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A drop of diesel is seen at the tip of a nozzle in a petrol station in Nice, France, October 20, 2021. Photo: Reuters

Analysis: After oil, gas and coal, global fuel shortage spreads to diesel

Regional stocks were at their lowest level for this time of year since 2008, according to the data, while Singapore’s onshore inventories of middle distillates also sank to multi-year lows of 8.21...

South Asia

India likely to permit foreign graduates to address nurse shortage

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam attends a news conference in Hong Kong, China January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Lam Yik

Global Economy

Vegetable shortage adds to Hong Kong's Covid-19 woes

Lorries are seen at an HGV parking, at Cobham services on the M25 motorway, Cobham, Britain, August 31, 2021. Photo :Reuters

Europe

Britain expected to ease visa rules as truck driver shortage bites

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Bangladesh now short of 1.5cr vaccines

A container ship leaves Pusan Newport Terminal in Busan, South Korea, July 1, 2021. Picture taken on July 1, 2021. Photo :Reuters

World+Biz

World faces shortage of merchant sailors to crew ships -study

Employees are seen working on the final assembly of ASML's TWINSCAN NXE:3400B semiconductor lithography tool with its panels removed, in Veldhoven, Netherlands, in this picture taken April 4, 2019. Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie/ASML/Handout via REUTERS

World+Biz

Car chip shortage to abate, smartphones could be next

A retail store advertising a full time job on its open door in Oceanside, California, U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

USA

US job growth picks up in May; unemployment rate falls to 5.8%

RS Sharma said the Covid-19 vaccine drive in India is transparent and inclusive. He claimed that the vaccination shortages are temporary, (PTI Photo)

Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19 vaccine shortage temporary problem, says CoWIN head RS Sharma

Health workers at a makeshift quarantine center set up in a banquet hall in New Delhi, on April 21. India's woefully inadequate hospital infrastructure is collapsing with daily new cases reaching almos 300,000 this week. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg

Coronavirus chronicle

India faces antifungal drug shortage as rare complication adds to Covid-19 woes

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South Asia

Concern over 'black fungus' drug shortage as cases rise

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Chattogram running out of Covid vaccines, hundreds return without getting second dose

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