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.
According to the reports, among the infected MPs, the BJP has a maximum number with 12 of its leaders testing positive for the deadly virus.
'The maximum cases and deaths have been recovered from primarily Maharashtra, Odisha, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and New Delhi among others,' the minister said.
'The unplanned lockdown was the gift of one man's ego, which led to the spread of coronavirus across the country,' he said.
And when the archives of tomorrow will be examined to learn how sport dealt with Covid-19, well might posterity wonder how we came to put the sort of spin we did on learning to live with the virus ~ an idea often propounded like a glib online spiel ~ that so unapologetically threatened human lives.
In a statement, the traders' body said: "The domestic trade of India is suffering amid the worst days of the century due to Covid-19, which has brought the traders on their knees with no sign of respite in the near future."