As communities around the world slowly begin to open their doors, global travel company Airbnb is expecting a surge in bookings owing to the pent-up travel demand. According to the company, over the weekend of June 5-7, gross booking value grew in year-over-year terms for the first time since February, when the coronavirus began to […]
Marking a major success story, Mumbai’s sore underbelly – Dharavi – has made a dramatic return from the brink in the ongoing war against coronavirus. As per the latest official data released on Sunday, Dharavi’s doubling time of corona cases has become more than twice compared with the wider Mumbai city – indicating a major […]
The drug regulator has approved Favipiravir for the treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 patients in India. In a filing with the exchanges on Friday, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said that it has just received the manufacturing and marketing approval from India’s drug regulator to launch the oral antiviral drug Favipiravir (FabiFlu) for the treatment of mild […]
Beijing’s municipal government on Tuesday tightened its control and prevention measures to contain the fresh COVID-19 outbreak in the biggest wholesale food market of the Chinese capital, state media said on Tuesday. People considered to be high risk, including those who came into contact with the 106 infected individuals detected since June 11, will […]
Petrol and diesel prices continued to rise through the week with the two petroleum products getting dearer by 59 and 58 paise per litre on Saturday. The auto fuel prices have now risen seven days in a row with pump prices of petrol increasing by Rs 3.90 and diesel by Rs 4 per litre since […]
Researchers have found that COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on people with obesity as they struggle to manage their weight and mental health. For the study, published in the journal Clinical Obesity, the research team surveyed 123 weight management patients and revealed that nearly 73 per cent of the patients experienced increased anxiety […]
By Raj Natarajan We are confronting stresses unknown to us before caused by the COVID 19 pandemic which has taken many hundreds of thousands of lives around the World. The future looks very uncertain as the virus spreads unabated, especially in some of the highly developed countries of the World.The other serious by-product of this […]
By Nisha Krishnan Nair Hey! This is Nisha Krishnan Nair, a zealous and passionate Child Psychologist by profession, bitten hard by curiosity for novelty and creativity which lands me to introspect every now and then with a question: “Am I doing enough with myself?” This wave of questioning self, hit me hard during this lockdown […]
Global pharmaceutical major Pfizer believes that a vaccine to prevent Covid-19 could be ready by the end of October, the company’s CEO Albert Bourla said. Pfizer is conducting clinical trials in the US and Europe for the BNT162 vaccine programme to prevent Covid-19 in collaboration with German mRNA company BioNTech. Bourla made the comments while […]
Booking.com, one of the digital leaders in connecting travellers has populated some of the best destinations across the world to go cheese tasting. For those gastronomically curious it’s the best way to learn about diversity of cheese and to titillate your taste-buds. For newbies its an opportunity to experience cheese varieties that go beyond the […]