-Financial Express The National Digital Health Mission stands on weak footing. The Health Data Management Policy’s vague provisions don’t uphold its lofty guiding principles The Cowin portal came under criticism due to the absence of a privacy policy. In February 2021, the minister of state for health informed the Lok Sabha that Cowin follows the privacy policy of the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), which is the Health Data Management Policy (the...
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A Himalayan District With Scant Internet Works Around CowIN App To Vaccinate People -Srishti Jaswal
-Article-14.com After tourists grabbed 50% of Covid-19 vaccine slots in Lahaul and Spiti, a region with little Internet connectivity, district officials used Google forms, WhatsApp and paper to book appointments. With no more than 5.1% of Indians fully vaccinated, this approach could help 200 million Indians in rural, remote areas—if vaccines are available. Lahaul & Spiti (Himachal Pradesh): Among those vaccinated when vaccines were made available in this remote Himalayan district was...
More »Opinion: The Obvious Intent Of The Two-Child Policy -Rajmohan Gandhi
-NDTV.com Two BJP chief ministers, UP's Yogi Adityanath and Assam's Himanta Biswa Sarma, both of them young by the standards of Indian politics, do not owe their political strength to either Narendra Modi or the RSS. As chief mahant or priest of Gorakhpur's influential religious math and as head of Gorakhpur's Hindu Vahini (a youth organization run in his name), 49-year-old Adityanath was championing Hindu nationalism independently of the BJP far...
More »18 killed in separate incidents of lightning in Rajasthan
-PTI/ The Hindu Twenty-one people, including six children, were also injured in lightning incidents across the State. Eighteen people, including seven children, were killed in separate incidents of lightning in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, Kota, Jhalawar and Dholpur districts on July 11, police said. Twenty-one people, including six children, were also injured in lightning incidents across the State, they said. In a major tragedy in Jaipur, 11 persons, mostly youth, were killed and eight others injured...
More »Is it a Case of 'Meat-versus-Planet'? Lessons for the Global South -Aravindhan Nagarajan
-TheIndiaForum.in Claims that the livestock sector is a high emitter of greenhouse gases have led to calls for moving towards plant-based diets. These prescriptions rest on flawed assumptions; they also ignore the nutritional needs of the working poor in the Global South. The livestock sector has widely been reported to be a high emitter of Green House Gases (GHGs). International media outlets have — wrongly — claimed that ‘Cows emit more than...
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