Tag: COVID-19 Pandemic

Periodic table not removed from school curriculum, it’s included in Class 11 book: NCERT

As per the NCERT, the decision has been taken to reduce the content load on students in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 3, 2023

India shipped almost 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to over 100 countries: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed keenness in supporting the WHO for similar efforts in low and middle-income countries.

May 21, 2023

India showed commitment to international cooperation during crisis: PM Modi at World Health Assembly

PM Modi said that India has worked on the availability, accessibility and affordability of healthcare in the last few years.

May 21, 2023

Construction can be the sector of last resort

The role of the labour intermediaries and the denial of minimum benefits to the workers even when the parent organisations are willing to adhere to the norms, are some of the common and prevalent practices followed within the construction sector.

May 19, 2023

Class 7 student from Chhattisgarh’s Balod scores 90.50 pc in Class 10 exam; aspires to become youngest UPSC topper

Nargis Khan, who aspires to become the youngest UPSC topper, appeared in the class-10th board examination while studying in class 7th.

May 12, 2023

N.Korean media calls for increased farming output amid food shortage crisis

North Korea's state media called on farmers to prepare for the rice-planting season in a "watertight" manner on Tuesday, in what appeared to be efforts aimed at increasing grain output to tackle the country's food shortages.

May 10, 2023

Interrupted lives

Overall, Unicef estimates that 640 million girls and women living today were married off before they turned 18. Post the Covid-19 pandemic, when poor families were driven to destitution, young girls were married off by many families to reduce their burdens. Indeed, poverty has been identified as a major factor responsible for such marriages, while the other is the impact of climate change.

May 7, 2023

Methods adopted by Western countries during Covid-19 pandemic caused stress in economy: Nirmala Sitharaman

Certain methods used by Western economies during the Covid-19 pandemic caused global economic stress as an after-effect, said Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday.

April 23, 2023

Unicef calls for concerted efforts to address routine immunisation

Some 12 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa missed out entirely or partially on routine immunisation from 2019 to 2021, the United Nations Children's Fund, or Unicef, has disclosed.

April 22, 2023

Capital shame

The United States of America has the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and hosts a large proportion of globally top-ranked universities. But the country’s life expectancy, maternal mortality, food insecurity, and poverty numbers do not resemble those of peer nations.

April 14, 2023

Sent to jail

The UN Human Rights chief, Volker Turk, has expressed concern at the trial and the manner in which the two activists were given stiff jail terms. Describing the trial as being “at variance with international human rights standards”, Mr Turk said

April 13, 2023

US terminates national emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic

The new law immediately ends the national emergency and public health emergency first enacted during the Trump administration and continued through the Biden administration.

April 11, 2023

Emotional companionship linked to physical well-being: Research

Over the course of three weeks, 4,005 participants completed daily check-ins via their smartphone or smartwatch, providing assessments of their blood pressure, heart rate, stress, coping.

April 8, 2023

Lucknow Airport opens ‘E-gates’ for seamless passenger experience

The e-boarding facility will enable faster and seamless processing of the departing passengers across all domestic flights. The e-gates are aimed to promote digitalisation and provide seamless travel experience to passengers at the airport.

January 25, 2023

UP schools have to return 15 pc excess fees charged during Covid-19 pandemic

The petitioners claimed that facilities were not provided during Covid-19 pandemic to the students and hence they are not liable to pay for that.

January 16, 2023

Every Cl!ck Counts: A Digital Literacy Initiative

With a keen sense of urgency, Sripriya Singh, a bright and motivated class 11 student from Delhi Public School R.K. Puram founded the Cl!ck Foundation, a digital literacy project for women in collaboration with Kalpataru Society. Sripriya, in collaboration with the Society and APT Portfolio Private Limited, created a community computer lab in Pooran Nagar, Jewar, Uttar Pradesh.

January 9, 2023

Japan logs highest single-day Covid deaths amid 8th wave

The country registered 371 deaths due to the virus, the highest single-day tally since the outbreak began in early 2020.

December 24, 2022