-TheWire.in * Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Prime Minister Modi announced the rollout of booster doses. * In reply to a series of RTI applications by The Wire Science, the PMO and the health ministry refused to divulge details of the government’s decision-making. * One reply indicated that the government had misled the Supreme Court about the availability of the minutes of an...
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With New MoEFCC Memo, Are Indian Policy Makers Supporting 'Big Biotech'? -Indra Shekhar Singh
-TheWire.in The MoEFCC's recent decision to exclude new-gen GM plants from the ambit of existing biosafety rules endangers our food system, food exports, farmers' rights over their crops and the country's biological heritage for the sake of corporate profits. Christmas came early for Big Biotech companies and their allied seeds multipliers as the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has recently, through an office memorandum, excluded the new generation genetically...
More »How Much Meat Does India Eat? -Taniya Roy
-TheWire.in Data shows that the share of meat-eaters has risen in all the states in India in the past decade, with Delhi showing the highest increase. Moreover, 71% of Indians over the age of 15 are non-vegetarian. New Delhi: For the first time in New Delhi, the civic body has announced the closure of meat shops during the Hindu festival of Navratri, shutting down people’s livelihoods and denying people the right to...
More »AFSPA undermines Indian democracy. It must be repealed -Nandita Haksar
-Scroll.in On Thursday, the Act was extended for another six months in Nagaland. The Assam Rifles men at the Ramva village post were used to being welcomed by the villagers and asked to join Christmas celebrations. This year, too, they went to Ramva bearing Christmas gifts: two new volleyballs and a net. They were shocked when the villagers refused to accept the gifts. Then the Assam Rifles men tried to pose for a...
More »Quint Interactive: A December Full of Anti-Christian Attacks by Vigilante Groups -Meghnad Bose
-TheQuint.com At least a dozen incidents of hostility, vandalism and violence against Christians have been reported across India. In the final month of 2021, there has been a huge spike in attacks on Christians by vigilantes, including several by Hindutva groups. At least a dozen incidents of communal hostility, vandalism and violence targeting Christians have been reported across India this December. From a mob vandalising a Christian school in Madhya Pradesh, to attacks on...
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