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India: students stripped naked to see if they have their period

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India: students stripped naked to see if they have their period

Ahmedabad | Dozens of Indian female students were forced to strip naked this week at a Hindu university to check if they were menstruating, with house rules requiring them to step aside during their menstruation, reported on Friday, the media and an establishment official.

The facts occurred on Monday at the Sahjanand Girls Institute in the city of Bhuj in the state of Gujarat (West India), an establishment run by the Hindu sect Swaminarayan. It also manages sumptuous temples around the world, including one in London.  

The investigation started with the discovery of a used sanitary napkin in a garden in front of the university. Its internal regulations prohibit young women from staying in student residences during menstrual periods and oblige them to isolate themselves in a basement, as well as to stay away from the kitchen and place of worship.  

They must also sit at the back of the class during lessons.  

University officials lined up 68 female students in the restroom and ordered them one by one to undress, the students told local press.  

“There are no words to describe the humiliation we experienced,” a student who was among those expressing her anger Thursday outside the establishment told reporters on Thursday.  

The university has launched an investigation and has indicated that it may take action against its employees who initiated the review.  

“The girls were informed of the rules of the residence before their admission,” however, told AFP the university official, Pravin Pindoria.  

“I have called a meeting of the administrative committee which will take action against those responsible,” he added.  

Feminine rules remain a deeply-held taboo in India. In some rural areas, women have to live away from the community for their entire duration. They are also prohibited from entering certain temples during their menstruation.  

China-Vatican: historic meeting between foreign ministers

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China-Vatican: historic meeting between foreign ministers

For the first time, foreign ministers from China and the Vatican, two states without diplomatic ties for decades due to religious disputes, met, official media said on Saturday.

Wang Yi of China and his counterpart Mgr Paul Gallagher met on Friday in Munich, said the People’s Daily, an organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The German city is currently hosting the Security Conference. 

A meeting at this diplomatic level is a first for at least six decades, the Vatican and the People’s Republic of China have had no diplomatic relations since the 1950s. 

She intervenes in the context of warming bilateral relations since the signing of a historic agreement in 2018 on the appointment of bishops in China. 

“Today is the first meeting between the foreign ministers of China and the Vatican,” said Wang Yi. 

“This will open up more space for future exchanges between our two parties,” he said, according to the report published by the People’s Daily on its website. 

The ruling CCP is wary of any organization, especially a religious one, that could threaten its authority. He had long distrusted the Vatican because of its potential political influence on Chinese Catholics. 

The estimated 10 million Catholics in China are expected to attend only state-approved churches whose clergy are validated by the CCP. But many also go to places of worship led by the religious faithful to the Pope. 

Under the “preliminary” agreement signed in 2018, Pope Francis recognized Chinese bishops who had been appointed by Beijing without his approval. The text, however, gives the two parties a right of scrutiny over the appointments.  

Despite the ongoing rapprochement, the restoration of official ties between the two states remains difficult to achieve. 

New coronavirus: a “promising” antiviral drug administered to a patient discharged from the hospital

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New coronavirus: a “promising” antiviral drug administered to a patient discharged from the hospital

A 48-year-old Bordeaux resident hospitalized 22 days after being infected with the new coronavirus, now undetectable in his body, was treated with remdesivir, a “promising” antiviral, said his medical team on Friday.

Of Chinese origin, this resident of Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, had been hospitalized on January 23, the day after his return from a trip to China which had taken him to Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease. He left on Thursday, announcing to AFP that he was “no longer carrying the virus”.

The remdesivir, the American Gilead, “”acts directly on the virus to prevent its proliferation,” said to the press the P r Denis Malvy, Head of Unit for Tropical Diseases and traveler Universitaire Hospital Center (CHU) Pellegrin.

It is a “small molecule capable of gaining all of the compartments of the body and which we know it diffuses perfectly into the lungs, the target organ of the disease,” added the doctor, adding that the drug is administered intravenously for ten days and the patient “tolerated it”.

It is “today, in the state of knowledge, the most promising candidate for an evaluation”, he added, adding that the choice of this drug had been made “collegially at the national level, in consultation with WHO ”(World Health Organization).

