Among other issues, officials are under the pump to get migrant workers back to work as quickly as possible, after the lockdown drained them of cash and disrupted their lives.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach had earlier this month agreed to delay the 2020 Olympics amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Normally used to treat malaria, hydroxychloroquine yielded promising yet inconclusive results in a small coronavirus trial. It also carries significant side effects.
According to experts advising Italy on the pandemic, Wuhan made an error in asking patients with mild symptoms to self-quarantine at home instead of hospitalising them.
As the rapid spread of coronavirus continues, scientists are having to accelerate meticulous processes that otherwise take years to test and fine-tune.
No advanced nation has responded as poorly as the US. Perverse regulation, a bungled government test & fragmented supply chains held back testing for crucial weeks.
Rather than reporting on the horrors, editors chose to search for human-interest angle, digging up cases that raised legal issues yet might be a fun read.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
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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