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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization.
A tribute to Amir Khusrau 1253-1325), whose annual urs, or death anniversary commemoration, begins May 19, 2022: Khusrau (was a Renaissance Man long in advance of the Renaissance.
Unlike Europe, the speakers of hundreds of different languages in India agreed to belong to a single nation because the Constitution promised them freedom of expression, making it mandatory on the state to encourage languages ‘without harming other languages’.
Along with wheat and atta, prices of vegetables, cooking oils, milk and LPG cylinders are all zooming up.
The New Education Policy does not look to build on existing strengths in higher education. Instead, its aim is total disruption: a drastic modification in the meaning of higher education itself and the facilitation of edtech.
Cuts in budgets for planned economic development continue as long-term goals for the economy and society are shelved for the foreseeable future.
Politicians usually boast about their economic and social welfare policies. Devendra Fadnavis proudly recalls bringing the Babri Masjid down.
“Either we drive the fossil fuel industry into extinction—or the human race.”
The war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction some 13 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes, and an estimated one-third of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed.
Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico have legalized or decriminalized abortion. Could Chile be next?
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