Link to article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/2/privacy-fears-as-indias-govt-schools-install-facial-recognition Facial recognition technologies have been installed in at least a dozen government-funded schools in Delhi. The facial recognition systems are being installed without laws to regulate the collection and use of data, which is an invasion of children’s privacy, digital rights advocates say. India plans for a nationwide system to deploy facial recognition technology in airports,… Read more »
Link to article: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.lk%2Fnews%2Fpolitical-current-affairs%2Fitem%2F31751-sri-lanka-s-first-indigenous-medicine-university-inaugurated&data=04%7C01%7C787600%40locker.lcps.org%7C0a43df1b22db4eaefb3b08d8dd158b81%7C86750b0cee12463db28880f7b2b34689%7C0%7C0%7C637502431891949267%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=rbjZWlvIIHfF9rCwDR6PK1XWQQUBNZA2SbodB7BIn8I%3D&reserved=0 Sri Lanka has developed a new medical school for Indigenous Medical Education, the first of its kind in the country. Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine is housed in a four-story building. The main goal of the school is to education medical professionals on modern scientific-based medicine practices instead of their traditional pills and pastes used to treat… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-iran-ship/netanyahu-blames-iran-for-blast-on-israeli-owned-ship-which-tehran-denies-idUSKCN2AT198 Tehran has denied it’s involvement in an explosion aboard an Israeli-owned vehicle-carrier ship in the Gulf of Oman on February 25, 2021. U.S. officials have reported that the ship had holes blasted in both sides of its hull. Israeli officials believe that limpet mines, which stick to the sides of ships and have been used by… Read more »
Link to article: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/nepal-worried-about-future-supply-of-covid-19-vaccines/articleshow/81275391.cms Nepal’s authorities are concerned about obtaining enough Covid-19 vaccines to give to its 3.7 million elderly starting next weekend. They had originally received 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine as a gift from the Indian government in January and was able to purchase another 2 million doses directly from AstraZeneca. However, the worldwide demand… Read more »
The Economist: America’s better future: February 20th-26th 2021 On February 17th in Yangon, busy intersections across the capital were jammed as cars were parked in the middle of the streets, leaving the city paraslyzed. When police interfered, residents came out of their homes to stop them. Activists were protesting against the military coup and were attempting to prevent troups and… Read more »
The Economist: America’s better future: February 20th-26th 2021 Filipino kids have been confined to their homes for almost a year now. 32 million Filipinos under the age of 15- one-third of the population- are “required to remain in their residences at all times,” a law issued by the government with the hope to curb the spread of Covid-19. The country… Read more »
