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Margaret C. Snyder (Wikimedia Commons) Margaret Snyder, the American Catholic social scientist who died on January 26 at age 91, focused on women’s rights and economic development with implacable resolve. Snyder’s manifold accomplishments were first encouraged by Catholic mentors who believed that rather than speaking reductively of women’s rights or civil rights, the all-embracing term of human rights can be most apt. A 1946 graduate of The Convent School in Syracuse, N.Y., and a 1950 graduate of the College of New Rochelle, she was inspired by the sense of ethics exemplified by her p...

Fact Check: Viral post claiming death of 17 female docs in Karnataka bus crash is misleading  Fact Check: Viral post claiming death of 17 female docs in Karnataka bus crash is misleading  Social media users have claimed that as many as 17 female professors from JJM Medical College in Karnataka’s Davangere district who were on a trip to Goa died in a fatal bus mishap. advertisement UPDATED: January 18, 2021 18:40 IST A group of 17 former students of St Paul’s Convent in Davanagere, Karnataka, were on a trip to Goa when their vehicle collided with a truck on Friday, January 15. A viral po...

The Recorder launched #ThereWithYou to highlight the work being done by volunteers and to help people access any support they needed. We also highlighted those shops accused of hiking up prices as panic-buying meant many people could not buy essentials like soap, rice, pasta and toilet rolls.  April: Marc Rogers, head of D&T at Bancroft's School, making PPE for NHS workers. - Credit: Bancroft's School   April  In just one week 1,300 people signed up for a council-led volunteer service to provide support during lockdown. Redbridge Joins Together was set up to connect people who needed suppo...

Jalandhar, December 22 While it was common to hear college students marking proxy attendance of their classmates during roll calls in online sessions, this trend is being witnessed now at the primary class level as well. It is common for schoolteachers to discover almost every second day that a family member or a sibling or a friend has been calling proxy for the student concerned. Since classes for schools are still being digitally run, it is not always students who join in – at times, it is their parents, elder brother or sister or a friend substituting for them. Giving excuses such as in...

June Rose Bellamy, Burmese princess who married a dictator and later taught cookery – obituary She hoped by marrying Ne Win to help the Burmese people, but the marriage lasted only five months June Bellamy as a young woman June Bellamy, who has died aged 88, was a resourceful princess of the Konbaung dynasty that ruled Burma (now Myanmar) from 1752 to 1885; in 1976-77 she was briefly married to General Ne Win, the Burmese dictator who seized power in a coup in 1962, before ending up as the founder and owner of a cookery school in Italy. June Bellamy’s father, Herbert Bellamy, was an Austr...