Covid 19 Russia

India’s first human space-flight mission Gaganyaan is expected to launch in 2024, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said. The government had planned the space flight for 2021, but the schedule got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global crude markets have been whiplashed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, with Brent and US futures trading above $100 for most of that duration, but benchmark crude prices fell in the latest trading week.

In another reflection of the wild gyrations in global crude markets, oil futures declined slightly after opening higher on Wednesday and having surged over 6% in the previous session.

After losing nearly 1 per cent in the previous session on a strong dollar, a build-up in the US crude stockpile, and Shanghai's extended lockdown fuelled fears of slower demand; the benchmark Brent crude was last up about 25 cents at $106.90 per barrel.

Crude oil prices rebounded and rose on Tuesday in a volatile trading session, even as Ukraine and Russia headed for peace talks and demand concerns remain as China shut down its financial hub in Shanghai to curb the surge in coronavirus cases.

Crude oil prices extended their decline and fell to a two-week low early on Tuesday on hopes of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and driven by expectations of a fall in demand from China as the country battles a surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus cases.

Most of Russia on Monday ended a week-long paid holiday aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, despite the country seeing thousands of new cases and more than 1,000 deaths per day.

Russia has reported "isolated cases" of COVID-19 with a subvariant of the Delta variant that is believed to be even more contagious, the state consumer watchdog's senior researcher said on Thursday.

Russian hackers suspected have used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into US federal agencies are said to have accessed information about US counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals and the country’s response to COVID-19.

Russia has responded with a threat to block YouTube after the video-sharing platform removed state-backed RT’s German-language channels over COVID-19 misinformation.

The CIA sees a "very strong possibility" that the syndrome is intentionally caused, and that Russia could be responsible, but is withholding definitive conclusions pending further investigation.

A consortium of doctors and researchers from India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa have partnered to conduct a study on the epidemiological impact and intersection of the COVID-19 and Tuberculosis pandemics in these countries, Ministry of Science a

Facebook said it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm that aimed to enlist influencers to push anti-vaccine content about the COVID-19 jabs.

The Kremlin said Thursday that Moscow had no immediate plans to allow foreign coronavirus vaccines into Russia, despite the country's sluggish vaccination rates and rising death toll in a third wave of the pandemic.

Russia on Sunday reported more than 25,000 new coronavirus cases, the highest number of daily infections since early January as the country battles the surging Delta variant.

India’s first human space-flight mission Gaganyaan is expected to launch in 2024, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said. The government had planned the space flight for 2021, but the schedule got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global crude markets have been whiplashed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, with Brent and US futures trading above $100 for most of that duration, but benchmark crude prices fell in the latest trading week.

In another reflection of the wild gyrations in global crude markets, oil futures declined slightly after opening higher on Wednesday and having surged over 6% in the previous session.

After losing nearly 1 per cent in the previous session on a strong dollar, a build-up in the US crude stockpile, and Shanghai's extended lockdown fuelled fears of slower demand; the benchmark Brent crude was last up about 25 cents at $106.90 per barrel.

Crude oil prices rebounded and rose on Tuesday in a volatile trading session, even as Ukraine and Russia headed for peace talks and demand concerns remain as China shut down its financial hub in Shanghai to curb the surge in coronavirus cases.

Crude oil prices extended their decline and fell to a two-week low early on Tuesday on hopes of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and driven by expectations of a fall in demand from China as the country battles a surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus cases.

Most of Russia on Monday ended a week-long paid holiday aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, despite the country seeing thousands of new cases and more than 1,000 deaths per day.

Russia has reported "isolated cases" of COVID-19 with a subvariant of the Delta variant that is believed to be even more contagious, the state consumer watchdog's senior researcher said on Thursday.

Russian hackers suspected have used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into US federal agencies are said to have accessed information about US counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals and the country’s response to COVID-19.

Russia has responded with a threat to block YouTube after the video-sharing platform removed state-backed RT’s German-language channels over COVID-19 misinformation.

The CIA sees a "very strong possibility" that the syndrome is intentionally caused, and that Russia could be responsible, but is withholding definitive conclusions pending further investigation.

A consortium of doctors and researchers from India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa have partnered to conduct a study on the epidemiological impact and intersection of the COVID-19 and Tuberculosis pandemics in these countries, Ministry of Science a

Facebook said it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm that aimed to enlist influencers to push anti-vaccine content about the COVID-19 jabs.

The Kremlin said Thursday that Moscow had no immediate plans to allow foreign coronavirus vaccines into Russia, despite the country's sluggish vaccination rates and rising death toll in a third wave of the pandemic.

Russia on Sunday reported more than 25,000 new coronavirus cases, the highest number of daily infections since early January as the country battles the surging Delta variant.