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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Man behind viral Kolkata hospital video faces ‘boycott’ as Babul Supriyo tweets his identity

24-year-old student had shot a video that showed bodies lying unattended at a Covid-19 hospital in Kolkata, which BJP has used to target Mamata govt.

Fishing industry suffers another blow as workers are stranded on boats, debt is piling up

Coronavirus pandemic couldn’t have come at a worse time for fishing sector, which was just beginning to recover from last year’s cyclones.

Poems, song, short film — how Mamata Banerjee is using her creativity to help kill corona

Authors and film personalities say while West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s work is not ‘art’, it’s ‘commendable’ as a way to speak to people in their language.

2 cats in New York become first pets in US to test positive for coronavirus

Even as public health officials are still learning about the virus, there is no evidence that pets play a role in spreading it to humans in the US.

The coronavirus recession has all the ingredients to beat the Great Depression

Let's hope this depression won’t last a decade, but an unprecedented slump followed by years of pain seems inevitable.

How the lockdown has unlocked rivalries and dissent in Karnataka’s BJP govt

B.S. Yediyurappa has been struggling to keep his flock together, which seems to have lent an air of indecisiveness to Karnataka’s fight against Covid-19. 

Bizarre symptoms make this coronavirus different from anything else before

The virus can disable the kidneys, inflame the GI tract, damage the heart and creep into the central nervous system. It can lead to blood clots.

There’s new hope for ‘Make in India’ as MNCs look to spread out from virus-hit China

The low corporate tax rates and huge domestic market work in India's favour, but investors wary of policy uncertainty.

Trump says coronavirus ‘might not come back at all’ in September

Trump’s assertion is at odds with medical experts who say the virus could pose a threat to the US for months and years to come.

No lockdown for Ludhiana garment units. They’re working full time to make PPEs, hazmat suits

Eight firms in Ludhiana are among the 9 in Punjab that have bagged a Rs 200-crore central government order for PPE kits.   

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Indian industry in Bangladesh is staring at a void. New Delhi must give line of credit to Dhaka

For New Delhi, SAFTA and CEPA will be critical. Such frameworks could institutionalise economic ties with Bangladesh, making them resilient to political disruptions.


You can’t ‘wish away’ China, India must balance economic & security considerations, says Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

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?