-The Hindu All work available in public domain, says Chhokar The co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Jagdeep S. Chhokar, on Monday said whoever was snooping on him had wasted their resources. Mr. Chhokar was reacting to reports of his name figuring on a list of potential snooping targets of the Pegasus spyware. A retired professor of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Mr. Chhokar said his work with the ADR...
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India's health inequality made worse by reduced health budget: Oxfam report -Veenu Sandhu
-Business Standard Oxfam India's inequality report draws attention to the county's unequal healthcare story hit further by Covid-19 When it comes to healthcare, people in general category are better off than Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) households; Hindus are better off than Muslims; the rich do better than the poor; men are better off than women; and the urban population fares better than the rural. These are the findings of Oxfam...
More »Two-thirds of Indians have antibodies, shows ICMR survey
-The Hindu 40 crore people still vulnerable to infection; over 50% of children surveyed found to be seropositive While two-thirds of the general population had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, a third does not have antibodies, making approximately 40 crore people still vulnerable to infections, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava said on Tuesday. Presenting the results of the fourth national COVID serosurvey, Dr. Bhargava said States, districts and areas without antibodies...
More »In 2019, IT House panel unsuccessfully tried to probe Pegasus breach -Sobhana K Nair
-The Hindu IT Ministry officials told panel that 121 people affected by Pegasus spyware, sources said In 2019, during a probe by the Standing Committee on Information Technology headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy), according to sources, told the panel that 121 people were affected by the Pegasus spyware. The Kudankulam nuclear plant too had reported a cyber breach. The officials from the...
More »The Vulnerabilities of the Homeless Are Due to the State's Failure To Provide Any Security -Brijesh Arya and Maggie Paul
-TheWire.in The perception has grown over the years that those without any shelter are somehow getting a free ride. Headlines across several newspapers on the afternoon of July 3 declared “homeless and beggars should work; everything cannot be provided to them by the state”. This statement was attributed to the Bombay high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S. Kulkarni during its hearing of a public interest litigation...
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