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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: The Conversation

Are puppies the new toilet paper? Pandemic is taking a toll on vets

Vets are burnt out, running low on resources and help, and taking an emotional toll during the coronavirus pandemic.

The four known ways in which the coronavirus affects your brain

The aftermath of Covid-19 has many lessons for us. One is that we may see widespread brain damage following this viral pandemic.

The wild decade: the 1990s laid the foundations for Vladimir Putin’s Russia

By the late 1990s, nationalism was both a threat and an opportunity in Russia. And Putin’s new constitutional changes fits in right with that anxiety.

Street vendors can do for Covid-hit economy what large malls can’t

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to rethink city living but we can’t discount the street vendors’ ability to blunt some of the economic pain.

Retirement age in UK increasing, but most people only work 10 years in good health after 50

As life expectancy rises, so does retirement age. And retiring is getting more expensive around the world.

The African Union has failed to ‘silence the guns’

The African Union pledged in the Lusaka Road Map to end armed conflict by 2020. But it has only increased.

Hundreds of elephants found dead in Botswana, but there is no clear cause of death

The Botswana death toll stands at nearly 400 elephants of both sexes and all ages. Most carcasses have been found near waterbodies.

New studies show novel coronavirus could have been in Europe as early as March 2019

Wastewater is a key to understanding coronavirus outbreaks in a region as the virus is found in faeces.

Don’t panic, this is what we know so far about new H1N1 strain with ‘pandemic potential’

In plain English, China has discovered a new flu that’s a mix of human H1N1 flu and avian-based flu. But there is no evidence of human transmission as yet.

We built a map on how coronavirus use human cells to spread. It is very similar to cancer

For years, researchers suspected that kinases – biological control switches that viruses use to take over cells – could be targeted to fight infections. Now we are decoding how.

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.