China has promised to share any successful vaccine globally, and would wield immense geopolitical clout if it produces one of the world’s first working shots.
Amid a growing revolt from senior politicians in Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party, a govt minister quit in protest at the behaviour of chief adviser Dominic Cummings.
The research addresses a crucial question whether people who have Covid-19, especially milder forms, develop antibodies capable of protecting them against reinfection.
With the economy set to hurt for a long time, many businesses remain at risk and the coronavirus is testing the limits of a policy relying on a quick rebound.
Authorities are stepping up surveillance amid fears of a new wave of infections with the return of thousands of people to cities after the Eid al-Fitr holidays.
Pro-democracy groups have announced large scale protests against China's move to try and bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and implement a new security law.
Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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