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* Countries across Europe went into lockdown yesterday in an attempt to stem the number of Covid-19 cases * France closed all non-essential public locations including restaurants, shops, cinemas, and Eiffel Tower * Spanish Government declared state of emergency as death toll rose by 120 and infections surpassed 5,700 * Borders in Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine closed yesterday * Over half of all cases are in China, while Italy and Iran have been hit hardest outside of the People's Republic
Countries across Europe were placed into lockdown yesterday in a desperate attempt to stem the soaring tally of coronavirus cases after the Continent became the new 'epicentre' of the global pandemic.
France last night took the decision to close all non-essential public locations.
Restaurants, shops, cinemas and cafes have shut for the foreseeable future as French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe branded the virus the 'biggest health crisis in a century'.
In Spain, the government declared a state of emergency as the death toll there rose by 120 and the number of confirmed cases leapt from 1,500 to more than 5,700 in 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Poland shut down all its airports - forcing thousands of stranded British tourists to head out of the country by car.
Borders were also closed to foreign visitors in Denmark, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine.
* Three coalition soldiers - a British woman and two Americans - killed Wednesday * British Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, 26, a reserve, died in attack on Camp Taji * The US retaliated by killing five Iraqi security forces and a civilian in air strikes
A barrage of rockets has hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led coalition troops for the second time this week, security officials said.
Three coalition service personnel - a British woman and two Americans - were killed in the first attack on Camp Taji on Wednesday.
It was the deadliest attack on coalition troops in Iraq since a late December rocket attack on an Iraqi base that killed a US contractor and set in motion a series of tit-for-tat attacks that brought Iraq to the brink of war.
In retaliation, the US launched a series of air strikes on militia bases across Iraq's south, killing five Iraqi security forces and a civilian.
How the Corona virus is going to effect military readiness: ▪️Not enough beds, not enough mil hospitals ▪️Good news, ave soldier is young and in good health ▪️Virus could hit us multiple times like Spanish flu ▪️Could knock units out of commission for wkshttps://t.co/U6Q8NBIHWo
The Pentagon on Saturday afternoon said it has moved toward "minimal staffing" over coronavirus fears a day after President Trump formally declared a national emergency. CBS national security correspondent Cami McCormick broke the news, describing:
Defense Dept. officials have raised alert level at the Pentagon to Bravo. There will now be "minimal staffing" at the Pentagon due to coronavirus.
Crucially this alert level refers to staffing levels and virus precautionary measures only and is not a reference to DEFCON, which is the national defense readiness condition used to gauge military threats.
Pentagon officials late Friday announced a total domestic travel ban for all troops, civilian personnel and their families until May 11 in an effort to limit their potential exposure to the coronavirus.
In addition, troops will be granted "only authorized local leave" for the duration of the travel restrictions, limiting their ability to visit family and friends in far away states.
"The continuing spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) necessitates immediate implementation of travel restrictions for domestic Department of Defense travel," the memo announcing the new travel rules stated.
Travelling between my home and chalet today. Blogging will return later this evening.
My mother has a doctor's appointment this Monday (she is 93). Nothing serious. She is participating in a clinical trial on memory loss. After that it is off to the chalet to weather out this pandemic. I am not worried about myself, I am more worried that if I get sick I will probably transmit this illness to my mother. That possibility is unacceptable to me. So I going to self-isolate myself as best as I can. And while I will need to go back and forth to Montreal at least once a week, any contact with people will be done with the proper precautions. And as for this blog. I am all set up in my chalet. There should be no interruptions.
One more message, and IMHO an important one, is to the readers of this blog. Your support and messages are appreciated. I know all of you are prepared for what is coming. And for those who are experiencing it right now, I know you will be a stronger and tougher person when you come out of it. I sometimes forget that the WNU community is very big, diverse, and spread throughout the world. And while we differ on a lot issues, we are all facing the same foe right now. That unity is a lot of strength, and it is why I know that in the end, we will all be OK.
Update#2: The GF is staying in Kingston where she lives and work. But if everything shuts down she will self-isolate, and she will meet me at my chalet two weeks later where I am set up to live comfortably and without stress for a long time.
Politicians, Community Leaders and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?
Updated on 3/13/2020. Now reflects an update on containment vs. mitigation strategies. 19 translations at the bottom. Send me more existing translations in private notes at the bottom. This article has received 24 million views in the last 72h.
With everything that's happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today? What?
Here's what I'm going to cover in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources:
* How many cases of coronavirus will there be in your area? * What will happen when these cases materialize? * What should you do? * When?
When you're done reading the article, this is what you'll take away:
The coronavirus is coming to you. It's coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly. It's a matter of days. Maybe a week or two. When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed. Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways. Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die. They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies. The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today. That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.
WNU Editor: The same is happening in Montreal. Took the Montreal metro last night. It was almost empty. And the bar that I went to see a friend to have a beer .... a bar that is usually packed .... was almost empty. My brother is also telling me that the highways around the Bay area in California are almost empty. Bottom line. The economic impact from this pandemic is going to be huge.
Update: Here is a good analysis on the impact that the Covid-19 coronavidurs pandemic is going to have on the national and global economies .... How The Covid-19 Shock Is Different (Zero Hedge).
Now, novel coronavirus panic buyers are snatching up ... toilet paper?
Retailers in the US and Canada have started limiting the number of toilet paper packs customers can buy in one trip. Some supermarkets in the UK are sold out. Grocery stores in Australia have hired security guards to patrol customers. An Australian newspaper went so far as printing eight extra pages in a recent edition -- emergency toilet paper, the newspaper said, should Aussies run out.
Why? Toilet paper does not offer special protection against the virus. It's not considered a staple of impending emergencies, like milk and bread are.
So why are people buying up rolls more quickly than they can be restocked?
WNU Editor: I experienced this more than once in the former Soviet Union. Lines would form in front a store because there is a rumour that it has something to sell at a good price. And yes, that experience in the Soviet Union scarred me. As a rule I always make sure that I have a two to 3 month supply of food and essentials in my home in Montreal, my chalet north of Montreal, and in my home in Moscow. And as for toilet paper. Toilet paper in the Soviet Union was cardboard crap, and everyone hated it. That is why today I always make it a rule to have a case of toilet rolls (50 rolls/case) on reserve in my home in Montreal and in Moscow. I never, never, never want to go through the experience of running out of toilet paper that I had 35 years ago. And trust me on this. Neither will you.
Update: The next rush will be on dog and cat food. I asked the GF yesterday on how much dog food that she had left for her rottweiler. She had about a week left. Rushed to the store, and there were only two bags of the brand that she uses left. She bought it right away. The shelves were almost empty for the other brands.
ISIS issues advice to terrorists on how to tackle coronavirus – including a travel ban, washing hands, and 'putting your faith in God' https://t.co/VY0Q1tAkH8
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Rockets hit military base housing US and other coalition troops north of Baghdad Saturday morning, wounding 3 coalition soldiers and 2 Iraqi soldiers. https://t.co/NbFwzDM3ej
The British soldier whom the Iran-backed proxies killed in an attack on the Taji base in Iraq has been named as L/Cpl Brodie Gillon, 26, who was described as a "larger than life soldier" who was "destined for great things." | https://t.co/OvMoFq8uhr… pic.twitter.com/qJVBrnfheZ
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UPSSSC Result 2020 @ uppsc.up.nic.in: Dear Candidates !!! The officials of the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has announced the Results for Various Posts. The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has conducted the Written Examination to recruit the right candidates. A huge number of candidates have completed the UPSSSC Exam for various Posts. Here on this page, we have provided complete information about the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Result 2020. As we know, every aspirant is waiting for the UPSSSC Result 2020 and anyone can check your results from this page. As well as candidates can also check the results from the official website @ uppsc.up.nic.in.
Uttar Pradesh SSSC Marketing Inspector Result 2020 Released: Dear Candidates !!! A huge number of aspirants are curiously waiting to know their result status. The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission has announced this recruitment to fill 672 vacancies of Assistant Chakbandi Officer/ Assistant Rectification Officer, Marketing Inspector, & other posts on 30th September & 1st October 2019. The UPSSSC Department contains two stages of selection process such as the Written Test and Interview. Moreover, the Board of UPSSSC is planning to declare the UPSSSC Garden, Supply Inspector, Others Result 2020 tentatively in the month of March 2020. Therefore, we are providing a direct link to download the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Exam Results 2020. The link will activate at the time of the official announcement. Additionally, check and download the UPSSSC Inspector, Officer, Other Posts Cut Off Marks 2020 and UPSSSC Inspector, Officer, Other Posts Merit List 2020.
