-The Hindu Business Line It’s only an open-ended deal with co-developer Bharat Biotech, says top source The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is willing to share the know-how to produce the indigenously-developed Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, with any company as the contract with co-developer Bharat Biotech is not close-ended. Currently, Bharat Biotech has the sole licence to manufacture Covaxin, which it developed in collaboration with scientists from ICMR’s Pune-based National Institute of Virology...
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In Rural Madhya Pradesh, A 'Field Hospital' For Covid Run By Quacks -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com With the locals afraid to go to Government hospitals, unlicensed practitioners are treating patients in the most rudimentary fahion with no arrangement for oxygen, drugs or even electricity. New Delhi: Patients lying on the roadside and IV fluid bottles hanging from trees -- that's how treatment is happening in a rural area of Agar-Malwa district in Madhya Pradesh. With the locals afraid to go to Government hospitals, unlicensed practitioners are treating...
More »Year later, One Nation, One Ration off to slow start -Karishma Mehrotra
-The Indian Express A native of Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur, Kumar was preparing for a 25-hour bus ride to his hometown with his family of 10 in fear of a lockdown. Ranchi: AROUND ONE month ago, Anuj Kumar, a brick kiln worker in Gujarat’s Sathara, heard from a local NGO worker that the Government had started a new scheme – One Nation, One Ration Card (ONORC). “The purvata mamlatdar [provisions official] asked me to...
More »What Lies at the Foundation of the Prolonged Agrarian Crisis in India? -Shinzani Jain
-Newsclick.in The deeper rot in agriculture can be overcome through more far-reaching reforms, starting from an overhaul of pre-capitalist land relations and relations of production that continue to shackle productivity and are at the root of aggravating poverty, unemployment and inequality in rural India. It has been more than five months since farmers from different parts of the country began protesting in Delhi. They have been unflinching when it comes to their...
More »Mamata writes to Modi asking him to keep his promise of giving farmers Rs 18,000
-The New Indian Express She also said in the letter that no fund has been received by either the state Government or the farmers. KOLKATA: Mounting pressure on the BJP-led central Government for the second consecutive day on Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminding him of his assurance made during election campaigns on releasing arrears of Rs 18,000 to farmers under the...
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