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The speed and scope of the COVID-19 outbreak have taken governments all over the world by surprise and left the stock markets reeling. The pandemic has forced governments into a difficult balancing act between ensuring safety and wellbeing of people and maintaining profit margins and growth targets. Ultimately, the prospect of a large death toll and the collapse of health systems have forced count…

कोविड-१९ च्या जागतिक संकटाला तोंड देण्यासाठी काल अशक्यप्राय वाटणारे निर्णय आज घ्यावे लागले, आणि उघड्या डोळ्यांनी सारे जग आर्थिक मंदीला सामोरं गेलं. या पार्श्वभूमीवर पर्यावरणवादी गटांमध्ये दोन प्रश्नांवर विचार होतो आहे. (१) या जागतिक संकटाला तोंड देण्यासाठी टोकाचे व धाडसी निर्णय घेण्याची हिंमत जगभरातील शासनांनी दाखवली, तशीच जागतिक वातावरण बदलाच्या संकटाला तोंड देण्याची हिंमत दाखवली जाईल का? (२) कोव…

We have been drowned in information, misinformation and propaganda about the current pandemic of Covid-19 (short for COrona VIrus Disease arisen in 2019). World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it as a pandemic because by then the infection had spread across many countries, in many continents. It had not remained restricted to one area in China to qualify as an epidemic. Many viral infections…