UPSSSC Marketing Inspector, ARO, & Other Result 2020
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Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission
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UPSSSC Village Development Officer Result 2020 Released: Dear Candidates !!! A huge number of aspirants are curiously waiting to know their result status. The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has commenced the exam for filling 1953 Gram Vikas Adhikari, Gram Panchayat Adhikari, Samaj Kalyan Prayveshak posts. Many aspirants have appeared for this examination on 22nd, 23rd December 2018 and they are searching to know the UPSSSC Village Development Officer Result 2020. For the sake of the aspirants, we have updated a quick link to download UPSSSC Village Development Officer Result 2020. The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission Officials have announced UPSSSC Village Development Officer Result on 29th February 2020. Also, aspirants can check the Uttar Pradesh SSSC VDO Cut Off Marks and Merit List 2020 on this page.
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UPSSSC Yuva Vikas Dal Adhikari Result 2020 Released: Candidates who are eagerly waiting for the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Yuva Vikas Dal Adhikari Result 2020 can get their exam results from here. A huge number of candidates have written the Examination conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission on 21st – 25th October 2019. The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has declared the Yuva Vikas Dal Adhikari Result on 24th February 2020. Here, we have provided the direct link to download the UPSSSC Yuva Vikas Dal Adhikari Result 2020 here. Candidates can also check the UPSSSC Yuva Vikas Dal Adhikari Cut Off Marks, Merit List 2020 here.
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Uttar Pradesh SSSC Homeopathic Pharmacist Result 2020 Release soon @ upsssc.gov.in. The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has commenced the Homeopathic Pharmacist (Bheshijik) Examination on 24th October 2019. Many aspirants are looking for the UPSSSC Homeopathic Pharmacist Result 2020. This is the right place to get your Results. The UPSSSCBoard has announced this recruitment to fill 420 vacancies of Homeopathic Pharmacist posts. Moreover, the Uttar Pradesh SSSC is planning to declare the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Homeopathic Pharmacist Result 2020 in March 2020 (Tentatively). Here, We will provide the direct link to download the UPSSSC Exam Result 2020. And the link will be activated at the time of the official announcement.
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UPSSSC Junior Assistant Result 2020 Release soon @ upsssc.gov.in. Therefore, the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate SSSC Junior Assistant Examination was held on 04th January 2020. A vast number of aspirants appeared for the Examination. The UPSSSC Official has organized this recruitment to fill 1186 vacancies. The participants must undergo three stages of the selection process. They are the Written Exam, Typing Test and the Interview. Moreover, the officials are planning to declare the UPSSSC Junior Assistant Result 2020. Here, We will update the direct link to get the Uttar Pradesh SSSC JA Result 2020. And the link will activate at the time of the official announcement. And also aspirants can check the UPSSSC JA Cut Off Marks 2020 and Merit List 2020 on this page.
UPPSC Tubewell Operator Final Result 2019 Released @ uppsc.up.nic.in | The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission officials have declared the Final Result for the Posts of Tubewell Operator on 27th November 2019. Aspirants who had attended for the exam can check the Uttar Pradesh PSC Tubewell Operator Final Result 2019 from this page by clicking on the below-given link. Aspirants can also check the UPPSC Cut Off Marks, Merit List on this page.
UPPSC Legislative Building & Forest Guard Final Result 2019 Released @ uppsc.up.nic.in | The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission officials have declared the Final Result for the Posts of Legislative Building & Forest Guard on 02nd November 2019. Aspirants who had attended for the exam can check the Uttar Pradesh PSC Legislative Building & Forest Guard Final Result 2019 from this page by clicking on the below-given link.
UPPSC Legislative Building & Forest Guard Final Result 2019
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UPPSC Asst Accountant & Auditor Posts Final Result 2019 Released @ uppsc.up.nic.in: Dear Candidates !!! The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission officials have declared the Final Result for Asst Accountant & Auditor on 16th October 2019. Aspirants who had attended for the exam can check the Uttar Pradesh PSC Asst Accountant & Auditor Final Result 2019 from the below-given link.
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UPSSSC Cut Off Marks 2020
Aspirants can have detailed information about UPSSSC Cut off Marks 2020. The UPSSSC Board has not yet released the exact cut off marks. The higher authority of Uttar Pradesh SSSC will be releasing the UPSSSC Cut off Marks 2020 according to the categories of the aspirants SC, ST, BC, OC. Aspirants must know the cut off marks before appearing in the examination to score high marks. The officials will soon release the cut off marks in their official web page. After the announcement of the results, candidates can check the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Cut Off Marks 2020 on this webpage.
Candidate's category (General, OBC, SC, ST).
The number of aspirants attended the written examination.
The number of posts available.
Previous year cut off marks.
Toughness level of the question paper.
UPSSSC Merit List 2020 @ uppsc.up.nic.in
Generally, the Merit List will be released after the announcement of the results by the authority of the Uttar Pradesh SSSC. The candidates who score maximum marks in all the sections will be listed on the merit list. Here, aspirants can check and download your merit list from this page. By using the roll number can access the UPSSSC Merit List 2020. Aspirants with maximum score in the examination will be shortlisted for the next round that is Interview according to the Merit List. In the upcoming section, we have given the stepwise downloading procedure to check the Uttar Pradesh SSSC Result 2020.
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Direct Links to Download Uttar Pradesh SSSC Result 2020
LMRC Result2020 for various LMRCL Recruitment is announced. Candidates those who applied for various LMRCL Vacancies can start to check their Result. We Provide you individual Result link in the section below. However, check your LMRC Result respective to the post applied. Furthermore, get other details like selection Process, Cut Off Marks, Merit List & Final Result details in the section below. Moreover, visit the official website of Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited for more details or for any queries.
LMRC Result 2020
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Junior Engineer, Assistant Manager, Public Relations Assistant
Lucknow MRCL Junior Engineer, Assistant Engineer, PRA Result 2020 Released @ lmrcl.com: Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd has commenced the Junior Engineer, Assistant Manager, Public Relations Assistant Examination on 20th & 22nd January 2020. Many candidates have attended the LMRCL Junior Engineer Result 2020 successfully. The Board of LMRCL has announced this recruitment to fill 183 vacancies of Junior Engineer, Assistant Manager, Public Relations Assistant posts in Lucknow. The Department of Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited contains three levels of selection process such as Written Test, Interview, and Document Verification. And we will give a direct link to download the Lucknow MRCL Result 2020. The link will be activated at the time of the official announcement. Using this quick link candidate can also check and download the LMRCL Junior Engineer, PRA, Assistant Manager Cut Off Marks 2020 and LMRCL Junior Engineer, PRA, Assistant Manager Merit List 2020.
LMRCL Junior Engineer, Assistant Engineer, PRA Result 2020
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Junior Engineer, Assistant Manager, Public Relations Assistant
LMRC Result 2020: The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited released the result on 22nd May 2019. However, Candidates, those who attended the Station Controller Cum Train Operator online written test Held on 16-04-2019. Also, Psycho Aptitude test held from 09-05-2019 to 12-05-2019 can check the LMRC Result 2020. Download the LMRC Result & Document verification list from the link given below.
LMRC Result 2020: Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited finally announced the LMRC Result & Cut Off for the SCTO Vacancies. Candidates those who are attended online exam held on 16th April 2019 can start to check their Result. Aspirants can download the PDF of LMRC Result 2020 from the link given below. Furthermore, to make visitors to our site easy to get their results we have given a direct download link here. However, click on the download button and check your LMRC Result 2020.
Lucknow Metro Recruitment 2020 Details
Name of the Organization
Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Limited
Name of the Post
Non-Executive various Post
Number of Vacancies
358
Category
SarkariResult
Job Location
Lucknow
Notification Date
23rd Feb 2019
Admit Card Date
09th April 2019
Examination Date
16th April 2019
Result Date
30th April 2019
Official Website
lmrcl.com
Finally, Candidates can download the LMRC Result 2020 in the form of PDF from the link given below.
