The COVID-19 figures till 11 April 2020 are as under: 17.75 lakh plus people are infected world over and one lakh plus are unfortunately dead. 1. Europe – 8.5 lakh Covid-19 cases and 73 thousands dead. Spain, Italy, France and Germany are severely infected countries with one lakh plus cases each. 2. North America –...
As the coronavirus sweeps across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, uncertainty and fear are gripping the streets. Citizens are turning to their governments to act; however, lack of transparency over decades has bred distrust and, in many instances, undermined state credibility. People cannot be certain if daily reporting and updates are true....
The pace and scale of the coronavirus epidemic have shocked the governments around the world and left the stock markets in chaos.So far, nearly more than one million people have been diagnosed with it and the worldwide death toll is 60,000 in the first six months. Today we are living in a different world where...
Recommended mitigation, suppression, flattening curve and lockdown guidelines forwarded by the World Health Organization has ripped-off almost every economy till date. Just as much as the contagion is spreading globally with R naught value of 2-2.5, economic recession has been as much fast as it has been predicted by renowned economists. How long these lockdowns...
Pakistan & India converted to an assumed Arch-rival’s from the day first when both neighbouring states came into existence on the map of world, as sovereign independent states. Initial tragic incidents, further infuriated both Neighbours bilateral relations. With growing deficit of mistrust, changing regional & global unkind dynamics , territorial disputes, plethora of falls propagation...
The world was fighting with Covid-19 but Saudi Arabia flooded the oil market to close the US shale industry. Every country requires performing energy markets for economic development but since mid- February oil and financial markets have been rocked due to Covid-19. According to International Energy Agency (IEA), the oil industry is going through ‘the...
The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the urgent work of planning for a new epoch. The surreal atmosphere of the Covid-19 pandemic calls to mind how I felt as a young man in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Now, as in late 1944, there is a...
Tarique Anwar Champarni I was thinking of something else until yesterday. But today I am thinking a bit differently. There is no specific statement by big leaders of BJP on propaganda being spread by the media on Tablighi Jamaat. Rather, no major leader has given a single statement against Tablighi Jamaat, except Amit Malviya. On...
The rampant outbreak of Covid-19 will charge the world forever like the Fall of Berlin Wall, the end of WW2 & US atomic attack on Japan, or the collapse of Lehmon brothers. The Corona Virus Pandemic will be have devastating consequences on the globe, one can only imagine today. The shattering impacts of Covid 19...
The Covid-19 crisis has resulted into a blessing in disguise for the central banks who sought digitalization of the global monetary system since 1983. While the need of a digital currency has increased amidst coronavirus pandemic, the dramatic fall in the global economic outlook can result into a serious crisis that can lead the world...