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WhatsApp sues Indian govt over chat ‘traceability’


New Delhi: Taking the user privacy war to the court over new IT rules, Facebook-owned WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against the Indian government in the Delhi High Court, saying that user privacy is in its DNA and requiring messaging apps to "trace" chats undermines people's right to privacy. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)...

COVID antibody cocktail used to treat Donald Trump now launched in India


Drug major Roche India on Monday announced the launch of its first batch of antibody cocktail against COVID-19 in India. The antibody cocktail -- Casirivimab and Imdevimab -- is priced at Rs 59,750 per dose. The Roche's antibody cocktail was given to then US President Donald Trump when he contracted COVID-19 last year. In a statement, the company said: "Each...

Former Rajasthan CM, wife die of Covid-19


By Prakash Bhandari  The demon of corona engulfed the Pahadia couple. After the death of Rajasthan’s former Chief minister Jagannath Pahadia in a hospital in Gurgaon, his wife, Shanti Pahadia, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha and twice served as legislator of the Rajasthan Assembly also passed away because of corona. Shanti Pahadia was in the same hospital and was on...

Covid: People should not let India down


Intro: The health emergency has exposed the socio-cultural degradation of many in Indian society, a society that prided itself and genuinely so for its inheritance of moral and spiritual legacies. By DC Pathak The deadly second wave of Covid-19 has provoked an intense public debate and anger on the reasons why it was allowed to hit...

Vijayan enters record books for being sworn-in as Kerala CM


Thiruvananthapuram: It was a day that members and supporters of the Left Democratic Front were eagerly awaiting since the results for the April 6 Assembly elections came out on May 2, as Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday took oath as Kerala Chief Minister for a second consecutive term, breaking an over four-decade pattern of alternating...

Delay in vaccine export by India to deal blow to poorer nations


New Delhi: Covid-19 vaccination programmes across Africa and much of the developing world will suffer big delays after India, the world's largest vaccine producer, said that it would not be exporting the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine until the end of the year, The Guardian reported. The decision is likely to leave the Covax global vaccine-sharing facility, which...

Devise Covid strategy in rural, urban specific way: Modi


New Delhi: In order to ensure a Covid-free rural India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked a group of District Magistrates (DMs) to devise their strategies in rural and urban specific manner. Noting that coronavirus has made their job more demanding and challenging, the Prime Minister urged everyone to ensure full commitment to fight...

269 doctors die of Covid-19 in India

Post Date: May 21, 2021

New Delhi: Doctors are risking their lives during the coronavirus infection with as many as 269 doctors having died during the second wave of the pandemic. K.K. Aggarwal, a Padma Shri awardee and former National President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), died of Covid-19 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)...

PM Modi’s approval rating fall to a new low: Report


New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's approval ratings have fallen to a new low, a survey showed, as the country struggles to contain a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, reports Reuters. Narendra Modi, who swept to power in 2014 and was re-elected in 2019 with the biggest majority of any leader in three decades...