The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation has released the LMRC Cut off Marks too along with the Result 2020 for SCRO Vacancies on 30th April 2019. Candidates who attended the Written test for the post of SCTO can check the cut marks for the LMRC Result for SCTO 2019 from the link given below. Candidates are shortlisted based on the Cut off Marks. So, Applicants need to go through the LMRC Cut off marks once before checking the Results. Here, We are Providing you with a link to download the LMRC Cut Off Marks PDF below.
Candidates can find the other details of LMRC Recruitment 2020 like Offical Notification, LMRCL Admit Card, LMRC Syllabus, Previous Papers, and others on our main page i.e., www.recruitment.guru. However, keep visiting the site for future updates. We provide you with the latest updates of Notifications and direct links to download Admit Card, Check Result and other.
BFUHS Results 2020 Released: The Baba Farid University of Health Science has announced the B.Sc Nursing, BDS, PG Medical Final Year, COTA and also other courses on 13th March 2020. Understudies who have shown up for these assessments can check their BFUHS Results from the official site of the University i.e, bfuhs.ac.in. Here on this webpage, we have given an immediate connection to get the BFUHS Results 2020 from the below-given table. It will assist the understudies with checking and download the outcomes with no hesitation. Hence, Students can check more subtleties like Academic guidelines, Courses, and different subtleties at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences Webpage.
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BFUHS Supply/Revaluation Results
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Bundelkhand University Announced the BU Jhansi Result 2020 for the M.A History Previous Year and different Courses Exam Result 2020. Look at the Official Website @ bujhansi.ac.in to think about the Bundelkhand University Jhansi Result 2020. Likewise here on this page, we have given an immediate connect to get the Result 2020 from the beneath the table. The University offers Under Graduate, Post Graduate, Regular/Supplementary, Distance Education and Various Courses. Each one of those understudies can check their Result 2020 from the University online entrance just as on this page. Here we constantly used to refresh all the most recent data with respect to the BU Jhansi Result 2020.
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M.Lib & Information Science, M.Sc in Geology, Home Science,
M.A in Hindi, Home Science, Education, English, Drawing and Painting, Mass Communication and Journalism.
M.Com, MAE, MBE, MHM, MFA, PGDEM, PGDFS
Under Graduate Courses:
B.Sc. in Home Science, Maths Group, Biology Group
B.Sc (Hons) in Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Forensic Science, Geology, Biomedical Science, Food Technology and Maths, Statistics and Computer Science
B.A. in Mass Communication & Journalism
B.A. (Hons) in Hindi, Social Work, Statistics, English, Education, Home Science, Economics, Fine Arts, Physical Education.
Honors Courses: BBA, B.Com, BCA
Other Courses: BPT, B.Lib & Info. Science, BBA Tourism, B.P.E.S
How to Download BU Jhansi Result 2020?
Visit the official website of Bundelkhand University i.e bujhansi.ac.in
On the home page, you will find the Examination Service tab and click on the View Result 2020.
In the Result 2020 page, you can find the Result 2020 for various courses.
Click on the Result 2020ult link for which course you want to check.
Result 2020 will appear on the screen.
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Built upon 26th August 1975, Bundelkhand University was set up to satisfy his fantasy about making another foundation of higher learning important to the time and needs of the country when all is said in done and the Bundelkhand area. College joins a huge field in Jhansi spread in a zone of 180 acResult 2020 giving all the offices to the researchers. it’s 26 establishments and nine-school divisions through which it offers various undergrad, postgraduate, Result 2020earch projects, proficient courses, specialized and various professional projects. The mechanism of guidance inside the college is English.
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Kuvempu University Results 2020 Declared: Dear Students !!! Kuvempu University has released the results for various courses each & every day. Students who have participated in the Examination can check the KUDDE Results from the official portal of the University i.e, kuvempuuniversitydde.org. The University has released the Kuvempu University Results 2020 for MBA, M.A, B.Sc, B.Com, M.Sc, BA, BCA, and also various other courses. Here on this page, we have updated the results for all courses, UG, PG and Regular/Supplementary Students. We advise the Students to check the university website regularly to know more latest Updated information about the Kuvempu University Results 2020.
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The Kuvempu University established in 1978 under the Karnataka Govt. The university offers various PG & UG Courses along with several research programs. Students from many places from Karnataka are studying in this university in various departments like Arts, Science, Commerce, Law & others. In addition to imparting education through regular mode, the university also provides the opportunity of distance learning through the Distance education system. Now, the university has a total of 99 affiliated wherein 3 constituent colleges, 30 Government Aided, 65 unaided private colleges and one college under the direct control of the university. The Honorable Governor of Karnataka Mr.Vajubhai Rudhbhai Vala is the chancellor of the university and Prof. Jogan Shankar is the vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University.
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Saurashtra University Results 2020 Declared: Dear Students !!! As an ongoing notice discharged by the Saurashtra University is that they have refreshed the college brings about the official entry. So, All the students who have experienced through the semester assessment can check with the underneath recorded connections to realize your imprints scored. Competitors can check the Saurashtra University Exam Results 2020 through Online procedure as it were. In this way, candidates can utilize this one of a kind chance and get their test scores directly on this webpage. Henceforth, all the students can check more information about the Saurashtra University Results 2020 in the beneath areas of this website page.
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Saurashtra University is one of the Significant colleges in Gujarat, India. The college was built upon 23rd May 1967, in Rajkot city and the managerial base camp is at Rajkot. In later, there are 272 schools partnered to Saurashtra University. schools from Amreli, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Porbandar, Rajkot, and Surendranagar areas are associated with Saurashtra University. The Governor of Gujarat will go about as Chancellor to this college while Mr. Nilambari R. Dave is the Vice-Chancellor of the college.
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DU Results 2020 Declared: Dear Folks !!! Here comes unprecedented news for understudies who are looking for after their degree under the University of Delhi. Delhi University has announced the semester appraisal results for UG/PG Semester Examination. Here understudies can download the all-out course of action of DU Results 2020 and besides DU Entrance Results. We have in like manner included no information regarding Delhi University. Moreover, take a gander at the base of the article to get the DU Revaluation Exam Results. Keep in touch with our page to know the day to day updates.
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As an understudy of Delhi University, you may have known the all out nuances of the school. regardless, let us delineate a few additional bits of knowledge with respect to the University of Delhi. The University of Delhi as of late known as Delhi University which is organized in the capital city of India i.e, Delhi. It was built up in 1922 by an exhibit of the Central Legislative Assembly as a college school. The University of Delhi has become India’s greatest foundation of higher learning and among the greatest on earth.
Starting at now, the school has around 77 backup schools and 5 unique foundations with an enrollment of in excess of 1,32,000 normal understudies and 2,61,000 Non-formal understudies. Mr.Vice-President of India charging as Chancellor of the school while Mr.Yogesh Kumar Tyagi is the Vice-Chancellor of the school. Also, it offers nearly 240-course out of these 87 are Undergraduate and 153 are Post Graduate Courses. In addition, nuances understudies can visit the official site of Delhi University.
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Tumkur University Results 2020 Declared: Dear Students !!! Tumkur University has pronounced UG, PG, Diploma, and Other Exam Result 2020. UG and PG Semester and Annual Exam Results will be transferred on the official site of the college. Understudies who have finished with the test in there streams like B.A, B.Sc, B.Com, M.A, M.Sc, and Others are excitedly sitting tight for the outcome. The assessment results are significant for the understudies to go to next semester. Understudies can stay in contact with our recruitment.guru site page to get the most recent updated Tumkur University Results 2020.
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About Tumkur University
The foundation of Tumkur University was in 2004 in Tumkur, Karnataka, India. From Bangalore University, Tumkur District understudies suited with their essential needs. Set up under the Karnataka State Universities Act, 2000, as a multi-workforce school, it has 12 postgraduate divisions, 2 constituent schools, and 94 backup schools. The University set up 29 research communities to advance progressed multi-disciplinary research and scholastic collaborations. In the year 2000-2001, new subjects like Computer Science, Microbiology, Electronics and Biochemistry likewise blended up. In 2008, postgraduate courses remembered for Chemistry, Physics, and Environment Science.
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Madhya Pradesh HC Admit Card 2020 Released for 47 District Judges. The Prelims Exam will be held on 16th March 2020. Thus, the MP High Court Hall Ticket is declared on 14th March 2020. Therefore, the Madhya Pradesh Exam Admit Card is at the below table.