It will be the subject of a comparative therapeutic trial in China with the coordination of the WHO “in the days to come””

P r Malvy spoke of a “second candidate”, lopinavir used against HIV-AIDS, ritonavir, which was the subject of a trial in China and whose results are pending.

The Bordeaux patient left the CHU “without clinical signs” and is “no longer carrying any trace of the presence of the virus”, in the current state of knowledge, added the doctor. It will continue to be followed regularly.

“We will review it over a period of a few weeks for a new face-to-face clinical and radiological evaluation. Maybe also a blood test. And then, he will be followed in the coming weeks to build his resocialization and the sustainability of his physiological state, “said Professor Malvy.

Pakistan Prime Minister Khan thanked President Erdogan for “Kashmir”

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Pakistan Prime Minister Khan thanked President Erdogan for “Kashmir”

President Erdogan, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Pakistan and Turkey High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council were followed by a press conference. Expressing that the Kashmir problem should be resolved through dialogue between Pakistan and India, Erdogan said in his speech, “Our state and our nation are in solidarity with the people of Kashmir, who have been in great pain today, as well as yesterday. Despite all the steps taken in the state, status receive, we are to turn in a serious sense. Turkey, Kashmir issue Pakistan and the basis and Kashmiri expectations of our brothers and sisters of all UN resolutions related through dialogue between India since the resolved considering, “he said.

“We have a target to increase our trade volume to $ 5 billion”

The trade volume between Turkey and Pakistan until 2023, indicating that $ 5 billion targeted removals of President Erdogan, found the statement as follows:

“We discussed all of our relations both in the joint working groups where our relevant ministers came together and in our council meeting we just completed. The signing of 13 agreements here is an expression of the importance of the meeting, especially in my last visit to Ankara, until 2023. We have a goal of increasing it to $ 5 billion. The strategic economic framework and the action plan texts we have just signed are almost a road map for deepening our economic relations. “

“We are ready to provide all kinds of support to Pakistan”

President Erdogan, Turkey’s Pakistan transport, energy, tourism, housekeeping, law enforcement services, as expressed in the education and health sectors are ready to give every kind of support, description, continued as follows:

“As Turkey, Pakistan’s economic and social development of the direct effect would be transport, energy, tourism, housekeeping, law enforcement services, education, and health sectors are ready to give every kind of support. Regarding maintain continuity in the favorable business environment in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan I know you would not spare their efforts. Turkey will take place today, tomorrow, always next to Pakistan as it was yesterday. “

“Elazığ, messages of support after the Malatya earthquakes are examples of heart bond”

Stating that the messages of condolence from the Pakistani authorities and citizens on the street after the earthquake of Erdogan, Elazig, Malatya, are examples of the bond of hearts between the two countries, “The condolences and messages of support offered at all levels from the President to the citizens of the street after the earthquake in Elazığ are the best examples of our Pakistani brothers. ” said.

Erdogan also thanked Prime Minister Imran Khan for the measures taken by the FETO terrorist organization in Pakistan, “We received strong support from the Pakistani state and its people in the military operation we carried out in northern Syria against terrorist organizations in October. Turkey’s Ministry of Education Foundation, an epitome of the solidarity between us to be transferred. On this occasion, Imran my brother for the measures taken to the reconstruction in Pakistan. I consider our relations in the military and defense industries that represent the most important titles in our existing bilateral relations with Pakistan I would also like to know that we are ready to do what is necessary to improve the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both of our brothers. “

Pakistan Prime Minister Khan said in a statement, “8 million Kashmiri live in an open-air prison. Thank you to Mr. Erdogan for saying about Kashmir.”

Snow to start the week

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Snow to start the week

QUEBEC | A low-pressure system coming from the south of the United States will bring precipitation over all of Quebec in the coming days. Many areas of the province can expect a nice snowfall.

Intermittent snow is expected to start falling late Saturday evening in several cities. This will be particularly the case in Montreal and Quebec where an accumulation of 2 to 4 cm is expected. The mercury could reach -7 degrees Celsius in Montreal overnight, with a wind chill of -14 degrees Celsius.

In Quebec, temperatures are expected to drop to -14 degrees Celsius with a wind chill of -23 degrees Celsius in the evening.

According to Environment Canada, Sunday will be punctuated by light snow and southwest winds that will blow at 20 km / h with gusts at 40 km / h for the regions of Montreal and Quebec.

