CURRENT AFFAIRS

India is reported to have lost half a million of its people to the Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years which despite a high degree of societal attention remains a serious public health concern worldwide.

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is ‘gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’, however, gender equality is still a far cry for India’s female informal workforce.

Recently, World Health Organization technical lead on Covid-19, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, cautioned that the pandemic is far from over and new variants will emerge and such variants could be more transmissible than the Omicron BA.2 variant.

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has triggered “unprecedented’ economic sanctions but one of the key issues at the bottom of the conflict is the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

It is estimated that around 20,000 Indian students (Majority of medical students) were stranded in Ukraine; thus, the work of the Union government, complemented by the efforts of some active State governments, is aimed at bringing our fellow citizens back home.

In the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, the world has imposed some of the most wide-ranging sanctions seen in recent times to isolate Russia but the international world order has failed to prevent the war.

The SilverLine project is the proposed semi high-speed railway in Kerala funded partly by the State government is yet to convince the people that the railway line can be a catalyst for a progressive transformation of Kerala’s economy.

Indians spend very little time discussing the advances of modern science and their repercussions for public life because of the oscillating election cycle.

Engel’s Law stated that the poorer a family, “the greater the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food and the proportion of the outgo used for food, if other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.”

India’s ancient and living civilisation is enormously rich in cultural heritage and its diversity is equally vast, having assimilated thousands of years of diverse cultures.