Repeatedly dubbed the happiest nation on the planet with world-beating living standards, Finland has been experiencing an acute workforce shortage amid an ageing population. With 39.2 over-65s per 100 working-age people, it is second only to Japan in the extent of its ageing population, according to the UN, which forecasts that by 2030 the “old […]
Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo drew level with Iran’s Ali Daei (109) and became the joint top-scorer in men’s international football. He achieved the feat in Portugal’s Euro 2020 game against France on Wednesday (local time) at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. Daei, nicknamed the ‘Shariar’ (King in Persian), scored a remarkable 109 goals in 149 […]
S&P Global Ratings on Thursday cut India’s growth forecast for the current fiscal to 9.5%, from 11% earlier, and warned of risk to the outlook from further waves of Covid pandemic. The agency lowered the growth outlook saying that a severe second Covid outbreak in April and May led to lockdowns imposed by states and […]
Government of Canada announced the details of the first phase of its approach to ease border measures for travellers entering the country. These cautious adjustments are now possible because of the successes of the vaccine roll out in Canada and following public health measures. The government issued that – Beginning July 5, 2021 at 11:59 […]
Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday slashed India’s growth projection to 9.6 per cent for 2021 calendar year, from its earlier estimate of 13.9 per cent, and said faster vaccination progress would be paramount in restricting economic losses to the June quarter. In its report titled ‘Macroeconomics – India: Economic shocks from second Covid wave will […]
Punjab introduced free testing and treatment of Hepatitis B in all Government Health Institutions. Presiding over the statewide launch of the initiative at District Hospital Mohali, Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu informed that Punjab Government has introduced Hepatitis B screening tests and treatment in all medical colleges, District Hospitals (DHs), Sub-Divisional Hospitals (SDHs) and Anti […]
After a gap of 21 years, a Punjabi player will lead the Indian Hockey team in Tokyo Olympics 2022. Manpreet Singh, DSP, Punjab Police has been entrusted this responsibility. Manpreet belongs to Mithapur village of Jalandhar district. As many as 21 years ago, Ramandeep Singh Grewal had led the team as Captain in Sydney Olympics […]
Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin has shown 77.8% efficacy after the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) under the drug regulator reviewed its Phase III trials data on Tuesday, according to sources. The Hyderabad-based Covid vaccine manufacturing company had submitted data from the Phase III clinical trials of Covaxin to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) over the […]
Apple and Samsung Electronics are leading the generation of tablet PCs. Based on the Tablet Market Report published by Counterpoint Research, the global tablet market has grown by 53% compared to the previous year. The growth rate of tablet markets was 19% last year. The share of the global tablet market of Apple was 37%, […]
The existing Covid-19 vaccines have showed reduced signs of efficacy against the Delta variant of coronavirus, which was first detected in India, said World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist. WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan had earlier said that B.1.617.2 Delta variant is becoming the dominant variant globally because of its increased transmissibility. It was first detected […]