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MP High Court Mains Admit Card 2019 will be released on 01st Week of September 2019 for the post of District Judge. Thus, the MP High Court Mains Exam will be held on 07th September & 08th September 2019. Aspirants should download the admit card before the exam date. Those who cleared the MP High Court Prelims examination can download the Mains admit card from the below section.
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The coronavirus scare is giving Sonali Mohan, a Gurgaonbased education consultant, sleepless nights. Apart from the anxiety over the widespread infection, she is now unnerved about both her daughters studying in US universities, especially after 150 colleges asked students to vacate campuses and shifted classes online to check the spread of the virus."My younger daughter is a final-year student in Pomona College in California and it is impossible for her to even consider leaving the US now despite classes going online.She is preparing for her thesis, for which she needs access to the library and laboratory. She will also be filing a petition for optional practical training (OPT), which will allow her to remain in the US and look for a job after course completion," says Mohan.The period between filing for OPT with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and getting an employment authorisation document, which permits a student to remain there to look for a job, could be between 60 and 120 days. Leaving the US during that period is not advisable for applicants, says Sudhir Shah, a Mumbaibased immigration lawyer. "The economic situation has become more uncertain now due to coronavirus. It may get tougher for students to find employment after their course."Early this week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and 150 other US universities said they were moving all undergraduate and graduate classes online for the time being. Several institutes have asked students to vacate the campuses until further notice. Suddenly, students, especially those who have taken loans and work part-time on campus to sustain themselves, have been left in the cold. They would have to find accommodation outside campuses, which can be expensive, to stay back in the US or return to their home country. 74629975 "US colleges, especially those in areas with many cases of coronavirus patients, are looking to reduce the campus population," says Adarsh Khandelwal, cofounder and director of overseas education consultancy Collegify.News articles in the US have reported stories of even low-income American students facing financial and other troubles because of a sudden shutdown that is forcing them to go back home. Some colleges have offered to accommodate students who cannot travel back home at such short notice.Many colleges and communities have set up helpline desks for international students who do not have family or friends to stay with in the US. Despite these measures, students and parents have been rattled by the situation."We have been told that campus will remain open," says an undergraduate student from India at UCLA who doesn't want to be named. "But only the barest of resources, like dining, would be available. A lot of students and their parents are panicking." The undergrad student has moved into a relative's place for now."Students are confused about whether they should come back to India or stay back in the US," says V Anandkumar, an IT professional in Bengaluru whose daughter is an undergraduate student at the UCLA. 74629999 "My daughter has gone to her friend's place in the US till the end of the semester. After that, she will head to my sister's place in Silicon Valley. But not everyone has family in the US and many Indian students are being forced to head home.UCLA is among the universities that have shifted classes and exams online.Students who have chosen US universities known for prestigious classroom learning experience are not appreciative of shifting to an online mode."Classroom learning is an immersive experience, especially for soft-skills courses such as leadership, which benefit from group work or classes based on case discussions," says Aditi Chadha, who is enrolled into MIT's prestigious Sloan MBA programme."It is hard to do that online, and to electronically raise your hand each time on a software." And what about campus events for recruitment and networking that have been cancelled or maybe streamed online? The online mode would not be as compelling as the real one when it comes to networking and interviews, says Chadha, who cofounded DAZL, a tech startup in Gurgaon that created a wearable device with SOS alerts targetted at women, before going to the US for the MBA.For those who opt to return, Khandelwal says the time difference between the US and India and internet connectivity issues could pose problems for virtual classes.Thousands of Indian students in the US and their parents share similar concerns. The parents were reluctant to mention their children's names because of the uncertainty regarding visa and job prospects.There is, however, some hope for students on F1 visas, which mandate a certain number of class-hours on campuses. The USCIS said it would make accommodation for such candidates. "Students on F1 visas should be able to maintain their status even if the programme goes online and they leave the campus as long as the university makes the notification to USCIS within 10 days," says Cyrus Mehta, an immigration lawyer in New York.If the pandemic situation worsens and schools have to completely shut down and students have to come back to India, he says, USCIS may still allow them to keep the F1 status. Such steps have been taken in the past, such as after the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001.For now, the atmosphere of uncertainty continues to haunt the thousands of Indian students spread across US campuses and their parents in India.
By Naomi Kresge and Corinne GretlerNizana Brautmann found out her 6-year-old son had been exposed to coronavirus via a note on the locked door of his Berlin daycare center on Monday morning. It told parents to take their kids home and wait.That was the last clear information she got. The center asked parents to decide whether to quarantine their families. Her doctor told her to stay away from his office and take over-the-counter cold remedies. A medical hotline advised herbal tea. Though her son had a cough and Brautmann was running a slight fever and had some trouble drawing a full breath, a test was surprisingly hard to come by.Brautmann is just one among many. As the focus of the new pandemic shifts to Europe, authorities there have been slower to embrace the aggressive testing credited with helping to curb the spread in Asia. The U.K. changed its rules late Thursday to test only the most severe cases -- people who require hospitalization -- as officials there warned that as many as 10,000 Britons may be infected.Meanwhile, a shortage of tests in the U.S. has left the true scope of the pandemic unclear. While restrictions help prevent authorities from wasting precious detection kits and staff time on hypochondriacs, not casting a wide enough net can give the pathogen a chance to spread undetected. The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on the matter this week as case numbers spiked."You can't fight a virus if you don't know where it is," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday. "That means robust surveillance to find, isolate, test and treat every case, to break the chains of transmission."Though four out of five people will probably have mild symptoms, the new coronavirus can be deadly for the elderly and people with conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.There are signs things could start to pick up in the U.S. Legislation to make tests free was approved by the House of Representatives. Roche Holding AG has won emergency approval from the federal government for a highly automated test, potentially speeding up tenfold the ability to diagnose patients. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told MSNBC on Friday that testing will accelerate within the next week because of increased coordination with private companies.Meanwhile, the challenge of tracking the chains of infection when this coronavirus gives some people barely any symptoms means the existing number of worldwide cases, currently above 135,000, is an understatement. The U.K. estimate of 10,000 is more than 12 times the official tally of confirmed cases as of Friday.'Disastrous' Decision"Testing only the most severe cases is a disastrous public-health decision," said Ralph Baric, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health and a veteran coronavirus researcher. People with few to no symptoms can easily pass the virus, he said, predicting "hundreds of thousands of additional infections" from uncontrolled spread without broader testing.When Spain expanded its criteria in early March beyond just those with a link to recent travel to China, its case tally surged from just a handful to several hundred. A death that had been attributed to another cause was swiftly uncovered. In the Seattle area, the virus began circulating in January but remained undetected until patients at a nursing home started dying.In France, health authorities readily acknowledge that the official figures don't reflect reality. Only "the tip of the iceberg" is visible, says Jerome Salomon, France's director general for health. But he points to other ways of identifying clusters: One person in the hospital means at least six or seven others must have a more benign form of the virus, he said at a briefing Wednesday. One death signals that at least 100 others are infected in the area.Others say Europe at least has moved past the point of trying to diagnose everyone with the sniffles, especially in a context where there aren't enough tests."Testing anyone with mild complaints seems sympathetic but burns resources," said Marion Koopmans, who heads the department of viroscience at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam and advises the WHO. "Better to have an aggressive stay at home policy and social distancing."In European countries including France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, authorities are sticking to a policy of testing mainly those who had traveled to a virus hotspot or had contact with a confirmed Covid-19 patient, even as the infection spreads more broadly through the community.The WHO is urging countries to test anyone with unexplained respiratory illness who has been in an area where the virus is being passed locally. Such community transmission is happening in much of Europe, as well as in the U.S."Diagnostic testing algorithms that only test a small proportion of people who are likely to be Covid-19 is not the way forward in this epidemic," said Michael Ryan, head of the WHO's emergencies program.In Germany, authorities are doing some broader testing as part of a working group on influenza. Patient samples are also being checked for coronavirus, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the country's public health authority.Success StoriesThere's evidence that broader testing helps. In South Korea, where authorities are assessing 10,000 people a day, there were more coronavirus recoveries than fresh infections for the first time this week. Proactive testing was part of the arsenal that Taiwan and Singapore used to limit the outbreak in their countries despite strong ties with China, where the virus originated.Casting a wider net could create its own set of problems, however, according to Rosanna Peeling, director of the International Diagnostics Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Random testing would certainly uncover additional cases, but might also cause panic."You'd want to isolate or quarantine them, but still it's so late by the time we know this that the virus has already taken off," Peeling said in an interview last week.Brautmann, the mom in Berlin, could have taken her sick child to a testing station in Berlin. The line at the location in her district was more than four hours long on Monday. She opted not to go, reasoning that if they were positive, they would expose others. Instead, she put herself and her son in home quarantine for two weeks.They go outside once a day, before the neighborhood begins to stir, to run around a nearby soccer field. Her son's daycare will remain closed until March 20, operator Kindergaerten NordOst said.Brautmann, 40, believes the official number of cases that have been identified in Berlin -- 158 as of Friday -- is misleading."It's a joke because nobody is testing us," she said.