Avian influenza continues to take a heavy toll on India’s poultry sector. Thus far, the disease has spread in 11 states. Besides chickens, other species of birds, including ducks, crows and pigeons, have also been found dead. Recently, officials reported that a brown fish owl in the Delhi zoo had tested positive for the disease. While the virus’s rate of transmission between […]
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Why Taxi-Aggregators Offer ‘Lockdown Charity’ From ‘Public Donations’ To Few Drivers?
The Billion dollar startups Ola and Uber have helped barely 5 percent of their drivers despite asking users for donations to contribute to their relief funds during the #Covid lockdown crisis. Since several weeks, Uber users have been inundated with push notifications seeking contributions for its drivers; almost all of whom have been out of […]
How Islamophobia Is Hurting India’s Battle Against Coronavirus?
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) relentless campaign against India’s 140 million Muslims, and a lack of transparency on the part of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-run Delhi government, is compromising India’s attempts at containing the novel coronavirus, members of the community say. On Friday, 3 April, surveyors from Delhi’s health department were chased out […]
How Telangana Govt ‘Tracking’ Migrant Labourers From Killer ‘Coronavirus’?
Several migrant labourers working in the Middle East countries hail from the erstwhile districts of Karimnagar and Nizamabad, and travel frequently each month. Recently, a Rapid Response Team, comprising doctors and mandal-level health workers, visited Suresh, a 25-year-old man in a village in Banswada mandal in Telangana. The District Surveillance officials had alerted the Rapid […]
Why A ‘Hindu Fanatic’ Killed ‘Father Of The Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi?
The 20th century’s most famous apostle of non-violence himself met a violent end. Mohandas Mahatma (‘the great soul’) Gandhi, who had taken a leading role in spearheading the campaign for independence from Britain, hailed the partition of the sub-continent into the separate independent states of India and Pakistan in August 1947 as ‘the noblest act […]
India’s Drug Problem And The Rising Health Care Cost
What if I told you there was a way to reduce household out of pocket expenditure by about 70% and catastrophic expenditure by 60-70% through merely an improvement in operational efficiency? India has made tremendous strides in life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality rates and HIV prevalence. However, we are now battling with both infectious […]
Can ‘Lokpal’ Curb The Graft Menace In India?
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose has been appointed as India’s first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman. The move comes nine years after a massive anti-corruption movement, five years after the notification of the Lokpal and Lok Ayukta Act, days after the Supreme Court nudge and three weeks before upcoming general elections. But, will […]
Deadly Consequenses Ahead As India’s 2-Million-Tonne ‘E-Waste Recycling’ Works
India generates more than two million tonnes of e-waste annually, and also imports undisclosed amounts of e-waste from other countries from around the world – including Australia. The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of […]