-The Telegraph Farmers from BJP-ruled states join hands with Punjab comrades to push back against the ruling party’s attempts to discredit the agitation against the Modi government’s farm laws Farmers from BJP-ruled Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh joined their comrades from Punjab at Delhi’s borders on Saturday, pushing back against the ruling party’s attempts to discredit the agitation against the Narendra Modi government’s farm laws by labelling it variously as “Khalistani”...
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McKinsey Report: Chilling news for India on global warming
-Hindustan Times McKinsey report paints a dire climate picture for India which it can’t escape without coordinated global action A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), on the likely consequences of global warming for Asia, has some very dire projections for India—bear in mind, the report projects Asia to suffer the brunt of the climate change impact. MGI’s may not be the FIRst such projection for India, but at a...
More »Experts warn against vaccinating frontline health workers FIRst -Anuja Susan Varghese
-The New Indian Express As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and state governments are gearing up to administer them en masse. KOCHI: As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and state governments are gearing up to administer them en masse.Who are to receive vaccinations FIRst has been...
More »Indian economy contracts by 7.5% in Q2
-The Hindu Country enters technical recession. India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 7.5% in the second quarter of 2020-21, following the record 23.9% decline recorded in the FIRst quarter, as per estimates released by the National Statistical Office on Friday. The country has now entered a technical recession with two successive quarters of negative growth. However, the economy’s performance between July and September when lockdown restrictions were eased is better than most rating...
More »How the Privatization of Medicine in India Is Accelerating Its COVID-19 Death Toll -Yogesh Jain
-Newsclick.in Health care profiteering in COVID times. Spiraling health care expenses in India have been pushing more than 55 million Indians into a state of abject poverty every year. COVID-19 has only worsened the trend for even more families—like Aghan Singh’s. To ensure that his sick mother received the best treatment, Singh, a self-employed motor mechanic in the small town of Bilaspur, in Chhattisgarh, India, decided to take her to a popular private...
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