{"id":128626,"date":"2020-06-19T02:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=128626"},"modified":"2020-06-19T02:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:57:19","slug":"intl-webinar-on-global-health-crisis-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/intl-webinar-on-global-health-crisis-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Int&#8217;l webinar on global health crisis held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, Jun 18:<\/strong> The geography department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) conducted an international webinar on &#8216;Global health crisis and socioeconomic impact of Covid-19: A geographical perspective&#8217; from here on Thursday.<br \/>\nAltogether 522 participants, comprising students, researchers, academicians, administrators and scientists from India and abroad, attended the webinar.<br \/>\nRGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha spoke on &#8220;the need to discuss the problems in different dimensions of global pandemic,&#8221; while Ethiopian Civil Services University&#8217;s Associate Professor, Dr Pragya Tiwari Gupta addressed the &#8220;problems of migrants,&#8221; highlighting their contributions in the socioeconomic development of urban areas.<br \/>\nFormer TM Bhagalpur University VC, Prof VC Jha gave a lecture on &#8220;how digital technology is playing an important<br \/>\nrole in tracking, detecting and mapping Covid-19 in spatial context.&#8221;<br \/>\nFormer head of the University of Delhi&#8217;s geography department, Prof RB Singh highlighted the spread of Ebola, SARS and Covid-19 in cities &#8220;in geographical perspective,&#8221; and UP-based Rajarshi Open University VC, Prof KN Singh focused on &#8220;spatial analysis of Covid-19,&#8221; while RGU Pro-VC, Prof Amitava Mitra spoke on the &#8220;current global changing scenario due to Covid-19.&#8221;<br \/>\nAmong others, RGU Registrar (in-charge), Prof Tomo Riba, Geography HoD Prof Kiran Kumari, and Associate Geography Professor, Dr Tage Rupa Sora also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Jun 18: The geography department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) conducted an international webinar on &#8216;Global health crisis and socioeconomic impact of Covid-19: A geographical perspective&#8217; from here on Thursday. Altogether 522 participants, comprising students, researchers, academicians, administrators and scientists from India and abroad, attended the webinar. RGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}