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29 Dec

After “Spying” Row, Chinese Lady In Bihar To Be Deported Over Visa Rules

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPoliticalChina, INDIA

A woman from China has been detained by police in Bihar's Gaya and will be send back due to visa violations. Earlier, the cops had a doubt on her of spying on Dalai Lama, who is lined up to participate at several ceremony in Bihar this week. Strengthening security, police had publicized sketches of the suspected Chinese 'spy' earlier today on social media platforms requesting residents to provide information about her. The lady was later identified as Song Xiaolan. According to reports, the Chinese woman had been residing in different parts of the country including Bodh Gaya since more than…

24 Dec

RT-PCR test compulsory for passengers from China, 4 more countries as global Covid cases spike

Business Correspondent0 CommentsCovid-19, Health, IndiaChina

The govt on Saturday said that RT-PCR tests will be compulsory for foreign people coming from Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, China and Japan as Covid cases has established a peak worldwide. The notice comes after the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya conducted a meeting with state ministers to evaluate the present Covid condition and ensure that the country is all set to check the spread of the virus. On the other hand, on Saturday, India reported 201 new coronavirus cases, increasing the tally to 4.46 crore, while the active cases rose to 3,397, the health ministry told.

18 Oct

New sub-variant of Omicron detected in India

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsCovid-19, Health, IndiaChina, Covid-19, Health, INDIA, Omicron

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) is expected to issue a bulletin on the new sub-variants BA.5.1.7 and BF.7 of Omicron reported in India.Sources said, "this is just a signal to be alert and watch the whole scenario, BF.7 was reported in Gujarat a few days ago,". For the uninitiated, BF.7 has been reported in Gujarat which has been confirmed by the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre. BF.7 known as 'Omicron spawn' was first detected in China and has now reached the US, UK, Australia and Belgium. The sub-variant first originated in a region of Mongolia in China and is…

30 Apr

Over 5,500 crores of Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi captured by ED over forex violations

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized Rs 5,551.27 crore from smartphone giant Xiaomi India under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999. Xiaomi India is a wholly owned subsidiary of the China-based Xiaomi Group The ED had started a probe into illegal remittances made through business establishments in February this year. According to the Enforcement Directorate, Xiaomi started its operations in India in 2014 and started sending cash from 2015. “The business venture remitted foreign exchange amounting to Rs 5,551.27 crore to three foreign-based entities comprising a Xiaomi group entity under the guise of royalty. Such huge…

26 Apr

3 Chinese Among 4 Died In Blast Inside Pak’s Karachi University

editor0 CommentsInternationalblast, China, PAKISTAN

Four people, together with three Chinese nationals, had been killed and several others injured in an explosion in a van near the Confucius Institute at Pakistan's Karachi University on Tuesday, reports said. The attack used to be carried out through a girl suicide bomber, according to information enterprise AFP. According to DawnNewsTV, a Pakistani separatist team has claimed the responsibility for the attack. Police and rescue offerings are on their way to the website online of the incident. Television pictures showed a white van in flames with plumes of smoke rising from its remains. Local media reviews said that the…

25 Apr

India Suspends Tourist Visas For Chinese Citizens As Payback

editor0 CommentsInternationalChina, VISA

India has suspended tourist visas issued to Chinese nationals, global airways physique International Air Transport Association (IATA) has advised its member carriers.The pass appeared to be a response to Beijing stonewalling India’s appeals about approximately 22,000 Indian college students enrolled in Chinese universities who are unable to go lower back for physical classes. The neighbouring united states of america has till date refused to let them enter. These college students had to leave their studies in China and come to India when the COVID-19 pandemic commenced in the commencing of 2020. In a round issued on April 20 concerning India,…

29 Mar

Indian power project replaces Chinese venture in Sri Lanka’s northern islands

editor0 CommentsInternationalChina, INDIA, sri lanka

India will set up hybrid power ventures on three islands near Jaffna, effectively replacing the Chinese task cleared using Colombo closing year. New Delhi has long been concerned about China's growing influence in the region. A $12 million project to build wind turbines on three small islands in the Palak Strait between southern India and Sri Lanka was awarded in 2019 to a Chinese company with funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). But work never got off the ground after Indian protests over the Chinese effort closed off its coast, and work on the islands of Nainativu, Analativu and…

21 Mar

China reports 1,947 new local COVID-19 cases

suparna0 CommentsCovid-19China, Covid-19

China reported 1,947 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Monday. Of the new local infections, 1,542 were reported in Jilin, 154 in Fujian, 51 in Hebei, 38 in Guangdong, 35 in Liaoning, 27 in Heilongjiang, 24 in Shanghai, 18 in Tianjin, 14 in Shaanxi, 13 in Shandong, 10 in Hunan, Xinhua reported. For other provincial-level regions, Gansu reported six cases, Beijing and Yunnan each reported four, Inner Mongolia and Zhejiang each reported two, and Jiangxi, Henan and Chongqing each reported one, as per Xinhua. Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that Beijing will stick to its…

19 Mar

China to stick with ‘dynamic zero-COVID’ policy as increase in Omicron cases

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China on Friday ruled out relaxing its much-criticised "dynamic zero-COVID" policy of restricting international travel and minimising contacts with the outside world, as it battles sporadic spikes of fresh coronavirus cases with prolonged lockdowns of cities. China will adhere to its "dynamic zero-COVID" coverage to incorporate its modern outbreak, Wang Hesheng, vice-minister of the National Health Commission and administrator of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration told the media, as the country mobilised health officers to incorporate spikes of coronavirus instances in a number of cities. The aim of the 'Zero case policy' approach is to bring the epidemic…

16 Mar

After China, South Korea faces surge in Covid Cases due to Omicron

editor0 CommentsCovid-19, InternationalChina

After China, South Korea is now dealing with its worst Covid-19 outbreak as the usa hit every other milestone, recording over 4,00,000 infection instances on Wednesday. According to the kingdom media, South Korea pronounced 4,00,741 new daily Covid-19 cases, the highest considering that the u . s . said its first Covid-19 case in January last year. Most of these cases have been stated to be locally transmitted. With increased in cases, South Korea's basic caseload has now surged to 7,629,275, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) used to be quoted as pronouncing on Wednesday. On Tuesday, South…