| Good morning! Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus after the duo unveiled the WHO-Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar in Gujarat. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don't miss your daily dose of news. |
| THE BIG STORY Health care delivery in focus after Covid: Modi The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for a new dimension in health care delivery, a challenge that India can meet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday during the groundbreaking function for the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar. Read more. |
| STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED HC junks Christian father's 'love jihad' plea after daughter weds Muslim man 1 dead, 12 injured in Sri Lanka as police open fire 8 arrested after Dalit boy forced to lick feet in UP AAP, BJP point fingers at each other over violence |
| The Big Question Are India's concerns on cryptocurrency risks valid? India recognises that innovation is disruptive, but it is concerned about the risks posed by cryptocurrencies and unhosted wallets in enabling money laundering and terror financing, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Read more. |
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THE DAILY QUIZ QUESTION A comet 50 times bigger than normal is headed towards us at 22,000 miles per hour. It won't hit us, don't worry. But in 1998, two films dealt with the idea of an asteroid threatening Earth. One film was Armageddon. Name the other. |
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| From the Edit Page HDFC merger: The birth of a behemoth The United States (US) banking industry — the largest in the world with more than 5,000 banks — has proven the maxim that giant banks are made, not born. The four big US banks (Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo), comprising 40% of the total assets of the industry, are a conglomeration of multiple mergers since the 1990s of 35 separate companies, with Bank of America being the most active. India seems to be starting on that path as it seeks to build scale and credibility with its first — and biggest — mega-scale merger of the HDFC twins: HDFC Bank, and its promoter HDFC Ltd. Read more. |
| NUMBER THEORY After a record-breaking March, how hot has India's April 2022 been so far? March 2022 was the ninth hottest March in India since 1951 by average maximum temperature, according to India Meteorological Department's (IMD) gridded temperature dataset. Is April just as historically abnormal as March was? The answer depends on which part of the country one is looking at. While the April 1-17 period is among the hottest for north-west India — it is the second hottest in Delhi since 1951 — the north-eastern and southern parts of the country have had a relatively pleasant April. The factor which has made this geographical difference is rains or lack of it in various parts of the country. Here are three charts which explain this in detail. Read more. |
| FROM THE FIELD China focus, jointness key tasks for army chief Building capability to take on the military challenges posed by China, providing impetus to the theaterisation drive, improving the Army's tooth-to-tail ratio, and optimally utilising the defence budget with focus on indigenisation are expected to be among the immediate priorities for India's next army chief Lieutenant General Manoj Pande, who will take over the reins of the 1.3-million strong force on April 30. Read more. |
| Infographic of the Day How a lockdown is creating a global trade logjam  (Click to expand) |
| Photo of the Day Schoolboy's inner life |
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| HT THIS DAY: April 20, 1975 India enters space age  (Click to expand) India's first scientific satellite, "Aryabhata" named after the great Indian astronomer and mathematician of the 5th century, today began orbiting the earth at an altitude of about 600 kms after it was launched by a Soviet Intercosmos rocket from a Soviet cosmodrome. Read more. |
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