Facing COVID 19 crisis, several countries including India placed orders for test kits from China for testing for antibodies to the coronavirus India ordered from China more than half a million kits to boost its screening.

COVID-19 outbreak: Why China is wrong to blame India for rejecting the 'faulty' test kits

The US government is now claiming that coronavirus came from a virology lab in Wuhan, China. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that there was "enormous evidence" that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan.

US-China war of words escalates over COVID-19 origin

There are only three possible origins for the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) It is a naturally-occurring disease, where coronaviruses circulating in a bat population mutated and acquired the ability to infect humans, which was then transmitted to people either visiting or working in the Wuhan Seafood Market; (2) A yet unknown and undescribed coronavirus of natural origin, now named COVID-19, was one of the many bat coronaviruses isolated from bat populations by Chinese scientists and leaked from a Wuhan laboratory; (3) COVID-19 was man-made and leaked from a Wuhan laboratory.

How US expertise may have inadvertently contributed to COVID-19

Nelson Mandela once said, “when people are determined they can overcome anything.” We truly are faced with an unprecedented public health emergency. But at times like these, more than ever, we can come together and create a meaningful impact in the communities around us.

Coronavirus outbreak: How leading organisations can contribute to the community during a pandemic

A recently published scientific article states: “Due to the broad-spectrum of research conducted over almost 20 years on bat SARS-CoV [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses] justified by their potential to spill over from animal to human, a possible synthetic origin by laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] is a reasonable hypothesis.

Facts that China is trying to suppress about origin of COVID-19

Every night I begin my show with the death toll. I can tell you there is no joy in doing so. By the time the day ends, and the race to get the news done is over, you’re left with a weight that crushes your spirit.

Dealing with death

On April 30, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the following US Intelligence Community statement: “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China.

COVID-19: US intelligence community's statement may have given China a huge propaganda victory

With lockdown in place for different zones in the country, the time has come that politicisation of this massive drive must end. Lockdown should not be politicised in India.

Let’s not politicise lockdown

Two years back, the US President Donald Trump began a trade war with China, it led to unavoidable frictions that have now snowballed into a full-blown diplomatic crisis.

Has the US-China cold war now begun?

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may feel that the global pandemic and its economic fallout are the more immediate of his problems as the kingdom gradually lifts restrictions put in place to stymie the spread of the coronavirus.

Saudi Arabia is coping with not just coronavirus pandemic’s economic fallout but geopolitical issues too

More evidence has emerged which support the theory that coronavirus originated in a virology lab in Wuhan in China. The Washington Times says that the Wuhan lab is the "most likely" source of the coronavirus.

More evidence emerges suggesting coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab

The relations between Australia and China have worsened after Australia demanded an inquiry into the origin of COVID-19. China got furious after Australian prime minister Scott Morrison called for an international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.

China-Australia spat escalates over demand for probe into COVID-19 origin

The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the potential of a virus as a weapon of mass destruction. It has added a new dimension to alter the global strategic balance and triggered another chain of events for global strategic dominance, besides unprecedented human sufferings.

Coronavirus outbreak has added a new dimension to 'undeclared World War III'

As India is now passing through tremendous stress due to COVID 19 crisis and the consequent prolonged lockdown, the most affected are those living below the poverty line, who constitute around 20 per cent of the national population ( around 250 million people).

Underprivileged in India will need support even after COVID-19 lockdown is lifted

The clamour to make China pay is growing louder and the latest on the list is Nigeria. A group of Nigerian lawyers is suing China. They are demanding $200 billion from Beijing.

Nigerian lawyers set to sue China over coronavirus outbreak

Questions remain as to whether this COVID-19 pandemic that we are living through is the result of malevolent actions by the Chinese government, i.e., some form of biological warfare.

Explained: The conceptual basis for a bioengineered COVID-19

As COVID-19 numbers continue to rise in India and across the world, economies are taking a hard punch to the gut. The world economy is falling into recession. India’s healthcare sector, in particular, is getting overwhelmed in the process.

Digital technology can help minimise the coronavirus impact on economy: here's how

The world and the world around us has become uncertain. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic will be felt by India both internally and externally. Internally, a full lockdown cannot continue because the economy needs to be unlocked.

India’s position in global order depends on how it restarts the economy post-COVID 19

Over 50 crore Indians use smartphones. As of December 2019, India had 502.2 million smartphone users which meant that over 77 per cent of Indians access the internet through smartphones.

How secure is Aarogya Setu app?

From the United States to Australia, there are renewed calls for the closure of the Chinese wet markets. These markets have a history of being incubators of human diseases.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson denies existence of wet markets

For the first time in the religion's 1400-year-history, the Grand Mosque in Mecca is closed on Ramzan. In Madina too, the Prophet Mosque wears a deserted look. It's no different at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque.

Ramzan in the times of coronavirus

There are no comparable human events to the coronavirus pandemic anymore. Over 191,000 deaths and more than two million cases have been reported so far. Half of humanity is under lockdown and the pandemic has caused the biggest recession in a decade.

WION Edit: Coronavirus pandemic - is this a world war in disguise?

In the context of the development of COVID 19, the international community is debating on two central questions: whether the post-COVID-19 would eclipse the American hegemony?

COVID 19: An end of American hegemony?

Everyone loves a bargain. I’m not talking about the Diwali sales, or the insane discounts online. Sometimes it happens on a much larger scale, involving countries and corporations, where the stakes are much higher.

Firewall for China: Calls for self-reliance grow stronger