India

Free speech concerns raised after Disha Ravi, 22, is arrested for sharing online ‘toolkit’ with information on the farmers’ protest. The arrest of a 22-year-old Indian climate activist accused of sharing an online “toolkit” of information... Read more... February 15, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

India’s defence minister announces breakthrough in Parliament after months-long standoff on the disputed border in Ladakh region. India and China have agreed to disengage troops from a bitterly contested lake area in the western Himalayas, the... Read more... February 11, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

For decades, the two countries have been fighting over the largely uninhabited region, including a brief war in 1962. China’s defence ministry has said that Chinese and Indian front-line troops at the border of the two... Read more... February 11, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Doses will initially be administered to the country’s health workers and elderly citizens with a history of chronic ailments. Afghanistan has received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from India, the first vaccines it has received... Read more... February 8, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

Police say the small blast was caused by a ‘very low-intensity improvised device’ and resulted in no injuries. A “very low intensity” device has exploded near the Israeli embassy in the Indian capital, but there were... Read more... January 30, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

February 1 protest when government presents the annual budget postponed following clashes that left one dead and hundreds injured. Indian farmers on Wednesday called off a march to parliament on February 1, the day of the... Read more... January 28, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The 23-member crew of Indian vessel Jag Anand arrives in Tokyo from where they will fly to India after clearing COVID procedures. A group of Indian sailors stranded off the Chinese coast for seven months, caught... Read more... January 19, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech ran into controversy after the Indian government allowed its use without concrete data. India’s homegrown coronavirus vaccine developer Bharat Biotech has warned people with weak immunity and other medical conditions... Read more... January 19, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments

The consignments of relief materials from India for the cyclone-affected people reached Fiji on January 2, 2021 and January 6th respectively. Fiji was hit by a Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasa on December 17-18, 2020, which... Read more... January 7, 2021 | By The Rising Europe | No Comments