Tag: Saturday Interview
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Saturday Interview | ‘Amarinder and Badals are together’
Dhindsa, along with his MLA son and former state finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, was expelled from the Sukhbir Singh Badal-led SAD in February for "antiparty" activities.
July 18, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | State has remained hostile to business
She has served in various capacities in the state and central governments including as additional director general of foreign trade, Government of India, and as secretary in the public health and finance departments in the Maharashtra government.
July 11, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘We should expose China’s barbarity’
He was also India’s Permanent Representative of the UN office in Geneva from 1992 to 1995, when India had started liberalising its economy.
June 27, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Rural economy must be strengthened’
A business administrator by profession, he left his job in Mumbai in 2003 to take up development of self-sustaining business models in villages with local people as buyers and producers of goods.
June 20, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Unleash wallet power on China’
In 2013, he innovated “Ice Stupa”, an artificial glacier meant for storing extra winter water so that it could be used during summer, the time when farmers need it the most.
June 13, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Children hidden victims of Covid’
A medical doctor by profession, she has also served as the first UNICEF Representative in South Sudan from 2010 to 2013, and led the UNICEF Ghana office from 2007 to mid 2010.
June 6, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘ISA to focus on health facilities’
Tripathy is its first director general and has prepared a detailed roadmap to collectively address key common challenges and scale up solar energy applications in line with their needs. His main target is to mobilise investments of more than $1000 billion by 2030 with a mission “every home no matter how far away will have a light at home”.
May 30, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘We could have prepared better’
She and her team comprising Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh formed the Majdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), which initially fought for fair wages of workers from a remote village Devdungri.
May 23, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | Use crisis to push food processing
He was later appointed as a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, where he closely monitored relief and rehabilitation work of the 2004 tsunami in Andaman and Nicobar, the 2008 Kosi floods in Bihar, and the 2009 Kurnool and Mahboobnagar floods in Andhra Pradesh.
May 16, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘CAA shouldn’t have named communities’
Before the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed recently, he had advised the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Amendment Bill as an expert, and held that it should not mention names of the communities to be granted citizenship.
May 9, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Antibodies hold the key for Covid treatment’
Health workers who get infected with the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), remain asymptomatic and later get cured of it become antibody-positive for the infection, says Dr KK Aggarwal, president, Confederation of Medical Associations of Asia and Oceania.
April 25, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Taiwan will help India with Covid-19’
Ambassador Chung-Kwang Tien is the Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre (TECC) in India. An ace diplomat, he has held several important positions in Taiwan’s foreign ministry and in different foreign missions of his country.
April 18, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Time to put aside politics’
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar is known to speak his mind and hasn’t shied away from taking the elected government head on.
April 11, 2020 -
Saturday Interview | ‘Act, don’t panic, is Bengal’s message’
Derek O’Brien, Member of Parliament, Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party (Rajya Sabha) and Chief National Spokesperson seems to feel so. In an interview with Soma Mookherjee, the veteran leader says that TMC will win in excess of 220 seats.
April 4, 2020 -
The Saturday Interview | Mental strength is the key
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November 16, 2019