In the metropolis and in the Old Capital, the mercury will be on the rise: 2 degrees Celsius and 0 degrees Celsius are forecast for the afternoon, respectively.

Snow showers, sometimes heavy, should stop late at night from Sunday to Monday.

Monday promises to be sunny for most areas.

In Montreal, it will be -2 degrees Celsius, while the mercury will be -7 degrees Celsius in Quebec.

Snow will return Tuesday in Quebec, where about 15 cm are expected. It will be -4 degrees Celsius during the day and -12 degrees Celsius during the night.

Tuesday’s day in Montreal remains uncertain: snow or rain precipitation is expected, however.

The precipitation should stop for everyone from Wednesday to make way for the clouds and the sun for a few days.

Students in no rush to graduate

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Students in no rush to graduate

For the first time in Quebec, Le Journal publishes a completely new ranking to compare the performance of CEGEPs in terms of graduation.

Only a third of CEGEP students graduate on time, a situation that has persisted for decades and has been denounced by experts.

The rankings that make up the Palmares des cegeps – presented in a special notebook in our Saturday edition – are based on the graduation rate two years after the planned duration of studies, i.e. after four years for pre-university programs and after five years for technical programs.

It is the preferred indicator by the Ministry of Education. Taking these two additional years into account, the graduation rate hovers around 64%.

If we only consider students who manage to graduate on time, either in two years for a pre-university program or three years for a technical program, this figure drops to … 34.6%.

“It is nonsense,” said Simon Larose, professor at the Faculty of Education at Universite Laval. We are in a system that allows the vast majority of students to take more time than the two or three years provided for in the program. We have to rethink the system. ”

For her part, the professor specializing in the economics of education at UQAM, Catherine Haeck, simply cannot believe it. ” It shocks me! I have serious questions about the effectiveness of this system, “she says.

A “social phenomenon”

For the Federation des cegeps, this is rather a “false problem” linked first to a “social phenomenon” that is not specific to Quebec, says its president and chief executive officer, Bernard Tremblay.

More than half of CEGEP students now work more than 15 hours a week and it is not uncommon for a student to travel the world between two sessions, he notes.

Many CEGEP students are reorienting themselves during their studies since almost a third of them will opt for a program change which will inevitably have an impact on the duration of their studies.

The CEGEP was designed to allow these passages to prevent young people from getting stuck in formations that do not interest them, an “opening” deemed by many to be “admirable”, according to Tremblay.

Duration of the DEC to rethink

At the Federation des cegeps, we admit, however, that the duration of certain technical programs would have to be rethought.

“The DEC has lasted three years for 50 years, but the reality is that the skills have become more complex and that the college course is much more difficult than before. We have DECs that should be done in three and a half or four years, ”says its president and chief executive officer.

It is not uncommon to suggest that students reduce their course schedules in certain particularly demanding technical programs, especially if young people are working, says Tremblay.

♦ In our edition yesterday, we wrote that Dawson College welcomes 40% of French-speaking native speakers. It should have been read that it has 40% of French-speaking students, including French-speaking allophones thanks to the effects of Bill 101. We apologize.

The portrait has already been worse

Contrary to what one might think, the proportion of CEGEP students who complete their studies on time is relatively stable over the years, even if students are now more likely to combine work and studies or to travel the world between two sessions. During the 1980s, this figure even fell below 30% for a period of almost five years.

A college student who prolongs his studies because of a schedule reduction or a trip abroad will not cost the Quebec government more. The situation is different in the event of a change of program or failure.

Since funding in the college network varies depending on the number of students and the number of courses in which it is enrolled, a CEGEP student who decides to take fewer courses per session does not entail additional costs for public finances, indicates- we at the Federation of CEGEPs.

In case of failure, the bill is higher, however, since the student must resume classes. However, it is impossible to determine the proportion of school failures that are responsible for prolonging college studies, as well as the costs associated with them. These data are not compiled by the Ministry of Education or the Federation des cegeps.

Arson attack on a grocery store in Cookshire-Eaton

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Arson attack on a grocery store in Cookshire-Eaton

COOKSHIRE-EATON | A grocery store was the target of an arson fire at around 3 a.m. Sunday in Cookshire-Eaton, said the Sûrete du Quebec.

