Over 180 Signatories Urge Opposition Parties to Step up Action to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
The open letter expresses dismay over the Centre s disregard towards suggestions from the opposition parties to work together and fight the unprecedented situation India is facing.
A COVID-19 patient on oxygen support waits to be admitted at Patna Medical College and Hospital, during the second wave of coronavirus in Patna, Friday, May 14, 2021. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: As many as 187 eminent academics, activists, journalists, authors, filmmakers and professionals from across the world have signed a letter requesting opposition parties to step upÂ
constructive action to combat the situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic.Â
Five Delhi University Professors Succumb To Covid-19 In Last Six Days
According to the DU Teachers’ Association (DUTA), 33 working faculty members have died of Covid-19 since March.
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As many as five working professors of the Delhi University (DU), including a department head and a 33-year-old ad-hoc teacher have succumbed to Covid and Covid-like symptoms in the last six days.
On Saturday, another 24-year-old research scholar at the university, who has recently submitted his MPhil thesis, also died of coronavirus, the Hindustan Times reported.
Delhi University teachers have largely rejected the varsity authorities’ request for feedback on the proposed Higher Education Commission of India, which will become a single overarching regulator for higher and technical education.
The teachers say the one-week deadline that acting vice-chancellor P.C. Joshi gave them to respond is too short.
“Any hurried exercise can only be seen as a way to suppress opinion and a manipulation to show consensus at the ground level to the imposed policies, when there is none,” DU Teachers’ Association president Rajib Ray has written to Joshi.
The National Education Policy (NEP) provides for the creation of the HECI through an act of Parliament. The education ministry and the University Grants Commission have started consultations on the subject.
21st February, 2021 10:34:06
The Central Shaheed Minar is adorned with flowers as people paid tribute to the martyred language heroes marking the Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day on Sunday. Photo: Reaz Ahmed Sumon
The nation observed Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day on Sunday, paying glowing tribute to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement of 1952.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the nation in paying homage to the valiant sons of the soil who sacrificed their lives to establish Bangla as state language of then Pakistan.
On behalf of the President and the Prime Minister, President’s military secretary Major General SM Salahuddin Islam and Prime Minister’s military secretary Major General Naquib Ahmed Chowdhury placed wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital at zero hours.