Foreign Aid

The Cabinet approved plans to allow 100 per cent foreign direct investment in state-run oil companies in which a strategic stake sale is announced.

Senior aides to Queen Elizabeth II barred the hiring of "coloured immigrants or foreigners" in office roles at Buckingham Palace until at least the late 1960s, a media report said Thursday.

Japan is extending its emergency aid of nearly USD 14.8 million, which includes additional medical supplies, to India to help its friend fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Japanese foreign ministry.

Over 40 countries have supplied COVID-19 related equipment and material to India through the Indian Red Cross Society amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.

Nineteen oxygen generation plants, 11,325 oxygen concentrators, 15,801 oxygen cylinders and about 6.1 lakh Remdesivir vials received as global aid have been dispatched to various states and Union territories from April 27 to May 17, the Centre said.

The Delhi High Court today told the Centre that when allocating foreign aid, in the form of medicines and equipment, for the national capital, the same should not just go to the hospitals and institutions managed by the central government.

A total of 8,900 oxygen concentrators, 5,043 oxygen cylinders, 18 oxygen generation plants and about 3.4 lakh Remdesivir vials received as aid from foreign countries.

Hitting out at the Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the government's "repeated chest-thumping" at receiving foreign aid to tackle the COVID-19 crisis in the country is pathetic

Over 3,000 tonnes of approximately 11,000 items received as aid from other countries have been dispatched across the country since April 27, the government said on Friday asserting not even one consignment has remained at the airport or seaport.

Foreign donors providing medical supplies to India in support of its COVID-19 response are being apprised of the allocation of the aid to various states and Union Territories, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday.

Hinting that Government of India is hiding data regarding foreign aid received during unprecedented surge in Covid cases in country, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi asked why there is no transparency regarding the medical supplies sent from across the world

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that foreign aid, in terms of medical equipment, is meant for the benefit of the people suffering from COVID-19 and not meant to be kept in boxes at some institution to become "junk".

The Centre today explained its procedure for allocation of foreign medical aid for the Covid pandemic following questions raised over delay in distribution. Critics have pointed out a lack of transparency and red tape.

As the world responds to India's Covid SOS, questions have emerged over whether foreign aid, including a vast number of oxygen machines and life-saving drugs, is reaching its destination.

More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the country rose to a new record.

The Cabinet approved plans to allow 100 per cent foreign direct investment in state-run oil companies in which a strategic stake sale is announced.

Senior aides to Queen Elizabeth II barred the hiring of "coloured immigrants or foreigners" in office roles at Buckingham Palace until at least the late 1960s, a media report said Thursday.

Japan is extending its emergency aid of nearly USD 14.8 million, which includes additional medical supplies, to India to help its friend fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Japanese foreign ministry.

Over 40 countries have supplied COVID-19 related equipment and material to India through the Indian Red Cross Society amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.

Nineteen oxygen generation plants, 11,325 oxygen concentrators, 15,801 oxygen cylinders and about 6.1 lakh Remdesivir vials received as global aid have been dispatched to various states and Union territories from April 27 to May 17, the Centre said.

The Delhi High Court today told the Centre that when allocating foreign aid, in the form of medicines and equipment, for the national capital, the same should not just go to the hospitals and institutions managed by the central government.

A total of 8,900 oxygen concentrators, 5,043 oxygen cylinders, 18 oxygen generation plants and about 3.4 lakh Remdesivir vials received as aid from foreign countries.

Hitting out at the Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the government's "repeated chest-thumping" at receiving foreign aid to tackle the COVID-19 crisis in the country is pathetic

Over 3,000 tonnes of approximately 11,000 items received as aid from other countries have been dispatched across the country since April 27, the government said on Friday asserting not even one consignment has remained at the airport or seaport.

Foreign donors providing medical supplies to India in support of its COVID-19 response are being apprised of the allocation of the aid to various states and Union Territories, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday.

Hinting that Government of India is hiding data regarding foreign aid received during unprecedented surge in Covid cases in country, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi asked why there is no transparency regarding the medical supplies sent from across the world

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that foreign aid, in terms of medical equipment, is meant for the benefit of the people suffering from COVID-19 and not meant to be kept in boxes at some institution to become "junk".

The Centre today explained its procedure for allocation of foreign medical aid for the Covid pandemic following questions raised over delay in distribution. Critics have pointed out a lack of transparency and red tape.

As the world responds to India's Covid SOS, questions have emerged over whether foreign aid, including a vast number of oxygen machines and life-saving drugs, is reaching its destination.

More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the country rose to a new record.