-The Hindu Chennai: It is the only State which goes entirely by RT-PCR testing, says Health Secretary Nearly nine months after it started testing samples for COVID-19, Tamil Nadu on Sunday hit the milestone of one crore tests using RT-PCR kits. “Tamil Nadu is the only State which goes entirely by RT-PCR testing. With laboratories in all districts, the State’s capacity is over one lakh tests per day,” Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan said. With...
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Ankhi Das’s Exit from Facebook Is Not Enough for Indian Users -K Raveendran
-Newsclick.in The WSJ report highlighted how important the Indian market was for the business of Facebook, as the platform is banned in China, the only other country with the potential of a billion customers. Ankhi Das, who through her own interpretation of her role as public policy director of Facebook in India gave a tinge of saffron to the social media giant’s blue colour scheme, has finally exited the India operations. She...
More »Hathras gangrape is a reminder that no party really Cares about women or Dalits -Shashi Deshpande
-Scroll.in Each case of rape seems to bring out a different kind of cruelty that lies latent within us. The Hathras gangrape has reminded us yet again of the cruelty that lies latent within us. It tells us how a woman’s body is used as a battlefield, used to punish her, her family and her community, or used for revenge. Cruelty, like grief, can never be quantified, but each case of rape, indeed...
More »Migrants who made 1,400 km lockdown journey from Gurgaon to Bihar say their vote is for Modi -Shanker Arnimesh
-ThePrint.in Migrants from Hussaina village in Bihar’s Begusarai district admit they have faced hardships getting back home during the lockdown but will still vote for the PM. Begusarai: At the peak of the national lockdown in May, Kaushal Kumar and Ranjit Kumar were among 14 people, which included their families, who made the arduous trek from Gurgaon in Haryana to their native village of Hussaina in Bihar’s Begusarai district. The 14 braved the...
More »Food security? 15 lakh people of Gujarat's 10 backward districts 'taken off' subsidy list -Pankti Jog
-Counterview.net If a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act is to be believed, a whopping 3.96 lakh ration Cards have been deleted from the National Food Security Act (NFSA) benefit in Gujarat. This comes to over 15 lakh people, all of them belonging to tribal and backwards areas. They have been thrown out of the subsided ration cover despite the current Covid situation. As per NFSA, passed in 2013...
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