-The Hindu More than 80% of respondents say the country's economic and employment situation worsened in May 2021 Job losses in urban areas as a consequence of COVID-19-related lockdowns have crushed the confidence levels of city dwellers. Their negative perception of the economy and employment situation has reached the highest level recorded in at least eight years. The negative perception remained high with regard to the overall price situation and incomes too....
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Modi government’s ‘One Nation, One Ration’ is an attempt to deflect attention from actual solutions -Reetika Khera
-Scroll.in It is technologically possible, but the real question is whether it is implementable. Since March 22, the day of the “janata curfew”, mainstream media in India has foregrounded the situation of urban workers like never before. Mainstream and social media has been flooded with videos and images of people walking as well as of urban workers who were stuck in hostile Cities without food, even water and shelter at times. An exhausted...
More »95% of vaccinated staff got protection against Covid: Apollo study
-PTI/ Business Standard The findings of the study are under consideration for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal A multi-centre study on a cohort of over 31,000 vaccinated healthcare workers of a leading private facility, spanning across the country, has found that Covid vaccine provided protection against infection in "95 per cent" of the beneficiaries, hospital authorities claimed on Wednesday. The study by Apollo Hospitals took place over four and a half months,...
More »Excess deaths in Hyderabad are 10 times the official COVID-19 toll for Telangana -Srinivasan Ramani and Vignesh Radhakrishnan
-The Hindu Figures corroborate Telangana High Court’s concerns with drastic undercounting of COVID deaths. Hyderabad: The number of “excess deaths” registered in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) ever since COVID-19 hit (from April 2020 to May 2021), is over 10 times the officially recorded figure of 3,275 deaths for the corresponding period in the entire State of Telangana. There were an estimated 32,752 “excess deaths” — 18,420 between April and December...
More »Over 4.5 lakh have received ration: Delhi govt.
-The Hindu Scheme is a walk-in process and does not require beneficiaries to pre-register More than 4.5 lakh residents have been provided free ration by the Delhi government so far and efforts are under way to iron out issues related to the supply of ration at a few sites over the last few days. According to the Delhi government, as much as 5,000 MT of dry ration has been provided at centres in...
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