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Coronavirus: IAF aircraft brings 76 Indians, 36 foreigners from Wuhan

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Coronavirus: IAF aircraft brings 76 Indians, 36 foreigners from Wuhan The C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft was sent to Wuhan on Wednesday and it carried 15 tonnes of medical supplies for coronavirus-affected people in China Current Affairs :An Indian Air Force airplane on Thursday emptied 76 Indians and 36 remote nationals from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan. The C-17 Globemaster III vehicle airplane was sent to Wuhan on Wednesday and it conveyed 15 tons of clinical supplies for coronavirus-influenced individuals in China. On its arrival, the airplane brought back 112 individuals including 23 residents from Bangladesh, six from China, two each from Myanmar and the Maldives and one each from South Africa, the US and Madagascar. Prior, India had emptied around 650 Indians from Wuhan in two Air India flights. “In each of the 723 Indian nationals and 43 remote nationals have been cleared from Wuhan, China in these three flights,” the Ministry of Externa...

Coronavirus: India bars entry of foreigners who visited China recently

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Coronavirus: India bars entry of foreigners who visited China recently Coronavirus has claimed over 563 lives till Thursday and number of confirmed cases has risen to over 28,000. Three confirmed cases have been reported in Kerala Current Affairs :As the sitution gets dismal over the novel-Coronavirus flare-up, the Bureau of Immigration has said that outside national who have visited China prior to January 15 won’t be permitted section into India. The move follows comparative choice by Australia, Singapore, US and a couple of different nations as China forces travel boycott. As per the authority, outsiders who visited the China in second fortnight of January won’t be permitted via air, ocean or through land fringes. Carrier team anyway are excluded from this standard. Chinese residents and outsiders living in China have just been confined from heading out to India. Indian and Chinese bearers also are suspending flights between the two nations following the movement contr...

Coronavirus: China okays India request to airlift 250 nationals from Wuhan

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Coronavirus: China okays India request to airlift 250 nationals from Wuhan Will have to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine on arrival Current Affairs :Following 24 hours of wild conferences, India picked up Beijing’s consent to carrier Indians from Wuhan. A Boeing 747 VT-ESO will leave Mumbai at 12 PM to carrier 250 Indians. “When they are brought back, they will be kept in isolate for about fourteen days,” said Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday. Sources said Beijing clasped under tension from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). “Our team was all set. The authorization required significant investment,” said an Air India official. In the interim, IndiGo, as well, has exhorted its pilots and lodge team to wear covers and dodge open spots during delays in Thailand, China, Vietnam, and Singapore. Venturing up its arrangement to battle the danger of a potential novel coronavirus (nCoV) episode, the Indian government on Tuesday said that scr...

Ajit Doval, China's Wang Yi resolve to settle decades-old border issue

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Ajit Doval, China's Wang Yi resolve to settle decades-old border issue Both sides agree to work on rolling out more confidence-building measures along border, in sync with decision taken during second informal summit between PM Modi and Chinese Premier Xi in October Current Affairs :India and China on Saturday made plans to heighten endeavors to accomplish a “reasonable”, “sensible” and commonly worthy answer for the vexed limit issue and concurred that its initial settlement will serve the basic interests of the two nations. There was an agreement during “helpful” outskirt talks here between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval that the two sides should regard each other’s sensitivities and worries so as to fabricate common trust, as indicated by the External Affairs Ministry. It said the different sides likewise underlined that the limit question ought to be drawn nearer from the vital viewpoint of India-China ties while concurring ...

India gave RCEP a miss in view of unresolved issues, global situation: MEA

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India gave RCEP a miss in view of unresolved issues, global situation: MEA ‘India had significant issues of core interest that remain unresolved’ MEA said. Current Affairs :India’s choice to not join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) understanding mirrors its appraisal on the current worldwide circumstance just as the reasonableness and equalization of the understanding, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Monday, including that the nation had “noteworthy issues of center intrigue that stayed uncertain”. Preparation media people not long after the significant improvement on the RCEP, Secretary (East) in the MEA Vijay Thakur Singh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while talking on India’s choice, featured that he was guided by the effect it would have on the lives and occupation all things considered, particularly the defenseless segments of the general public. “India passed on its choice at the summit to not join the RCEP understandi...

India urges countries to act against ‘Kashmir cells’ set up by Pakistan

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India urges countries to act against ‘Kashmir cells’ set up by Pakistan The main objective of these cells is to incite the local population with a nationality where they belong to and to radicalise them through false propaganda,” MEA spokesperson said Current Affairs :Service of External Affairs (MEA) representative Raveesh Kumar on Thursday asked outside nations to make a move against the purported ‘Kashmir cells’ set up by Pakistan over the entirety of their missions on the planet. “We as a whole know that the administration of Pakistan has set up Kashmir cell over the entirety of their high bonuses on the planet. The principle target of these cells is to actuate the neighborhood populace with a nationality where they have a place with and to radicalize them through false purposeful publicity,” Raveesh Kumar said while instructions media people here. He included, “We trust that nations where these Kashmir cells have been opened, they do understand that it is perilous s...

Kulbhshan Jadhav seemed under extreme pressure to parrot Pak’s claims: Govt

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Kulbhshan Jadhav seemed under extreme pressure to parrot Pak’s claims: Govt External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has spoken to Jadhav’s mother and briefed her about the latest developments, Raveesh Kumar, MEA’s spokesperson, said Current Affairs :-  Kulbhshan Jadhav gave off an impression of being under “extraordinary weight” to parrot a bogus account to support Pakistan’s unsound cases for his situation, the External Affairs Ministry said on Monday, hours after a top Indian ambassador met him at a sub-correctional facility for 60 minutes. Charge d’ Affaires at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad Gaurav Ahluwalia met Jadhav after Pakistan allowed consular access to the resigned Indian Navy official after an order from the International Court of Justice. “While we anticipate an extensive report, obviously Jadhav seemed, by all accounts, to be under extraordinary strain to parrot a bogus story to reinforce Pakistan’s illogical cases,” External Affairs Ministry S...

Imran Khan’s remarks on terrorists glaring admission by Pak leadership: MEA

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Imran Khan’s remarks on terrorists glaring admission by Pak leadership: MEA It is time for Pakistan to take credible and irreversible action against terrorists, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said at a media briefing Current Affairs :- India on Thursday named Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s comments that 30,000-40,000 “furnished individuals” who battled in Afghanistan or Kashmir were still in his nation as a “glaring affirmation” and attested that it is the ideal opportunity for Islamabad to make sound and irreversible move against fear mongers. Khan, during his three-day US visit, conceded that around 30,000-40,000 “furnished individuals”, who have been prepared and battled in some piece of Afghanistan or Kashmir, were in Pakistan and blamed the past governments for not coming clean to the US about the aggressor gatherings working in the nation. “It is a glaring confirmation by the Pakistani initiative,” Ministry of External Affairs Spokesp...