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Indian Red Cross Society to buy 1.80 lakh face masks from KVIC

KVIC has received order of 1.80 lakh double-twisted handcrafted cotton fabric Khadi masks from Indian Red Cross SocietyWhile KVIC in the past has also got orders of 7 lakh masks from J&K government along with that of 20,000 from Indian Railways

1 min read30 Jul 2020
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France donates ventilators, COVID-19 testing kits to India

France has donated 120 ventilators and 50,000 COVID-19 testing kits to India to combat the spread of the virus French Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain handed over medical supplies to RK Jain, Secretary-General of Indian Red Cross Society on Tuesday

2 min read28 Jul 2020
News

Indian Red Cross Society collects over 1,00,000 units of blood during lockdown

At a time when the country was facing severe blood shortage due to restriction in movement, the society collected blood through in-house donations and from around 2000 blood donation camps organized

2 min read25 Jun 2020
Politics

Amid foreign aid row, EU takes Red Cross route for donations

A humanitarian expert from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Operations (ECHO) has also been deployed to further assess the Kerala flood situation

2 min read23 Aug 2018
Science

Flood-hit Assam, Manipur at risk of malaria and encephalitis: Red Cross

Red Cross says Assam , Manipur flood survivors are at risk of contracting malaria, encephalitis diseases as water levels begin to recede leaving behind conditions ripe for mosquito-breeding

2 min read5 Aug 2017
News

Time runs out for South Korea-proposed army talks with North Korea: Seoul

Time ran out on a proposal for rare inter-Korean military talks, with North Korea refusing to respond to South Korea's offer to open dialogue to ease simmering tension

2 min read21 Jul 2017
News

South Korea seeks rare talks with North to ease military tensions

South Korea offers to hold military talks with the North with an aim to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on 4 July

3 min read17 Jul 2017
Opinion

Decoding the idea of a civil war

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the onset of the Syrian civil war. The conflict has left over 400,000 dead and wrenched some 10 million out of their homes

4 min read20 Mar 2017
News

Nigeria mistakenly bombs refugee camp, kills more than 100

A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing over 100 refugees and wounding aid workers

1 min read17 Jan 2017
News

Grief and frustration as Nepal marks earthquake anniversary

Reconstruction has been slow and uneven and most of the $4.1 billion that donors pledged in June last year remains unspent because of political squabbling

2 min read25 Apr 2016
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