Swami “Baba” Ramdev is a controversial Indian figure primarily known for his brand of Yoga and Ayurveda, running yoga camps since 2002 and broadcasting them on various TV channels. Last year he stirred controversy by claiming that coronavirus can be treated by pouring mustard oil through the nose. This supposedly makes the virus flow into...Read More
On March 8th, India’s Department of Health published a message claiming India was in the “endgame of the pandemic”. The second wave proved to be a tough pill to swallow and demonstrated the fact that complacency leads to disaster. In September 2019, there were roughly 90,000 daily cases of COVID recorded in India. This fell...Read More
We live in an era of globalisation. The spread of information, products, technology, and jobs across cultures and national borders is swift and imperative. In economic terms, it refers to the interdependence of global nations and free trade. International boundaries have blurred as nationalities mingle freely; all these reasons are why COVID has been a...Read More
India, the world’s second-most populous country, recently recorded a grim death number of 300,000. Emergency room pressures have abated somewhat from the surge in April, but services are still stretched. Countries began sending emergency medical supplies to help India cope in recent weeks, including ventilators, medicines, and oxygen equipment. By early May, over 300 tonnes...Read More
In a country struggling to deal with millions of COVID cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths, there will always be residual costs. One price being paid is the distressing sights in or around India’s sacred river, the Ganges. The State of Uttar Pradesh has reported distressing scenes in recent weeks, coinciding with the second...Read More
Around noon came a man in an auto-rickshaw at Excel Worldwide Pty Ltd, a courier firm in Phase-2, Industrial Area of Chennai. He was carrying two boxes of crockery items that were destined to be delivered in Sydney, Australia. As per regular procedures, the courier company started sanitising all the packets. They also checked the...Read More
Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is seeking to change agricultural laws and farmers are not happy. Thousands of farmers have been protesting on the border of Delhi for over a month now, and they are showing no signs of backing down. The protests have now spread as far as Sydney, Toronto and London. With India’s...Read More
New Delhi police uncovered an extensive scam operation that preyed upon over 4,500 innocent Americans who forked out over 14 million dollars during two years to the 50 plus people involved in the Scam. The Scam operated from a call-centre in West Delhi, which has been described by authorities as one of the largest operations...Read More
This cautionary tale shows how, usually, if a deal seems too good to be true – it probably is! Anyone who has watched the popular Disney cartoon ‘Aladdin’ has surely found themselves wondering what they would do with a magic lamp with a genie that grants them wishes. Two men in India decided they would...Read More
The village of Patwatoli is small, with only 1500 households, it is a traditional weaver village where just about every household earns their daily wage from making bedsheets and Gamucha, a traditional Indian towel. But there is something unique happening in this tiny village. In recent years there has been an explosion of engineers coming...Read More
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