Indian government on Tuesday said it is speeding up emergency approvals for foreign-made vaccines that have been granted emergency use authorisation in other countries amid alarming spike of coronavirus infections across the country. India, now the second most affected nation by Covid-19, on Tuesday recorded a massive surge of 161,736 Covid-19 cases. The sixth edition of the Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship conference on geo-politics and geo-economics, began on Tuesday. The annual conference, which will continue till Friday, is being held virtually this time due to Covid-19 pandemic. The Taliban is not ready to attend the Turkey conference on the expected date, April 16, spokesman of the militant group Mohammad Naeem said. The Pakistan Democratic Movement's secretary-general Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday said that the multi-party Opposition alliance does not need to issue an apology to anyone after Pakistan People's Party announced to quit the PDM. Protests continued in parts of Pakistan on Tuesday for a second day as supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan demonstrated against the arrest of party chief Saad Rizvi. Air pollution, exacerbated by some of Nepal's worst forest fires in years, continued to reach hazardous levels in the Himalayan nation's capital of Kathmandu on Monday. Wild fires have been burning across Nepal, adding to the growing levels of pollution across the country. 35-year-old Jiya has broken ground by opening a public shop to make clothes for women and transgender women in Pakistan. People in parts of India celebrated cultural and religious festivals on Tuesday with much fanfare despite surge in coronavirus cases. Sikhs gathered at their holy shrine of Golden temple to mark the celebrations of the Baisakhi festival, while Hindus celebrated the first day of the nine-day festival of Navratri and 'Gudi Padwa' festival, the beginning of the New Year for some people.
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