- “The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that mental health problems could be the next pandemic after COVID19 fades away,” said Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) senior fellow Akshay Kumar, who is also a consultant in the Department of Mental Health and Behavioural Science at Artemis Hospital.
- The Delhi government on Thursday formed a committee on Thursday for preparing a “Third Wave Action Plan” for augmenting healthcare infrastructure
- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss the impact of Cyclone Yaas that swept past the coastal regions of the State and Odisha on Wednesday. Ms. Banerjee told presspersons on Thursday that she would meet Mr. Modi at the Kalaikunda Air Base in Paschim Mednipur district. The Chief Minister also said the State suffered damages amounting to ₹15,000 crore due to Yaas.
Gaza attack may constitute ‘war crimes
strikes on Gaza may constitute war crimes, the UN
rights chief said on Thursday, as countries discussed
launching a broad, international investigation.
Addressing a special session of the United Nations
Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet voiced deep
concern about the “high level of civilian fatalities and
injuries” from the attacks on
Gaza.
“If found to be indiscriminate and disproportionate in
their impact on civilians and
civilian objects, such attacks
may constitute war crimes,”
she warned.
She also said her office
had “not seen evidence” that
the buildings targeted in Gaza, including residential
homes, medical facilities
and media offices, were
“hosting armed groups or
being used for military purposes”, as claimed by Israel.
Ms. Bachelet also stressed
that rockets fired by Hamas
were “indiscriminate and
fail to distinguish between
military and civilian objects,” and were thereby “a
clear violation of international humanitarian law.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
made her statement at the
start of a special oneday
council session focused on
the recent flareup of
violence.
Before a truce took hold
last Friday, Israeli air strikes
and artillery fire on Gaza
killed 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, and
wounded more than 1,900
people in 11 days of conflict,
the health ministry in Gaza
says.
Rocket and other fire from
Gaza claimed 12 lives in Israel, including one child and
an ArabIsraeli teenager,
medics say. Some 357 people
in Israel were wounded.
- Embattled by new waves of NEW DELHI COVID 19 infections and mutant strains of the virus, the slow pace of inoculation in several parts of the world and vaccine protectionism, the global and domestic outlook has once again turned grim and overcast with extreme uncertainty and downside risks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its annual report for 2020-21.
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday said the company continues to engage closely with partner Jio on the initiative of building an affordable smartphone and that work is underway. Last year, Google had picked up a 7.7% stake in Jio Platforms for ₹33,737 crore
- Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju formally launched a High Performance Coach Education Programme at the National Centre for Sports Coaching under the aegis of NSNIS Patiala on Thursday. The course, spread over six months, will have seven modules. At least 250 top SAI coaches will form the core group of nurturing the best sports talent in the country as coaches. Each batch will have a limited capacity of 20 students only.
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