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" — Vladimir LeninA pandemic can be a threat to humankind. As for the macabre dance of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) across the globe, it's also throwing up a lot of material to reflect on, holding up a mirror to who we really are, as well as teachable moments in leadership, sacrifice, arrogance, human frailty and abounding, harmful stupidity.I'm thinking about the entitled folks who returned from Italy and, when taken to an army quarantine facility in Manesar, protested that material comforts were inadequate. When told the facility complied with protocols and this was going to be it, they made an offer they thought nobody would refuse: We can pay.They did not pause to think what such an offer would mean back in Italy, which went from 322 cases to 12,462 in about two weeks. Faced with a "tsunami" of incoming patients, overwhelmed doctors and healthcare workers must resort to a warlike medical triage system — they have to decide who among their patients gets a shot at life. An account from Lombardy describes heartrending scenes — hospital corridors filled with patients with acute distress, a clogged system unable to help people literally gasping for breath. Money is futile if you are the first patient to come in after all the emergency beds are taken.Shocking instances of civic negligence are reported from across India — patients running away from quarantine, attendants who discharged a patient against medical advice and took him to multiple private hospitals, folks concealing their travel history for fear of extended stay in a government hospital. They are probably unaware of the gravity of their actions. South Korea, which did very well in controlling the outbreak early on, was brought to its knees by one individual who ignored the doctor's advice. A so-called superspreader, Patient 31 travelled widely, coming into contact with over 1,000 people since being advised to get herself tested.Such behaviour jars against the sacrifice of the medical staff who are working to exhaustion around the world, reminded of their vulnerability by colleagues periodically succumbing to the disease.The virus is proving to be a terrible inconvenience by disregarding well-established human boundaries of wealth and social class. It is also showing a knack for grounding arrogance. NBA player Rudy Gobert tested positive days after making a joke of touching reporters' microphones. He must have felt invincible, which is easy when you are a sports star used to a $100 million salary contract. Coronavirus rolled its non-existent eye.Australia's home minister and stridently anti-immigrant politician Peter Dutton has tested positive, and will presumably be looked after well by immigrant nurses. 74630753 US President Donald Trump, who dismissed the concern over the virus as a hoax by the Democrats during a recent campaign rally, and his guest at Mar-a-Lago last weekend, Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro, who said the virus was a fantasy, have both been jolted after the latter's press secretary, present at the summit, tested positive. Brazil's ambassador in Washington, who sat at Trump's table at dinner, has also tested positive, and so has Miami mayor Francis Suarez, who met the Brazilian delegation separately.Rather sneaky of the virus to have got to sniffing distance of the world's most powerful man within weeks of departing the national boundaries of China.In England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has taken an enormous risk by following a markedly different strategy from every other country, following the advice of chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance, who is a proponent of the idea of herd immunity. Other countries are working on the idea of "flattening the curve", meaning slowing the spread of infection so that the public health systems are not overwhelmed. England is going to let the cases soar as it wants the population to develop immunity to the virus. The country believes this is the only lasting solution because while social distancing and lockdowns will slow down the spread of the virus, it can spread again when the restrictions are lifted.Constraints on economic growth must also be playing on the minds of UK's leaders. There is a real risk that lower economic growth due to reduced activity will bring greater misery to people's lives than the virus itself. That's something for all leaders to keep in mind, especially in poorer nations where daily wagers and those on the margins will suffer when economic activity is frozen.Nonetheless, UK's strategy hinges on being able to manage the peaks of the epidemic — make sufficient intensive care beds available for those who need it. Once you run out of beds, bodies will start piling up. It could also end up being a terribly discriminatory policy as the virus's morbidity is disproportionately high in those above 60 years. Some virologists have contested the herd immunity theory, saying there's little evidence that people develop sustained immunity to the coronavirus family. Depending on the outcomes, Johnson will either be damned as a killer or hailed as a genius who saw what no other country could. It's a leadership test with potentially thousands of lives at stake.The march of the virus is also bringing stories of hope, cheer and wonder. If you haven't, you must watch (on YouTube) the videos of Chinese drones enforcing the lockdown in Wuhan. The drones swoop down on people who are out and about, and an operator, unseen to the person, scolds them through the machine's speakers. "Why are you not wearing a mask? Go back home!" it chides an astonished little kid, who promptly turns around and scampers home.It has brought heartening evidence of state capacity, as states like Kerala and Karnataka have started publishing detailed route maps of infected individuals. In Kerala, state workers are delivering midday meals home to anganwadi children. From the same state has emerged the story of a shop that has sold 5,000 masks for Rs 2 each, after procuring them for Rs 10. A video from Italy, showing people in a locked down neighbourhood together singing Sicilian songs from their balconies, is a tribute to human resilience.The virus has also reminded us of our collective frailty. Who could, after-all, have fathomed that in 2020, the year from science fiction that was supposed to be about flying cars, uploading our brains to the cloud and nudging immortality, we would instead see supermarket riots over toilet paper?
We have been here before. Almost. A long time ago, in 1918, the Spanish Flu infected 500 million people and killed an estimated 10-50 million, devastating the global economy.A century later, the world was supposedly making massive progress and scientists focusing on higher order problems — like blurring the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds. Armed with path-breaking tools such as gene editing, AI and big data, human beings were learning to play god, creating designer babies and disrupting death.And then, coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the China-born microbe that inflicts infectious respiratory illness, brings the world to its knees. The pandemic is still unravelling and it is too early to gauge its ultimate human and economic impact. Already, an unprecedented global lockdown is underway. Schools, colleges, malls, theatres and much more have been shut. Conferences and sports events such as IPL have been called off. Countries are tightening borders and suspending visas en masse, leaving airports empty, flights cancelled and many stranded in a world of globetrotters. With the world factory China as the epicentre, the global manufacturing machinery is grinding to a halt. Remote working and social distancing are the new buzzwords as workplaces struggle to carry on business.The virus has been a great leveller, affecting people irrespective of their wealth and social status.Amid jittery stock markets, the super-rich are reportedly jetting off to disaster bunkers to isolate and protect themselves. Geographically, too, Covid-19 is spreading wildly.Over 120 countries — from developed nations such as the US and Italy to developing ones such as India and Iran — are reeling from its attack.The virus could spread the economic contagion, far and deep. Early estimates from the UN Conference on Trade and Development suggest it will knock off an estimated $1 trillion from the global economy in 2020.Globally, 142,320 people are infected and 5,388 dead. Experts say the virus is at the early stages of its journey in India. While the country took sweeping measures fairly early, high population density, risk of intergenerational transfer in joint families and inadequate medical facilities are risk factors. The nation is bracing for tough times. Whatever the trajectory, in a world where globalisation is anyway in retreat, expect the pandemic to reshape the society, economy, politics and human behaviour in the long term.As the contagion spreads, Indians are figuring out how best to deal with it. On the following pages, you will read diverse experiences. A flight attendant wakes up to the flip side of an airline job. Anxious parents live through a nightmare, worrying about their child's potential exposure. A global sourcing manager describes her life in quarantine, and an ENT specialist worries about his safety — these accounts capture the human stories and fears behind the numbers.How a parent responded when she learnt that her 12-year-old daughter might have been at risk of exposure to coronavirus. Self-quarantine at home drove us crazy: Neevita Narayan, 46, audiologist & speech therapist, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 74631429 Our nightmare began on