Flight suspension includes 14 other countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and South Africa
Coronavirus in India
Emirates extends suspension of passenger flights from India amid continued Covid-19 concerns
Dubai-based carrier has extended the ban on flights from India until June 14
UAE, Kuwait send oxygen to India amid second coronavirus wave
The UAE has previously sent oxygen tanks to India, while Saudi Arabia has sent 80 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen
Indian travel operators in turbulence as the country sees no respite from raging Covid-19 wave
Firms in the sector – both large and small – have resorted to large scale layoffs and industry experts said they’re apprehensive they’ll have to shut shop if the situation continues beyond a couple months
India exports more food to Gulf while facing coronavirus lockdowns at home
Indian exporters to the Gulf region, however, are concerned over future orders from the region if the existing ban on flights to countries like the UAE are further extended
Video: India moves to ensure trade continues amid surging coronavirus cases
With coronavirus cases surging across India, the country opened a control room to ensure trade continues.
India sets up control room to ensure trade continuity amid coronavirus spike
The entity will monitor and facilitate difficulties encountered by tradespeople due to the country’s coronavirus spike
Saudi Arabia set to receive more Covid vaccines as India starts to export
India will begin commercial shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to Brazil and Morocco on Friday, followed by Saudi Arabia and South Africa
Video: Why India is struggling to cope with coronavirus
The FT looks at how the coronavirus spread from India’s biggest cities to rural areas and why the country is finding it harder than its peers to bounce back from the pandemic.
Video: India expects demand revival in festival season, says Adviser
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the Indian government’s chief economic adviser, discusses the outlook for the economy, which heads for its first full-year contraction in more than four decades amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Video: The fears of India’s tea workers in coronavirus lockdown
India has the fifth largest economy in the world but its size hasn’t protected it from the impact of coronavirus and the lockdown that followed.
Video: How is India coping with coronavirus lockdown?
Just like most countries in the world, India is having to fight the coronavirus epidemic. But how does a country with a population of more than a billion people lock down and stay safe?
Video: India’s poor flee cities in mass exodus during coronavirus lockdown
In small groups and large crowds, through inner-city lanes and down interstate highways, hundreds of thousands of India’s poorest are slowly making a desperate journey on foot back to their villages in a mass exodus unseen since the days immediately after India’s independence in 1947.