Health experts decry Trump’s shunning of virus rules
Washington: Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump’s largely mask-free, socially un-distanced Republican convention event on the White House lawn, saying some of his 1,500 guests may have inadvertently brought and spread the coronavirus to others. “There almost certainly were individuals there who were infected with COVID-19 but don’t know it,” said […]
India, ASEAN trade ministers call for starting discussions to determine FTA review scope
New Delhi: Trade ministers of India and 10-member ASEAN countries have instructed their officials to start discussions for determining the scope of review of free trade agreement (FTA) at the earliest with a view to make the pact more user-friendly, simple, and trade facilitative for businesses. The issue was discussed during the 17th ASEAN-India Economic […]
PM spoke about toys when JEE-NEET aspirants wanted discussion on exams: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, Aug 30: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not addressing the grievances of JEE-NEET aspirants after his government’s decision to conduct the entrance examinations amid Covid-19. Instead, Gandhi said, the prime minister spoke about the country’s “toy industry” in his monthly outreach programme Mann Ki Baat earlier today. […]
Covid-19 puts a question mark on schooling
Education has at least three dimensions - ontological, epistemological and axiological and the last one is never possible without school society.
Covid-19, the infectious disease, has spread its tentacles all over the world. In December 2019, it originated from the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread at an alarming speed far and wide affecting not only the physical health of the people but also damaging the psychological well being of the people world over. Nine months […]
Hospital has right to insist on payment but prime duty is to take care of patient: NCDRC
New Delhi: A hospital has every right to insist on payment but it also has the prime duty to take care of a patient facing a health emergency, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has said while awarding a compensation of Rs 25 lakh for medical negligence to a woman whose husband died at […]
Israel responds to explosive balloons with tank fire on Gaza
Jerusalem: The Israeli military said it struck militant targets in Gaza early on Sunday in response to continued launches of explosives-laden balloons out of the Hamas-run territory. There were no immediate reports of casualties on either side. But the violence comes at a time when Gaza is struggling with a worsening economic crisis and a […]
Moving beyond assumptions and towards ending militancy through political processes
New Delhi’s ‘anti-militancy policy’ with regard to Jammu and Kashmir is based on the hypothesis that ‘persistent militarized intervention’ is the only means of defeating what it calls ‘Pakistan-sponsored’ or ‘cross-border terrorism’. This policy commands that anyone holding a gun in Kashmir is a ‘legitimate target’ for the counterinsurgency force, and therefore needs to be eliminated right away.
It has happened on several occasions during the last 3-4 years or so that a particular district in Jammu and Kashmir was declared militancy-free by the security agencies, and after a few days of this announcement, a militancy-related incident takes place in that particular district and the security agencies are back to square one. The […]
Census, NPR unlikely in 2020
New Delhi: The first phase of the Census and the exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR), scheduled for this year but deferred due to the coronavirus outbreak, may be delayed by a year as there is no sign of slowdown of the pandemic. The Indian census is one of the largest administrative and […]
Miraculous escape for fire victims as community hall collapses in Tekipora Kupwara
Kupwara: Members of at least three households had a miraculous escape as a Village Community Hall harbouring them collapsed on Saturday evening here at Tekipora, Lolab area of the frontier district. Eyewitnesses told GNS that the peripheral walls of the Community Hall sheltering at least three fire-victim households collapsed this evening. “Three families whose houses […]
