The recent Covid scare on board a Royal Caribbean Cruise vessel shows that almost a year into the pandemic, it’s still unwise to take any arrangement, in any place, as set in stone.
It’s easy for this kind of apprehension to lead to a sort of neo-Luddism in which technology is viewed as the enemy. The new technology could actually help reduce inequality.
What’s puzzling is why Biden would select General Lloyd Austin to be his secretary of defense because of – not in spite of – his role in the US retreat from Iraq in 2011.
The Kremlin & Russian PM's govt have played a cynical game, shoving off responsibility for handling Covid crisis onto regional governors but holding on tightly to the financial reins.
Reports about a meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel & Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman come amid talks of a historic treaty taking shape in West Asia.
If a vaccine does not meaningfully reduce viral transmission, it leaves the unimmunized relatively vulnerable and has a better chance to keep mutating and evade our defenses.
Researchers at Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. both announced preliminary results showing that their Covid-19 vaccines are more than 90% effective against the virus.
It could be that the lawsuits to fight Biden’s apparently impending Electoral College victory are intended as preliminary efforts in what will be a strategy to delegitimise the outcome.
India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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