Day: May 15, 2020

Hong Kong shop offers ‘tear gas’ flavor ice cream

HONG KONG — Tear gas is among the new flavors at a Hong Kong ice cream shop. The main ingredient is black peppercorns, a reminder of the pungent, peppery rounds fired by police on the streets of the semi-autonomous Chinese city during months of demonstrations last year. “It […]

Auto workers’ tenuous return a ray of hope in jobs crisis

DETROIT — Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major industry is making a comeback: Tens of thousands of auto workers are returning to factories that have been shuttered since mid-March due to fears […]

Clogged cooling system likely cause of gas leak in Andhra Pradesh, three investigators say

VISAKHAPATNAM, India – A clogged cooling system was the likely cause of a temperature surge in a storage tank which led to a gas leak at a chemical plant in India, killing 12 people, three state government investigators told Reuters.FILE PHOTO: Municipal workers decontaminate outside of the LG […]

Delayed survey data blurs India's coronavirus picture

NEW DELHI – India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a national task force said, complicating a decision on opening up from a lockdown. The […]

India's farmers gather record wheat crop, but cannot move it

GHARAUNDA, India – Late last month, Sukrampal had to beg and borrow farmhands from nearby villages to gather his part of the country’s largest-ever wheat harvest in Haryana state near New Delhi. Now the 50-year-old Indian farmer has a bigger problem: how to sell his crops when the […]

JNCASR scientists develop injectable Silk Fibroin-based hydrogel for sustained Insulin delivery in diabetic patients

open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 15: Scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous research institute under the Department of Science and Technology, have recently developed an injectable Silk fibroin-based hydrogel for sustained insulin delivery in diabetic patients. A patent application has also been filed for this invention. […]

Forecast for the 2020 Southwest Monsoon Onset over Kerala

The monsoon onset over Kerala this year  is likely to be on 5th June with a model error of ± 4 days open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 15: The National Weather Forecasting Centre of the  India Meteorological Department,has come out with the forecast of Monsoon onset […]

Third Advance Estimates of Production of Foodgrains, Oilseeds and other Commercial Crops for 2019-20

open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 15: The 3rd Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2019-20 have been released by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare today. The cumulative rainfall in the country during the monsoon season (June to September, 2019) has been 10% […]

Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 2,649; cases climb to 81,970: Health Ministry

New Delhi, May 15: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,649 and the number of cases climbed to 81,970 on Friday, registering an increase of 100 deaths and 3,967 cases in the last 24 hours since Thursday 8 AM, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number […]

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