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Bird flu: Now, China records world’s first case of human infection

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Amid the raging controversy over the origins of the pandemic and whether the coronavirus causing Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans, China has reported the first-ever case of human infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu anywhere in the world. On Tuesday, this rare case came to light from the […]

Covid-26 and 32… as WHO labels Covid-19 variants with Greek alphabets

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: American disease experts have urged China to come clean on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic virus, and one of them warned that the scourge may evolve into “Covid-26” and “Covid-32”, indicating its recurrence in the years 2026 and 2032. After US President Joe Biden directed the intelligence agencies to uncover […]

Economy: GDP up 1.6% in Q4FY21, but contracts 7.3% in FY21

New Delhi: India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at 1.6 percent in the fourth (January-March) quarter of 2020-21, but witnessed a contraction of 7.3 percent for the entire fiscal year (FY21), media reported on Monday. The Q4FY21 was the second straight quarter of expansion since India exited a rare recession. India’s GDP figures showed the […]

Population: Aging China allows married couples to have 3 children

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: Apprehending demographic challenges ahead, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has now allowed its citizens to have three children—at a time when young Chinese couples are not only shunning parentage but also marriage while they focus on their careers. And most young couples are not interested in taking the government’s incentives […]

Covid-19: Despite pandemic, Indian economy may grow as world’s fastest!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: A devastating second wave of Covid-19 notwithstanding, the resilient Indian economy is now seen to grow as the world’s fastest! Eight out of 12 rating estimates still see double-digit growth in GDP growth, despite downgrades. In fact, even among the remaining four, two estimate a 9 percent growth and above, the […]

Covid-19: Sewa International to fund 100 oxygen plants in India

Mukund Patel  Houston, TX: Sewa International will be funding the installation of 100 oxygen generation plants in hospitals across India to ease oxygen scarcity in the country. It has ordered 20-ton Zeolites (molecular sieves that absorb nitrogen and produce oxygen as a product) from Honeywell to establish up to 30 plants immediately. As part of […]

Roving Periscope: Poland’s 40% people against vaccination!

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: When most countries are racing against time to get their populations inoculated against the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a place in Central Europe, Poland, where over 40 percent of people are not only against vaccination, they have even threatened to kill the mayor, comparing him with a Nazi-era mass-murderer. “You are […]

PNB scam: Caribbean court stays Mehul’s repatriation to India

New Delhi: Fugitive Indian diamantaire Mehul Choksi, the alleged mastermind of the Rs.13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, got a brief reprieve on Friday when the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court  In the High Court of Justice Commonwealth of Dominica stayed his repatriation. The court’s next hearing in the case is scheduled for Saturday,  May […]

E-commerce: Tatas buy BigBasket’s 64.3 % stake for Rs.9,489 crores

Virendra Pandit Mumbai: Tata Sons’ unit Tata Digital Ltd has acquired a majority stake in online grocery seller BigBasket, putting the top Indian conglomerate in a direct race with e-commerce players like Amazon.com Inc., Walmart-controlled Flipkart, and India’s indigenous player, Reliance Industries Ltd. According to media reports, the antitrust body Competition Commission of India (CCI) […]

Economy: In FY22, Indian GDP growth will likely be 10.5%, says RBI

Virendra Pandit  New Delhi: With the second wave of Covid-19 waning now, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said the country’s GDP growth in 2021-22 could be around 10.5 percent. The second wave of the pandemic has triggered a revision of growth projections for the current financial year with consensus gravitating towards its […]
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