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Industries and business houses that violate COVID-19 norms will have to face serious action including closure, Anu George, Monitoring Officer for Tenkasi district, has said. Addressing a review meeting here on Monday, Ms. Anu said commercial establishments should entertain customers wearing masks and send out others. They should display an announcement in this connecion and […]
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 12, 2021) The recent spike in the number of Covid-positive cases in the city has been accompanied by number of people opting for home quarantine. While there are more than 90,000 active cases in the city currently, 6.10 lakh people are in home quarantine, according to data put […]
The Indian economy’s recovery is likely to be shaped like a K rather than a V, as rising inequality is poised to hit consumption and growth prospects, the country’s former central bank governor said. “An important consequence of the pandemic has been the sharpening of inequalities,” Duvvuri Subbarao said in an April 9 interview. “Growing […]
Retail inflation rose to 5.52 per cent in March, mainly on account of higher food prices, government data showed on Monday. CPI based retail inflation stood at 5.03 per cent in February. The rate of price rise in the food basket accelerated to 4.94 per cent in March, as against 3.87 per cent in the […]
Amid a second Covid wave, many vaccination centers across the country are being reopened under “tika utsav” which saw administration of more than 27 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses on Sunday.Amid a second Covid wave, many vaccination centers across the country are being reopened under “tika utsav” which saw administration of more than 27 lakh COVID-19 […]
It reports four deaths and 719 infections in 24 hours; daily positivity rate reaches a high of 11.02% The State registered nine COVID-19 deaths and 3,495 infections in the 24 hours ending Sunday morning. The infection tally was the highest in a single day since October 23 last. At 11.02%, the positivity rate of the […]
China is considering the mixing of different COVID-19 vaccines to improve the relatively low efficacy of its existing options, a top health expert has told a conference. Authorities have to “consider ways to solve the issue that efficacy rates of existing vaccines are not high”, Chinese media outlet The Paper reported, citing Gao Fu, the […]
Renowned economist and Nobel laureate Abjijit Vinayak Banerjee has trashed the ideology that calls for lesser or limited government interventions towards uplifting the poor arguing that such freebies make the poor lazy, saying there is no evidence whatsoever proving so. He said his own research on the subject across diverse economies in Asia, Africa and […]