President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax because of India’s purchasing of Russian oil.
An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board crashed and exploded after takeoff Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, and there is one known survivors, officials said.
A new prediction shows India could be facing a staggering number of COVID-19 cases and deaths over the next few weeks. A new model by the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore predicts if current coronavirus trends continue, the number of COVID deaths will nearly double to over 400,000 in about a month.
The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus.
Wednesday, U.S. military planes will be landing in India, loaded with supplies to help them fight COVID-19.
Microsoft and Google are joining in to offer support to India, which officials say is the global epicenter of the pandemic right now.
