Tag: India

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Trump to delay G7 June summit and invite more countries including Russia, S. Korea, Australia, India

  

  United States President Donald Trump said he will delay the G7 summit scheduled to take place in June and invite other countries -- including Russia - to join the meeting. “I don't feel that as a G7 it properly represents what's going on in the world. It's a very outdated group of countries,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Boeing dumped Embraer but the Brazilian plane maker has suitors from China, Russia and India

  

  Aircraft makers are circling Brazil’s Embraer weeks after Boeing ditched plans for a historic commercial aviation tie-up, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing axed plans to buy 80% of Embraer’s commercial unit in April, ending a planned move into regional jets that mirrored rival Airbus’ purchase in 2018 of a competing model developed by Canada’s Bombardier.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Serious fist and stone incident in India-China border post in disputed area

  

  Several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a high-altitude cross-border clash involving fistfights and stone-throwing at a remote but strategically important mountain pass near Tibet, the Indian Army said on Sunday.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:18 UTC

  Foreigners in India made to write 500 times “I did not follow the rules of lockdown so I am sorry”

  

  Foreigners who broke a coronavirus lockdown in an Indian town made famous by the Beatles, were forced to repent by writing “I am so sorry” - 500 times, officials said on Sunday. The nationwide lockdown was imposed near the end of March, with residents permitted to leave their homes only for essential services such as buying groceries and medicine.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 13:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro thanks Indian PM Modi for allowing export of hydroxychloroquine raw materials

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allowing the export of raw materials to continue production of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug believed effective in the treatment of the novel coronavirus. In his address to the nation on Wednesday, Mr. Bolsonaro said he thanked the Prime Modi and the people of India for “timely help to the people of Brazil”.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  “Corona is no joke”: several countries warn that April Fool's Day pranks will be punished with jail

  

  From Thailand to India, countries have told people not to make April Fools' Day pranks related to COVID-19, with some threatening jail time as they seek to prevent the spread of rumors which could put lives at risk. Tech giant Google, which is famous for its annual spoofs, has canceled the tradition because of the pandemic which has killed about 40,000 people worldwide.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  “Doomsday vault” in Norway adds seeds from India, Mali, Peru and Cherokee Indians

  

  The sealed vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain's Prince Charles.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:38 UTC

  Trump receives a hero's welcome in Gujarat, India, Prime Minister Modi's home state

  

  Emerging in a stadium to the appropriate strains of the Village People's “Macho Man” as 100,000 people cheered on, US President Donald Trump looked like he was at a campaign rally in America's Midwest.

• Monday, January 27th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  India and Brazil sign accords in fifteen different sectors

  

  India and Brazil have signed 15 accords aimed at forging closer ties between the two emerging market giants across a range of sectors, especially defense, both countries’ leaders tweeted on Saturday.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Brazil and India discuss reciprocal trade, poultry, sugar, ethanol

  

  Brazil wants India to cut its import taxes on chicken and chicken products, so it can cash in on India’s burgeoning demand for poultry and poultry products as incomes rise and food habits change.