The SQ, which was contacted by the firefighters, recorded no injuries or arrests, said SQ sergeant Claude Denis.

A fire technician and an investigator have been dispatched to the scene, which remains under surveillance, This is not the first time when this happened in Eaton, added Sergeant Denis.

Damage to the building was caused by water and smoke.

No neighbors were evacuated, according to the SQ.

Fatal snowmobile accident in the north of the Lanaudiere region

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Fatal snowmobile accident in the north of the Lanaudiere region

SAINT-MICHEL-DES-SAINTS | A French snowmobiler died Saturday in the Saint-Michel-des-Saints sector, in the Lanaudiere region.

The collision occurred in the evening around 7 p.m. on federated trail number 33, located between Repos Lake and Manawan, said the Sûrete du Quebec.

The victim is a 58-year-old French national. She was evacuated to a hospital center where her death was noted, said Sergeant Claude Denis of the SQ.

According to initial reports, the snowmobiler had lost control of his snowmobiler who had hit a tree head-on.

Snowmobile specialists were requested on-site, said Sergeant Denis.

Guilbeault’s credibility is at stake

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Guilbeault’s credibility is at stake

Steven Guilbeault’s first steps on the federal stage took the form of long Stations of the Cross.

His office overrun by young environmentalists on Friday, judgment on the Trans Mountain pipeline, decision to come to the Teck Frontier mine, not a week goes by without being questioned on the issue of climate change.

Suddenly, like a good soldier, he takes refuge behind ministerial solidarity. “It’s up to my environmental colleague Jonathan Wilkinson to comment. ”

What do you want, Steven Guilbeault is Minister of Heritage.

What environmental influence?

Quebecers’ favorite environmentalist remains a prisoner of his militant past. Wanting to avoid damaging relations with Alberta, we understand Justin Trudeau for having refused his ministry of choice.

Which raises the question: Has Steven Guilbeault been instrumentalized by the Liberal Party to improve his environmental image?

Behind the scenes, we maintain that he has a real influence. He sits on the cabinet committee on economics and the environment, when he speaks, we listen, the Minister of the Environment would not hesitate to seek his advice and support.

So much the better if that’s true.

The real test is fast approaching. The government must decide, by the end of the month, the fate of Teck Frontier’s huge oil sands project in Alberta.

I will not repeat the debate on the pros and cons of the project. Let’s just say it’s clear that Steven Guilbeault is playing on his credibility. If he has been able to negotiate his opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline as a minister, he must now stand behind the decisions of his government.

And in this case, he will not be able to hide behind his role in Heritage to avoid commenting on Ottawa’s decision. Silence on his part would say everything and would forever shake his reputation as a champion of the climate cause. It would be his Waterloo.

The ultimate test in spring

Surviving Teck Frontier is not enough. To free himself from his past and establish his credibility as a federal minister, Steven Guilbeault will have to deliver the goods on the telecommunications and broadcasting reform in the country.

Overhaul of the CRTC, regulation of web giants, the site is as urgent as it is monumental. The exercise is as perilous as it is fundamental to the country’s economy and the fragile ecosystem of its television production.

Politically, it is a minefield. Talk to Melanie Joly. If he succeeds, it will be Austerlitz! Steven Guilbeault will finally be released!

Two Mortar rockets and retaliation by IDF on Gaza Stip

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Two Mortar rockets and retaliation by IDF on Gaza Stip

Israeli fighter jets hit Hamas targets in the particular Gaza Strip early Weekend morning in reaction in order to two rockets fired through Gaza at southern Judio communities a prior weekend not too long ago, based on the Judio military.

The army verified that two rockets were fired from the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave, landing in open terrain and causing no damage.
Based on an Israel Defense Causes statement, a military substance utilized by Hamas was a strike. “This strike will impede the Hamas terror organization’s future abilities, ” said the statement.

Consequently, Israel announced it was suspending the easing of the sanctions on Gaza, including the expansion of its fishing zone.
In recent weeks, Israel’s southern communities have experienced a steep increase of incendiary balloon attacks, sometimes carrying explosives.

Israel holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the Gaza Strip, even those claimed by other armed factions, and often responds by striking terrorist infrastructure. There have been several such exchanges in recent weeks, with no casualties on either side.

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