Hana1, which employs 800 workers, declared bankruptcy on June 22 and is now set to close, with factory representatives saying the factory can’t afford to pay its workers because of financial losses due to the spread of COVID-19
Deobandi seminaries had faced competition from other Islamic schools, primarily Barelvi Islam. Barelvi Islam, for example, remains the most popular Islamic school in what is now Pakistan’s Punjab province
The study revealed that the median age of COVID-19 admissions was 50 years, 338 were patients who are 18 years and younger and 1 386 older than 70, while 5 778 were female
The petition alleges that at the Xuan Loc Penitentiary in Dong Nai province, where Nguyen Van Duc Do is serving an 11-year sentence, guards tortured him for requesting time on weekends to sunbathe
Lopinavir-ritonavir made no difference in short-term mortality rates, hospital stay lengthsor illness progression to ventilation. The results do not include patients on ventilators because of how difficult it is to administer drugs to them
The World Health Organization (WHO) director general says the coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over” and that the outbreak is accelerating globally. At his usual press briefing from Geneva Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Tuesday marks six months since the U.N. health agency was first informed of a cluster of unusual …
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India must now “be bolder” in considering its policy regarding questions on Tibet, deputy speaker of Tibet’s India-based exile parliament Yeshi Phuntsok told RFA’s Tibetan Service in an interview last week
A month after George Floyd, an African American man, died in police custody in Minnesota, protests against police brutality and for wider racial justice have spread not only across the U.S. but throughout the world
According to multiple news reports published since the imposition of the lockdown in Indian in the fourth week of March, suicide was identified to be the leading cause for many “non-coronavirus deaths” in India because of distress triggered by the nationwide lockdown
Zimbabwe has suspended all monetary transactions on phone-based mobile money platforms as well as trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. In a statement, the Ministry of Information said the measures are “intended to deal with malpractices, criminality and economic sabotage.” The ministry said government is carrying out “intrusive investigations” that would lead to “the arrest …