Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organisation
Trump has long been critical of the WHO, and his administration formally withdrew from the organisation in July 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to spread.
Trump has long been critical of the WHO, and his administration formally withdrew from the organisation in July 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to spread.
In an exclusive interaction with Ritwik Mukherjee of The Statesman, Srikrishna G Kulkarni, chairperson, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), outlines how the first national institute for post graduate studies and research in management, has evolved and emerged as an international centre of excellence in all facets of management education.
The recent appointment of Sanjay Malhotra as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), replacing Shaktikanta Das, signals a pivotal shift in India’s monetary policy dynamics.
Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPs funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after COVID-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.
The Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to expeditiously grant Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and family pension to a widow whose husband, a police constable died of Covid-19 during duty when the pandemic was at its peak.
Odisha’s recovery rate currently stands at 98.62% while active cases account for 0.95% of total positive cases registered in the State. The state now has 9,536 active cases, and 9,80,471 patients have so far recovered from the disease, including 1,064 in the last 24 hours.
According to police, the couple committed suicide by hanging after being apprehensive of getting infected with Covid-19 as they developed few symptoms of the disease.
Nations with a Covid-19 death toll of over 100,000 are India (431,642), Mexico (248,167), Peru (197,393), Russia (168,384), the UK (131,296), Italy (128,456)
he State’s health officials claimed that 3,000 hospital beds have been kept ready and medical personnel trained for treatment of children, besides a drive to sensitise people about the possible third wave has also begun.
Odisha has thus far conducted over 1.70 crore sample tests, taking into account 50,727 clinical examinations on Monday. The cumulative positivity rate is at 5.83 per cent and the case fatality rate is at 0.70 per cent.
