Migrant workers are piling into rail stations in India’s financial capital Mumbai to head back to their home villages now that virus-control measures have dried up work in the hard-hit
Millions of Muslims around the world will be celebrating the start of Ramadan on 13 April. The festival involves a month of fasting – believers taking part will not eat
For most people currently being offered the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. But the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that – because
It was the middle of January when Dr Lancelot Pinto realised he would be able to spend some quality time with his family after nearly a year. The pulmonologist had
India’s Covaxin, the homegrown government-backed vaccine, has an efficacy rate of 81%, preliminary data from its phase 3 trial shows. India’s regulators gave the vaccine an emergency approval in January
Russia and China have jointly condemned Western sanctions, a day after the EU, UK, US and Canada blacklisted some senior Chinese officials for rights abuses against ethnic Uighurs. The joint
“This is not about EU v UK. This is a problem with AstraZeneca,” claimed an EU diplomat this morning. He and I were discussing the latest thorny chapter in EU
On the morning of 25 February, a vehicle laden with explosives was found near the house of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, in the heart of Mumbai. In the following
A number of countries have decided to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution following reports that some people have suffered blood clots after being given the jab.
For almost 24 years, Hong Kong has been a kind of unwitting political laboratory, the subject of an experiment centred on the defining ideological divide of our time. Could two