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Denominational Coloring of Corona Spread: A Methodical Move

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Dwight Eisenhower India has earned a bad name for many preposterous moves and prejudiced acts against Muslims. The of late anti-Muslim riots in Delhi bear testimony to the fact. The echelons of the ...

Hungary: The First Casualty?

“Hello, dictator!” said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary’s leader, Victor Orbán, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. The president of the European Commission was only joking, of course, but it was gallows humour. Dictatorship was clearly wh...

University bailouts, funding and Coronavirus

“In 2018, the seasoned education specialist Sir Michael Barber, as head of the Office for Students, warned universities that they could not assume an automatic line of credit in the case of a financial crisis. “The OfS will not bail out providers in a financial difficu...

Indian version of Shock Doctrine

"Now, two major events that shook the world have turned out to be a blessing in disguise for a heartless government in New Delhi: the COVID 19 which has affected more than 150 countries, including India, and the recent terror attack on a Gurdwara in Kabul that left 25 ...

Making 21-day lockdown 'a complete Success' may need some more resolutions

An Open Letter to Lt Governor of Erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir
To, Mr. G.C. Murmu Lt. Governor, Jammu and Kashmir Respected Sir, My request to you as a responsible citizen of Jammu and Kashmir is not a disagreement to current lockdown. I respect and am following the lockdown fully as my kitchen has enough resources to feed me...

Tool predicts who'll get seriously ill

An artificial intelligence tool can accurately predict which patients newly infected with the COVID-19 virus go on to develop severe respiratory disease, a new study shows. Named SARS-CoV-2, the new virus causes the disease called coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19....

When Muslim Women Became My Saviour

Before the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register dharna at Ghata Ghar was symbolically withdrawn on 23 March morning, I happened to visit the dharna site on 21 March evening with the purpose of sitting their with...

Addressing the stigma associated with Covid-19

INTRODUCTION Social stigma in the context of health is the negative association between a person or group of people who share certain characteristics and a specific disease. In an outbreak, this may mean people are labelled, stereotyped, discriminated against, treated...

Medical emergency turning into a human nightmare

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
What takes place when the rulers of the day turn a medical emergency into a human nightmare! Yes, our masses are getting subjected to the worst forms of abuse. Shots of our migrant workers and daily-wagers getting sprayed with poisonous disinfectants, walking hungry a...

The New Corona virus: Should you worry?

In recent weeks, a new corona virus disease called Covid-19, has spread, that can affect your lungs and airways; from where it was first detected in China. The bulk of cases and fatalities have been confirmed to China but the virus is spreading internationally. Now se...

Understanding Coronavirus pandemic

On December 31, 2019, China informed the World Health Organization of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of an unknown cause in Wuhan City in Hubei province. On January 9, 2020, the WHO issued a statement saying Chinese researchers have made "preliminary determination" of...

Boosting immune response to vaccines in oldies

Research just published by the Linterman lab shows that the immune system of older mice can be given a helping hand by applying immunology expertise and some genital wart treatment (don't try this at home just yet)! Mice and humans show similar age-dependent changes i...

Social distancing to beat Covid-19

Social distancing measures are steps you can take to diminish social contact between individuals. Indeed, even in less challenging occasions, a considerable lot of us attempt to stay away from close contact with somebody who is sneezing, coughing, or having a temperatu...

Why cotton towel gets stiff after natural drying?

SCIENCE DIGEST
The remaining "bound water" on cotton surfaces cross-link single fibers of cotton, causing hardening after natural drying, according to a new study conducted by Kao Corporation and Hokkaido University. This provides new insight into unique water behaviour on material s...

Weaponising Idiocy: Milk-Drinking Ganesha to Taali Bajao

Then and now, a conservative Hindutva organisation had a role in spreading rumours
Yad ihasti tad anyatra, yan nehasti na tat kavcit. 'Whatever is here might be elsewhere, but what is not here could ever be found'.-The Mahabharata, 1.56.33, from Meera Nanda's The God Market: How Globalisation is Making India More Hindu, Random House 2009. It was the...

COVID-19 linked to cardiac injury

COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a review published today in JAMA Cardiology by experts at The University of Texas Health S...

Denial of Reservation to RBA Community

Despite their extreme backwardness in economic sphere, these people are left out due to wrong policies of government
The 103rd amendment to the constitution of India granted reservation to Economically Weaker Section of society, but for Jammu and Kashmir the case is different. Here a vast majority of backward communities cannot apply for EWS certificate because people are getting a c...
 

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