The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
From Madrid, to Germany to France, the elderly in the Old Age homes are dying in higher and higher numbers in Europe. It is a Tsunami of deaths in action!
On Tuesday night, the health authority in the Grand Est region said two-thirds of its 620 old people’s homes had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and 570 residents had died. Those 570 people are not recorded in France’s official coronavirus death toll, which reached 4,503 on April 2, but so far counts only those who have died in hospital. Eastern France, which has had 1,112 hospital deaths, was the first region in the country to be badly hit by the pandemic. (Source: Tragedy unfolds as virus deaths rise in Europe’s homes for elderly | Financial Times)
Many elderly were abandoned and many were found dead in their beds.
IN Italy meanwhile, while earlier old age home deaths were reported from the northern regions – the infections have moved to Southern areas as well.
In the Annual predictions for 2018
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had said that by the end of that
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