Deaths, hospitalisation can go up due to Omicron, warns Europe’s health agency

A ‘stealth’ version of Omicron can raise risks of virus spread

COVID-19 impacted global migration trend in 2020: UN report

The number of emigrants increased to 281 million in 2020 from 272 million in 2019

Economic price for neglecting mental health of children is $387.2 billion a year: UNICEF

More than 13% adolescents aged 10-19 live with a diagnosed mental disorder globally

Pentagon report says UFOs can't be explained, and this admission is a big deal

The report does not, as many were hoping, conclude UFOs are alien spacecraft.

Good health, reduction of poverty, hunger rated as today’s top priorities in Ipsos poll

Half of respondents said their government was not doing enough to achieve SDGs

January 2021 ninth-warmest month for US on record: NOAA

Below-average precipitation experienced in several regions; peak ice coverage declined

Coronavirus update: Delhi Metro resumes even as India keeps adding more than 90,000 cases a day

India added 90,802 new cases in the last 24 hours, overtakes Brazil in total case tally

COVID-19: India, 57 other countries demand probe into WHO’s response

Draft resolution tabled for World Health Assembly starting on May 18

COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts

Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said

Farmers want Modi to avoid unfair trade deals with Trump

Expresses concern over possible access of US agri products to Indian markets

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action

The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original

Sino-US trade war: Why China can’t win it

China has no future of becoming a game-changer and a lasting and trusted global leader

Energy in news on June 6

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Much in a name

Online Review>> Court Verdict • US

Sued for snooping

Telecommunication>> Government Surveillance • US

Real Hunger Games

Film>> Marketing Strategy • US

Rap for ad

Advertisement>> Mountain Dew ÔÇó The US

What gas

Advertisement>> Coke • The US

Crude and wholesome

Whole plant of sweet wormwood more effective than its extract in treating malaria

Proof in the pee

Simple urine test can help identify Kawasaki disease

NASA goofs up

Photo>> Everest • US/Nepal

Indicator of doom

Ecosystems undergo dramatic fluctuations just before collapse

The inside story

How popular tuberculosis drug works

Crust falls apart

2004 megaquake fractured the Indo-Australian plate of Earth

For the record