In 2021, We Did Vaccinate But Forgot What A Pandemic Means
Last year we left our protagonists, the entire population of planet Earth, cornered by a new coronavirus. They seemed on...
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UN Projects Soaring World Humanitarian Needs In 2022
The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people, who together would amount to the world's fourth most-populous...
Chinese Scientist At Centre Of Covid Controvery Breaks Silence
The Chinese scientist at the centre of theories that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak from her specialised lab...
Mass Vaccination During Pandemic Historic Blunder: Nobel Laureate
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a...
COVID-19: ‘Countless Lives Lost Due To Centre’s Negligence’
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that "countless" lives have been lost during the COVID-19 second wave due...
‘Crazy And Evil’: Bill Gates Surprised By Pandemic Conspiracies
Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of “crazy” and “evil” conspiracy...
Job Losses From Virus Four Times As Bad As 2009 Financial Crisis
Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of...
Surgeries By Traditional Practitioners: 1 Mn Doctors On Strike
Around a million doctors in India went on a day-long strike on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic to protest against...
Vaccine Not Enough To Stop Pandemic: WHO Chief
The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus...
Trump Briefly Admits Defeat, Clings To Flailing Legal Strategy
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday briefly acknowledged losing the U.S. election in a morning Twitter post but then backtracked,...
Biden Moves Ahead, Names Longtime Adviser Chief Of Staff
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday named longtime adviser Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff, his first...
Delhi’s Air Quality Falls To Worst Levels This Year
Air quality in India’s capital deteriorated to its worst this year on Tuesday, prompting a social media barrage of residents...
Economy Set For Near Double-Digit Contraction: Reuters Poll
The Indian economy will suffer its deepest contraction on record this fiscal year and recent government stimulus does not go...
India’s Covid-19 Infections At 7.31 Million, Europe Revives Curfews
India’s tally of coronavirus infections stood at 7.31 million on Thursday, having risen by 67,708 in the last 24 hours,...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Rise To 7.12 Million
India’s total coronavirus cases rose by 66,732 in the last 24 hours to 7.12 million on Monday morning, data from...
Nobel Prize For Scientists Who Helped Identify Hepatitis C
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work in identifying the Hepatitis...
Elon Musk Suggests India Entry In 2021
Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk indicated on Friday that the U.S. electric carmaker will make a foray into India...
Monsoon Rains Above Average For 2nd Year In A Row
India’s monsoon rains in 2020 were above average for the second year in a row, the first time that has...
Businesses Cheer, Unions Fear Contentious Labour Reforms
Business groups on Thursday welcomed contentious and long-delayed labour reforms passed by the Parliament this week, aimed at making hiring...
Satyarthi Fears Upsurge In Child Labour As Covid-19 Shrivels Economy
For four decades, Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi rescued thousands of children from the scourge of slavery and trafficking but...
UN Food Chief Urges Billionaires To Help World’s Starving
United Nations food chief David Beasley has called on the world’s billionaires to step up to help save some 30...
Government To Infuse $2.72 Bn In State-Run Banks
The government has sought Parliamentary approval to inject Rs 200 billion rupees ($2.72 billion) in state-run banks in the current...
‘COVID-19 Has Set Global Health Progress Back Decades’
The knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic have halted and reversed global health progress, setting it back 25 years and...
Despite Lockdowns, Greenhouse Gases Hit New Record: U.N.
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed, as...
As Protests Rock U.S. Cities, Jacob Blake Speaks Out
Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin last month,...
