Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-india/pakistan-army-chief-says-ready-to-bury-hatchet-with-india-for-peace-idUSKBN2BA1S9 Pakistani General Qamar Javed Bajwa has called for India and Pakistan to move forward and “bury the past” with a joint ceasefire between the military of the two countries. General Bajwa stressed that India needs to create a “conducive environment” and called on the United States to play a role in ending the ongoing regional conflicts. … Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-cases/india-and-pakistan-suffer-resurgence-of-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN2BA0BA A huge surge in Covid-19 cases have hit India and Pakistan on Thursday. New curfews are being enforced across nine districts of Punjab in India and the New Delhi city government has pledged to increase the number of vaccines given from 40,000 to 125,000 daily. In the Indian state of Odisha local authorities are trying to… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425115 The disruptions caused by Covid-19 could be to blame for deaths of 239,000 mothers and children in South Asia. The United Nations report named “Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic and Response in South Asia” focused on the 1.8 billion people in Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This region has had 13… Read more »
Link to article: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.lk%2Fnews%2Fpolitical-current-affairs%2Fitem%2F31751-sri-lanka-s-first-indigenous-medicine-university-inaugurated&data=04%7C01%7C787600%40locker.lcps.org%7C0a43df1b22db4eaefb3b08d8dd158b81%7C86750b0cee12463db28880f7b2b34689%7C0%7C0%7C637502431891949267%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=rbjZWlvIIHfF9rCwDR6PK1XWQQUBNZA2SbodB7BIn8I%3D&reserved=0 Sri Lanka has developed a new medical school for Indigenous Medical Education, the first of its kind in the country. Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine is housed in a four-story building. The main goal of the school is to education medical professionals on modern scientific-based medicine practices instead of their traditional pills and pastes used to treat… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-iran-ship/netanyahu-blames-iran-for-blast-on-israeli-owned-ship-which-tehran-denies-idUSKCN2AT198 Tehran has denied it’s involvement in an explosion aboard an Israeli-owned vehicle-carrier ship in the Gulf of Oman on February 25, 2021. U.S. officials have reported that the ship had holes blasted in both sides of its hull. Israeli officials believe that limpet mines, which stick to the sides of ships and have been used by… Read more »
Link to article: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/nepal-worried-about-future-supply-of-covid-19-vaccines/articleshow/81275391.cms Nepal’s authorities are concerned about obtaining enough Covid-19 vaccines to give to its 3.7 million elderly starting next weekend. They had originally received 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine as a gift from the Indian government in January and was able to purchase another 2 million doses directly from AstraZeneca. However, the worldwide demand… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afhganistan/u-s-should-delay-complete-troop-pullout-in-afghanistan-report-to-congress-idUSKBN2A32VU An independent bipartisan group lead by retired Marine General Joseph Dunford and former Senator Kelly Ayotte reported to Congress yesterday that the United States should extend the upcoming May 1, 2021 planned removal of all troops from Afghanistan as agreed upon in a February 2020 U.S. Taliban agreement. The group also stated that the U.S. should… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/01/worker-at-hm-supply-factory-was-killed-after-months-of-harassment-claims-family Twenty-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel—a garment worker at an H&M supplier Natchi Apparels in Kaithian Kottai, Tamil Nadu, India—was found dead in a field after being abducted and murdered by her supervisor who has confessed to her murder. Ms. Kathiravel, who was working in the garment factory to pay for her education, was also reportedly raped. Police are… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/asia/china-fake-covid-vaccines-intl/index.html China announced today that it has arrested more than 80 people who have sold over 3,000 fake Covid-19 vaccines in China since September 2020 in the areas of Jiangsu, Beijing and Shandong. China’s Ministry of Public Security found that those involved in the fake vaccinations have been selling saline solution to unsuspecting customers. The companies who… Read more »
