New Delhi, January 25 (IANSlife): A majority of young girls in India have no or limited access to either mobile phones or computers, and this gap has widened alarmingly during the Covid-19 crisis, shows a new s
LONDON, October 27 (Reuters): Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the British population during the summer, a study found on Tuesday, suggesting protection after infection may not
PHNOM PENH, October 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The pandemic risks triggering a race to the bottom that could push tens of millions of Asian garment workers into greater hazard on the factory flo
New Delhi, October 19 (IANS): In a bid to safeguard the LGBTQ+ community and ensure that the basic human rights of this community are not compromised due to the COVID-19 crisis, the National Human Rights C
BEIRUT, October 5 (Reuters): A drastic rise in COVID-19 infections has pushed Lebanon's hospitals to the edge, and experts warn they will soon be unable to cope as the country buckles under a successio
NEW YORK, September 26 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday that his country's vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the
BRUSSELS, September 25 (Reuters): United under Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, young people rallied across the world on Friday to demand urgent action to halt catastrophic climate change, in their first g
TBILISI, September 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): From planting more trees to saving on energy use in old buildings, governments should look at greening their cities to create jobs and spur growth as the
Zunheboto, August 27 (MExN): ATMA Akuhaito block under Zunheboto district conducted one day training and demonstration on the topic “training on agriculture investment during the COVID-19 crisis to meet t
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 26 (IANS): The telecom industry lost around 56.11 lakh wireless subscribers in May amid the lockdown, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) data reveals.
The overall telecom subs
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 21 (IANS): As the Covid-19 crisis forces micro, small and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) in India to stay afloat in the absence of incoming revenue and kick-start their business again, digita
PARIS, August 20 (Reuters): Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron met behind the walls of a medieval island fortress in the Mediterranean on Thursday to chart the next steps for a pa
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 19 (IANS): While the online food delivery space is somewhat returning to normal, the dining out industry in India has been hit hard and is operating at only 8-10 per cent of the pre-Covid leve
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 4 (IANS): With Covid-19 changing consumer behaviour, automotive brands that further digitise the car-buying experience are better poised for post-pandemic success, suggests new insights from G
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 3 (IANS): As the world goes through an unprecedented recession amid the pandemic, global remittances may fall by $108.6 billion in 2020 if the economic impact of Covid-19 persists throughout t
NEW DELHI, JULY 27 (IANS): Airline major IndiGo will institute deeper pay cut for its senior management and pilots to tide over Covid-19 induced economic turbulence.
Accordingly, IndiGo's Chief Executive
NEW DELHI, JULY 27 (IANS): Despite Covid-19 induced economic turbulence, aero space major Boeing India plans to maintain its systems and components sourcing activity in India.
The company sources components
NEW DELHI, JULY 23 (IANS): Government will soon come out with new stimulus packages to boost manufacturing in the country, a senior official of the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.
This would be in additio
LONDON, July 23 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to play down tensions with Scotland during a visit on Thursday, saying the COVID-19 crisis has shown the collective power of the Un
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was holding his first face-to-face cabinet meeting of top ministers since March 17 on Tuesday, underlining his push to encourage others to go