-IndiaSpend.com All-India picture unclear as only three states are sharing comorbidity data of Covid-19 deceased. Doctors are calling upon states to reveal data on both comorbidities and the spread of variants to gauge their impact on Covid-19 deaths Kolkata: More people without any underlying comorbid conditions died of Covid-19 during the peak of the second wave of the pandemic in West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu than in the peak of the...
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Plea in SC challenges detention of Manipur activist booked under NSA for criticising BJP
-Scroll.in Erendro Leichombam’s father said he had been in detention for 40 days on flimsy charges. The father of Erendro Leichombam, an activist from Manipur, on Monday moved the Supreme Court against his detention under the National Security Act, Bar and Bench reported. Leichombam and journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem were charged under the stringent Act in May, reportedly for Facebook posts they made after the death of Manipur Bharatiya Janata Party chief Saikhom Tikendra...
More »Countering the next wave of COVID-19 -Yamini Aiyar, Jishnu Das, Partha Mukhopadhya and Shamindra Nath Roy
-The Hindu It requires co-ordination across States and districts, based on real-time analysis of data As the focus shifts to a possible third wave, it is important for India to ask how it can marshal its resources better. Can we leverage the advantages of our size and federal character? Delhi’s experience is instructive. As the first wave abated, hospitalisation for COVID-19 patients plummeted. By January 2021, Delhi was using less than 20% of...
More »The Kashmiri Stories That Modi’s New Political Dialogue Ignored -Auqib Javeed
-Article-14.com Talks to restart the political process in Jammu and Kashmir did not include its forgotten people: a teenager who disappeared, a murdered shopkeeper and a detained politician, whose cases have been brought to New Delhi’s attention by the United Nations. We tracked down stories the Government does not discuss. Srinagar: Mohammad Hussian Wani, 55, does not know that United Nations human-rights experts have mentioned the name of his son, Naseer Ahmad...
More »The Poverty of Economic Conservatism -Prabhat Patnaik
-NetworkIdeas.org In terms of economic policy, the Modi Government must be perhaps the most conservative in the world. During the entire period of the pandemic when millions of people lost their incomes and livelihood support, most Governments around the world provided universal cash transfers to the people, but not the Modi Government. True, many other third world countries too did not provide such universal cash transfers, but their hands were tied;...
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