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History is made on 1st July 2020 with railways achieving 100% punctuality rate. Second highest record was made on 23rd June with 99.5% punctuality as just one train arrived late. Now this is not a small achievement given all the constraints that railways face while running a train on it's designed path and in the given time slot. The point to be noted is this achievement is made during Covid-19 pandemic. In Pre-Covid times, 13,000 passenger trains and 8,000 freight trains used to run every day. And on 1st July, just 220 passenger trains along with 3,000 loaded freight trains and 2,200 empty ones had run. Now this is a good sign as the "starting trouble" has been overcome. Why trains are always late to reach u? Now why should the trains delay at all? There are mainly two types of issues which the railways face. 1. Internal-  This includes unforseen situations like signalling problems which make trains wait in outskirts. There can be power issues or even track b

When we hear of swine flu, most of the us think they are talking about a single virus. But in reality, swine flu is a family of viruses which originates from pigs. One of it's members is the very notorious H1N1 virus which has caused the 2009 pandemic. The new G4 virus is said to be a mutated form or the descendent of the H1N1 virus. The virus is found in Pigs and humans of China. As we know the food habits of the Chinese include all the animals one can ever imagine on the  surface of mother Earth. So one won't be surprised to find pigs on the dinner plate of a Chinese. In fact, the pork consumption in China is quite high. Hence, a lot of pig farms can be found in major cities of China. The sad truth is most of the pig farms in China have been contaminated with the G4 virus. 10% of the pig farm workers, which accounts in lakhs and lakhs, have been said to have got infected with the virus. Currently the virus is spreading only from pigs to humans but scientists have w