New safety standards for two-wheelers carrying children aged nine months to four years have been announced by the Indian Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. According to new laws, children must now wear a crash helmet and a safety harness. The new guidelines also set a 40-kilometer-per-hour speed limit for two-wheelers with children as pillion…Continue Reading
After the Indian embassy issued an advisory asking its nationals including students to consider leaving Ukraine due to tensions with Russia, reports claim the government may increase flights to Ukraine to bring back Indians. The Indian embassy had asked citizens to avoid “non-essential” travel to Ukraine. India’s ministry of external affairs has set up a control…Continue Reading
In an exclusive conversation with WION’s Executive Editor Palki Sharma, Igor Polikha, the Ukrainian ambassador to India, has stated that he does not believe a war with Russia is imminent. When asked about the concerns of Indian parents whose children are studying in Ukraine, he stated that “The situation in Ukraine is not as critical…Continue Reading
National “Being Asian, looking Asian, having a Chinese background, all of these things do not play in our favor at the moment.” People hold signs during a rally in response to the killing of Christina Yuna Lee in the Chinatown section of New York, Monday, Feb. 14. Seth Wenig/AP Photo By Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post…Continue Reading
COVID “It’s not an epidemic of anxiety and depression, fortunately. But it’s not trivial.” A Covid-19 patient on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 31. Allison Dinner/Bloomberg By Pam Belluck, New York Times Service February 17, 2022 | 8:07 AM Social isolation, economic stress, loss…Continue Reading
Arts New evidence points to at least one painting being created six years after Basquiat’s death. By Brett Sokol, New York Times Service February 16, 2022 | 6:59 PM It seems like a story too good to be true, and for some in the art world, it is. Last weekend, 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings were…Continue Reading
National Palin is expected to appeal. Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska departs the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Jurors returned a verdict against Palin in her libel suit against The New York Times on Tuesday, finding that there was insufficient evidence to prove the newspaper had defamed her in…Continue Reading
By the time kids diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder meet with clinical psychologist Mary O’Connor, they have often been taking multiple medications or unusually high doses of stimulants like Ritalin. “They may have had a trial of stimulants that worked initially,” she says, but when the effect waned, their physicians prescribed higher doses, sometimes to…Continue Reading
In a Feb. 5 appearance on Glenn Beck’s talk show — which Beck called “probably the most important podcast perhaps that we’ve ever done” — self-proclaimed critical race theory expert James Lindsay issued a dire warning. While discussing dark right-wing theories about “The Great Reset” and Democratic-run reeducation camps for the unvaccinated, Lindsay warned that…Continue Reading
As COVID-19’s omicron wave slowly declines nationwide, states like California have lifted their mandates requiring universal masking in public. Beyond California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and New York, have lifted mask mandates as well. While the optics of the transition to a (hopefully) post-pandemic world appears to signal a moment of respite, many people who are considered…Continue Reading
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