Hundreds of female plantation workers from the Sealkotee tea estate in Dibrugarh district took to the streets seeking better pay and benefits from the management. They demanded a minimum wage of Rs 351 per day and land deeds for the landless tea workers. Read more.
Dibrugarh: The 45-day long campaign on ‘Substance Abuse and Awareness about Rehabilitation’ by the students of Centre for Studies in Journalism & Mass Communication (CSJMC), Dibrugarh University comes to an end. The campaign that began mid-May ti
Vaccines bring us closer
Dr Madhulika Jonathan
(The writer is Chief of Field Office for UNICEF, Assam. She can be contacted at pmalhotra@unicef.org) Get the COVID-19 vaccine so that you can be safe to ensure your children receive routine immunization. It will shield them against preventable diseases. – This World Immunization Week, I urge all parents to act, to protect.
Vaccines are among the greatest advances of modern medicine, saving millions of lives worldwide. Getting the COVID-19 vaccine will not only play a major role in ending this devastating pandemic, but will allow you are parents, family members to take better care of each other, especially the young ones. This will, in a way, lay the groundwork to eradicate preventable diseases, which is currently costing the lives of millions of babies globally – many, who didn t receive any vaccines due to the COVID-19 induced disruptions and overburdening of the health system.