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All treatment facilities and protocols had a significant bias in favour of the ‘apartment-living citizen’, which is why the Dharavi model is so im
Absence of leadership is not the only problem — the pandemic shows how the WHO failed to address deeper and chronic issues.
A new specter is haunting the world – the specter of unemployment.
To those at the helm of affairs and in the military, what leadership lessons do they derive from the ongoing worldwide crisis?
Let us resolve to leave the standing forests and other natural landscapes alone and revisit the provisions of forest land diversion under the legal fr
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the increasing frequency of spillover of infectious disease from wild animals into humans. The SARS coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) almost certainly “jumped” into humans from bats, evolved towards efficient human-to-human transmission, and caused a global pandemic. Ecological changes such as deforestation, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change are important drivers of disease
One of the less debated causes of growing greenhouse gases is the increasing global meat consumption.
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe since the first outbreak in 2019, causing massive losses in lives and livelihoods. This brief examines the nature of the threat, the blind-spots in global health security that were revealed by the pandemic, and why a values-based geopolitical order is critical for the world’s future. It makes a case for the global community to treat health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as global
The urban nature of the pandemic becomes clearer when we consider the megacities and the large Indian cities.
US President Joe Biden’s order of a deeper probe into whether Sars-CoV-2 leaked out of a lab is likely to escalate a confrontation with China, which refuses to countenance such a possibility
चीन की सरकार नागरिकों के स्वास्थ्य पर नज़र बनाए रखने के न�
The impact of COVID-19 has shown that Spain, like many other countries, must work hard on improving its internal capability to manage pandemics.
Women are the worst sufferers during pandemics; at the same time, they contribute the most during such difficult times.
Gender empowerment and food security are deeply interconnected, with profound implications for achieving sustainable development goals
India needs to create a robust and inclusive health response system employing an entire-government approach to build the resilience needed to respond
India's G20 presidency can address global health challenges and help strengthen global governance to prevent future pandemics
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 (caused by the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2) has exposed glaring gaps in India’s domestic laws. Absent a rationally structured legislation to fall back on, the Union government in March advised states to invoke the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 to tackle the pandemic in their jurisdictions. The 123-year-old colonial law, however, does not even define what a disease is, let alone an epidemic or a pandemic. Ind
The Chinese government is misusing the data collected under the pretext of public health interventions to suppress all forms of dissent.
Selective social networks and active social media engagement can minimise the mental health effects of COVID-19-induced isolation
In the last two decades, the world has witnessed disease outbreaks that have resulted in massive loss of lives and economic disruptions.[1] The current pandemic of the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, might still not be the last of the pandemics that the world will suffer in the years to come—as long as human activities that use natural resources beyond their capacities, resulting in the spread of viruses, continue unab
The collapse means not the end of globalisation, but the need for even more of it.
As the world faces unprecedented challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and disparities, sister-city relationships can help nurture a harmoniou
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साल 2021 की कठिन चुनौतियों के बावजूद, कोविड-19 की महामारी ने स�
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