By Administrator_India Capital Sands Two days after the Yellow Line resumed operations, Delhi Metro’s Blue Line and Pink Line are hitting the tracks from today (September 9) as part of the first stage of graded resumption of metro services. Blue Line from Dwarka Sec -21 to Electronic City/Vaishali (65.35 km and 58 stations) and Pink Line from […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands US State Department on Monday condoled the death of former President Pranab Mukherjee, saying that he will be forever remembered in the annals of Indian history. “Our heartfelt condolences on the passing of former President Pranab Mukherjee. We stand with the people of India as they grieve the loss of a […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Embassy of Poland and Polish Institute in New Delhi illuminated the Qutub Minar in Poland’s national colors to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Solidarity movement on Sunday (August 30). Solidarity movement is an anti-bureaucratic social movement based on Gandhian principles of non-violence that fought for civil rights […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in two of India’s poorest states have displaced or affected 8 million people and killed 111 since May, authorities said on Tuesday, at a time when coronavirus cases have swelled there. The Brahmaputra river in the northeastern state of Assam is flowing above the “danger […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Suspected militants shot dead a local leader of India’s ruling BJP in the restive territory of Kashmir on Wednesday, police said, an attack that could increase tensions in the region. The militants fired at Waseem Bari, a former district chief of the BJP, and his father and brother while they were […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Airlines in India will need to keep the middle seat empty if passenger load factors and seat capacity allow for it, the aviation regulator said in a notice to domestic and international carriers. The regulator did not elaborate on what load factors or seat capacity would require the middle seats to […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India announced a limited re-opening of its giant rail network beginning on Tuesday after a nearly seven-week lockdown, despite also reporting its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced increasing calls to end his government’s stringent lockdown of the nation’s 1.3 billion population, with political parties, […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands India has shipped 50 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine to the United States, an Indian source with direct knowledge of the exports said, although U.S. regulators warned the anti-malarial drug may have harmful side effects in the treatment of COVID-19. The trade, India’s biggest export of the drug to any country, follows […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Serum Institute of India said on Tuesday it plans this year to produce up to 60 million doses of a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus that is under clinical trial in Britain. Serum, the world’s largest maker of vaccines by volume, is mass-producing the vaccine candidate developed by the […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Indian medical device makers, racing to churn out ventilators as domestic COVID-19 cases spike, have been beset by supply bottlenecks, cost overruns and labour shortages that are delaying their efforts to produce an affordable device. Ventilators help patients breathe and are seen as critical given severe COVID-19 can lead to pneumonia […]