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Good News on Vaccines but What About its Delivery?
14 Nov 2020
If we plan to vaccinate the entire Indian people, the states need to be involved in a big way, however, the Modi government has so far centralised all aspects of the management of the epidemic,…
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DST’s Super Model: Or How not to Model an Epidemic
30 Oct 2020
‘The DST Super Model paper, hurriedly published in the Indian Journal Medical Research, does not seem to have even been proof read properly by the authors; or checked seriously by the journal.’
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Google Under Fire in US for Predatory Monopoly Practices
23 Oct 2020
The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google-Alphabet (Alphabet is
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The Untold Story of the Left in Indian Science
17 Oct 2020
The story of Indian science generally focuses on the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the scientific institutions that were built to help India industrialise.
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The 2020 Nobel in Physics and Finding a Monster of a Black Hole in Our Galaxy
09 Oct 2020
Penrose’s work laid a firm mathematical basis for black holes and in the heart of such a hole, a space-time singularity.
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Even with Vaccines, It is a Long and Rocky Road to Immunity
27 Sep 2020
Even if the major economies can solve their own problems of procuring the vaccines by jumping the queue with money or captive production capacities, what about the rest of the world?
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With India as Epicentre of Covid-19 Pandemic, Health Minister Claims Victory
17 Sep 2020
Speaking in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on 15 and 16 September, Dr.
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Worsening Epidemic and a Sinking Economy: Modi’s Mid-year Balance Sheet
06 Sep 2020
Having surrendered before the epidemic, the Modi administration is hoping that the economy will bail it out. Unfortunately, we are likely to face the worst of both: a worsening epidemic and an…
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TikTok Ban and Trump’s Extortionist Policies
29 Aug 2020
China sees the US demand for opening their and others’ markets, while ordering ByteDance to sell TikTok, as another version of the Opium War. If TikTok owning the data of its users is dangerous to…
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COVID-19: What Does the Reinfection Case Imply?
26 Aug 2020
In this episode of 'Covid-19 watch with Dr. Satyajit Rath', he talks about the case of reinfection. He also discusses if the vaccines will be able to tackle the reinfection and more.