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Wednesday 19 January 2022
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
The watchdog said it was “deeply disturbed” by the arrest of Sajad Gul, an independent journalist and media student.
The government cut off foreign funding to the Missionaries of Charity on Christmas Day and refused to renew its licence.
Protesters with black flags gathered at the site after it was unveiled this week.
An investigation has been ordered into what caused the incident at the Mata Vaishnav Devi shrine.
Critics have described the decision as further evidence of harassment of Christians under the Hindu nationalist government.
Bipin Rawat was India’s first chief of defence staff, a position that the government established in 2019, and was seen as close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Farmers said the legislation would devastate their earnings by ending guaranteed pricing.
Several districts in Tamil Nadu state are on high alert, braced for more downpours.
In Uttarakhand in northern India, officials said that 46 people had died in recent days with 11 missing.
Foreign tourists on regular flights will then be able to enter India starting on 15 November.
His father Ajay Mishra said that his son was innocent and that he was not present.
The nine-year-old girl was allegedly killed in a crematorium in south-west New Delhi – four men have been arrested.
Torrential downpours have lashed India’s western coast in recent days causing the worst floods in decades.
At least 32 people have been killed after heavy monsoon rains hit the region.
The death rate is over 50% and it has mainly affected Covid-19 patients.
The Delta variant is now responsible for around 70% of cases in Ireland.
The variant has been detected in 22 samples from across three states.
Danielle McLaughlin was found dead in a popular holiday destination in Goa, India, in March 2017.
India peaked at adding more than 400,000 cases a day in May, but new infections and deaths have declined across the country since then.
Less than 5% of the country has been fully vaccinated.
Heavy rains and high winds lashed the east coast as Cyclone Yaas crossed the coast.
India has recorded 100,000 deaths in just 27 days, after new infections tore through cities and rural areas, and overwhelmed hospitals.
At the current pace, India could overtake the United States in June.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after the storm hit the Gujarat coast.
The storm made landfall in Gujarat state just after 8.30 pm local time.
The country has made headlines around the world recently, in its fight against a deadly surge in infections.
The British Health Secretary said it is “appropriate” to push on with the major easing of lockdown in England.
The World Health Organization also said there was evidence to suggest increased transmissibility of this variant.
The country has confirmed a record 414,188 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
A peak of the current surge is expected later this month.
The surge has pushed India’s already fragile and underfunded health system to the brink.
Modi stands weakened but faces no threats to staying on as the country’s leader until his term ends in 2024.
India today reported more than 392,000 new cases and nearly 3,700 Covid-19 deaths.
India reported more than 400,000 cases in 24 hours today, another global record that accounts for 40% of the world’s infections.
The World Trade Organization will meet again today to discuss the proposal.
Many experts suspect that the true death toll is higher than this.
India’s death toll is set to pass 200,000 after a massive recent surge in Covid cases.
Indian healthcare workers in Ireland are “sacrificing ever seeing some family again” in order to care for people here amid the pandemic.
Standing up for the rights of pharma companies over human rights is “not tenable”, says O’Gorman.
U2 FRONTMAN BONO has said he is “embarrassed” by most of the band’s songs and is not a fan of his own singing voice.
In an interview with the Awards Chatter podcast, Bono (61) said that while his band are “incredible”, his vocals are now “strained” and make him “cringe a little bit”.
“I’ve been in the car when one of our songs has come on the radio and I’ve been the colour of, as we say in Dublin, scarlet. I’m just so embarrassed,” he told the podcast.
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