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Having blundered on the COVID-19 vaccine front, the Narendra Modi government now appears to be pandering to the demands of the vaccine multinationals. They are demanding relaxation in three aspects of the Indian regulatory regime governing vaccines.
Silger has attracted protestors from all over Bastar due to rising friction over the establishment of security camps, ostensibly for the purpose of aiding road construction. Across the seven districts of Bastar division, there have been at least 12 such protests since October last year.
In Gujarat, only 45% boys and 29.2% girls enrolled in Class I make it to the higher secondary level; for Kerala, the corresponding percentages are 90.8% and 93.6% resp. In Maharashtra, two lakh students have dropped out of school after passing their ninth grade last year.
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic in early 2020, the number of COVID-19 deaths has been approximately 330 per day in India, while during the same period the number of tuberculosis deaths has been around 1,230 per day. Yet TB deaths never make the newspaper headlines.
The city where thousands come seeking moksha (salvation) has been swamped by deaths in the second surge of COVID-19. From end March to early May, Varanasi has had to accommodate more dead than the powers that be are ready to admit.
The coronavirus pandemic has exasperated the existing inequality between the global rich and the global poor. It has done so geographically and in terms of class.
In early 2020, Kristian Andersen wrote to Anthony Fauci about the possibility of an engineered coronavirus. His research has since dispelled those suspicions.
With its development of five COVID-19 vaccines and the promise of sharing know-how with developing countries, Cuba has remained faithful to Che Guevara’s values of international solidarity and people-oriented medicine.
“This is beating the pen with the hammer, a death knell for the right to freedom of expression of Gujarati writers” – says the statement.
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