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The Levant: 220+ die as Palestine-Israel conflict enters second week

May 18, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With over 220 deaths, around 1,500 injuries and no sign of a ceasefire, the Palestinian-Israeli hostilities entered the second week on Monday as global leaders tried to bring peace to the restive Levant region in the Middle East, considered the world’s hottest spot of geopolitics. Media reported on Tuesday that Israel […]

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Covid-19: WHO reminds SII of COVAX jabs; exports unlikely before Oct

May 18, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Until early March, India was the world’s top vaccine exporter for the Covid-19 pandemic, providing jabs to about 65 countries; then it stopped exports and became an importer instead to meet its own urgent needs because of a devastating second wave of the pandemic. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has […]

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Business: ONGC loses Iran gas block it discovered in 2008

May 17, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Iran awarding the contract for developing a giant oil field to a local company on Monday, India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd lost an important gas field in the Persian Gulf, called the Farzad-B gas field, the Indian behemoth had discovered in 2008. The Indian consortium, led by ONGC, had so far […]

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Covid-19: Is a complacent US, like India, inviting the next wave?

May 17, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Democracies are often plagued with populism. Ruling parties succumb to their constituencies’ pressures and throw caution to the wind. This happened in India which declared a premature ‘victory’ on the global pandemic of Covid-19 in the first week of March 2021. Two weeks later, the smart virus struck back with a […]

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Covid-19: ‘Indian banks lost 1,200 employees in pandemic’, says body

May 17, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: Unlike other frontline workers, they were unsung heroes who seldom hit the headlines. Even amid lockdowns, they worked tirelessly in banks, often lonely, before some of them succumbed to the pandemic. Indian banks lost nearly 1,200 officials and employees and many more are infected, underscoring the heavy toll the coronavirus has taken in […]

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Covid-19: ‘Vaccines less effective against B.1.617.2 variant’, says UK expert

May 15, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The vaccines currently being administered across many countries to protect the people against the Covid-19 pandemic are “almost certainly less effective” against preventing transmission of the B.1.617.2 variant of coronavirus first detected in India, a leading expert said on Saturday. Professor Anthony Harnden of the Oxford University, who advises the United […]

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Covid-19: ‘Second year deadlier than first… India situation ‘hugely concerning’

May 15, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Warning that the pandemic’s second year will be “far more deadly” than the first, World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that India’s Covid-19 pandemic situation remains “hugely concerning”, with many states continuing to see a worrying number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. At a media briefing on Friday, he […]

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Covid-19: As US lifts mask, Britain gets fresh warning of infection spurt

May 14, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The lethal and face-changing coronavirus continues to play hide-and-seek with human beings in different countries. While the fully vaccinated Americans planned to go mask-free under the new Covid-19 protocols on Friday, a leading coronavirus advisor in the United Kingdom has warned that the government needs to “act hard and act fast” […]

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Covid-19: Vaccinated Americans can go mask-less; but some confusion remains

May 14, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Mukund Patel Chicago (USA): Fully vaccinated Americans can now go mask-less in most indoor and outdoor settings, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced on Thursday. But some confusion persists. While some states are going ahead with a mask-free environment, others are cautiously inching forward, media reported. […]

Israeli police clash with Palestinians at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

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Roving Periscope: Reasons are different, conflict same in the Levant

May 13, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Seven years after the 2014 Israeli-Hamas conflict, the Levant region in the Middle East is burning, yet again. But this time the reasons are different: it is little of an Arab-Israeli conflict, and more of Turkey-Iran combine pushing the Arabs to condemn the Jewish state with which the United Arab Republic […]