COVID-19

Singhu Border: The protest with a human touch

Singhu Border: The protest with a human touch

December 13, 2021

On Saturday afternoon, the area around Singhu Border in New Delhi bears the look of the site of a huge village fair that has come to an end after a long time as hundreds of tents set up all over are being dismantled and the huge community kitchens that fed tens of thousands every...

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International Literacy Day 2021: Pandemic pushes progress back

International Literacy Day 2021: Pandemic pushes progress back

September 8, 2021

Established on September 8, 1966, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) introduced International Literacy Day to emphasise the importance of literacy for individuals as well as society in large and the need to focus on improving global literacy...

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Vaccine passports: Bad idea with terrible timing traumatises tourism industry

Vaccine passports: Bad idea with terrible timing traumatises tourism industry

August 24, 2021

For a long while now, international travellers have been used to finding different queues at immigration counters at various airports, especially in developed world, queues that classify arrivals by origin of their country. Most of the rich countries are clubbed together and then...

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World Hepatitis Day in India: A time to celebrate or lament?

World Hepatitis Day in India: A time to celebrate or lament?

July 28, 2021

For the past 18-odd months, the attention of the entire world has been captured by the Covid-19 pandemic and perhaps rightly so and it is perhaps noteworthy how quickly the governments and the scientists have been able to respond to the crisis and rolled out comprehensive vaccina...

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Amidst large-scale dropouts due to Covid-19, saffronisation tops BJP agenda

Amidst large-scale dropouts due to Covid-19, saffronisation tops BJP agenda

July 27, 2021

As the economic and social cost of the Covid-19 pandemic becomes clearer, worrying reports of hundreds of thousands of students from various states either dropping out, giving up education entirely, or move from the more expensive private schools to government-run schools that ar...

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Medical debt during second wave of Covid-19 pandemic forces Indian families into poverty

Medical debt during second wave of Covid-19 pandemic forces Indian families into poverty

July 23, 2021

Delhi-based N. P. Banerjee completed his mother’s last rites in April. She had passed away at the age of 74 from Covid-19 complications. “She had diabetes, so the doctors were immediately concerned from the very start. But my wife is only 45 and she doesn’t have any pre-exi...

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WHO alarmed over disruption of children’s routine vaccination

WHO alarmed over disruption of children’s routine vaccination

July 17, 2021

Shunu Sarkar, a resident of New Ashok Nagar in east Delhi, says she has had enough of government’s obsession with Covid-19, while not taking preventive measures against other diseases, especially those impacting children. “I have been checked for about four times in three wee...

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UNSDGs: Sustainable development remains a goal too far

UNSDGs: Sustainable development remains a goal too far

July 13, 2021

In many ways it was heartening to see that the G7 Summit 2021, held in the United Kingdom on June 11-13, delved in detail on topics beyond business, trade, investment, strategy and power. For once, it took up issues that concern people and their well-being – health, poverty, ed...

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Indians keen to start travelling again: Thomas Cook, SOTC survey

Indians keen to start travelling again: Thomas Cook, SOTC survey

July 11, 2021

There is a strong demand amongst Indians to begin travelling immediately as nearly 7 in 10 persons say they are keen to travel this year itself, while the remaining prefer to wait for next year before they begin travelling , while the remaining 31 pc are eagerly waiting for 2022 ...

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Ramdev’s ‘ayurveda’ assaults allopathy

Ramdev’s ‘ayurveda’ assaults allopathy

June 5, 2021

In response to his viral video in which Baba Ramdev remarked “lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19” and that “allopathy is stupid and a failed science,” the Indian Medical Association (IMA), which had earlier requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

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Covid-19 causes surge in illegal wildlife trading & poaching

Covid-19 causes surge in illegal wildlife trading & poaching

May 28, 2021

During India’s first major Covid-19 lockdown last year, reports began to emerge that due to the economic slowdown, there were drastic decreases in the levels of water and noise pollution, and a much-welcomed uphill trend in air quality. However, one aspect that was initially ov...

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Indian thespians pushed out of the limelight by Covid-19 pandemic

Indian thespians pushed out of the limelight by Covid-19 pandemic

May 26, 2021

India is renowned for having one of the most popular and prolific movie industries. According to the American Enterprise Institute, Bollywood surpasses Hollywood in terms of number of movies and moviegoers (1000 movies a year watched by an estimated 3 billion people worldwide). T...

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