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Monsoon likely to hit Indian coast around June 3- weather office
Nearly half of India’s farmland has no irrigation and depends on annual June-September rains to grow crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton, and soybeans.
Covid-19: Govt announces additional benefits under EPFO, ESIC schemes
“The Ministry of Labour and Employment has announced additional benefits for workers through ESIC and EPFO schemes to address the fear and anxiety of workers about wellbeing of their family members due to increase in incidences of death due to COVID-19 pandemic,” a ministry statement said.
Enhanced social security is sought to be provided to the workers without any additional cost to the employer, it added.
Rishiganga glacier not yet in critical condition: Uttarakhand DGP
A team of scientists had on Saturday conducted an aerial survey of glaciers at the origin of the Rishiganga river in Chamoli. The survey was undertaken based on information by villagers that there were cracks developing in the glaciers.
‘Covid-19 has no credible natural ancestor’: Explosive study claims Chinese scientists created virus in lab
The new research claims that scientists took a natural coronavirus “backbone” found in Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new “spike”, turning it into the deadly and highly transmissible Covid-19.
The paper also quotes that researchers found “unique fingerprints” in Covid-19 samples that they say could only have arisen from manipulation in a laboratory.Authors Dalgleish and Sorensen wrote in their paper that they had prima facie evidence of retro-engineering in China’ for a year, but were ignored by academics and major journals, reported DailyMail.com.
India variant shows resistance to antibody drugs, vaccines
A multicenter team of scientists in France studied a B.1.617.2 variant isolated from a traveler returning from India. Compared to the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in Britain, the India variant was more resistant to antibody drugs, although three currently approved drugs still remained effective against it, they found.
UK could make COVID-19 jabs compulsory in healthcare, minister says
“It would be incumbent on any responsible government to have the debate, to do the thinking as to how we go about protecting the most vulnerable by making sure that those who look after them are vaccinated,” he told Sky News.
India reports 3,460 more COVID-19 deaths, over 165,000 new infections
India has administered about 212 million doses, the most after China and the United States, but has given the necessary two doses to only about 3% of its 1.35 billion people.
India’s Mahindra expects car sales to take two years to rebound after COVID shock
Car sales had started to pick up in the January-March period but a second, more deadly wave of infections forced lockdowns again. This time consumer sentiment has taken a hit and discretionary spending is likely to take longer to recover.
The virus is also spreading to rural India, which was relatively protected during the first wave and had offset the low demand automakers saw in urban centres.
Carmakers in ‘India’s Detroit’ allowed to operate as workers protest COVID risk
Tamil Nadu government order issued on Saturday said so-called continuous process industries, which include auto factories, would be allowed to function in accordance with measures such as social distancing to stem the virus’s spread.
It also urged vehicle manufacturers to initiate immediate action to vaccinate all their employees within a month.
Only 30% of firms in US, Europe to embrace full return-to-office model
“By shifting conversations to focus on the working environments that best suit employees’ needs moving forward, organisations can ensure that their employees feel they are being heard and that they have the autonomy and tools to do their jobs effectively,” said Keith Johnston, VP and group research director at Forrester.