-Down to Earth Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools We are back to square one. Back to the beginning after 18 months of a wearying, ToRtuous series of negotiations that carried on while millions of lives hung in the balance — and still do. The waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights on medicines, vaccines and diagnostics to fight the...
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Jalpaiguri : Farmers on the boil over cold sToRage
-The Telegraph They also ToRched the office of a weigh bridge and damaged it, pelted stones and blocked roads, demanding that all should get adequate bonds to sToRe their produce Jalpaiguri: Violence sparked in three locations on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town, on Thursday as hundreds of potato farmers, who crowded in front of cold sToRages to collect bonds to sToRe their produce, resorted to protests after alleging anomalies in the distribution...
More »Medical education in India needs an urgent cure: Student evacuation in Ukraine highlights inadequacies and shortages -Seema Sachdeva
-The Tribune “WHAT AFTER THIS?” That was the only thought on the mind of third-year MBBS student Tanishq Sharma from Delhi as he returned safely from Ukraine after the country was attacked by Russia. Tanishq had scored 95 per cent marks in Class 12, but his rank in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) wasn’t good enough to get him admission in a government college in India. “The fee in most private...
More »Grassroots secularism grows in western Uttar Pradesh -Shaikh Mujibur Rehman
-The Hindu The farmers’ movement has strengthened the bonds between Muslims and Jats in western Uttar Pradesh The revival of grassroots secularism in western Uttar Pradesh, which is lifting the veil of fear for Muslims, is among the most rewarding benefits of the farmer’s movement in north India. The movement strengthened the social and cultural bonds between Jats and Muslims whose communal harmony of many decades took a beating during the violence...
More »Modern-Day Slavery in Punjab: Villagers Enslaved and ToRtured by Dairy Farmers -Sandeep Singh
-TheQuint.com They are ToRtured so much that they forget their village name and limit their life to feeding cattle, clearing dung. “Eh ta meri bebe hai,” said Dalbir Singh, (she is my mother) looking at his distraught mother. He then identified his sister. One after the other, he called out the names of familiar faces among the villagers who came with his family. The small crowd cheered every time he joined names...
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