Tag: Saturday Interview
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Saturday Interview | ‘Care needed to curb virus’
The Union Government appointed Dr Paul as a Member of NITI Aayog in August 2017.
November 13, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Smog-towers will not help’
Vivek Chattopadhyaya, associated with the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, is an expert on clean air and sustainable mobility management.
October 30, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘AAP govt has failed Delhi’
He had started his remarkable political journey from student politics in 1970 as a member of the RSS’ students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
August 21, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Neurological care is neglected’
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.
August 14, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘HP heading for govt change’
A rising star in the HP Congress, Agnihotri is now leading the party in the HP Assembly as Leader of the Opposition.
August 7, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Rural vaccination must for growth’
Besides heading the Food Corporation of India, he had been secretary in the union Food Processing as well as the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ministries.
June 12, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Japan stands with India’
A post-graduate from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, he joined Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984.
June 5, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘EC needs to do course correction’
He has worked for electoral reforms through the judicial system by filing Public Interest Litigations in the higher judiciary to get relevant laws improved, and on the ground by providing information to voters about the background of candidates contesting elections so that they can make informed choices while voting.
May 29, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Polls smashed invincibility myth’
He was a physics teacher in Kolkata’s Ashutosh College from 1974 to 2007.
May 15, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Lockdown will increase suffering’
Dr Talwar spoke at length about the Covid surge in Punjab, one of the worst coronavirus affected states in the country, and steps being taken to curb its deadly spread.
April 24, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Galwan destroyed India-China trust’
He learnt Chinese at Beijing Language & Culture University.
April 17, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Covid exposed India’s inequality’
Since 1990, he has been a full-time MKSS activist and a member of the organisation’s decision-making collective.
April 10, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Param Bir should’ve sacked Waze’
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.
April 3, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Corruption the issue in Kerala’
He got elected for the first time to the Lok Sabha from Katihar (Bihar) in 1980.
March 27, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Our priority is to defeat BJP’
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.
March 20, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Young voters are disenchanted’
Ghosh explains to Soumyadip Mulllickwhy he feels present-day politics is letting down youth who are constantly trying to bring the “people’s government” narrative on the right track.
March 13, 2021 -
Saturday Interview | ‘States must battle drugs jointly’
A member of the Institute of Narcotic Studies and Analysis (INSA), Delhi, Sharma, 55, has been voluntarily working on alternative development models in HP to get people away from cultivation of cannabis and opium.
March 6, 2021