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Mandatoy Tests for Passengers from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand

December 24, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 24: In addition to a random two per cent checking of passengers in all international flights coming to India, Centre has made mandatory checking of all passengers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand Saturday, the union health ministry announced on Saturday. All travellers coming from China, […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: ‘Bomb cyclone’ forecast panics 200 mn people in the US, Canada

December 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A record-breaking, once-in-a-generation snowstorm is freezing the USA and Canada on Christmas. A day ahead of Christmas, as millions of people packed bags to celebrate the world’s biggest festival and holiday season, a deep freeze gripped the United States and Canada, where the forecast of an arctic ‘bomb cyclone’ panicked […]

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CPEC: Baluch protesters warn Chinese to leave Gwadar port

December 23, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: While China is battling the Covid-19 tsunami at home, its dream project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is facing a fresh challenge from a local Pakistani outfit in Baluchistan which warned the Chinese workers to return to their country. The Baluch people have for long been protesting against the Chinese […]

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Roving Periscope: The US offers vaccines to China as cautious India braces for uncertainties ahead

December 23, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As China battled the Covid tsunami, its worst-ever health crisis threatening to snowball into a global challenge, the US on Friday offered effective vaccines to help control the coronavirus wave as India braced for uncertainties ahead, and added a nasal vaccine in its arsenal to meet the challenge. US Secretary […]

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Roving Periscope: Seeking support, Putin goes to Belarus, Zelensky to the US

December 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Frustrated over Russia’s failure to tame Ukraine despite shelling it relentlessly for 10 months, President Vladimir Putin asked his reluctant soldiers to do more and sought ally Belarus to open a second front, as his rival President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the US to bolster support to Kyiv to push back […]

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Covid-19: China may already be suffering with 1 mn infections and 5,000 deaths daily

December 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With the exponential spread of coronavirus, China is estimated to be already suffering with one million Covid-19 infections and around 5,000 deaths every day, the media reported on Thursday. The current virus wave sweeping the Asian giant may witness a daily case rise to 3.7 million infections in January and […]

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Education

The Bug Returns: China, the US, Brazil, S. Korea, Japan…back on the Covid-19 map

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With India returning to the mask-and-sanitation regime, Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm not only China but also the US, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, and several other countries as their ships and aircraft potentially turn into carriers of the pandemic in the next few weeks, the media reported. With fresh coronavirus waves […]

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Covid Review Meeting: People Advised to Wear Mask in Crowded Places

December 21, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 21: Alarm Bells have started ringing in India after three cases of Omicron sub variant BF.7, believed to be the strain that is spearheading China’s current surge of Covid-19 cases, have been detected in India so far. After the centre asked all the states and the union territories to carefully […]

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Roving Periscope: After ‘Zero Covid’ collapse, China may face 3 killer waves in 3 months

December 21, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As China’s budget deficit hit a record low of USD 1.1 trillion this year because of the Zero Covid slump, the world’s second-largest economy is now headed to face its worst-ever year in decades—experts have warned of three killer waves of the highly-infectious Omicron’s B.7 variant in the next three […]

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Nepal Blacklists 16 Indian Pharmaceutical Companies Including Divya Pharmacy

December 20, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Dec 20: Nepal’s drug regulatory authority has blacklisted 16 Indian pharmaceutical companies, including Divya Pharmacy which manufactures Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali products. The Nepal Department of Drug Administration said these companies failed to comply with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) drug manufacturing standards. In a notice issued on December 18, it asked […]

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