United States (US) and China are the two largest economies of the world, where the former is the biggest developed economy and the latter is one of the largest developing economies of the world. This paper implores to assess the cause and effect of the US-Sino Trade War. The attempt is to understand the reasons behind the same and its impact on warring economies and collateral damage to the economies of other countries. The experience establishes that trade wars have no winners. The war started in year 2018; the long-run effects of this trade war are still to be seen yet; till date the impact of this crisis has been substantial for both the US and China.

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Genital tuberculosis is usually diagnosed in young women being assessed for infertility. After menopause it usually presents with symptoms resembling endometrial malignancy, such as postmenopausal bleeding, persistent vaginal discharge and pyometra. The diagnosis is made by detection of acid-fast bacilli on microscopy or bacteriological culture and/or presence of epithelioid granuloma on biopsy. Anti-tubercular therapy involves the use of rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol. Surgery is indicated if a pelvic mass and recurrence of pain or bleeding persist after 9 months of treatment. Three cases of genital tuberculosis in postmenopausal women with different clinical presentations are reported. The first woman presented with ascites and weight loss. The second had postmenopausal bleeding with a pipelle biopsy suggestive of endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia. The third presented with weight loss and a palpable abdominal mass. Pelvic malignancy was initially suspected but a diagnosis of tuberculosis was made following pre-operative endometrial biopsy, bacteriological culture and intra-operative frozen section. All three women responded to anti-tubercular therapy.

The objective of the article is to analyse the impact of US financial crisis of 2008–2009 on the GDP of India and GDP of BRICS nations for the non-crisis and crisis period. Fixed effects panel data, fixed effect model, random effect model, Hausman test besides ADF unit root test were used to fulfil the abovementioned objective for the period 2000–2013. The findings displayed final consumption expenditure (FCE) to be the most influential variable in affecting the economic growth universally in both the models of India and BRICS. It was the export which was unearthed to have a more significant influence on economic growth of BRICS as a bloc followed by gross capital formation (GCF) than the other way round as in the case of India. Similarly, there was a variation in the influence of economic growth of USA when assessed separately on India in solitude and India as a part of BRICS economic bloc. This result thereby established the contagion flow of US financial crisis into the developing economies of the world.

The objective of the paper is to examine the volatility of index of crisis, index of macroeconomic variables and index of financial variables for BRICS economies. We analyse the existence of main effects of country and indices in four periods viz., the whole period and three break-periods of pre-crisis, during-crisis and post-crisis by conducting two-way ANOVA. The paper concludes that a uniform increase in the absolute volatility in index of crisis was observed during crisis period relative to pre-crisis period for all the countries. A uniform decrease in the absolute volatility in index of crisis was observed in post crisis period relative to during-crisis period for all the countries. The absolute volatility in index of financial variable in post-crisis period relative to during-crisis period was found to decline uniformly for the sample countries with few exceptions.