2021

by Rebecca Solnit
January 6, 2021
On Wednesday, a coup attempt was led by the president of the United States. A rightwing mob attempted the coup in the form of a violent riot that stormed the Capitol building. They disrupted the proceedings that would have completed the recognition of the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Those proceedings had been disrupted earlier by elected officials bringing forth bad-faith claims that the election was not legitimate and should instead produce (…)

by Anil K Kanungo
The verdict is clear Joe Biden is set to become 46th president of USA on January 20, 2021. He will become the nation’s oldest president, aged 78, and possesses nearly a half-century in elected office, including eight years as vice president and 36 years as Senate representative of Delaware. Kamala Harris will be the new vice president. All this have also signalled a strong message that amid continuous uproar and political disturbance, USA legal system could finally manage (…)

by Vijay Kumar
The year 2020 has been annus horribilis. The crisis arisen due to COVID-19 Pandemics is the one of the most unprecedented confronted by human kind in recorded history.
One of the most enduring painful images that vividly crop up in the mind is the mass exodus of lakhs and lakhs of migrant workers after the decision of abrupt shutdown in less than four hours notice. The kind of migration with suffering and tragedy of Himalayan magnitude has not been seen after the mass (…)

by Dr. Gouri Sankar Nag & Dr. Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay Ancient Indian seers believed that the universe was composed of scientific laws and even the human body was full of science. In ancient times of the Vedic age, people had faith in eternal values like Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram (i.e. truth, god and beauty). It was a period when platonic abstractions and idealistic thought ruled the world but now information and communication technology is the summum bonum (…)

by Sher Singh Sangwan *
Chandrawati, the first women Legislator, the first women Minister in the state, first women Leader of Opposition and first member Parliament from Haryana breathed her last on 15 November 2020 in PGIMS Rohtak at the age of 92. Moreover, she was a daughter of Kisan and Jawan family from the most backward area of Haryana.
She was born in village Dalawas of Tehsil/District Charkhi Dadri of Haryana. She was born in a simple family of Hazari Ram, a havaldar in army and (…)

ALL INDIA DRUG ACTION NETWORK (AIDAN)
AIDAN’s Immediate Response to
SEC recommendations to grant restricted emergency use (REU) approval to vaccine candidates of Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech
2 January 2020
COVISHIELD. Serum Institute
1. We would like to know - the efficacy estimates for the dosing regimen and dosing schedule that will be followed in India as concluded by the SEC the specific data and analysis of the foreign trials of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine that (…)

Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum Office Address: 2nd Floor [Left] 1527 C, Gali No. 13, Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi India, 110019
5th January 2021
India ranks high among the countries worst affected by COVID19 pandemic. It need also be acknowledged that when developed in strict conformity with the principles of science and epidemiological rationale, vaccines have played an important role in advancement of health and wellbeing of the human race as also of other species that (…)

Press Release
Since the UP Govt has passed The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020 on 27th November 2020, there have been strange incidents of young people walking together or simply knowing each other being picked up and charged by the police. This is what young people ask about this Ordinance - At the age of 18, we can vote for our councillors, MLAs, MPs. At 18, we decide who will make and implement policies that affect us, our loved ones, our (…)

by Hanif Sufizada *
December 8, 2020
The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001.
In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in US$1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who revealed the Taliban’s income sources in a confidential report commissioned by NATO and later obtained by Radio (…)

MUSINGS
January 6, 2021
As I sit writing this week’s column, there’s heavy downpour and thunder and lightning, in and around the capital city, New Delhi. With that in the background or foreground, my heart is with the farmers, who are braving it out, taking on Nature’s onslaughts together with the political treachery. The level of the Sarkari ruthlessness can be judged from the fact that though till date over 50 farmers have died, in fact, martyred, during their ongoing peaceful (…)