PM to inaugurate Indian Ocean Conference on Friday

Momen said that Mauritius President Prithviraj Singh Rooppan, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Ministers and Ministers of State level delegations from 25 countries will participate in the conference. In addition, around 150 foreign guests including representatives from D8, SAARC and BIMSTEC will participate in the conference, the minister said. The participating ministers will […]

Donors exceed Pakistan’s flood recovery target with over $9 billion in aid

International donors on Monday committed more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover from last year’s devastating floods, surpassing its external financing targets and setting a new tone on raising money to fight climate disasters in poor countries. Model paved the way. Officials from some 40 countries as well as private donors and international financial […]

China’s state media downplays seriousness of COVID wave ahead of WHO meeting

In an article on Tuesday, the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, cited several Chinese experts as saying that the illness caused by the virus was relatively mild for most people. “Among the patients currently admitted to designated hospitals in Beijing, 3% to 4% have serious and critical illnesses,” Tong Zhaohui, vice […]