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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Topic: WEF

Covid-19 response is a chance for companies to place planet over profits

Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan believes that the Covid-19 crisis is a chance for companies to create a circular zero-carbon economy for profit and people.

Rajasthan and Kerala can teach the world how to fight coronavirus

During the Covid-19 crisis, people in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara went into health screening while Kerala launched an app to check the spread of fake information.

From virtual meetings to drone delivery — Covid-19 crisis will boost digital economy

Firms that are digitally agile are adapting to the Covid-19 crisis more successfully and investment in the digital economy will increase in future.

After Covid-19, employers will resist work-from-home much less

The coronavirus pandemic will change the world of work and leaders may now want to give their employees more control over their schedules.

‘Everything is fragile’ — how two refugees see the world during the Covid-19 crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed brutal social inequalities and refugees are worst hit due to food insecurity and limited access to hygiene.

Give Covid-19 health workers a rest period

WHO informed that in some countries, 10% of the health workers are getting infected by the coronavirus and training is required for their protection.

Severity, lethality, defence: How new coronavirus stacks up against seasonal influenza

First reports of Covid-19 symptoms appeared on 8 December, in Wuhan. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on 11 March. And it’s not like common flu.

My virologist dad says coronavirus vaccines won’t be ready for distribution till 2021

By compressing decades of virology R&D, we can say that SARS-CoV2 vaccine may not be ready before 12-18 months. And even then, we must be lucky every step of way.

From Portugal to Sweden, Covid-19 border controls hit economic migration

Several countries have put restrictions on travel while also imposing border shutdowns. This has created an unprecedented impact on mobility.

Covid-19 and the Great Recession can be fought only if nations come together, like in 2008

The scale of the Covid-19 crisis is larger than that of the 2008 recession but today’s economy is structurally similar to the one that existed a decade back.

On Camera

Yudhishtira to Bhairava cherished dogs. It’s about our civilisational values

The court order seeking the rounding up of this companion of humans over millennia is a sad story of our times, where our civilisational values have been obscured.

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

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%.

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

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....

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

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?