Special Desk For a second consecutive night hundreds of people held protests in cities across Lebanon over the handling of the country’s economic crisis. Protestors pointed out that the Lebanese pound has fallen to record lows, having lost 70% of its value since October, when the protests began. The financial …
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Thrones will be overturned, crowns pushed
Jubilee News Desk Patience has different levels among individuals and is measured with the level of tolerance. When it becomes intolerable patience gives way to revolt. This aptly describes the situation in the USA, where perhaps for the first time the president had to hide in a bunker overnight to …
Read More »RBI releases inflation expectation survey
News Desk Reserve Bank of India released the results of the May 2020 round of the Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the survey was conducted through telephonic interviews between May 5 and 17 in 18 major cities, stated the RBI website. The results …
Read More »COVID 19: Migrant influx is a serious issue
Prof. Ravi Kant Upadhyay A spike in COVID-19 cases has been seen in last four weeks due to influx of migrant workers in U.P. and Bihar. Both have more than 37 lakhs of workers which have been shifted from industrial states to their home state in last 28 days. It …
Read More »COVID 19 Community transmission: Facts and challenges
Prof. Ravi Kant Upadhyay Corona virus is highly mutable virus that can attain both negative and positive mutations according to changing climatic conditions. Since it was first reported in Wuhan, China, it has changed 70 times. Corona virus is genetically susceptible to changing weather conditions, antibiotic drugs and internal environment …
Read More »Singapore to reopen economy in June
Special Desk Singapore is expecting to have most, of its economy back on track in June, and this is what trade minister Chan Chun Sing has said recently. Singapore the, city-state has one of the highest numbers of coronavirus infection cases in Asia, with more than 34,800 people affected so …
Read More »Pandemic in US Vs. rest of world
Special Desk The world is looking towards the US on what is the situation of coronavirus there and the lessons to be learned from the country. The death toll in the US became the highest in the world in early April and has risen dramatically since then. Two days after …
Read More »Lucknow’s Chikan: hit hard in the lockdown
Rafat Fatima Koi umeed bar nahi ati Koi surat najar nahi ati (कोई उम्मीद बर नहीं आती कोई सूरत नज़र नहीं आती) Lucknow has a distinct etiquette and identical industries and prominent among them are two – zardoji and chikan. These handicraft industries have a big population dependent upon the production they do. These are several issues before them including …
Read More »The Locust attack: food security threat in India
Special Desk Food security is under threat in several states in India as the worst locust outbreak is ravaging West India, threatening to spread further east. Worrisome as several locusts waves are expected from now until early July, due to spring breeding in southern Iran and southwest Pakistan. UN has …
Read More »Nehru’s romantic affair with “Gori” Edwina and hypocrisy of Indian Politics
ABHIGYAN SHEKHAR Today is the 56th death anniversary of India’s first prime minister Pandit Nehru and we look into his affair with Lady Mountbatten. The relationship between Nehru and lady Mountbatten is no secret anymore, almost every academic and historian who has worked on the partition of India or Nehru …
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