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C.P. Bhambhri (1933-2020) and the Life of a Public Intellectual | Rakesh Batabyal
21 November 2020by Rakesh Batabyal *
Since the time Prof. Bhambhri retired in 2000 from teaching in the class rooms, which he began in the early fifties, he was gifted a little office space at a corner in the huge School of Bio-Technology in the Jawaharlal (...) -
Pokhran-II and Since - A Quick Analytical Survey | Sukla Sen
21 November 2020, by Sukla Senby Sukla Sen *
Contents: 1. Prefatory 2. The 1998 Blasts: The immediate Backdrop 3. The Explosions 4. Immediate Aftermath 5. Then the Mountains Move 6. the "Geo-strategic Situation" Shifts 7. From Policy Paper to Nuclear Doctrine 8. (...) -
CPI Condemns the Use of Central Agencies to Destabilise the LDF Government in Kerala and Other Non-BJP Governments in States
21 November 2020Communist Party of India Ajoy Bhavan, Com Indrajit Gupta Marg New Delhi 110 002
November 20, 2020
Press Release
Communist Party of India General Secretary D RAJA issued the following statement condemning the use of central agencies to (...) -
Text of Declaration from 9th BRICS Trade Unions Forum
21 November 2020(On 30 October, the annual plenary Meeting of the BRICS Trade Union Forum took place via videoconference under the Russian BRICS Chairmanship. Following the IX BRICS Trade Union Forum, the delegates adopted a Declaration, which reflected the (...) -
Text of South Centre Statement To The World Health Assembly (WHA) 73 Session Item 13
21 November 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that, despite the magnitude of the global health challenges it has to face, the WHO is currently unable to fully enforce its directives, norms and standards. It also shows that its funding is neither sustainable nor adequate to respond effectively to current and future global health crises. Overreliance on voluntary targeted funding puts at risk its capacity to operate as the global agency responsible for public health. These are some of the main challenges facing the WHO today.
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Text of Statement by UN Special Rapporteurs on Universal Access to Vaccines for Prevention and Containment of COVID-19 | Nov 9, 2020
21 November 20209 November 2020
To date, there have been more than 49 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 1.2 million deaths reported to WHO.1 This disease continues to prove more deadly than anticipated while the world carries on facing the cumulative (...) -
Health Budgets of Developing Countries in COVID Times | Bharat Dogra
21 November 2020, by Bharat DograMany developing countries including India had highly inadequate health budgets even before the COVID-19 phase. Now there are very critical questions of maintaining all essential health services and meeting all essential expenses in the middle of (...) -
Learning in the Midst of Adverse Situation in Assam: Experience from the Covid-19 Pandemic | Nurul Hassan
21 November 2020by Nurul Hassan *
Abstract
The World has been facing unprecedented crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic. The Corona induced indecisive disruption makes the entire system vulnerable one. Most of the sectors are favouring new orientation in terms (...) -
Agriculture: Area Planning - A way-out to ensure the MSPs | Sher Singh Sangwan
21 November 2020by Sher Singh Sangwan
A review of the minimums support prices (MSPs) of agricultural commodities in India reveals that whenever their prices were subdued, the farmers were in distress (1). It happened around 1990, the year of 1st All India (...) -
Political Misrule and Alienation amongst the Kashmiris - a long story | Humra Quraishi
21 November 2020, by Humra QuraishiIMPRESSIONS - November 18 , 2020
As the friction accelerates between the Centre and the Kashmiri leaders in the Kashmir Valley, how I wish two veteran journalists were still around, in our midst. After all, Nikhil Chakravartty and Ajit (...)
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