Coronavirus: Australia’s economy faces unprecedented setbacks
The “miracle economy” that avoided recession during the 2007-2008 financial crisis, avoided the worst of the 1997 Asian financial crisis as well as the lancing of the dot.com bubble is in deep trouble. The Black Summer fires were adding to an escalating economic malaise but the coronavirus has inflicted a jolting collapse. In one week […]
Srinagar-Leh highway remains shut for second straight day, essential commodity vechicles allowed on Srinagar-Jammu highway
Srinagar/April,16: The Srinagar-Leh highway, connecting Ladakh with Kashmir valley, remained shut on Thursday for the second straight day due to slippery road conditions after fresh snowfall on Wednesday this week. Only essential commodity vehicles were allowed on the highway last week after remaining shut for five months due to accumulation of several feet of snow.Meanwhile, […]
Azithromycin, paracetamol, other APIs see upto 190% price jump as China resumes production
New Delhi: With China, the world’s leading manufacturer of raw materials for drugs, resuming production after a four-month Covid-19 lockdown, the prices of active pharmaceutical ingredients or APIs of four top-selling drugs have shot up sharply. According to data ThePrint collated from Indian pharma companies, antibiotics azithromycin and ornidazole, anti-inflammatory drug nimesulide and antipyretic drug paracetamol […]
Luck Has Favoured PM Modi So Far In His Covid-19 Battle. But How Long Will His Luck Hold ?
Consider the situation facing government leaders in a score of major countries from China, Japan and South Korea through West Asia and Europe to the UK and the US. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, perhaps, the luckiest of them all. Relatively speaking, the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic and the pressures it has given […]
Amid lockdown, Korel village without electricity
By: Javaid Malik Kulgam Villagers of Korel of D.H Pora Kulgam have appealed executive engineer and other official of PDD to set right their damaged transformer as they are without electric supply from the past 10 days. Villagers told this reporter that they approached the ground staff of the PDD in the village and they […]
Kashmir halts sample collection after 5,000 test kits ‘mysteriously’ diverted to Jammu
The Directorate of Health Services (DHS), Kashmir, has stopped taking samples from potentially infected persons in the Valley after a senior health official bypassed directions and diverted a Srinagar-bound consignment of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) allotted five boxes, carrying 5,000 test kits, to Jammu. Official sources said the alarm was raised by top […]
Medical store owners face hardships in getting curfew passes in Samba district
A number of medical shop owners in different areas in Samba district are facing hardships to bring medicines stock for the visiting customers due to the ongoing lockdown amid Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Even though the Samba district administration has issued curfew passes to the chemist shop owners to purchase medical stock from Jammu but the […]
Scientists divided over strain mutation: ‘Need more evidence’
A mutation in the coronavirus strain isolated in India has the potential to jeopardise global efforts to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, which has infected 2 million people and killed at least 126,000 in four months, according to a preliminary analysis of 106 Sars-CoV-2 and 39 SARS genome sequences. Scientists, however, warn against reliance on […]
Staying away from families, Kashmir health care professionals soldier on in fight against Covid
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise in Jammu and Kashmir, the frontline workers — doctors, nurses, health care workers — are carrying out their duties amid the danger of exposing their families to the illness. So far, six doctors and a nurse have tested positive for the virus. Dr Mir Waseem is […]
Foreign dream will have to wait as Covid-19 layoffs in US cast shadow on IIT, IIM placements
New Delhi: IIT and IIM graduates with foreign dreams might find themselves in a fix as the economic fallout of the Covid-19 lockdown threatens the job prospects of H-1B visa holders in the US. Thousands of Indians work in the US on the prized H-1B, a non-immigration visa that allows American companies to hire foreign workers for roles that require […]
