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Thursday, October 10, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Why attendance at DU colleges is under 40% even 10 days after classes resumed partially

Beginning 1 February, DU reopened for final-year science students who need to finish their lab work to complete their courses.

Send ‘hi’, find job — govt’s WhatsApp chatbot will help labourers look for work in home states

Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council creates portal called SAKSHAM to connect labourers to MSMEs in their native places. Idea took root during Covid.

Kerala & Maharashtra report highest daily Covid deaths, active cases lowest since 13 June

ThePrint’s daily Covid tracker that brings you the numbers that matter — from total cases, tests done and recoveries to positivity rate and deaths.

Experimental hepatitis drug speeds up Covid recovery by 4 times, finds Toronto study

Researchers from the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease gave Covid-19 patients peginterferon-lambda, which is typically used in-vitro against hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus.

India’s Covid recovery rate rises to 97.25%, 78 deaths recorded in 24 hours

ThePrint’s daily Covid tracker that brings you the numbers that matter — from total cases, tests done and recoveries to positivity rate and deaths.

Covid vaccination entirely voluntary, no provision of insurance for recipients, says govt

MoS Health Ashwini Choubey was replying to a query on whether those getting the Covid vaccines are insured against any side effects or medical complications.

More than 50 lakh healthcare, frontline workers given Covid vaccine in 21 days, says govt

Responding to a query in the Rajya Sabha, MoS Health Ashwini Choubey also dismissed that healthcare and frontline workers were not confident of the vaccine available for them

Biden has a lot to do at home. Assuming he will take China head-on is wishful thinking

Foreign policy will, to a great extent, be left to Biden’s officials, and will only occupy his mind occasionally, unless, of course, a crisis intervenes.

Maharashtra & Kerala account for 70% of India’s active cases, over 58 lakh vaccinated so far

ThePrint’s daily Covid tracker that brings you the numbers that matter — from total cases, tests done and recoveries to positivity rate and deaths.

Indians didn’t make babies during lockdown, but abortion numbers higher, doctors say

Last year, UN projected India would lead nations that will see post-pandemic baby boom. This was largely attributed to breakdown of contraceptive services during lockdown.

On Camera

Ratan Tata mettle revealed in 1980s’ PepsiCo battle. Shook up fuddy-duddy business practices

Ratan Tata’s political naiveté and his complete inability to engage in the ‘deal-fixing’ culture of Indian businesses made him a great ally during the PepsiCo battle of the 1980s.

RBI’s policy-setting body keeps rates unchanged for 10th straight time, changes stance to ‘neutral’

Change in stance signals possibility of rate cuts, potentially as early as December, depending on inflation trends & global economy. Growth projection for FY 2024-25 retained at 7.2%.

Amid concerns about use of Chinese parts in drones, Army general urges industry to be transparent

Maj Gen CS Mann, ADG, Army Design Bureau, cites national security concerns. This comes after intelligence agencies flagged use of Chinese components in drones purchased by armed forces.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?