the night of March 2. Our daughter, Aarna, was in the midst of exams. That day, she had given her penultimate exam. We got a message from her school that their Lucknow trip was cancelled due to the coronavirus scare. It was the third time in six months that they had postponed the trip. We thought the school was overreacting.The next morning, all hell broke loose. We got to know the real reason for the cancellation of the school trip. The first patient of Covid-19 in Delhi turned out to be the father of a child in Aarna's class. Just a couple of days ago, on February 28, the patient had hosted his kid's birthday party where other children were invited. Even on the day of the party, the father was symptomatic. His test results came on March 1 but his children had come to school the next day for the exam. This meant the chances of the contagion spreading had surged.On March 2, when I discovered all this, I was in deep panic. Within an hour, my phone was flooded with messages. All the children who were present at the birthday party were being screened for infection. I started asking Aarna about her friends and who all she had come in contact with to get some sense of her exposure risk. Her best friend is a good friend of the Delhi patient's child. So, my stress and anxiety grew. Our TV was on all day for updates. I was reading every news related to coronavirus on the web.The school principal was sending out hourly messages. The school was immediately shut and fumigated. Meanwhile, all the kids present at the birthday party tested negative. I heaved a sigh of relief. But the two days before that were madness. I was acting as if we had tested positive and had made dramatic lifestyle changes. We isolated ourselves at home amid fear that we would spread the contagion. We stopped stepping out and stocked up on face masks and sanitisers. I skipped going to my clinic and immersed myself in the world of coronavirus, reading and watching every development. I stopped Aarna from socialising or going for any class.But self-quarantine had driven us crazy. The following weekend, feeling guilty, I took Aarna to the mall. Swinging from one extreme like self-quarantining to the other like going to a mall, we struggled as parents on how to maintain a sense of balance.Finally, we realised that too much anxiety wasn't doing us any good. We slowly normalised our schedule while putting in place necessary precautions like avoiding crowded places, wearing masks when required, washing hands and sanitising frequently. Earlier, we were casual about cleaning our dog's paws after he returned from his walk. No longer.We have asked everyone around us to practise hygiene. We have installed liquid soap dispenser at the gate itself so that anyone entering can wash their hands. 74631436 How coronavirus is impacting the businessOur entire business will be at risk if one of us gets exposed: K Sudarshan, 49, managing director, EMA Partners, Mumbai 74631451 I am grounded. I no longer have the freedom to move freely and I am rethinking all my travel plans. I was planning to go to London later this month and I was hoping to combine it with a short trip to Zurich. Given the situation, I would like to avoid travel hubs and, anyway, many countries are already in lockdown. A family holiday in Goa in Marchend stands cancelled. Coronavirus has put uncertainty around everything in my calendar.Our company's annual offsite in India next week has been postponed. Even before the government cancelled most visas, we had asked our colleagues in Dubai and Singapore not to travel.We are a small firm of 40 people. The issue of business continuity constantly weighs on my mind. Even if one of us gets Covid-19, all of us will have to be quarantined for two weeks. Large firms have cushion, can plan for contingencies and segregate teams to avoid the spread of contagion. For us, precaution is critical as our entire business is at risk if one of us gets exposed. This, of course, has financial implications as well — in cancelled hotels and flight bookings. Amid this madness, one saving grace is that we have realised how valuable video tools are. In Singapore and Dubai, precautions are top priority. Except in emergency situations, clients have stopped all face-to-face meetings. Everyone is playing safe. Video interviews and virtual meetings have become common. In India, we haven't reached that stage of paranoia yet. Last week, however, we had a difficult experience. My Bengaluru colleagues travelled to Hyderabad for scheduled meetings, but when they landed they found out that the client had cancelled all meetings due to virus scare. The fear impacts at a personal level too. In April, I was due to travel to the US for three weeks of a classroom course at Harvard. This would have required close interactions with classmates from all over. I don't think that's happening. I have been advised to cancel the trip. Around me, people have stopped meeting people.The long-term impact will be huge. Businesses that thrive on proximity or contact — gyms, restaurants — will be affected big time. If you extrapolate the impact it has on your personal lives, you will know the massive impact it will have on businesses.We were anyway living in uncertain times. Coronavirus has now added another layer of uncertainty. 74631462 74631465 How doctors are keeping themselves and their families safe from the virusNow the first thing I ask patients is their travel history: Dr Ashwini Kumar, 34, ENT specialist, Apollo Hospitals, Delhi 74631473 I work at Apollo Hospitals in Delhi. I also have my own clinic. Altogether, I work 10-12 hours daily, seeing 30-40 patients and doing some charitable work at a gurdwara. My wife is also a doctor and works with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). We have a seven-year-old daughter.Doctors need to be extra careful and we make efforts to first protect ourselves. As an ENT specialist, I need to examine ears, nose and throat of my patients. I am always in close proximity with them. In the past, too, doctors took precautions like using sanitisers but now we are more particular about them.Since we can't identify a Covid-19 patient without a test, we suspect every patient. The first thing we ask them is their travel history. Bear in mind that this is also the time we get seasonal flu cases. If there is a travel history from geographies where coronavirus risks are high, then we become more cautious. We note down their phone numbers and watch if their symptoms settle down or not. We check if they have breathing difficulties.Recently, a patient came to me with a travel history that was worrying. I doubted if that person could be a potential Covid-19 case. But thankfully, the person was fine after three-four days and I heaved a sigh of relief.One recent incident was scary although it wasn't related to coronavirus. One of my patients had chicken pox. After five days, my wife got it. That made me realise the risk my family is exposed to because of my job.These days when I go back home, I am extra careful. Earlier, I was a bit casual about changing my hospital clothes — I would go sit on the sofa and watch TV. Now, as soon as I enter home, I keep my used clothes in the laundry room, wash up and change before I settle down.My parents, who stay with us, are paranoid. Every time they see coronavirus news, they get scared. Then they will call and ask me to take care. Since they are not medical experts, their fears can at times be irrational. But I can't say that there is no fear.We have also stopped eating out. We no longer eat non-vegetarian food or street food. My daughter's school has given instructions to students because of which she doesn't want to eat anything from outside. Family outings have dramatically come down as we have almost stopped going to malls, movies and restaurants.How a flight attendant is coping with the fear of the virus outbreakI Feel Scared but Working from Home is Not an Option for Me: Simran, 22, BengaluruThis is my first job — I have worked for just two and a half years as an air hostess. When the coronavirus first made headlines in China, we felt safe in Bengaluru, thinking it had not hit India. Even internationally, only the Chengdu sector was affected; Bangkok was not. Soon, our airline provided us with masks on international routes.The first sign of something being amiss was when crew members started refusing international flights. Typically, these flights provide a 24-hour layover at the destination where it is usually great to party. Since then, things have steadily become worse. Recently, we flew to Bangkok with 20-odd passengers in an aircraft with 180 seats. Usually, the flight would be full. With the cancellation of international flights and curbs on travel, tourism will be visibly affected. It will impact the world economy.Since masks were allowed only on international flights, we requested our bosses to permit us to wear them on domestic flights, too. In fact, many passengers were asking us why we weren't wearing masks to protect ourselves. Now, we are wearing masks on the domestic circuit as well.In these worrying times, we encounter many tricky situations. I remember a recent one in the Mumbai-Delhi sector. Two passengers had a fight in the flight. One of them overheard the other saying on the phone that she suspected she had got coronavirus even as she was coughing. The woman who overheard the conversation came to us and asked if we could offload her. But she didn't want to come into the picture and officially report what she had heard. We could not take any action, since we hadn't heard anything ourselves. So we declined her request. Soon, the two passengers started arguing and a big fight ensued.These days, often, when somebody is coughing, fellow passengers request a seat change. But that's not a request we can satisfy if the flight is fully booked.Recently, I had a difficult experience. We were flying from Delhi to Bengaluru and had a group of 15 business travellers who looked like they were from East Asia. I had to wake them up to serve corporate meals and I was really nervous.While flying, we take precautions like wearing masks and using hand sanitisers. Often, we feel scared and unsafe. But I know that airlines are not going to shut down. This is my job. I need the salary at the end of the month. And I don't have an option to work from home. 74631727 (As told to Malini Goyal)The story of a quarantiner who came from China and developed symptoms of the virusMy Symptoms Terrified Me. I Rushed to a Hospital from the Airport: Komal Jagnani, 37 74631765 I work as a global sourcing manager for a company in the building materials industry. I travel to China quite a bit — for work, for exhibitions, to meet vendors. On December 16, I travelled to China for what was supposed to be a weeklong trip. Since the products were not ready, I ended up spending 24 days there. I travelled in and around Foshan, which is the largest furniture market in the world, and I was travelling on trains. When I developed a cough and fever during a trip to Amritsar after I came back to India, I became very worried.It might have been the cold weather or all the travel I did, but I began to develop breathing difficulties. I was terrified. As soon as we