The Latest: Modi s Defeat, Cryptocurrency Spikes, Colosseum s New Floor Inter Milan supporters are celebrating outside the Duomo di Milano after the Italian soccer team won the Serie A title for the first time in 11 years, ending Juventus nine-year reign in Italy. - Alberico/ROPI/ZUMA Press 2020-05-03
Welcome to Monday, where Modi loses a key state after COVID backlash, a different cryptocurrency record is broken and the ancient Colosseum gets a high-tech remodeling. Warsaw-based daily
Gazeta Wyborcza also looks at how Poland s long-time right-wing leader Jarosław Kaczyńsk may be losing his grip on power.
• Modi s ruling party loses key state amid COVID surge: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s party has been defeated in West Bengal. Campaign rallies and voting have caused a new surge in COVID cases, with daily cases topping 300,000 for ten days in a row.
5 things you need to know this morning: May 3, 2021
Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
1. Indian PM s party loses election amid COVID-19 crisis
A critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has held onto power in West Bengal as the country continues to struggle with COVID-19. Mamata Banerjee s win came despite Modi s BJP investing significant time and resources into the election in the state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party on Sunday lost big in an important election in West Bengal, a populous state that it desperately wanted to win. The loss came amid criticism of how Modi has handled the coronavirus surge in India. https://t.co/o4HmdB4N1E
Posted on May 2nd, 2021
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Islamabad/Dubai/Johannesburg, May 1: In their report in
Wall Street Journal, Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Yaroslav Trofimov in Dubai and Gabriele Steinhauser say that the explosion of Covid-19 cases in India and other developing nations is adding momentum to a push to suspend intellectual-property restrictions on vaccines, putting pressure on Washington, other Western governments and pharmaceutical companies to do more to address the crisis.
Over 60 developing countries, led by India and South Africa, are drafting a new proposal to waive the World Trade Organization’s intellectual-property rules something they say would allow a significant increase in vaccine production world-wide. The new proposal will be put to the organization in the next few days,” the reporters said quoting diplomats
China Mocks India COVID-19 Crisis On Social Media, Receives Backlash
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A social media post on Weibo compared China s space module launch to India s mass cremations
The post earned backlash from social media users
Xi Jinping had recently expressed his condolences to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese government has received backlash after it appeared to mock India’s COVID-19 crisis.
The Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on Saturday afternoon posted photos of the Tianhe module launch on its official Sina Weibo account. The social media post compared the module’s fuel burn-off to the fire from a mass cremation site in India. It also used a hashtag that referred to India’s new COVID-19 cases, which has surpassed 400,000 a day.
India is one of our most important partners: UK High Commissioner Alex Ellis
His comments come ahead of India UK virtual summit led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on May 4. United Kingdom s High Commissioner Alex Ellis.
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Updated: May 3, 2021, 06:46 AM IST
Calling India one of the most important partners , United Kingdom s high commissioner Alex Ellis has said that this is a moment to transform our relationship . His comments come ahead of India UK virtual summit led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on May 4.
Speaking to Wion, HC Ellis highlighted the British assistance to India as it battles the COVID pandemic. He said, UK has worked with the utmost urgency and speed to support our friends in India , pointing to the incredible level of support from the wider British public and industry.