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New Delhi: Revenues of multiplexes are set to cross pre-pandemic levels this financial year 2022-23 as more people are queuing up to watch movies after the pandemic-forced hiatus, said rating agency CRISIL Ratings. Their revenue is expected to rise to an all-time high of over Rs 6,000 crore, or 13-15 per cent above the 2019-20 […]
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The pendency of cases in courts is a huge legacy issue in India. The pandemic has only exacerbated the problem. Addressing the pendency issue forms a key aspect of judicial reforms. The Supreme Court’s latest decision to revive the Constitution Benches and ensure that they function throughout the year is a welcome move in this […]
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Hyderabad: A techie, who was facing financial constraints due to the pandemic, allegedly turned to crime and robbed a woman, but ended up being caught by the KPHB police on Friday. The police recovered cash and a gold chain weighing about 10 tolas from him. The arrested person was identified as Gautham Raj (27), an […]
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By Satyajit Banerjee Like almost everyone else in India, I thought I had a sense of China. Like almost everyone, I believed that apart from the glitzy large cities much of the hinterland was backward and shared the standard Indian clichés of a nation of largely unhappy, repressed people. So when I got an offer […]
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Hyderabad: Despite schools remaining closed for several months due to Covid-19 pandemic and classes going digital/online, the number of Class X students scoring a perfect 10/10 Grade Point Average (GPA) in SSC Public Exams 2022 has gone up as against in 2019. While 8,676 candidates secured a perfect GPA in the Class X exams in 2019, […]
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Hyderabad: Even though the demand for residential properties has seen a rise in the post-pandemic world, the real estate sector is also witnessing a huge escalation in prices of raw materials owing to the pandemic and also the Russia-Ukraine war. Reports suggest that the rise in prices of raw materials has led to an increase […]
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Colombo: Sri Lanka is calling on farmers to grow more rice as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years, media reports said. The country’s Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera made the appeal as he said the country’s “food situation is becoming worse”, the BBC reported. It comes as severe shortages of essentials, […]
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Hyderabad: Cafeterias and food courts in multinational companies and corporates have changed their shape and form in the last two years, all thanks to the pandemic. These spaces that act as meeting grounds for employees during lunch or break time have now embraced technology to provide a seamless and easy-to-use experience. Before Covid, the cafeterias […]
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Hyderabad: Tollywood hitmaker S.S. Rajamouli is currently savouring the success of his most-hyped project ‘RRR’. Not revealing much about his next big thing, Rajamouli still hints at a big-ticket movie with Mahesh Babu, which is yet to be announced. “Because of the pandemic, I had many things to wrap up for ‘RRR’. With multiple postponements […]
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By Sruthi Kuruganti Hyderabad: More information leads to even more confusion, caution the experts. In recent years, they have even coined a new term ‘Infodemic’ comparing information overload to ‘pandemic’, for the level of chaos it causes. Alongside affecting our mental health and decision-making ability, information overload can hamper our attention span as well. Besides, […]
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Hyderabad: It was in March two years ago that the first Covid-19 positive infection in Telangana was reported and a few days later, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, capable of circulating across the globe, infecting large swathes of the population and claiming lives in its wake. Since March 2, 2020, […]
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New Delhi: India’s oil demand is projected to jump 8.2 per cent to 5.15 million barrels per day in 2022 as the economy continues to rebound from the devastation caused by the pandemic. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in its latest monthly oil market report projected the world’s third-biggest energy consumer to add […]
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Hyderabad: The pandemic had a devastating impact on the Road Transport Corporation in the state capital with the daily occupancy falling to 22 lakh passengers in a day from 36 lakhs a day, Transport Minister P Ajay Kumar told Assembly on Saturday. The pandemic brought about a change in the way people commuted and many […]
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Hyderabad: The next pandemic, if it comes, will be on the animal side and food security issues, predicted Krishna Ella, Founder and Chairman of Bharat Biotech, that created the Covaxin. “I predict that, if the next pandemic comes, it will be on the animal side and food security issues. We do not want it to […]
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Colombo: Sri Lankan hoteliers have decide to look after standard Ukrainian tourists, while the government plans to extend their visas. A number of hotel owners from southern coastal lines to central hills where Ukrainian tourists frequent most have announced that they would provide free food and lodging to Ukraine nationals who are held up due […]
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Hyderabad: BioAsia, Asia’s largest life-sciences and healthcare forum, will be held virtually on February 24 and 25. This year, the 19th edition of the event, will deliberate on the pandemic, the learnings, progress made so far and also discuss on the future of healthcare to support and enable global collective recovery to pivot beyond the […]
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Beijing: Long before the global pandemic upended sports and the world in general, the 2022 Winter Olympics faced unsettling problems. It started with the fact that hardly anybody wanted to host them. Beijing ended up solving that problem, but only after four European cities thought about it and dropped out, mostly because of expense and […]
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Hyderabad: After months of dilly-dallying over the release dates, the makers of ‘RRR’ have finally decided to release their film in theatres on March 25. The official Twitter handle of the film’s unit has announced the news on Monday evening. It may be recalled that the pandemic and the surge of cases in the third […]
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Hyderabad: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron, Lambda, and Delmicron in between. Since it was first notified in 2019, Covid-19 virus has changed into multiple variants and hundreds of mutations have taken place. While billions got affected by this deadly virus, more than five million have lost their lives. Even after two years since this novel […]
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New Delhi: The fight against the COVID pandemic has got a new weapon in its arsenal with scientists developing a compound that promises to help make PPEs microbial resistant. Lignin, which is a natural and a nontoxic biopolymer, is an emerging material for developing coatings, films, gels, adhesives, and adsorbents. It also acts as a […]