NEW DELHI: On average, an Indian spends 3.5% of his daily income for a plate of food compared to 0.6% for a New Yorker, according to the report “The Cost of a Plate of Food” released by the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) on Friday. The report said that a …
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Written by Ravish Tiwari | New Delhi | October 17, 2020 4:45:07 am FILE PHOTO: A view of Pangong Tso Lake in the Ladakh region on July 27, 2019 (REUTERS / File Photo) China’s insistence that India abandon its forward positions on the southern bank of Pangong Tso as a …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it had had a very good dialogue with the developers of a second Russian candidate vaccine against COVID-19. “We can only have a position on a vaccine when we see the results of phase III clinical trials,” said WHO chief scientist …
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Indian health authorities have decided to revise the protocol currently being followed for the treatment of Covid-19 after interim results of a large World Health Organization trial found that four of the drugs used common provide little or no benefit in reducing deaths in hospitalized patients. These include the antiviral …
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But this year is particularly important as the world is reeling from the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of Indian shoppers are still wary of venturing into brick-and-mortar stores, and Meena expects online sales to grow more than 34% to $ 6.5 billion this year. “This is …
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A city in eastern China is offering an experimental coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine outside of clinical trials for about $ 60 to high-risk groups under an emergency inoculation program, officials said, including when experts raised concerns about the massive launch of an ace-yet untested vaccine. Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech’s vaccine, called …
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Hyderabad: After being hit by torrential rains that triggered one of the worst floods in recent memory and claimed 50 lives, the city and other parts of Telangana returned to normal on Thursday with the government’s relief measures. In relief, there was no rain on Thursday and the water began …
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NHS England in talks about launching a possible COVID-19 vaccine from December: Report | Photo credit: iStock Images The National Health Service (NHS) is in talks with the British Medical Association (BMA) and others to mobilize the launch of a possible COVID-19 vaccine from December, the Pulse website for health …
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In the steepest biweekly drop in Covid-19 cases and deaths in the country, the first half of October saw an 18% drop in new infections from the previous 15-day period, while deaths fell by almost 19 %. India recorded 10,55,068 Covid-19 cases in the first 15 days of this month, …
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Navratri 2020 Day 1 date, shubh muhurat and Kalash sthapana The auspicious nine-day Navratri festival will begin tomorrow. Maa Durga devotees should fast and worship one of the nine Durga forms every day. In the first day, Pratipada, the devotees will worship Maa Shailputri. Read on to know more about …
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