By Andy Mukherjee For 100 years now, capitalism has had a pro-leverage bias. Unlike dividends, which are paid only after the state has taken its share of earnings, interest is deducted from pretax profit, shrinking the pie available to the government. This accounting oddity, which […]
The chief minister said areas where positive COVID-19 cases are being found, will be declared as containment zones. Till Sunday evening, 43 hotspots in the national capital were identified as Covid-19 containment zones, with the inclusion of E-block Abu Fazal Enclave, E-block East of Kailash […]
Eight doctors and five nurses have tested positive for the coronaviurs in Tamil Nadu, state’s Health Secretary Beela Rajesh said on Sunday. In all, 106 positive cases of coronavirus have been reported in the State, taking the total number of cases to 1,075. Out of […]
Some of us have learned how to be uniquely scrappy during this pandemic. I’m talking socks as masks and chickpea water as a vegetarian egg-white replacement type of scrappy. And you will learn in this week’s installment of Tech For Good startups are no exception. Companies […]
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India reports 918 new positive COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and 31 deaths (Photo: Reuters) 1 min read . Updated: 12 Apr 2020, 08:12 PM IST ANI Dr Manoj Murhekar of ICMR said more than 40 vaccines are under development but none have […]
David Conn and Paul Lewis Sun 12 Apr 2020 12.30 EDT Last modified on Sun 12 Apr 2020 15.10 EDT The inclusion of “targeted herd immunity” as a possible UK government response to the Covid-19 pandemic – in a list of possible interventions considered for analysis by […]
Facebook has stepped up efforts to stop the promotion of baseless conspiracy theories linking Covid-19 to 5G, after research highlighted a “toxic cocktail” of far-right-influenced groups pushing the idea alongside incitement to attack telecommunications infrastructure. Groups in the UK promoting the conspiracy theory on Facebook […]
The regulatory body for drugs in the United States, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has given a go-ahead for the human clinical testing of a new drug being developed by researchers of Emory University. Named EIDD-2801, the drug is being touted as a ‘relief […]
