Tejas jet's oxygen plant for Covid use

The 'On-Board Oxygen Generation System' developed for the Tejas can produce 1,000 litres of oxygen every minute, reports Ajai Shukla.   IMAGE: The naval version of the LCA Tejas Mark 1.......

'PM sent planes for NRIs, why not trains for workers?'

'The situation is so bad that they are now sleeping on bridges or footpaths.''Therefore, they want to go and die before their parents or wife in case they get infected with COVID-19.''Workers don't......

DRDO designs disinfection chamber, special face mask

Joining efforts to fight COVID-19, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has designed a full-body disinfection chamber and a special face protection mask for healthcare......

Container lorry collides with KSRTC bus, 20 dead

A tile-laden container lorry crossed into a wrong lane and rammed into an oncoming Kerala-bound transport bus from Bengaluru in a high-speed head-on collision in a highway in Tamil Nadu in the wee......

India Inc expected to dole out 8.6% average increment in 2022: Deloitte

Corporate India handed over an average increment of 8 per cent in 2021, and early estimates reveal that average increment for 2022 is expected to increase to 8.6 per cent in line with a healing......

Covid: HCL Tech to HUL, corporate India extends a helping hand

These companies support with isolation centres, medical & financial help, and friendly leave policies. From helping their employees infected with the Covid-19 virus to vaccinating them or......

Bankers are COVID Warriors too!

'Like doctors, health workers, police, bankers are also COVID warriors,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Baskar Babu Ramachandran, managing director and......

Why migrant labourers have little choice but to head home

Around 81 per cent of the workers constitute the unorganised sector - devoid of any social security cover and outside the purview of a complex set of labour laws. Sitting on a bicycle in New......