landed in Bengaluru, my husband and I went to the Airports Authority of India. Back then it was very new, so they directed me to a nearby private hospital. The doctor checked me, gave me a mask upon hearing I had been to China and directed me to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases, the only facility in Bengaluru where I could be tested for Covid-19.I was not very sure about going to a government hospital, not knowing how things would be there, but I wanted to get my tests done, so we went. When I got there, they quarantined me in a room and told me I would not be able to leave because of a government order. The hospital did its best with the facilities they had, checking my temperature twice a day, giving meals on time. Though it was supposed to be a quarantine facility, the bathrooms were not great and the nonmedical staff did not have any protective gear apart from a mask. Once when I asked for water, I saw an assistant fill the bottle from the bathroom. All of us protested. Some wrote to the hospital director, asking if they could be transferred to a private hospital or quarantined at home.I got more worried when three people who had returned from Wuhan were admitted. My husband was concerned that I would get the infection from one of them. When I finally got my results three days later, it was negative, and I could go home. But I still had to quarantine myself at home and there were follow-up calls to check how I was doing. For 10 days, I was careful and did not go out.My family doesn't want me to go back to China for work. But China has better infrastructure than most Asian countries. They are capable of dealing with Covid-19. I intend to go back. 74631798 (As told to Indulekha Aravind)A businessman narrates his taleOur Orders from China Are Delayed. We Will Source Locally: Vijendra Rawat, 50, cofounder, Color My Brand Pvt Ltd, NCR 74631851 For 14 years, we have been in the business of corporate gifts. We have 20-odd corporate customers, most of them large MNCs. Often, we source our products from China. Since we import as per order and don't do the regular cash-and-carry trade, we aren't much affected. But lately, we are facing challenges with delayed deliveries from China.When I get new orders these days, I wonder whether I should source locally or from China. As our orders from China are getting delayed, we are trying to identify suppliers in India and source products locally now. If I source the same product from India, it will work out to be slightly expensive. Or, I could explore substitutes that can be sourced locally and are cheaper. Recently, we had to source some cheering sticks for an MNC, which is an IPL sponsor (meanwhile, the IPL, which was scheduled to start on March 29, has been deferred till April 15 due to coronavirus). Last time, the sticks were made of plastic and sourced from China. This year, the MNC wanted non-plastic options that are sustainable as well as environment-friendly. So, we developed samples of a paper clapper. While the sample was developed in China, we are getting it made locally. We managed to get both better rate and quality.It is true that necessity is the mother of invention. We have just placed orders for 50,000 clappers. Now we are planning to pitch similar products to another client. So, we can see Make in India happening in a very different way. The difference for us is that when we source from China, we have over 10 options to show our clients. Local sourcing means limited options — maybe just four — for our MNC clients.At a personal level, I have stopped going to crowded places — no more malls, movies and metro. I have stopped eating out as well. When I go to the gym, I have my gloves on. And before I use any equipment there, I ask the gym to have it cleaned first.Let's see what's in store for all of us.(As told to Malini Goyal)What Sets Covid-19 Apart 74631882 74631908 Jyoti Asarpota, 55, retiree, Mumbai"How Can We Have a Wedding When the Guests Can't Come?"74631956 Right after my daughter's engagement in December, we had begun planning for the wedding, which we had fixed for May 1. We had decided on Thailand because the children wanted to have a destination wedding. By January, we had engaged a wedding planner, Foreign Wedding Planners, and by February, we had decided on the resort, after going there for a recce.By then, there was some news coming in about the coronavirus. Thankfully, Neha Mehrotra, our planner, had got us a deal with the resort, which offered us free cancellation till March 15, if we were calling it off because of the virus.Even at that point, we thought of going ahead with the wedding. But because of the scare over the coronavirus, our family members were not willing to travel. What's the point of having a wedding if none of the guests is coming?We immediately looked for backup options. We began planning to have the wedding in Udaipur on the same date, May 1. But with the government announcing new travel restrictions and Maharashtra in virtual lockdown, even that looks uncertain.The last few days have been very difficult. The children had set their hearts on having the wedding in Thailand. We are very stressed and so is our wedding planner because it's double the work for her. She had planned everything for Thailand and now she has to do it all over again for India.We still haven't got the wedding cards made because of the scare of the coronavirus.We had decided to go ahead with the wedding in Udaipur as people were comfortable with the idea of having it in India. Now we really don't know. If all our guests were in India, we could have managed, but people will be coming from abroad as well. There is so much uncertainty now, we can't do anything, except wait and watch, and hope for the best.(As told to Indulekha Aravind)74631980
The coronavirus scare is giving Sonali Mohan, a Gurgaonbased education consultant, sleepless nights. Apart from the anxiety over the widespread infection, she is now unnerved about both her daughters studying in US universities, especially after 150 colleges asked students to vacate campuses and shifted classes online to check the spread of the virus."My younger daughter is a final-year student in Pomona College in California and it is impossible for her to even consider leaving the US now despite classes going online.She is preparing for her thesis, for which she needs access to the library and laboratory. She will also be filing a petition for optional practical training (OPT), which will allow her to remain in the US and look for a job after course completion," says Mohan.The period between filing for OPT with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and getting an employment authorisation document, which permits a student to remain there to look for a job, could be between 60 and 120 days. Leaving the US during that period is not advisable for applicants, says Sudhir Shah, a Mumbaibased immigration lawyer. "The economic situation has become more uncertain now due to coronavirus. It may get tougher for students to find employment after their course."Early this week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and 150 other US universities said they were moving all undergraduate and graduate classes online for the time being. Several institutes have asked students to vacate the campuses until further notice. Suddenly, students, especially those who have taken loans and work part-time on campus to sustain themselves, have been left in the cold. They would have to find accommodation outside campuses, which can be expensive, to stay back in the US or return to their home country. 74629975 "US colleges, especially those in areas with many cases of coronavirus patients, are looking to reduce the campus population," says Adarsh Khandelwal, cofounder and director of overseas education consultancy Collegify.News articles in the US have reported stories of even low-income American students facing financial and other troubles because of a sudden shutdown that is forcing them to go back home. Some colleges have offered to accommodate students who cannot travel back home at such short notice.Many colleges and communities have set up helpline desks for international students who do not have family or friends to stay with in the US. Despite these measures, students and parents have been rattled by the situation."We have been told that campus will remain open," says an undergraduate student from India at UCLA who doesn't want to be named. "But only the barest of resources, like dining, would be available. A lot of students and their parents are panicking." The undergrad student has moved into a relative's place for now."Students are confused about whether they should come back to India or stay back in the US," says V Anandkumar, an IT professional in Bengaluru whose daughter is an undergraduate student at the UCLA. 74629999 "My daughter has gone to her friend's place in the US till the end of the semester. After that, she will head to my sister's place in Silicon Valley. But not everyone has family in the US and many Indian students are being forced to head home.UCLA is among the universities that have shifted classes and exams online.Students who have chosen US universities known for prestigious classroom learning experience are not appreciative of shifting to an online mode."Classroom learning is an immersive experience, especially for soft-skills courses such as leadership, which benefit from group work or classes based on case discussions," says Aditi Chadha, who is enrolled into MIT's prestigious Sloan MBA programme."It is hard to do that online, and to electronically raise your hand each time on a software." And what about campus events for recruitment and networking that have been cancelled or maybe streamed online? The online mode would not be as compelling as the real one when it comes to networking and interviews, says Chadha, who cofounded DAZL, a tech startup in Gurgaon that created a wearable device with SOS alerts targetted at women, before going to the US for the MBA.For those who opt to return, Khandelwal says the time difference between the US and India and internet connectivity issues could pose problems for virtual classes.Thousands of Indian students in the US and their parents share similar concerns. The parents were reluctant to mention their children's names because of the uncertainty regarding visa and job prospects.There is, however, some hope for students on F1 visas, which mandate a certain number of class-hours on campuses. The USCIS said it would make accommodation for such candidates. "Students on F1 visas should be able to maintain their status even if the programme goes online and they leave the campus as long as the university makes the notification to USCIS within 10 days," says Cyrus Mehta, an immigration lawyer in New York.If the pandemic situation worsens and schools have to completely shut down and students have to come back to India, he says, USCIS may still allow them to keep the F1 status. Such steps have been taken in the past, such as after the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001.For now, the atmosphere of uncertainty continues to haunt the thousands of Indian students spread across US campuses and their parents in India.
