Double-edged
In the midst of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty, India has witnessed an unprecedented surge in retail investors flocking to the stock market.
In the midst of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty, India has witnessed an unprecedented surge in retail investors flocking to the stock market.
Jaishankar’s visit came at a time when the international situation looks quite uncertain and volatile, and the world is recovering from a once-in-a-century pandemic while still being subjected to continuous shocks.
Rani Mukerji shares how husband Aditya Chopra navigated box office setbacks post-pandemic, opting for theatrical releases despite tempting OTT offers.
For the fourth year in succession, master singer K.J.Yesudas who turned 84 on Wednesday is missing his date with the famed Kollur Mookambika temple in Mangalore in Karnataka.
The months of lockdown and the pandemic continue to form a part of a blurry scary past. Haunting images of those harrowing times are imprinted in our collective consciousness: images of food lying on the tracks on which a family died, of police and authority spraying pesticides over a group of people during a mass exodus, workers desperately trying to get home in inhumanely crowded buses, trains, bicycles, and even on foot.
Canada and the UK were technically entitled to get vaccines via this route having paid into the Covax mechanism, but it was still "morally indefensible" given that they had both obtained millions of doses through their own bilateral agreements, Oxfam's Global Health Adviser, Rohit Malpani, was quoted as saying.
"It is very harrowing if every day, you open up your e-mails, your Twitter, you get the death threats, you get abuse every single day, undermining your work," Andrew Hill, a pharmacologist at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Translational Medicine. Hill has deleted his Twitter account.
In the pandemic year, most Indians spent over 522 hours on online education on average, and over 738 hours on infotainment, a new report showed.
The survey showed that more than two-thirds (73 percent) of Indian consumers feel their mental health has been impacted by the pandemic -- either by isolation restrictions or concerns for well-being.
It said that the second wave of covid infections in India has exacerbated stress among individuals and small businesses that were hit the hardest
