The highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 variant that recently emerged in South Africa, known as B.1.351, has scientists wondering how existing COVID-19 vaccines and therapies can be improved to ensure strong protection. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Medicinal Chemistry have used computer modeling to reveal that one of the three mutations that make variant B.1.351 […]
Dead bodies waiting to be cremated outside crematoriums and makeshift crematoriums. From people queuing up to get cash from ATMs after demonetisation to lining up outside hospitals is a spectacle to behold for those who have reduced them to mere vote bank. The apocalypse has not befallen overnight. It’s a result of misgovernance and politics […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has entered its 2nd phase and is spreading rapidly and extensively around the world. This has profound implications for food security and nutrition. The unfolding crisis has affected food systems and threatened people’s access to food via multiple dynamics. We have witnessed not only a major disruption to food supply chains in […]
It is said that none truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. During the Mughal period, prisons were considered to be places of torture. The treatment of prisoners was inhuman. With the advent of British rule, prison reforms started in India. Tremendous efforts for the reformation of Indian prisons were made. […]
In the holy month of Ramadan, the love and blessings of Islam are deeply felt in the hearts of the believers. It is very important that the blessings that people receive from this spirit of love and faith are not limited to just one month but spread throughout our lives. To achieve this goal, we […]
We all have heard that God has made nothing kaput in this cosmos and so everything teaches us a great lesson of life. Be it a tiny ant, the fall of an apple, or the infinite span of the sky, everything is a great teacher in itself. So, today we are gonna talk about one […]
COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified in Britain. Gaza has always been vulnerable to the deadly pandemic. Under a hermetic Israeli blockade since 2006, the densely populated Gaza Strip lacks basic services like clean water, […]
11 September, 2001, or 9/11 as it is known, ended the old civilisational wars over land and economic resources and ushered in the age of wars based on religious ideology. From Salman Rushdie’s challenge to Islamic tradition by questioning established religious and political authority to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) published […]
(Kashmir Reader edition of April 28th published a front page story moaning the fact no one in Kashmir proposed a geographical identity (GI) to a product originating from the Valley. The story got a prompt response for a proposal not for the Deptt of Industries, but for the Deptt of Tourism and Cultural Affairs. The […]
Riveting, absolutely riveting! The book ‘Rumours of Spring’ by Farah Bashir, published by Harper Collins, keeps you glued to it till you reach the end. It is the first book by the author. What sets it apart is the fact that the chapters run like a fine tapestry of artwork from the start to the […]