KOLKATA: The Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) on Saturday said its representatives met Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel and sought the Centre's intervention to revive the sector which has been hit by the coronavirus outbreak.The industry is witnessing about 70-80 per cent cancellation in bookings following the coronavirus outbreak, according to the association."A complete GST holiday for tourism, travel and hospitality industry for the next 12 months till the time the recovery happens," TAAI president Jyoti Mayal told PTI, detailing the suggestions submitted to the minister on Friday.The association urged the minister to provide funds from the MGNREGA scheme to support the salaries of employees in the industry.The association also demanded six to nine months' moratorium on all principal and interest payments on loans and overdrafts, besides deferment of GST and advance tax payments.They also asked the minister for removal of fees for any upcoming licenses, permits renewal, excise exemption for liquor for the hospitality and travel industry across the country.The association also sought interest reduction or subvention on term loans and working capital loans.Mayal said the industry apprehends large scale job loss owing to the restrictions from the outbreak.Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality, the umbrella body of the sector, has sought to meet the prime minister to apprise him of the situation, she added.Almost 50 per cent of the annual business in the tourism sector takes place during this period, Mayal said.
By DK AggarwalInvesting in stocks needs careful analysis of financial data to find out the actual value of a business. The stock selection process is based on the idea that the stock of the selected company must outperform its peers in the industry and the industry must outperform other industries.Fundamentals that drive the valuation multiples must be identified and the impact of changes in these fundamentals on these multiples must be analyzed. Valuation of a stock is usually analysed through multiples such as price to earnings (P/E), price to book value (P/BV), price to sales (P/S) but it should come down in a certain order.For all multiples-based calculations, it is always good to derive a long-term expected financial measure, rather than rely on the most recent number reported by the company.Before making a judgement based on these multiples with respect to valuation, one should have a deeper look at the business model of the company as these metrics are highly dependent on the nature, growth and volatility of the business. Generally, a business which is related to the demographics or has linear growth patterns enjoys higher multiples whereas a business that has seasonality, high volatility or is related to commodities enjoys lower multiples. Multiples are also influenced by factors like growth margins, return of equity (RoE) and return on capital employed (RoCE).As the saying goes: "Higher the factors, higher the multiples." For example FMCG and consumer staples sectors have higher multiples, because these businesses are considered safer and tend to see significant investor interest in periods of uncertainty. The price to sales (P/sales) multiple is commonly used for valuing the retail and fast moving consumer goods sectors. Price to book value (P/BV) is used commonly for valuing banks and financial services. The steel sector is highly capital intensive with huge capex requirement and depreciations and is highly leveraged, thus, operating profits can best define the sector valuation.Among all the relative valuation tools, price to earnings is the one used most commonly and also across all sectors. Undoubtedly, it is a close reflection of the true value. 74624276 Chairman and MD, SMC Investments and Advisors
by Matthew Martin and Anthony DiPaolaWhen Saudi Aramco publishes its first earnings as a listed company, its world-beating profits will be overshadowed by its role in the collapse of the oil market.Aramco executives briefing Wall Street analysts on Monday may face tough questions about how they've become tools in the kingdom's price war with Russia. Even as crude endures a historic slump, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman doubled down on his plan to pump flat out, ordering the company to spend tens of billion of dollars boosting production capacity.Aramco has been "weaponized," said Karen Young, a resident scholar covering the Middle East and energy policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "It is a gamble and Saudi Arabia, via Aramco, has gone all in."Aramco declined to comment when asked about its investment plans and relation to the state.The world's biggest crude exporter and the source of most Saudi government income is the key pillar of Prince Mohammed's goal to make his kingdom a magnet for investment and build a new post-oil economy. It was the world's most profitable company in 2018, with net income of $111 billion that exceeded the combined earnings of corporate giants including Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.Saudi Arabian Oil Co., as it's formally known, is forecast to post adjusted net income of 347 billion riyals ($92 billion) for 2019, according to the average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The country's production slipped to an average of 9.83 million barrels a day last year due to output cuts, down from 10.65 million in 2018, while the price of Brent crude was about 10 per cent lower, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Price WarThe Crown Prince's push for control of global crude markets brings into stark relief how he's using the world's most profitable company as a policy lever, while minority shareholders are left to look on.Brent lost around a quarter of its value in a week and the company's shares plunged 12 per cent this week after Saudi Arabia, Russia and other members of the OPEC+ alliance failed to reach a deal to cut production and support oil prices on March 6.After talks broke down, the Saudis and Russians kicked off an oil price war, both announcing plans to ramp up production and flood the market with crude. Aramco slashed crude pricing and doubled down on sales to Europe in an assault on markets in Russia's backyard.How a new lower-for-longer oil price scenario will affect the company will likely be the main focus for analysts when Aramco hosts its first earnings conference call since a world-beating initial public offering last year.Oil prices have dropped so low that Aramco may not make enough to cover capital expenditure commitments and to pay a pledged $75 billion dividend, according to analysts at Credit Suisse. Unless crude recovers, free cash flow may fall short of requirements, the analysts including Thomas Adolff wrote in a note on March 12."One of the key things from the company now is how they manage the capex to lift production," said Christyan Malek, head of JP Morgan Chase & Co.'s oil & gas research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "We could see them reallocate some of the investment away from downstream projects to focus on boosting production."
Coronavirus has presented a situation most geeks probably didn't anticipate: what happens when even the disaster recovery sites and business continuity plans are rendered useless. You can fly resources to alternative locations. But how do you run a global business when flights are grounded and countries regulate who can come in?For the $190 billion IT services and BPO sector, Covid-19 poses the twin challenges of business continuity and business growth. Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice-president, Nasscom, says, "You can't shift people from, say, Chennai to Delhi (like it happened during the Chennai floods in 2015) to keep a business functioning. Besides, travel, hospitality and aviation verticals might see a dip in growth in IT spending as coronavirus has directly impacted all three due to travel bans and grounding of flights." This could lower the overall sector's growth by a few notches from the 7.5% estimated by Nasscom for 2019-20.Infosys on Saturday evacuated one of its buildings in Bengaluru as a precautionary measure after one of its employees came in contact with a suspected Covid-19 patient.A challenge for IT services companies is that asking employees to work from home raises the risk of leak of sensitive information and data thefts. Besides, the Department of Telecommunications' rules don't allow office virtual private network to connect to home IT infrastructure. "We are asking DoT for a four-week exemption to this rule," adds Gupta. On March 14, the DoT relaxed this restriction for BPOs, KPOs and medical transcription services alone till April 30.The US market, which accounts for almost 65% of the business of Indian IT services companies, is better cushioned to a large extent as the companies has hired more local staff. Gupta says, "There is enough staff keeping the lights on. There is no doomsday scenario."74630850 An option is to use bots for more work, like software testing, though this course is not entirely risk-free from virus attacks, of the virtual kind.Even as risks mount, companies are educating employees, offering relevant information and keeping a panel of doctors on standby. Harshvendra Soin, chief people officer, Tech Mahindra, says, "We have advised employees to work from home if they have symptoms of Covid-19. We have also postponed all events that require large gatherings."Multinational tech companies in India are also taking precautions and depending more on remote collaboration tools. An employee of Dell India who returned from the US tested positive for Covid-19 and has been quarantined. A Dell spokesperson says, "Team members who may have come in contact with the employees are working remotely." The company has increased the frequency of deep cleaning and sanitisation at offices and has encouraged employees to work from home.Microsoft has seen a 500% increase in usage of its collaboration platform Teams. It has also seen an increase in the use of conferencing facilities and remote working systems among its employees in China and elsewhere. Companies are also using Skype and Zoom, among other facilities, to work remotely."This is a time to test blended work environments, using physical and virtual collaboration tools," says Nasscom's Gupta. "If Covid-19 persists, companies could depend more on such tools."Tech companies have their task cut out to remain on top of the game and safe from viruses — both online and offline.
Yes Bank 'reconstruction': Moratorium to be lifted by March 18 Current administrator Prashant Kumar has been appointed the new chief executive of the lender.
Petroleum excise duty: 3% hike to fetch Rs 47,000 cr more to Centre in FY21 In April-December 2019, the total contribution of the petroleum sector to the exchequer stood at Rs3.8 lakh crore, of which Rs2.2 lakh crore went to the central government and the remaining to the states.
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