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Modi takes home-grown vaccine as India widens immunization drive

Reuters
Updated as of Mar 01 01:56 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inoculated with the first dose of a home-grown coronavirus vaccine on Monday, kicking off an expansion of the country's immunization campaign that began in mid-January with healthcare workers.   Read more »

Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort

Devjyot Ghoshal and Adnan Abidi, Reuters
Posted at Jan 26 09:11 PM

Growers, angered by laws they say help large, private buyers at the expense of producers, have camped outside New Delhi for almost two months, posing one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he came to power in 2014.   Read more »

5 dead in India vaccine plant fire; COVID drug unaffected

Ammu Kannampilly, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 23 04:38 AM

MUMBAI - Five people died as a fire tore through a building in the world's biggest vaccine manufacturing hub in India Thursday, but the company insisted the production of drugs to counter the coronavirus pandemic would continue. Read more »

India records 44,489 new coronavirus cases

Reuters
Posted at Nov 26 12:27 PM

MUMBAI - India recorded 44,489 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Thursday, the 19th straight day that single-day cases have stayed below the 50,000 mark. Read more »

After a long ride, Harley-Davidson is leaving India

Karan Deep Singh, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 13 08:48 AM

Harley-Davidson, the proudly American company, is giving up on India because of weak sales, after more than a decade of pursuing a huge but ultimately frustrating place to do business. Read more »

'Rural surge' propels India toward more COVID-19 infections than US

Karan Deep Singh and Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 09 07:33 AM

Defiance of coronavirus rules is being reflected across rural India, and it is propelling this nation’s virus caseload toward the No. 1 spot globally. Infections are rippling into every corner of this country of 1.3 billion people. The Indian news media is calling it “The Rural Surge.” Read more »

Indian PM Modi's Twitter account hacked

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 03 11:44 AM

The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hacked, the social media giant confirmed Thursday.   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's Modi makes surprise China border visit after clash

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 03 03:41 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to India's northern frontier region with China on Friday in his first trip to the area since a deadly border clash last month. Read more »

India, China accuse each other of violating de facto border

Reuters
Posted at Jun 20 11:37 PM

India blamed the Chinese side for seeking to erect structures "just across the Line of Actual Control," as the demarcation is known, and refusing India's request to stop. Read more »

India's Modi promotes yoga against coronavirus

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 19 01:55 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extolled yoga as a way of building a "protective shield" of immunity against the coronavirus, as his nation battles a surge in infections.   Read more »

Indian families demand justice as they await bodies of soldiers killed in clash with China

Rupam Jain, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 04:57 PM

Indian soldiers who survived the clash said the Chinese used bamboo sticks studded with nails during the confrontation in sub-zero temperatures in the high altitude terrain, while the Indians used stones and sticks. Under an agreement forged in the 1990s, the two armies carry but do not use arms near the border. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 17, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 18 12:16 AM

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

Indian activists protest against China

Diptendu Dutta, AFP
Posted at Jun 17 07:37 PM

Activists of Siliguri Youth Congress burn posters and effigy of Chinese President Xi Jinping during an anti-China protest in Siliguri on Wednesday. Read more »

India's Modi assures Duterte of medicines, COVID-19 pharmaceutical products

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 10 06:49 PM

Modi gave his word during a 25-minute phone call Tuesday with Duterte initiated by India, Malacañang said in an official statement. Read more »

India, China seek to 'peacefully resolve' border face-off

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 08 08:36 AM

India and China have agreed to "peacefully resolve" a latest border flare-up that has heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, New Delhi said Sunday, after a high-level meeting between army commanders.   Read more »

Gas leak at LG Polymers plant in India kills nine, hundreds hospitalized

Sudarshan Varadhan, Reuters
Posted at May 07 01:28 PM

CHENNAI - A chemical gas leak at an LG Polymers plant in southern India on Thursday killed at least 9 people, and emergency services rushed more than 300 to hospital and evacuated hundreds more from nearby areas, a police official in Andhra Pradesh state said. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 14, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 15 12:20 AM

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

Airborne sanitation

Prakash Singh, AFP
Posted at Apr 14 07:22 PM

A drone sprays disinfectant chemicals to sanitize an area during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as preventive measure against COVID-19 in New Delhi, India on Tuesday. Read more »

India warms to e-commerce as delivery workers emerge as frontliners

Sankalp Phartiyal, Reuters
Posted at Apr 09 08:55 AM

NEW DELHI - Three days after India imposed a nationwide lockdown, Devender Singh revved up his motorcycle to deliver meat and eggs to customers - but his heart was in his mouth as he closed in on a police barricade on a deserted New Delhi road. Read more »