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Previous studies in China found that approximately 15% of Covid-19 patients 19 had abnormal liver tests.

What would reassure markets and avoid further credit rating downgrades is not lower fiscal spending, but a strategy to revive growth, combined with a credible fiscal plan for the medium term, writes Prachi Mishra

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine tracker August 10 update: The countries who join the initiative are also assured supply of vaccines whenever they become successful. The countries will get assured supplies to protect at least 20 per cent of their populations.

Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress leadership had been arrested immediately after the Quit India movement was launched. It was the masses who took matters in their own hands.

Kozhikode Air India plane crash has put the focus on tabletop runways again. Tabletop runways are generally constructed by chopping off the top of a hill, and are often thought of as tricky for landings because of the lack of any margin for overshooting the runway.

On April 14, 1944, a ship lying outside Mumbai’s Victoria Dock caught fire, resulting in two explosions that left around a 1,000 dead, thousands injured, and several buildings destroyed.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine tracker August 8 update: Serum said this low price would be enabled through a new US$ 150 million funding it is receiving from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to 'accelerate' the production of Coronavirus vaccines.

One option is to turn to those at the bottom of the pyramid who have a high marginal propensity to consume, write Radhicka Kapoor and Nooman Majid.

The lawsuit charges the senior leadership of the NRA for failing to manage the body’s funds and failing to follow numerous state and federal laws, which has contributed to the loss of more than $63 million in three years for the organisation.

Fiscal constraints or natural disasters often create temptations to disguise spending as lending, writes Manish Sabharwal

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine tracker update: By all current indications, a novel Coronavirus vaccine is likely to become available by early next year. If that happens, it would be the fastest vaccine to be ever developed.

The Hua Mulan legend, highly popular in China, has over the years inspired numerous films, dramas, books, and television series.

Designed by SpaceX, Starship is a spacecraft and super-heavy booster rocket meant to act as a reusable transportation system for crew and cargo to the Earth’s orbit, Moon and Mars.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine tracker update: Bill Gates said he thought the first vaccines might only be a ‘stop-gap’ offer available primarily to the rich nations.

It has brought people of J&K into the ambit of egalitarian laws, created possibilities of development, writes A Surya Prakash.

On the morning of August 6, a B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb called “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, killing over 80,000 people. Three days later, another atomic bomb called “Fat Man” was dropped over Nagasaki killing more than 40,000 people

Ayodhya Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan: The Ram Temple represents a shared sentiment of sacredness according to Ram Madhav, but for Pratap Bhanu Mehta, it is the first real colonisation of Hinduism by political power.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine tracker update: The superfast speed of development and approval of the vaccine has led to scepticism.

Reserachers have said their preliminary data suggested that patients with Covid-19 were very likely to experience delirium, depression, anxiety and insomnia.

The new American consensus appears to be in sync with India’s own recent turn towards decoupling from China, writes C Raja Mohan.

The two nations continue to oppose each other on the decades-old Cyprus conflict, and on two occasions have almost gone to war over exploration rights in the Aegean Sea.

Individuals are expected to maintain a minimum distance of 6 feet as far as feasible and should wear face covers or masks at all times on the premises.

A study has found that nations with national social distancing policies recorded a larger decrease in their Covid-19 spread rate than those with regional social distancing policies.

Pandemic has driven home need for collaborations between experts and administrators, writes Vikram S Mehta.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine tracker update: WHO lists 165 vaccine candidates against coronavirus. The reasons for the high number range from the need for multiple alternatives to new research opportunities and availability of funds.