BEIJING: China said on Wednesday that not a single person had died of Covid-19 the previous day, after changing the criteria for recording virus deaths to mean most are no longer counted. Hospitals are struggling, pharmacy shelves are stripped bare and crematoriums are overwhelmed in the wake of the Chinese government’s sudden decision to lift […]
Beijing: Nearly a fortnight after China lifted the much-despised ‘zero-Covid’ restrictions following a spate of protests, the country is reeling under a massive coronavirus wave, with a Chinese diplomat blaming “foreign forces” for the anti-government demonstrations. Videos circulating in China’s social media showed clinics in Beijing and some other cities flooded with patients with queues […]
BEIJING: China’s top health body said Wednesday the true scale of coronavirus infections in the country is now “impossible” to track, with officials warning cases are rising rapidly in Beijing after the government abruptly abandoned its zero-Covid policy last week. After nearly three years of attempting to stamp out the virus, the sudden end of […]
It’s unusual for the Chinese to protest against the despotic regime of the Communist Party. Such incidents are immediately suppressed under draconian laws and repressive tools meant to neutralise the dissenting voice. The pro-democracy student movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989 was cruelly crushed and threw thousands of protesters in nauseating prisons after they were […]
WASHINGTON: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept Western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with Covid-19, and while recent protests there are not a threat to Communist Party rule, they could affect his personal standing, US director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said on Saturday. Although China’s daily Covid cases are near […]
SHANGHAI: China’s major cities of Beijing and Shanghai were blanketed with security on Tuesday in the wake of nationwide rallies calling for political freedoms and an end to Covid lockdowns. The country’s leadership faced a weekend of protests not seen in decades as anger over unrelenting lockdowns fuels deep-rooted frustration with its political system. A […]
BEIJING: Angry crowds took to the streets in Shanghai early on Sunday, and videos on social media showed protests in other cities across China, as public opposition to the government’s hardline zero-Covid policy mounts. A deadly fire on Thursday in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang region, has spurred an outpouring of anger as […]
Seeks comparative progress report for past three years JAMMU: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo, today convened a meeting to review availability of seeds in agriculture and allied sectors at the civil secretariat. Director Agriculture, Kashmir, apprised the ACS of schemes for agrostology, potato development, seed production and floriculture development besides highlighting […]
JAMMU: Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo, today chaired a meeting to review availability of seeds and planting material for kharief season in Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting had detailed deliberation on various issues concerning the availability, procurement and distribution of seeds and planting material in the UT. Dulloo asked the officers to […]
Beijing:Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou was ordered to stay home for virus testing Saturday and a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported. Nationwide, a total of 11,773 infections were reported over the previous 24 hours, including 10,351 people […]