At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019, a special United Nations High Level Meeting (UNHLM) will be held on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). 193 countries have promised to deliver on UHC by 2030 by committing to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 But wil

On 9 July 2019, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members addressed the issue of the links between organised crime and terrorism. During the open debate, India’s permanent representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, recognised the relevance of the nexus between terrorism and organis

 Part of this interview with Professor J.L. Wangu appeared in The Indian Teacher from New Delhi in Jan-February 1979, vol. 1, no. 2, and also in A Selection of Stephen Gill’s Interviews, edited by Dr. Anuradha Sharma, released by Orientalia in 2011. These features will appear in Stephe

I met the two of them at the Clinica Condesa Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, where I had gone to attend the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019). Was it a mere coincidence that they had many things in common - they share the same surname; they speak fluent English; they neither drink nor smo

In its recently published article, “The shifting sands of Pakistan’s support to terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir”, EFSAS comments on how sections of the Indian and Pakistani media reported last week that the Pakistani security apparatus had in June this year shut down as many as

 "I would like to categorically state that no such request (mediation on Kashmir) has been made by the Prime Minister (Modi) to the US President," Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs told the Indian Parliament on July 23, 2019. He added that "Shimla and Lahor

 In its recently published article, “A camouflaged Pakistani hand may be behind the expanding footprint of Al Qaeda in Jammu & Kashmir”, the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) comments on how over the last few years, amidst an ongoing and effective offensive

TB and HIV both are preventable, but cutting the chain of transmission of HIV and TB is proving to be a daunting task. Treatment exists for both TB and HIV but disease-burden and deaths every year are indeed alarming. With countdown on towards TB and AIDS elimination targets for 2030, the writing

India, by justifying the success in Afghanistan of cross-border terrorism of Pakistan, is giving license to Pakistan to continue to try it in India.

In order to win presidential election 2020, Prez Trump will do anything to come out of Afghanistan and he said during this week meeting wi

 The Kashmiri American community has been informed of the deep gratitude felt by the people of Kashmir at the forthright and principle stand taken by President Donald J. Trump for offering his office of mediation to settle the 71-years old dispute between India and Pakistan. President Trump

It has been 38 years and 1 month since the first case of HIV infection was detected in 1981, reminded Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (#IAS2019) taking place in Mexico City. Dr Fauci is a reci

 After Trump’s revelation, India faces another dismemberment if doesn’t solve Kashmir problem by plebiscite and by simultaneously establishing religious freedom in Indian subcontinent

The revelation by Prez Trump during his meeting, this week, with Pakistan PM Imran Kha

Though Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes are generally vulnerable against violence due to social prejudices and economic reasons in India [as recently also happened on July, 17 in Sonbhadra, U.P. State where 10 Adivasis (STs) were killed as reported at https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/sonb

 Every case of active tuberculosis (TB) disease comes from an individual with latent TB infection. And every new case of latent TB infection is a sign of failing infection control, as someone with active TB disease transmitted the bacteria to an uninfected person. Quarter of world's popu

It may sound little over reaction to say that what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday (that the United States will create a new international body to campaign for religious freedom, following a major meeting in Washington as reported in media https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world