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China has surpassed the United States to become India’s largest trading partner with a two-way commerce worth $118.4 billion in the fiscal year 2023-24. The bilateral trade between India and the US stood at $118.3 billion during the same period, news agency PTI reported. The trade relationship between India and China has risen despite geopolitical tensions […]
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) yesterday announced that they had recorded the first case H3N8 strain of Bird Flu among humans. A four-year-old boy who had been showing several symptoms including fever had been diagnosed with this infection. It is believed that the child had been in contact with chickens and crows being raised at his home. […]
In an ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, it is now established that “vastly more people died than previously believed.” A total of about 15 million by the end of 2021 is the new figure. This tally is more than double the official total […]
Despite an official MoU signed between the two nations in 2015 agreeing on a Chinese Industrial Park in Gujarat, the plan remains on paper. Nearly 55 hectares of land was allotted at Sanand but little has moved beyond. Sometime in 2019, private player CASME Industrial Park Development Pvt Ltd entered the scene. Another 200 acres […]
Recently, China is witnessing the re-emergence of Omicron driven Covid-19 cases in many of its cities. Due to increased growth in the daily cases of Covid-19 in Shanghai, China, the government has imposed a phased lockdown in the city. Shanghai on Sunday recorded a total of 4,500 fresh Covid-19 cases, which is an increase of […]
China has ordered a lockdown on the northeastern city of Changchun inhabited by nine million people, following a fresh spike in COVID-19 cases in the area. This decision was taken after 397 fresh cases of COVID were reported on Friday. Of these, 98 were reported from Jilin province surrounding Changchun. Residents here have been advised […]
A Russian-run online store on the Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com thanked Chinese shoppers for their support as it sold out of most items, including chocolate and fabric softener, saying it showed the country’s friendship in these “difficult” times. The online shop front of the ‘Russian State Pavilion’ store, which says it is endorsed by the […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday released the World Economic Outlook update which downgrades global growth rate (half a percentage point than what it predicted in the October World Economic Outlook(WEO). India’s growth forecast also comes down half a percent point as the new data predicts 9 percent Growth domestic product (GDP) for the […]
