Tag: pandemic
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The greatest life-lessons learned by Mouni Roy amid pandemic
The actress who is currently in Dubai will soon appear in the digital film, London Confidential, opposite Purab Kholi, directed by Kanwal Sethi and produced by Mohit Chhabra and Ajay Rai.
September 22, 2020 -
Artist Amartya Bobo Rahut on creating music amid pandemic
Highly creative minds have found new ways to share and create their art by accepting the challenge of social distancing with kindness and ingenuity.
September 17, 2020 -
Pandemic-hit Pune’s sex workers yearn to quit the profession
With the pandemic wiping off their business, the growing burden of the loans, and other responsibilities, the sex workers are now keen to change their professions, she added.
September 16, 2020 -
Turkey experiences 2nd peak of Covid-19 pandemic: Minister
Another reason for the surge in infections is weddings, the Minister said, noting that the most serious spike was seen in the capital Ankara.
September 2, 2020 -
‘Hope to finish Coronavirus pandemic in less than 2 years, faster than it took for Spanish flu’: WHO chief
Globally, as many as 23,097,175 people have been infected with Coronavirus so far. 15,174,876 people have recovered of COVID-19 and 787,567 people have reportedly died due to the deadly virus.
August 22, 2020 -
Entrepreneur Milind Pote puts a foot forward to help families in pandemic
Just like this there’s this one young entrepreneur Milind Shankeshwar Pote who has set a great example of selfless work in this whole Corona pandemic situation.
August 21, 2020 -
PSBs will need fresh capital as pandemic will hurt their asset quality, profitability: Moody’s
The report, titled ‘Coronavirus fallout will leave banks with capital shortages again’ predicted that asset quality will deteriorate, led by retail and small business loans.
August 21, 2020 -
Towards a New World
Need for promoting environment-friendly technology, for slowing down urbanisation and for encouraging alternative lifestyles while living in harmony with nature are now to be accorded highest priority. Our materialist cravings must be curtailed, and notion of development needs to be redefined, to ensure the continuation of our species.
August 10, 2020 -
Literature and Pandemics
What makes pandemics similar across geographic locations and time is not the presence of germs and viruses but that the human response follows the same pattern. All three literary works inform us that the initial human response to the outbreak is typically one of denial. Furthermore, our response to a pandemic tends to be slow and the authorities often provide false numbers about the infected cases and deaths
July 31, 2020 -
Bihar hospitals show ‘inhumane’ face at the time of pandemic
Another such incident was reported from Buxur, the home LS constituency of Union minister of state for health Ashwini Kumar Choube.
July 28, 2020 -
Tesla Q2 soars despite the pandemic posts $6bn sales revenue
Tesla reported combined deliveries of 76,200 Model 3 sedans and Model Y cross-over SUVs, and combined deliveries of 12,200 of the older and more expensive Model S and X vehicles.
July 23, 2020 -
Women during pandemic
The current pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities of women more than their male counterparts within their homes, the labour market and as frontline healthcare workers. It has increased their unpaid work as caregivers, magnified pay disparities and widened the existing gender divide with its inequalities.
July 20, 2020 -
Bihar heading towards becoming global COVID-19 hotspot says Tejashwi Yadav
The former deputy chief minister said there is a strong possibility of Bihar not only becoming a national hotspot, rather it is heading towards becoming a global hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 19, 2020 -
With 38,902 fresh cases in 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 10.77 lakh, death toll at 26,816
Globally 14,246,121 people have been infected with the virus while 601,549 people have died due to it according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
July 19, 2020 -
Around 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty: UN report
The report stressed that while the new figures released show that before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, progress was being made in tackling multidimensional poverty, that progress is at risk.
July 17, 2020 -
Odisha govt announces 14-day complete lockdown in four districts to contain COVID-19
Chief Secretary A K Tripathy said aggressive surveillance will be conducted during the period in these areas to contain the spread of the disease.
July 17, 2020 -
India’s COVID-19 tally crosses one million mark, death toll climbs to 25,602
Globally 13,765,713 people have been infected with the virus while 589,192 people have died due to it according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
July 17, 2020