CURRENT AFFAIRS

The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed millions of livelihoods and led to a sudden and large increase in poverty and a massive disruption of the labour market in India.

Recently a research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie shows that researchers from the University of Massachusetts designed a type of  nanoparticle which embodies a new approach to treating diseases like pancreatic cancer that could potentially revolutionise the field. 

In the conflict between Israel and Palestine, both sides have taken to air strikes and rocket attacks. Videos on social media showed rockets fired from Gaza being intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome air defence system.

India’s health systems have been confronting numerous challenges specially in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. In order to effectively address these challenges, our health systems must be strengthened. 

Recently some people are offering infants for instant adoption by selling sob stories of how the children have lost their parents to the dreaded virus. 

The current surge in COVID-19 infections has exposed problems amounting to near-chaos throughout Indian healthcare, even if the pandemic has also brought to light Herculean attempts by medical staff...

On Monday, Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem, leaving a reported 300 people injured. 

A rare but serious fungal infection, known as mucormycosis and colloquially as “black fungus”, is being detected relatively frequently among Covid-19 patients in some states.

There are several things about the coronavirus epidemic that are not very well understood, or explained by the facts at hand. 

Most people with the option of working from home have been relatively safe from the economic storms that have engulfed the world since the pandemic struck in early 2020.