Saturday Interview | ‘Care needed to curb virus’
The Union Government appointed Dr Paul as a Member of NITI Aayog in August 2017.
The Union Government appointed Dr Paul as a Member of NITI Aayog in August 2017.
Vivek Chattopadhyaya, associated with the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, is an expert on clean air and sustainable mobility management.
He had started his remarkable political journey from student politics in 1970 as a member of the RSS’ students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
I started studying patients as they fell sick and as they recovered. With further reading, I found I needed to do sub-specialisation on stereotactic and functional neurosurgery to deal with people with Parkinson’s disease, with tremor in hands, spastics, pain and psychiatric epilepsy.
A rising star in the HP Congress, Agnihotri is now leading the party in the HP Assembly as Leader of the Opposition.
He learnt Chinese at Beijing Language & Culture University.
Since 1990, he has been a full-time MKSS activist and a member of the organisation’s decision-making collective.
Kakkar had taken over as Delhi Police Commissioner in April 1997 when the morale of the force was very low in the wake of the then Connaught Place shootout in which an innocent businessman was killed by a Delhi Police Crime Branch team.
He got elected for the first time to the Lok Sabha from Katihar (Bihar) in 1980.
The CPM has been in power in the state and Yechury has his task cut out to oversee his party’s bid to retain the mandate there.
