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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Topic: WEF

Pirate attacks on the rise, and coronavirus could make it worse

Brandon Prins -
Already, the first three months of 2020 have seen a 24 per cent increase in sea piracy, over the same period last year.

Travel will come back after Covid. It will become ‘touchless’

Andrea Serra -
To make travel safer after Covid crisis, companies will use digital tools for identification instead of physical fingerprints and hand scanners.

Bars, pubs and restaurants are reopening, Switzerland is relaxing Covid lockdown

Sean Fleming -
Switzerland is relaxing Covid lockdown by reopening bars and restaurants. Groups of up to four people can now go out for drinks or dinner.

Why there are so many antibiotics and so few antivirals in the world

Christine Carson -
Viruses use our own cells to multiply, making it harder to kill them. It is also why we are struggling to create an antiviral for SARS-CoV-2.

India has made strides in clean energy since 2015 but Covid could negate it: WEF report

Mohana Basu -
India has ranked 74 on WEF's 2020 Energy Transition Index. The report lauds the Indian government’s renewable energy expansion programme.

Drones are delivering PPE and test samples to clinics in Covid-hit Africa

Harry Kretchmer -
China used drones to disinfect streets and Chile used them to supply medicine to small communities. Now Africa is using them too.

Students retain more in online classrooms, shows data

Cathy Li -
Research suggests that online learning, which has been rising during the Covid crisis, increases the retention of information in students.

Monkeys in Thailand, wild goats in North Wales taking over locked-down cities

Harry Kretchmer -
Monkeys in Thailand are hungry and missing people while wild goats of North Wales are enjoying being on the streets during the Covid lockdown.

This is why Covid-19 has a sex bias

Jenny Graves -
Covid-19 is killing more men than women as the latter are less susceptible to viruses because of a stronger immune system.

Covid-19 will affect children by triggering a measles spike

Harry Kretchmer -
UNICEF has warned that many children might miss out on measles vaccination because the immunisation programmes are suspended during the Covid crisis.
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Opinion

India needs to talk about over-tourism, before the great asset becomes the greatest liability

Karti P Chidambaram -
Why should local communities suffer in order to facilitate someone else’s adventures? The trickle-down effects of over-tourism reach the economy, society, and industry.

Indian foreign policy is in free fall. Can we balance national pride with new power reality?

Maria Gomes feeds over 300 stray dogs. She challenges the popular image of a dog lover

Economy

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

Keshav Padmanabhan -
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

Defence

India provides Nepal with military equipment, medical supplies; PM Oli likely to visit next month

Debdutta Chakraborty -
New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, trained dogs and horses to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P....

National Interest

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Shekhar Gupta -
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?

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