LONDON: London will be placed in the toughest tier of COVID-19 restrictions following a sharp rise in coronavirus infection rates, the Daily Mirror reported on Monday, as one of the world’s richest cities struggles to contain the disease. Earlier this month, the government implemented a three-tiered system of restrictions in England to try to keep … Read more
MUMBAI: The pick up in economic activity in October is the result of pent-up demand and may not sustain going ahead, domestic ratings agency Icra said on Tuesday. Multiple fast-paced indicators, including GST collections, have been showing a sharp recovery since October, which has also led many analysts to revise their overall GDP forecasts for … Read more
Bengaluru: Eight months into the Covid pandemic, the death rate in Bengaluru has fallen considerably compared to the situation six weeks ago, much to the relief of the city administration. This is even as the number of positive cases rose with 4,000 cases reported daily in the beginning of this month, barring the past one … Read more
he sparrows, on an average, sang 30 per cent softer. Image: IE While lockdowns across countries due to Coronavirus pandemic surely impacted the daily routine/ work for people, it turned out to be good for the environment. One such aspect is the reduced noise pollution during the period. This enhanced the singing of birds effortlessly … Read more
Patients affected by cardiac diseases, have to spend a lot of their financial resources on their diagnosis, treatment and subsequent recovery. (Photo source: IE) By Dr. Bharat Shivdasani World Heart Day: The heart which is approximately the size of your wrist and weighs about 600 gms is the most exquisite and well-designed machine or organ … Read more
According to official data, the app has traced more than 8.5 million Bluetooth contacts so far. Out of these, around 1.5 million people have been tested and around 4,00,000 were found positive. Synopsis Central government authorities who built the app claim that contact tracing through Aarogya Setu yields a positivity rate of close to 27%, … Read more
NEW DELHI: A day after Maharashtra stopped supplying medical-grade oxygen to other states, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reached out to his Maharashtra counterpart, urging him to restore supply for hospitals treating severely ill patients. On Wednesday, Maharashtra principal health secretary Pradeep Kumar Vyas had issued an order which said oxygen produced in … Read more
By Mythili Bhusnurmath Whichever way you look at it, GDP data for the first quarter (April-June 2020) of the current fiscal is unambiguously bad. Barring agriculture, which grew 3.4%, every other sector contracted. Construction halved, trade was almost as bad at –47%, manufacturing declined 39.3% and, in the unkindest cut of all, public administration (a … Read more
HYDERABAD: The private hospitals in Telangana have on Thursday agreed to hand over 50% of ICU beds to the government to treat the patients at the government-prescribed tariffs, days after the government threatened to seize 50% of the private hospital ICU beds. This agreement was arrived at a meeting the Telangana health minister Etela Rajender … Read more
By Sarah Ponczek Nothing has been normal on Wall Street for a long time. So expecting what “normally happens” to guide the here-and-now is an especially fraught exercise. And yet that’s what a legion of strategists and analysts continue to do, as the pandemic and its economic pressures roll on. They’re reverting to their only … Read more