With boarding pass in one hand and identification proof in the other, dozens of passengers flocked to the domestic airports to board flights to go back to their hometown.

Blog: Flying in the new normal days

While WHO is the wing of the United Nations, there is a subtle difference between the functioning style of WHO and expectations from it. The UN is essentially a politically tinted organisation with membership for some countries being denied in the UN due to political reasons.

By excluding Taiwan, WHO remains a flawed organisation

By M Raja Chidambaram There are no more pressing deadlines All around only deaths in the headlines No phrases like - have homes to go Subtle joys of home now in the know Soaring sales curves not in thought The flattened spread is what is sought The bottom line now welcomed to give A symbol not positive but negative Homing in, we work, eat, play and pray No dumps, no leaks, no smoke in the fray These events that emerge illuminate Acts of duplicity, we need to eliminate Marketplace calls products that are same By different names, yes that is the game The arena brimming with false effervescence Promotions to induce cognitive dissonance Packing the truth in many layers to beguile Making it difficult to be simple, all the while.

Coronavirus mayhem: There is a higher purpose for us all to strive

There is ongoing censorship, even in the scientific literature, to restrict publication of information contrary to the accepted narrative that COVID-19 is naturally-occurring.

How COVID-19 was made

Protests have flared up in the United States against the government's policies to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Protesters held a mock funeral procession in Washington DC on Wednesday, with 'body bags' laid out in front of the White House to denounce the government response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Protesters stage mock funeral procession outside White House

By Lai-Ha Chan and Pak K Lee If the World Health Organization (WHO) wants to maintain its legitimacy on the world stage, it must now answer some tough questions about the extent it has kowtowed to China during the coronavirus pandemic.

The World Health Organisation must answer these hard questions in its coronavirus inquiry

Usually, Australian newspapers are hardly read in India. However, recently, the Australian portal The Daily Telegraph’s article, in a befitting reply to the Chinese Consul General’s letter alleging it of “ignorance,” “prejudice,” and “arrogance,” in its reports and opinions on China’s response to Covid-19, went viral in Indian social media circles.

China is not just a challenge to the liberal World Order, but an existential threat to humanity

Israeli inventors have developed a coronavirus mask that lets diners eat food without taking it off, a device they say could make a visit to a restaurant less risky.

Israeli company invents masks diners can wear while eating out

While the rest of the world is grappling COVID-19, China is very strategically preparing itself for a post-COVID-19 world. Its economy is capitalistic and centrally directed.

Now is the time for PM Narendra Modi to play the ‘Trump’ card

As a nation, India’s response to Coronavirus has remained a series of hotchpotch decisions. India, as a nation. failed to formally create a national consensus on tackling pandemic.

The biggest truth to emerge from coronavirus pandemic is that India’s poor do not trust the state

Coronaviruses mutate naturally within their animal or human hosts, many of which produce no functional change in the virus. Significant changes in the structure of a coronavirus can result in a “gain of function,” that is, enhanced pathogenicity and/or an increase in transmissibility among animals or between animals and humans.

Evidence indicates COVID-19 was artificially adapted to infect humans

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), some Western scientists sympathetic to China and the obsequious media have expended enormous efforts to convince the public that the COVID-19 pandemic is a naturally-occurring outbreak of disease.

Explained: Scientific indications that show COVID-19 is man-made

International order has been historically referenced with the event that brought about a major change in the same; be it a post-Westphalian international structure, a post-World War order or a post-Cold War era.

Economic nationalism takes a lead in post-COVID-19 Asia

The travel industry has borne the brunt of the damage wrought by lockdowns to contain the novel coronavirus as nations have sealed borders and planes have been grounded.

What's the importance of tourism to the world's economy?

With the governments imposing large-scale restrictions on economic activities to halt the spread of coronavirus, the global economy has come to a virtual standstill.

UN forecasts coronavirus to shrink world economy by 3.2%; India's growth rate projected to slow to 1.2% in 2020

Most of us are stuck inside our home, we can’t hang out with friends, we can’t step out to shop, we can’t plan a get together with cousins. Like responsible people, we are successfully maintaining social distancing - but at a cost - and that price is our digital footprints.

Are we leaving more digital footprints during coronavirus lockdown?

To strengthen the fight against coronavirus, police and authorities across the globe have started using 'smart helmets' which take only a few seconds to accurately scan people’s temperature.

Police across the globe use 'smart helmets' to strengthen fight against coronavirus

During a March 15, 2020 interview, beginning at the 27:40 time point, Dr Ralph Baric, noted coronavirus scientist at the University of North Carolina, said the following when asked about the animal origin of the human COVID-19 pandemic: “As far as I know they [the Chinese] have not identified the actual reservoir species.

Here's what China's scientists have to say about the origin of COVID-19

India needs labour reforms, not a suspension of labour laws during a pandemic. Some states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat have suspended key labour laws, which they claim is to facilitate employment and investment.

India needs labour law reforms and not its suspension amid coronavirus mayhem

It is now well realised by the world community that COVID-19 originated from Wuhan in China, though Beijing has denied this. The world community further believes that China has not informed the world about the seriousness of COVID-19 issue when it happened in Wuhan and did not share information about the challenges it faced in dealing with the problem.

China must be made to pay for its role in coronavirus spread

With the way this pandemic is playing out, India could especially be hit hard simply because we don’t have a sizeable economy to service 1.4 billion people. The last twenty years of economic development in the country has been substantial; we pulled nearly 240 million people out of poverty.

To get the  economy buzzing, India should woo foreign industry

The narrative promoted by China as to the origin of COVID-19 and the one quickly adopted by the scientific establishment and the media has always been that COVID-19, while circulating in a bat population, mutated, acquiring the ability to infect humans, which was then transmitted to people either visiting or working in the Wuhan Seafood Market On February 3, 2020, Chinese researchers led by Zheng-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology published an article in the prestigious journal Nature, which became the basis of the naturally-occurring narrative by identifying a previously unknown bat coronavirus, RaTg13, as a close relative to COVID-19.

China’s narrative about the origin of COVID-19 is starting to unravel

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become the articulate, compassionate political face of government competence in fighting a pandemic. That’s quite an achievement for a man who as late as early March 2020 trumpeted: “Excuse our arrogance as New Yorkers… We think we have the best healthcare system on the planet right here in New York.

Coronavirus pandemic is far more than a global health emergency

As the world fights coronavirus pandemic, China is throwing its weight around. Beijing has deployed warships, asserted itself on the high seas and flexed its military muscle on the South China sea.

How smaller neighbours of China are taking on the dragon