Topic: food
There’s low risk of food spreading the virus, experts say after salmon panic
Questions were raised over potential dangers of food after Covid infections were traced to the chopping board of a seller of imported salmon in Beijing.
The Covid crisis has changed what we eat and how we eat
People want comfort. They also want to eat their way to stronger immune systems. They’re stress baking, but they’re also eating healthier.
Indians in lockdown find new passion in baking bread, and it’s helping them beat the blues
Be it supply-chain issues or the need to channel anxious energy, quarantined Indians are turning to the culture of baking bread in a big way.
This South Delhi kitchen turns out 70,000 meals a day for lockdown-hit homeless & migrants
Funded by Delhi government and run by NGO People's Welfare Society, the kitchen has been cooking for migrant workers & homeless people since 29 March.
4am Dairy Milk, dancing prawns, langar — what coronavirus did to how we eat
The first few days of lockdown were about discipline, then a dash of nihilism seeped in. Food won't be the same in post-pandemic India.
Sweet and salty ‘corona’ food — because Indians need variety even in a pandemic
Creativity of Indians is on the rise during the Covid-19 crisis with some of them even composing songs and writing poems based on the coronavirus.
African cities are struggling with food supply chain in coronavirus lockdowns
Before the Covid-crisis, food was already expensive in African cities. Now with the pandemic, supply chains are struggling to function.
Vendors or buyers, no one can afford social distancing at Delhi’s wholesale vegetable markets
As odd-even rule kicks in amid lockdown, fruit & vegetable wholesale markets are also staring at rotting produce & huge losses.
No matter how you look at it, India’s lockdown-2 can cost as many lives as it will save
In the kind of lockdown extension PM Modi has announced, the costs outweigh the benefits. And it could claim many more lives over time. Government must assure food and security.
My lord, migrant labourers need more than just food, just like we all do
The act of feeding is a conscience cleaner, a hand wash that also kills hopes of the poor wanting anything more than food. These are old models of charity.
No reason to believe Biden won’t be as friendly to Modi and India as Trump is
All administrations will see the world through the prism of US national security interests and India’s importance – with or without Modi – will weigh heavily.
Global GDP could fall 20% over next 80 years due to climate change, economists warn
According to an analysis, tropical and subtropical countries whose average temperatures are already warmer than 15° C today face catastrophic economic degradation.
Defence
India considering ITBP patrols in LAC ‘grey zones’ to keep the peace on China border
This could mean that Army will be away from grey zone areas of LAC, where forces from both India and China patrol and come face to face. At present, Army & ITBP jointly patrol grey zones.
It’s time for China, Pakistan, even India to rethink the fantasy Modi called expansionism
India, China and Pakistan all want territory from another. But it’s a pursuit doomed to fail as they can’t get it without annihilating the other.