When Dr Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern and her colleagues at Israel’s Bar Ilan University tied up several months ago with scientists at the country’s Leumit Health Care Services, a health insurance and medical services entity, their intention was to determine the links between low vitamin D and COVID-19-related hospitalisation. Frenkel-Morgenstern, Head, Cancer Genomics and BioComputing of Complex Diseases Lab at Azrieli Faculty of … Continue reading Low Vitamin D Levels Raise Covid-19 Infection Risk: Israeli Study
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China Critic and Historian Olsi Jazexhi Says He is Worried About Anti-Muslim Campaigns in India
Olsi Jazexhi is an Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist who shot to fame following his controversial visit to China’s Xinjiang province last year as a guest of the Chinese government. While on a guided tour of the region, he uploaded videos from what China describes as vocational centres for Muslim minority Uighurs and claimed that they were more … Continue reading China Critic and Historian Olsi Jazexhi Says He is Worried About Anti-Muslim Campaigns in India
Turkish President Erdogan’s Move to Convert the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque is a Monumental Shame
POLITICAL MOVES AND judicial intervention go hand in hand in Turkey. This isn’t unique to President Recep Tayyip Erdog˘an’s country alone. But the agility of authorities that overturned within a matter of days that rich secular legacy of the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, was remarkable—and sad. These deft moves attracted global attention also … Continue reading Turkish President Erdogan’s Move to Convert the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque is a Monumental Shame
COVID-19: WHO Under Pressure as Evidence Mounts On Aerosol Transmission
IN ITS ‘SCIENTIFIC brief’ released on March 29th, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Covid-19 can ‘be transmitted through droplets of different sizes: when the droplet particles are <5-10 μm (a micrometre or μm is one-millionth of a metre) in diameter, they are referred to as respiratory droplets, and when they are >5 μm … Continue reading COVID-19: WHO Under Pressure as Evidence Mounts On Aerosol Transmission
ICMR is Setting up Trial Sites for WHO ‘Solidarity’ Programme
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is busy setting up clinical trial sites and enrolling COVID-19 patients as part of its efforts to contribute to the much-hyped, WHO-led ‘solidarity trial’, which envisages comparing the effectiveness of various medicines and drug cocktails against the pandemic based on results collated from participating countries. ICMR is India’s apex … Continue reading ICMR is Setting up Trial Sites for WHO ‘Solidarity’ Programme
Indian Society is Too Interdependent for a Long Lockdown: Nobel Economist and Poverty Expert Angus Deaton
Angus S. Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. The 74-year-old, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare in … Continue reading Indian Society is Too Interdependent for a Long Lockdown: Nobel Economist and Poverty Expert Angus Deaton
‘Biggest Drivers of Kerala’s Success are Women Empowerment and Political Competition’
Professor Robin Bannerman Jeffrey is one of the foremost authorities on Kerala’s development and politics. For decades, he has written about India, from Punjab to Kerala and on subjects as varied as media to mobile phones. Jeffrey, now 75, was born and raised in Canada before he went to England to study and later travelled to … Continue reading ‘Biggest Drivers of Kerala’s Success are Women Empowerment and Political Competition’
The Brief Ban on Two TV Channels an Arbitrary Attempt to Manufacture Consent
Although the Centre has lifted a temporary ban on two Malayalam TV channels, Asianet News and Media One, sooner than expected, the orders of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on late March 6 enforcing a 48-hour ban on them bring to the fore the propensity for abuse of power and sheer arbitrariness in the decision, … Continue reading The Brief Ban on Two TV Channels an Arbitrary Attempt to Manufacture Consent
Why Congress Wants to Fight the Lok Sabha Polls Alone from Delhi Sans AAP
ON JANUARY 1ST, 2014, when Arvind Kejriwal took oath of office as Chief Minister of Delhi from a bursting-at-the-seams Ramlila Maidan instead of Raj Bhavan with all his typical dramatic flourish, it was a historic moment for Indian democracy. We had a chief minister who used public transport to work and even to his swearing-in, … Continue reading Why Congress Wants to Fight the Lok Sabha Polls Alone from Delhi Sans AAP
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