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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Jakarta, Indonesia on September 6-7 to participate in the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and 18th East Asia Summit. The high-profile G20 Summit on September 9-10 may have somewhat overshadowed the...
India stops vaccine exports in drive to innoculate locally "Any country, over 20 countries, on the continent that has received the AstraZeneca vaccine is affected because they have no other way of getting the second doses," Ogwell adds. The facility urgently needs 20 million doses by the end of June to cover the supply shortage and has pleaded with wealthy countries to donate excess doses. The institute paused exports in March. "The urgent demand for vaccines in India is bad for the rest of the world,'' said Ravi Gupta, a professor of clinical microbiology at Cambridge University. COVAX said ...
February 12, 2021: The Indian Air Force and government have reached a compromise on the dispute over using the locally made Tejas LCA (Light Combat Aircraft). The government will get its way and approved a $6.5 billion purchase of the last 83 Tejas fighters to be built. The air force will accept them, mainly because the government admitted that air force criticisms of the Tejas were accurate and agreed to have an improved Tejas 1A model developed and to address some of the most serious deficiencies of the original Tejas 1. The order will be the last for the...