for sale on Monday. Read more »

Air India Express jet crashes on landing

Arunchandra Bose, AFP
Posted at Aug 08 01:00 PM

Security personnel stand in front of the wreckage from an Air India Express jet, which was carrying more than 190 passengers and crew from Dubai, after it crashed at Calicut International Airport in Karipur, Kerala, early on Saturday. Read more »

Indian serum institute to make 100 million virus vaccine doses

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 08 03:53 AM

Up to 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses could be made available for poorer countries by 2021 under a deal struck Friday for production at the Serum Institute of India.   Read more »

At least 16 dead as India airliner crashes on landing

Aishwarya Kumar and Bhuvan Bagga, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 08 02:38 AM

At least 16 people were killed Friday when a passenger jet overshot and skidded off the runway as it landed in southern India, breaking into two pieces, officials said. Read more »

India coronavirus cases pass 2 million

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 07 01:19 PM

India's official coronavirus case tally passed 2 million on Friday after a daily jump of more than 60,000.  Read more »

World tiger population grows but SE Asia threats 'critical': WWF

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 30 05:08 AM

Tiger populations in five countries are making a comeback but the endangered species still faces major threats such as poaching, conservation group WWF and the Indian government said. Read more »

India virus cases hit 1.5 million, but slum study casts doubt on official data

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 29 05:47 PM

Many experts have said India is not testing enough people and that many coronavirus-linked deaths are not being recorded as such. Read more »

Half of Mumbai's slum residents have had coronavirus: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 29 06:01 AM

Over half the people living in the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a city-commissioned study released Tuesday that raises fresh doubts about India's official case numbers.   Read more »

Public losing faith in gov'ts, says survey, as virus cases surge

Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Jul 28 06:01 PM

Paris, France - A survey released Saturday showed governments are fast losing support for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as health officials recorded a surge of more than 280,000 new cases globally two days in a row. Read more »

Almost a quarter of Delhi has had coronavirus: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 24 03:36 AM

Almost a quarter of people in New Delhi have had the coronavirus, according to a study that cast serious doubt on the official numbers both in the megacity and across India. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 23, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 23 11:54 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Protesting Chinese Communist Party’s founding anniversary

Ashwini Bhatia, AP
Posted at Jul 23 10:20 PM

A model head in the likeness of Chinese President Xi Jinping is hung upside down from a building by Tibetan activists during a protest in India on Thursday. Read more »

US calls on India to reduce dependence on China

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 23 04:22 AM

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called on India to tamp down its dependence on Chinese goods, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing. Read more »

TikTok gave rural Indian women fame, fun and more

Aishwarya Kumar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 22 02:31 PM

TikTok is also reportedly under greater scrutiny elsewhere including in the United States and Australia. Read more »

India rounds up critics under cover of virus crisis, activists say

Sameer Yasir and Kai Schultz, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 20 07:35 AM

As India struggles to quell surging coronavirus infections, lawyers accuse authorities of seizing on the pandemic as an opportunity to round up critics of the government who are protesting what they see as iron-fisted and anti-minority policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more »

India passes 1 million virus cases as global crisis worsens

Abhaya Srivastava with AFP bureaus, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 17 04:34 PM

India on Friday became the third country in the world to record one million coronavirus cases, following Brazil and the United States where infections also continued to surge. Read more »

India, US, Brazil, S.Africa: Virus spikes hit big countries hardest

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 17 03:47 AM

India, the United States, Brazil and South Africa are currently experiencing the highest spikes in COVID-19 cases seen since the start of the month. Read more »

New lockdowns ordered as India virus cases near 1 million

Mohammed Imran Khan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 04:37 PM

One of India's most impoverished states went into lockdown Thursday, but near-normal traffic on Patna's streets showed the difficulty of corralling over 125 million people.   Read more »

US calls China the new East India Company at sea

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 15 06:50 AM

In the latest rift between the United States and China, Pompeo on Monday sided with the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations in rejecting China's vast claims in the South China Sea. Read more »

Google to invest $10 billion in India

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 13 10:02 PM

Google said Monday it will invest $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years as it battles rivals like Facebook and Amazon in the vast market of 1.3 billion consumers.   Read more »