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Mysore/Mysuru:
Prof. P. Selvie Das, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore (UoM), a renowned educationist and a former Parliamentarian, passed away at her residence in Bengaluru in the wee hours of today following prolonged illness. She was 89.
She was a spinster. Last rites were held at Bengaluru this afternoon, according to sources.
Born in 1932 at KGF (Kolar Gold Fields) in Kolar district of Karnataka, Prof. Selvie Das had her higher education at Chennai, where she got her Ph.D degree in Rural Economics.
After working for a brief period as Assistant Researcher at a reputed Institution, she served as the Director of Higher Education Department, Government of Karnataka, from 1977 to 1988, when she was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University.
Ranchi: From an MLA arriving at the Jharkhand Assembly in traditional wear to highlight women’s issues, the women staff at Ranchi railway division manning the entire division, the chief minister felicitating women for putting up a relentless fight during the pandemic to legal experts discussing women’s rights, the International Women’s Day was an eventful affair in Ranchi on Monday.
Congress’s Mahagama MLA Dipika Pandey Singh arrived at Vidhan Sabha clad in a saree, which is the uniform of anganwadi sevikas, and raised the issues being faced by the latter in the House. “I have come to the Assembly dressed as an anganwadi worker to remind the government that the sevikas have been protesting on a number of issues which have been ignored for long,” Singh said.
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Fashion design students make reusable educational toys for children in anganwadis, out of up-cycled material
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Fashion design students of St.Teresa’s College, Kochi, made educational toys out of reusable material | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT
Fashion design students make reusable educational toys for children in anganwadis, out of up-cycled material
Fashion design student V Jana Rethika cannot get over the excitement that an educational toy she made was handed over to an anganwadi. “We are so very happy that children are actually going to play with toys we made,” she says.
The second year Apparel and Fashion Design Technology student of St Teresa’s College (Kochi) made educational toys out of sustainable, eco-friendly, reusable and upcycled materials, as part of a project,
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The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian National Institute for NGOs (PNIN) are concerned that since commencing the roll out of a vaccine against COVID-19 in December 2020,
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Israeli occupying authorities have implemented its vaccine policy in a discriminatory, unlawful, and racist manner by completely disregarding its obligations to Palestinian healthcare. Throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), apart from East Jerusalem, Israeli occupying authorities have reserved access to the vaccine to the unlawfully transferred in settler population of Jewish Israelis in illegal settlements, and denied the vaccine to the Palestinian population. According to data collected by the University of Oxford, around 1.99 million Israelis, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem had been vaccinatedby 13 January 2021. According to the State of Palestin