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.
Frontline healthcare workers and people over 65 years of age will be the first to get the vaccine administered, he added.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and cited the differences in statements of PM Modi, the BJP government on the vaccine and asked ‘exactly what does the prime minister stand by’.
For the results, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the research team examined 225,556 people who tested their blood type from January 2007 to December 2019, and who later had a Covid-19 lab test.
He also reiterated his stance of demanding assurance from the ICC that Pakistan players won't face problems in obtaining visas for T20 World Cup in 2021.
For the study, published in the journal CMAJ, the research team analysed results for 2,463 children who were tested during the first wave of the pandemic--March to September--for Covid-19 infection.
