Reporting only two new cases in the past week, the country appears to have controlled the pandemic. PM Jacinda Ardern claims this will help them recover ahead of their peers.
For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in doomsday survival plans of rich Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyse the world.
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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