Friday, May 15, 2020

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Amitabh Bachchan, 51-Years-Old In Bollywood, "Amazed" At Gulabo Sitabo's Digital Release After tweeting about the film's digital release, an excited Mr Bachchan wrote in a post that he is "honoured" to be part of yet "another challenge" ......... Amitabh Bachchan, who marked his 51st year in Bollywood this year, will witness something for the first time - the worldwide premiere of his film on a digital platform. ......... Big B plays the role of an aged landlord (Gulabo) while Ayushmann has been cast as his tenant (Sitabo) in the movie. Mr Bachchan described the storyline of Gulabo Sitabo in these words: "Ek izzatdaar janaab aur uske anokhe kirayedar ki kahaani."



















The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19 KK Shailaja has been hailed as the reason a state of 35 million people has only lost four to the virus. Here’s how the former teacher did it ........... Four months later, Kerala has reported only 524 cases of Covid-19, four deaths and – according to Shailaja –

no community transmission

. The state has a population of about 35 million and a GDP per capita of only £2,200. By contrast, the UK (double the population, GDP per capita of £33,100) has reported more than 40,000 deaths, while the US (10 times the population, GDP per capita of £51,000) has reported more than 82,000 deaths; both countries have rampant community transmission. ........ has attracted some new nicknames in recent weeks – Coronavirus Slayer and Rockstar Health Minister among them. ......... former secondary school science teacher, but they reflect the widespread admiration she has drawn for demonstrating that

effective disease containment is possible not only in a democracy, but in a poor one

. ...... By the time the first case arrived, on 27 January, via a plane from Wuhan, the state had already adopted the World Health Organization’s protocol of test, trace, isolate and support. ....... At the height of the virus in Kerala, 170,000 people were quarantined and placed under strict surveillance by visiting health workers, with those who lacked an inside bathroom housed in improvised isolation units at the state government’s expense. That number has shrunk to 21,000. “We have also been accommodating and feeding 150,000 migrant workers from neighbouring states who were trapped here by the lockdown,” she says. “We fed them properly – three meals a day for six weeks.” Those workers are now being sent home on charter trains. ........ Shailaja was already a celebrity of sorts in India before Covid-19. Last year, a movie called Virus was released, inspired by her handling of an outbreak of an even deadlier viral disease, Nipah, in 2018. (She found the character who played her a little too worried-looking; in reality, she has said, she couldn’t afford to show fear.) She was praised not only for her proactive response, but also for visiting the village at the centre of the outbreak.

स्वास्थ्य अनुसन्धान परिषदले कोरोना विरुध्दको संघर्षमा सङक्रमणको जाँच जस्तो खतरनाक र रोकथामको उपायबारेको जिम्मेवारी वहन...

Posted by Brikhesh Chandra Lal on Thursday, May 14, 2020

यसरी देखिन्छ उपत्यकाबाट सागरमाथा (चोमोलोङ्गमा, एभरेस्ट). Here is the pic of Everest / Sagarmatha / Cholongma as seen...

Posted by Kanak Mani Dixit on Friday, May 15, 2020

Follow these steps.

Posted by Satendra Sah on Sunday, April 12, 2020

As long as an abnormal person remains the president of USA, I am not optamistic that the world will go back to normal.

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

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The economic devastation wrought by the pandemic could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself The economic devastation the pandemic wreaks on the ultra-poor could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself. ....... The United Nations predicts that a global recession will reverse a three-decade trend in rising living standards and plunge as many as 420 million people into extreme poverty, defined as earning less than $2 a day. ....... As for the 734 million people already there, the economic tsunami will make it harder for them to ever climb out. .......... Hunger is already rising in the poorest parts of the world, where lockdowns and social distancing measures have erased incomes and put even basic food items out of reach. ........ Recent phone surveys in places as disparate as Senegal and rural China suggest that large swaths of society have lost their livelihoods and, as a result, are eating less. ....... The U.N. predicts the coronavirus could push an additional 130 million people to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020. World Vision, an international Christian aid organization, warns that

30 million children are at risk of dying

.......... “I want to stress that we are not only facing a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe” ....... The pandemic, which began in an industrial Chinese city but has since spread to even the remotest corners of the Amazon rainforest, has exposed the radical interdependence of the modern world — causing disruptions in everything from manufacturing to the global narcotics trade. .........

In many of the world’s poorest places, the lockdowns have proved more destructive than the virus itself.

........ Clean water is scarce, and families live 10 to a room in moldy cinder-block shacks.

The recommended separation for social distancing — six feet — is the length of some apartments.

....... “Hunger has more victims now than corona.” ....... “I’ve entered houses where the people have no bread, no cans of food, no sugar, no cooking gas,” said Mohammad S Al-Zawahreh, a Jordanian civil society activist. “It’s not going to work to tell these people to develop yourself — learn Skype or Zoom — while their children are starving.” .........

The U.N. and private aid groups have raised the alarm in recent weeks, saying a concerted international strategy is needed.

....... Last week U.N. officials increased the size of their coronavirus aid appeal from $2 billion to $6.7 billion, cautioning that “the specter of multiple famines” looms on the horizon. ........ “Unless we take action now, we should be prepared for a significant rise in conflict, hunger and poverty” ......... At risk is three decades of progress. Since 1990, more than 1 billion people — 13% of the world’s population — have risen out of extreme poverty .......... Longtime debates in the development world over the importance of hiring local foreign aid workers and the usefulness of cash transfers — as opposed to the donation of goods — may be settled by new travel restrictions.



Wisconsin Bars Packed After State Supreme Court Lifts Stay-At-Home Orders
‘Trump was right’: President claims pandemic has proved his economic theories The remarks represent a reinforcement of the White House’s largely isolationist foreign policy outlook.
Rick Bright, ousted director of vaccine agency, warns that administration lacks 'centralized, coordinated plan'

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