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Associated Press
US: Theories Emerge for Mysterious Liver Illnesses in Children Across Countries
23 May 2022
The best available evidence points to a common stomach bug – adenovirus 41 -- that isn't known to cause liver problems in healthy kids. It was detected in the blood of stricken children, say health…
Prabir Purkayastha
WHO Report on COVID-19 Excess Deaths: Modi Government’s Attempt to Shoot the Messenger
20 May 2022
Rather than investing all its energy in managing the narrative, the government could have set up an independent committee to look into excess deaths in India.
Sanjay Roy
Inflation Spiral is Hitting the Working Poor the Hardest
20 May 2022
Time is ripe to do away with every central cess on petroleum products and reject the government’s narrative that the poor are hurt less by higher prices than the rich.
Associated Press
COVID Deaths Dropped by 21% Last Week but Cases Rising Globally: WHO
19 May 2022
Infections rose by over 60% in West Asia and 26% in the Americas, while deaths fell everywhere except Africa, where they jumped by nearly 50%.
Sandipan Talukdar
Flu Vaccine Protects Against Severe COVID-19, Study Suggests
18 May 2022
Participants in a study vaccinated with the Quadrivalent Influvac Tetra were almost 90% less likely to develop severity of COVID-19.
Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal: In its 11th Conference, Bangiya Saksharata Prasar Samity Advocates Multi-dimensional Learning Centres
10 May 2022
The conference also proposed that education for all must be implemented across the country.
Sandipan Talukdar
‘Opera Breathe’ Programme Helps Improve Well-Being of Long-COVID Patients
05 May 2022
The online programme has been developed by English National Opera along with Imperial College, London, Healthcare NHS Trust.
Conor Dillon, Gabriel Borrud
COVID: Omicron Subvariants are 'Escaping Immunity'
05 May 2022
You may be at risk of catching new COVID subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 even if you had the original omicron, as virologist Alex Sigal told DW's Science Unscripted.
Newsclick Report
Is NTC Heading Toward Closure as Ministry Plans to Monetise Land Assets?
04 May 2022
Another public-sector enterprise is about to bite the dust as the National Textile Corporation (NTC) heads to its purported closure by June 30, 2022.
Vallari Sanzgiri
Just Gratuity Not Enough: Anganwadi Workers
04 May 2022
Anganwadi workers and helper unions remind their salaries are meagre and often delayed; many were frontline workers during Covid-19 and some were even martyred.