India is the seventh worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of the number of infections, after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy. While the recovery rate in coronavirus infections is improving and has reached 48.19 per cent in India, there has been steady decline in the case fatality which is now 2.83 per cent, the health ministry said.
'What the northern Indian states lack is responsive politics based on the principles of development, social justice and equality.' 'A cut-and-paste job cannot make up for such lethal deficiency,' observes says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Interop Mumbai 2009 conference was off to an innovative start, with Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalisation Officer and EVP, Cisco Services, showing an amazed enterprise IT audience on how the Internet will transform the way we work.
Around 1.4 lakh buildings have been completely destroyed in Nepal due to the powerful temblor that flattened houses and uprooted electric poles and trees besides killing over 6,300 people.
The global job scene has steadied somewhat. Here's what to consider before taking the plunge.
A powerful blast near the Mall Road in Lahore on Wednesday morning destroyed over 40 cars and completely razed some buildings. Several people have been injured in the blast. Rescue teams have been sent to the blast site and the injured have been rushed to the nearby hospitals.The area has been cordoned off by the police. There were unconfirmed reports about firing in the area after the blast. A car bomb was reportedly used to trigger the blast.
The aircraft C-130J landed in new Delhi with 55 Indian evacuees at around 10.45 pm.
The heightened activity level in the M&A landscape during 2018 is set to spill over to 2019 as deal fundamentals are expected to remain robust, says Mahesh Singhi.
'We have to be really careful about the unlocking of the city.'
Both have been robustly muscular leaders who began as immensely charismatic politicians conveying an impression that they were makers of history, raring to go. Both have been hyperactive on the world stage. But in the final analysis, Abe is departing on a sombre note, unceremoniously and apologetically, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
This Tamil movie could have been a watchable film if the director had come up with an engaging, logical screenplay, instead of just playing to the front-benchers.
Unless we control the coronavirus, we are going to struggle to get our economy and country back on track. The spectre of the virus haunts recovery, warns Naushad Forbes.
'India should take up defence manufacturing in a more serious manner and encourage greater private participation.'
A brief look at the strengths and weaknesses of the leading contenders for the men's title at Wimbledon which begins on Monday.
Chitra R shares some traditional festive recipes from Tamil Nadu.
'Businessmen like Rajiv render public service when they speak truth to power,' observes Virendra Kapoor.
Boris Johnson urged the public to contain their impatience against the lockdown.
At least 16 people, including several children, were killed and 120 others injured on Monday when a powerful explosion in a small village in Pakistan's Punjab province flattened a madrassa, which was being used to make bombs, officials said. The blast, which occurred shortly before 10 am local time in the village near Mian Channu in southern Punjab, was caused by explosives stored in the home of madrasa teacher Riaz Ali, local residents said.
World number one Dinara Safina continued to bulldoze her way through the French Open draw when she flattened France's Aravane Rezai 6-1 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals on Sunday.
In Globality*, authors Harold L Sirkin, James W Hemerling and Arindam K Bhattacharya from Boston Consulting Group, show how, over the past two decades, a range of corporations from the developing world have begun to disrupt traditional paradigm of development and tilted the balance of competition in their favour with their predilection for 'rapid-fire innovation'.
China, it said, is projected to grow at 6.6 per cent in the current year which will moderate to 6.4 per cent next year.
According to the data from the New York City government, an increase of at least 5,695 cases on Sunday put New York City's total number of coronavirus infections at over 1,04,410 as of April 12 and 27,676 hospitalisations. The city's death toll is 6,898.
The death toll in the US due to coronavirus on Sunday crossed 9,500, which is three times more than the number of people who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
'The current economic contraction is certainly due to the lockdowns as a response to the pandemic, which is an act of God.' 'Nobody has seen such a thing in the last 100 years.' 'Saying that this was an act of mismanagement is largely incorrect'
'It is a political failure, and not a medical failure.'
'Whatever modelling we have, people are saying end of July or beginning of August we will see a peak of COVID-19 in Maharashtra.' 'After which the decline will begin.'
The ravines, which are sharp, steep mud hillocks, stretch over three states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, once home to several dreaded dacoits have long been the subject of several projects and government schemes to make them agriculturally viable.
'We need to have the courage to take a rational look at known facts and act accordingly,' advises Mohan Guruswamy.
Bhagyashree Zore shares a traditional recipe.
'If we cannot handle an epidemic of that strata, (causing that kind) of excessive calamity, then we really have to prevent it.' 'If we become complacent in even preventing it, then we are in for a disaster.'
'People had said it will explode and everyone will die. Nothing of that sort has happened.' 'Our government has done a splendid job so far.'
For years, critics termed Tata's vehicle business as a millstone around the neck. But Group chairman Ratan Tata on Wednesday flattened their theory by taking the automobile venture to a new plane with the acquisition of British luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover.
Rediff reader Amal Nandy from Bhopal shares this recipe that you can't say no to.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said all families in Puri and in those parts of Khurda, which had been 'extremely severely affected' in the storm, will get 50 kg of rice, Rs 2,000 in cash and polythene sheets, if covered under the Food Security Act (FSA).
Chef Lokesh Jarodia, Executive Chef, The Deltin, Daman shares his special recipes.
The 50.5-metre-high historic tower was reduced to just its base.
Rescuers on Sunday struggled to reach out to thousands of survivors in the cyclone-hit southwestern coastlines of Bangladesh where the calamity left over 2,000 people dead besides flattening houses and snapping communication lines nationwide. Over 60 per cent of the crops in the affected areas have been completely destroyed due to the cyclone Sidr as the government deployed army helicopters, navy boats and thousands of troops in rescue operations.
Over 1,000 people were feared killed and thousands of others went missing in Bangladesh as one of the deadliest cyclones battered the country's south-western coast, flattening houses and disrupting power supply plunging almost the entire country into darkness.
The deadline for the commercial launch of the Navi Mumbai airport is set at 2021-end
'Is India going to miss some more of its potential demographic dividend?' 'If so, it would be for two reasons: The demographic dividend can be fully exploited only if the people in the working age are actually working.' 'And second, if those working have proper education and skills, making them productive in the workplace.' 'On both counts, the country has fallen short,' points out T N Ninan.
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