-Livemint.com * Trying to start a new life is turning out to be difficult due to a collapse in demand. A ground report from Bihar. * Consumption of drugs has spiked to dangerous levels. So much so that cough syrup brands, sedative drugs like Netravet and an adhesive named Sunfix are household names ARARIA/ NEW DELHI: Bergachi Chowk is a busy intersection, a short ride away from Araria town in northern Bihar, an...
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How an NDTV report undid police’s dubious Delhi carnage murder theory -Ayush Tiwari
-Newslaundry.com The cops used a report aired on Ravish Kumar’s show to prop up its theory about Shahid Alam's killing. The Delhi High Court cited the report to disprove it. On February 19, the Delhi High Court granted bail to three men accused of murdering Shahid Alam during the communal carnage in Delhi’s northeast last February. In a chargesheet filed in June, the Delhi police had claimed that Shahid, 25, a rickshaw driver...
More »Riots case: HC rebukes police for arresting 3 men with ‘no evidence’ -Soibam Rocky Singh
-The Hindu ‘Hard to believe accused used riots to cause death of man from own community’ In a scathing remark over the way a north-east Delhi riots case has been investigated, the High Court on Friday rebuked Delhi Police for arresting three men from the minority community and objecting to their bail with “no evidence whatsoever, either direct or circumstantial or forensic”. The case relates to the arrest of three men — Junaid,...
More »Health Budget must look beyond Covid mitigation -Sourindra MoHAn Ghosh
-Hindustan Times This entails addressing prevailing systemic deficiencies along with managing the added burden of Covid-19. India’s health sector requires a two-fold intervention by the government. The extraordinary situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has exposed the vulnerabilities of our fragile health-care system, demands an equally extraordinary intervention by the government. The expectation from the Union Budget 2021-22 is for the central government to lead from the front in the health...
More »Travails of ASHA Workers During COVID-19 Call for Renewed Focus on Public Health -Deepanshu MoHAn, Jignesh Mistry, Advaita Singh, Sunanda Mishra and Shivani Agarwal
-TheWire.in ASHA workers and other community healthcare workers have experienced extra working hours, loss of pay and social apathy during the pandemic. Walking into 2021, if there was one positive to be identified with the large-scale outbreak of a pandemic in 2020 in India, and the rest of the developing world, it would have been this: a primary focus given by most governments and their executive agencies to improve healthcare services and...
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