South Asia
India’s pace of daily COVID-19 infections slows as more vaccines awaited
India reported a smaller rise in daily coronavirus infections for a third straight day on Sunday, as the government said it was ...Bomb kills at least 40 near girls’ school in Afghan capital
Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly ...Former Maldives president treated for wounds after blast outside home
The speaker of parliament in Maldives, former President Mohamed Nasheed, was being treated for shrapnel wounds and in stable condition after a ...India’s ruling BJP party loses key race in regional elections amid COVID-19 maelstrom
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party suffered a setback Sunday when it lost a fiercely contested state poll. Over the past ...India begins widespread COVID-19 vaccination to all adults
India’s devastating Covid-19 surge further accelerated on Saturday with more than 400,000 new cases in 24 hours, as vaccinations opened to all ...India’s oxygen crisis to ease by mid-May, output to jump 25%
India’s severe medical oxygen supply crisis is expected to ease by mid-May, a top industry executive told Reuters, with output rising by ...Indians rush for vaccines as coronavirus toll tops 200,000
Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin at the weekend as the country’s toll from the ...India to receive first batch of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine on May 1
India will receive a first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 on May 1, the head of the Russian Direct ...US, Britain rush supplies to virus-stricken India
The US and Britain rushed ventilators and vaccine materials to India Monday as the country battles a catastrophic, record-breaking coronavirus wave that ...India hospital fire kills 13 amid Covid oxygen crisis
A fire broke out in a hospital in western India early Friday, killing 13 COVID-19 patients, as an extreme surge in infections ...













