Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed when a MiG-21 jet they were flying crashed during a training sortie in the western state of Rajasthan, officials said Friday.
Four million medical workers will receive a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine amid increasing transmissions triggered by the virus' sub-variants in Indonesia, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Wednesday.
South Korea reported 88,384 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 19,535,242, the health authorities said Thursday.
At least 26 people were killed and nine others were injured due to lightning and rain-related incidents in India's eastern state of Bihar, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said Wednesday.
A total of 131 people had been killed in floods caused by heavy seasonal rains and onrush of water in parts of Bangladesh, said a government report on Tuesday.
