(Last Updated On: May 6, 2021)
Hopes that India’s deadly second wave of COVID-19 was about to peak were swept away on Thursday as the country posted record daily infections and deaths and as the virus spread from cities to villages across the world’s second-most populous nation, Reuters reported.
India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours and a record 3,980 deaths. COVID-19 infections have now surged past 21 million, with a total death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show.
Government modelling had forecast a peak in second wave infections by Wednesday.
“This temporarily halts speculations of a peak,” Rijo M John, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in the southern state of Kerala, said on Twitter.
Prof Ram Mohan is an Associate Professor in Business Policy Area since 2017 at IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to this he was Associate Professor at Department of Policy Studies, TERI University from 2015 to 2017. He served at Regulatory and Governance Division:
TERI, New Delhi from 2004 to 2012 and served as Research Faculty at Centre for Law, Technology and Development, National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata from 2001 to 2003. Apart from this he was a practicing Advocate at Trivandrum District Court, Kerala from 1997-1999.
Known for his flair for research and writing, Prof Ram Mohan has been keen on research. His research interests have been in the areas of Commerical and Business Law, Studies on Judiciary, Law, Strategy and Organizations, Business and Professional negligence, Energy and Infrastructure law, Restatement of Indian Contract Law.
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In 1961, a thirty-four-year old Balkrishna Doshi was invited by Vikram Sarabhai to design the campus of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Doshi, who is today India’s preeminent architect, was well-known internationally even then, and had worked with the great Le Corbusier. Doshi told Sarabhai that he would rope in American architect Louis Kahn for the project. Kahn agreed only on the condition that Doshi would remain involved. When asked to sign an agreement, Kahn said he didn’t believe in signing papers. As for fees, he just wanted to be paid the airfare and some expenses, and even that he was willing to forgo if it was unaffordable.
LIVE EVENT - Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom: Hungary, India, Turkey and Beyond (13 May)
Democratic Erosion and Academic Freedom
Hungary, India, Turkey and Beyond
Thursday, 13 May 2021
12:00 PM CDT
Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Chicago Center on Democracy, the University of Chicago s Department of Political Science, and the Arab Studies Institute
Widespread democratic backsliding is raising alarm bells about the future of academic freedom in democratic and autocratic regimes. Such fears are not unwarranted. Institutions of higher education suffer from systemic and multi-faceted attacks across the globe. Transgressions on university autonomy, restrictions on research and curriculum, widespread neoliberal transformation of funding structures, and attacks on the life and liberty of academics themselves demonstrate the extensiveness of the arsenal employed by a multitude of governments. Are the recent attacks on academic freedom spill
He hails from Kerala and is a native of Thiruvananthapuram.
Ram Mohan obtained his doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur after an MPhil. from National University of Juridical Sciences at Kolkata and an LLM from University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
His writings on topics such as shale-gas extraction, need of public support for scientific research, and dealing with dual disaster of COVID-19 and monsoon in Kerala last year have been published in The Hindu and The Week.
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