Rumita Patel
BENGALURU: The management of Covid-19 will be more difficult for the authorities since SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes it, has spread to 30% of the country’s districts. Data from the Union Ministry of Health show that the government has been able to determine cases in 211 of the country’s 720 districts, and some large states…
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CHENNAI: The London-based International Council of Jurists (ICJ) has referred the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in search of an amount not specified as reparations from China for causing “physical, psychological harm, economic and social problems “to its members. nations unleashing Covid-19 in the world. The ICJ wanted the UNHRC to question and direct…
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India reported 16 Covid-19 deaths on Friday, the highest single-day death count since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, bringing the number to 85, even as the number of coronavirus cases crossed the 3,000 mark. in 3,082 with more than 500 new cases from the states are reported for the second consecutive day….
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MUMBAI: In one day, 67 cases of Covid -19 were reported in the state, of which 80% or 53 cases were from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and 43 from the city itself, Health Minister Rajesh Tope He said the national shutdown, which ends on April 14, may be extended in some parts of Maharashtra,…
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Global and domestic equity markets have undergone a significant correction and most of the major indices are down 30%. There is panic, negativity and pessimism everywhere. These sentiments remind me of the golden words of legendary investor Warren Buffett: “Be afraid when others are greedy, be greedy when others are afraid.” It is not the…
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NEW DELHI: On Friday, India witnessed its highest peak in Covid-19 cases with 478 people testing positive in one day. Apparently in an effort to maintain the nation’s morale, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people to “defy the darkness propagated by the crown crisis” by lighting a diya or lantern for nine minutes…
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We live in an age marked by a general phenomenon: surveillance. Operated through electronics and analyzed through algorithms, daily monitoring of the minutiae of our lives has become the defining characteristic of our times. The data extracted from our mundane daily life is collected, collated and analyzed; and came back to us in many ways,…
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Solitary isolation or confinement used to be a punishment given to prisoners. But now it has become something that we accept as part of our daily life, thanks to the blockade. These are conditions that we are imposing ourselves to survive an enemy that we cannot see, but that can attack us if someone from…
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The spread and scale of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) have called for strengthening international cooperation in the area of public health, both regionally and multilaterally. The Group of Twenty (G20) video summit on March 26 decided for better data sharing and greater cooperation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the call for cooperation at Covid-19 within the…
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Migrant workers leaving New Delhi after the closure announcement have been asking unanswered questions for decades. Who are these migrants? Why do they leave their workplaces and return to their villages? And what rights do they have? Migrant workers make up a large part of the informal sector of the Indian economy. There are around…
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