The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has taken a step to stop the practice of posting stickers outside the houses where infected Covid-19 patients live. This move is to stop the raising stigma related to Covid-19 patients, as the stickers outside houses made the residents see it in bad light. This comes weeks after BBMP…
The Trump administration has given a clear statement on Wednesday about not paying more than USD 60 million in dues as per what it owes to the World Health Organization (WHO). The money would rather be used for other contributions to other projects of United Nations. This announcement was followed a day after White House…
A higher number of Covid – 19 patients are dying in the private hospitals at Bengaluru as per the analysis of the official data. Considering the figures over the last 10 days, for instance, a count of 350 patients have died in the city.And, from the 350 deaths, 67 % deaths have occurred in the…
The United Nations Security Council has rejected Pakistan’s application with respect to listing two Indian citizens to be termed as global terrorists under the 1267 Committee for Counter-terrorism Sanctions. This was a joint decision passed by France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Belgium together as UNSC Council. Regarding the issue, India’s Permanent Representative to…
In order to set a new benchmark for learning for the public servants, the Union Cabinet gave a green signal to Mission Karamyogi on Wednesday. Mission Karmayogi called as National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) which is a skill development scheme for civil servants with the objective to establish a future – ready…
About five hundred experts from the country have written a letter on Wednesday to the Union Environment ministry with the request to withdraw the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020. The experts being the scientists, researchers and academics from top institutes including Indian Institutes of Technology requested stating that draft EIA might be a…
The economy of Australia has contracted with a first recession in nearly past 30 years due to the massive fallout inflicted by Coronavirus pandemic. The Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 7 % in the three month quarter April – June as compared with the previous three months. Biggest fall since 1959 Australia, quite popularly known…
Afghanistan has started the controversial process of releasing hundreds of prisoners belonging to Taliban. As per the AFP news agency, the Afghanistan authorities have liberated 200 prisoners since Monday, whereas, The Taliban have set-free four Afghan commandos. Ending the two decades conflictTaliban and Afghanistan have a 19 years long conflict and to settle it withnegotiations,…
India at the United Nations has called for permanent removal of Jammu and Kashmir issue under outdated agenda item from the agenda of the Security Council. Pakistan’s UN envoy, Munir Akram was bringing up the J & K issue during the virtual meeting on the report of the Security Council. Akram mentioned that the Security…
