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Associated Press
Angry With New Rules, French Protesters Compare Vaccines to Nazi Horrors
19 Jul 2021
The French government is introducing a Bill requiring all health care workers to get vaccinated and requiring COVID passes to enter restaurants and other venues.
Richa Chintan
COVID-19 Vaccination Slow in India, Need to Augment Domestic Production
18 Jul 2021
The Centre has drastically scaled down its own projection of vaccine supply. With the current pace, vaccination of India’s adult population may only be achieved by the second quarter of 2022.
Gyan Pathak
Reversing Development Setbacks and Renovating Health Infra Crucial
10 Jul 2021
The pandemic’s global spread had seen unfathomable economic consequences: zero economic development, supply chain network destabilisation, collapsing global demand, supply gluts resulting in price…
PTI
India Records 50,040 New COVID-19 Cases, 1,258 Deaths in a Day
27 Jun 2021
The number of active cases has further declined to 5,86,403 and now comprises 1.94% of the total infections, the data updated at 8 am showed.
PTI
India Got $64bn FDI in 2020, Mainly Due to M&As in ICT as Pandemic Spurred Demand for Digital Infra: UNCTAD
21 Jun 2021
Big announcements included a $2.8 billion investment by online retail giant Amazon in ICT infrastructure in India, acquisition of Jio Platforms by Jaadhu, a Facebook subsidiary for $5.7 billion.
Raashid Nehal, Zainab Mustafa
Will Digital Divide in Education Affect Alternative Assessments?
15 Jun 2021
The issue is how we implement alternative assessment in a remote rural setting where learners or teachers face the problem of inaccessibility as compared to the affluent urban settings.
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP: Famed Lal Imli Mill's Workers Protest in Kanpur over Non-Payment of Salaries for 3 Years
10 Jun 2021
'The ruling party representative from Kanpur had made big promises but despite that we have been left without salaries for the last 36 months and are on the verge of starvation...'
Bobby Ramakant, Sandeep Pandey
When the Health System Became the Cause of Death
08 Jun 2021
Well-known Hindustani classical singer and Padma Vibhushan recipient Pandit Channulal Mishra, who was one of the proposers of Narendra Modi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, lost his wife, Manorama,
Sumedha Pal
COVID Crisis: Rescue Operations for Bonded Labour at Halt, Exploitation Grows
02 Jun 2021
The lockdown has meant limited movement, lack of legal attention and continued exploitation of marginalised workers in informal set-ups agreeing to pay hefty loans and working at meagre wages, all in…
CJP
Covid-19: Which Indian States Failed Miserably in Tackling the Pandemic?
31 May 2021
With a huge spike in Covid-19 cases and a high death rate during the 2021, second wave of the pandemic, states with poorer infrastructure and public health spending, fared the worst.