Europe’s vaccination programme is ‘unacceptably slow’: WHO
London: European nations’ immunization campaigns against COVID-19 are unacceptably slow and risk prolonging the pandemic, a senior World Health Organization official said Thursday. Dr Hans Kluge, WHO’s regional director for Europe, said vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic, but noted that to date, only 10% of Europe’s population has received one dose […]
Need for caution
It has been barely few weeks that the educational institutions have been allowed to operate in Jammu and Kashmir following the improvement in Covid-19 situation after nine months of closure and lockdowns. However, the past few days have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of covid cases which includes students and teachers as well. […]
April Fool’s day and fable myths
Sahil Wani April fool’s Day has its roots from multiple historical events, stories and many fable myths. Indubitably, this very day folks celebrated it by playing deceiving jokes, hoodwink pranks and spreading hoaxes with the unfortunate victims called as “April Fool”. History of April fool’s Day April fool’s Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th […]
Letter to the Editor
Encourage bilateral trade Pakistan’s decision to allow imports from India is a welcome move. Pakistan is finally permitting the import of yarn and five lakh tonnes of sugar from the country. This will help India to explore the market and reduce carry overstock for the following season. Here before, Pakistan had stopped the import of […]
The language the world is familiar with
Mir Jamid Afzal Arabic is one of the World’s major languages with roughly 300 million speakers in twenty two Arab countries. In 1974, Arabic was attested as one of the sixth United Nation’s official languages alongside Chinese, Russian, English, French and Spanish. As a Semitic language, Arabic possesses many unique linguistic characteristics such as writing […]
“Mal-der’ or Herpes zoster and people in Kashmir
Umair Shafiq Bashir Kak is not well, because he had acute pain on the right side of his chest and back since the last 5 days now. He has already received injections from ‘Riyaz Saeb’ –the local pharmacist who doubles as the local ‘doctor saeb’ for the locality. There has been no relief in the […]
Mental health needs more attention
Dr. Samant Darshi Often the waves of any form of socio-political turbulence in a country are paralleled by roaring waves of angst and worry in normal citizens. During such times the mass consciousness resonates a dread of any unprecedented or unexpected event. Particularly in today’s time when the use of social networking is pervasive, all […]
