The latest report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has exposed alarming irregularities in Jharkhand’s healthcare sector, triggering sharp political reactions.
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.
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan today chaired a high-level meeting to review the preparedness at session sites for COVID-19 vaccination with Pr. Secretaries (Health), NHM MDs and other health administrators of all States/UTs through video conference.
'Efforts are in the final stages for making the vaccine made in India, rapidly reaching every nook and corner,' PM said.
Moncef Slaoui, the chief advisor to Operation Warp Speed, the military-led US effort for vaccines, told reporters that US trials and assessments would be complete for approval "sometime in early April."
India, a modern-day bourgeois democracy with socialism sitting uncomfortably in the Preamble, neither faces a civil war nor an invasion of states. Its problems are self-generated. The twin blades of economic and political crisis have been self sharpened by the government on the whetstones of indifferent governance, communalism, and neo-liberal capitalism.
West Bengal has called for peaceful, disciplined celebrations, saying extremes like night curfews not perceived to be required.
