An interim chief, infrastructural constraints, and thousands of pending cases — the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal is weighed down by numerous challenges. Stakeholders say that even the latest step of notifying a new bench at Chennai is unlikely to bring immediate relief. It’s a crisis of sorts for the judicial system for resolving corporate disputes.
An interim chief, infrastructural constraints, and thousands of pending cases — the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal is weighed down by numerous challenges. Stakeholders say that even the latest step of notifying a new bench at Chennai is unlikely to bring immediate relief. It’s a crisis of sorts for the judicial system for resolving corporate disputes.
India may have to leverage technology in a big way to manage the Covid-19 crisis — much like China has done. Now, Chinese telecom giant Huawei has offered to join India’s fight against the pandemic, offering a gamut of AI and 5G-driven tech solutions. Given Huawei’s controversial past, India may be wary of the company. But then, these are desperate times.
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Under normal circumstances, China produces about half the world’s supply of face masks. Though the country has rapidly scaled up production since the coronavirus outbreak, its mask-makers are unable to fulfill many large and urgent orders from overseas. This shortfall is hindering global efforts to control the virus.
The first testing kits from the US Centers for Disease Control had a simple fault, and red tape prevented other labs from creating their own.
Believed to have started in China’s Wuhan around early December, it has spread to 61 countries, affecting more than 86,000 people. But identifying virus carriers quickly and accurately remains a challenge because of the unreliability of existing tests. Complicating the situation is the large number of asymptomatic and recovered patients who might still carry the virus.
