Delta variant challenges China’s costly lockdown strategy
Beijing, Aug 5 (AP) The delta variant is challenging China’s costly strategy of isolating cities, prompting warnings that Chinese leaders who were confident they could keep the coronavirus out of the country need a less disruptive approach. As the highly contagious variant pushes leaders in the United States, Australia and elsewhere to renew restrictions, President […]
COVID-19: India records 42,982 new cases
New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) India saw a single day rise of 42,982 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,18,12,114, while the active cases increased to 4,11,076, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 4,26,290 with 533 fresh fatalities. The active cases […]
Man electrocuted to death in Srinagar
Srinagar, Aug 05: A man hailing from Shangus area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district died due to electrocution in Srinagar, official said on Thursday. They said that the man identified as Mohammad Jawaad Bhat son of Ali Mohammad Bhat, a resident of Nowgam Shangus was electrocuted while he was repairing a motor in Srinagar. “He […]
Upcoming festivals: Govt asks states, UTs to consider imposing local restrictions
New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) The Centre has advised all states and UTs to actively consider imposing local restrictions for upcoming festivals like Muharram, Onam, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi and Durga Puja and curbing mass gatherings. In a letter to chief secretaries and administrators of all states and UTs, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stated that […]
Travel curbs: UK moves India from ‘red’ to ‘amber list’
London, Aug 5 (PTI) Fully vaccinated passengers from India will no longer be subjected to compulsory 10-day hotel quarantine as the UK moved the country from its “red” to “amber” list. Under Britain’s traffic light system for international travel, returning from amber list countries means a 10-day quarantining at home. The change, announced by the […]
Herd immunity? It’s not going to happen
Shabir A. Madhi Any notion that COVID-19 was going to last for just a few months was very much misplaced in 2020. Especially after it was recognised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was largely spread through the airborne route, all indications were that it would cause repeat bouts of waves. This is what happened in the […]
Pandemic shadow: Quality of life of street-connected kids needs to change
Vijay Garg The multiple and complex challenges we face today because of the Covid-19 pandemic have fallen hard on children who live, work, or play in the streets and are known as street-connected children. For them, it is often impossible to follow the basic guidelines to “stay at home” and “wash your hands”. It is […]
Humble diversions of yore!
Desh Bir Today’s children would never believe that some sixty years ago, we, as children, had such poor playthings as glass balls, Gilli Danda, home-spun hockey sticks made out of branches with natural sharp round bends at the bottom, circular peelings from a truck tyre to serve as rubber rings to be pushed on the […]
Online Mobile Banking and the risks involved
Rayees Ahmad Kumar Throughout the world, we are living more and more of our lives online every day. At the same time, we are conducting much of our online activity on our mobile devices. Banking is certainly following this trend. More than half of all web traffic now comes from mobile devices, and traffic to […]
The doomsday: Destruction of innocent humanity
M Ahmad “If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.”……………..Albert Einstein On August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy”, weighed 10,800 pounds, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and three days later, on August 9, it dropped another […]