Indians are blaming a national government that did not prepare for a second wave. Officials are now scrambling to distribute supplies.
The Indian government is taking some steps toward relaxing rules for foreign vaccine makers to sell in India. Dozens of countries, including the U.S., have said they will support a proposal by India and South Africa at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive some intellectual property rights for COVID-19 related vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. The proposal, if passed, could unlock new production capacity and contribute toward greater vaccine access globally.
The government has made registration for the 18-to-44 group available online only via CoWIN, the Indian government portal for COVID vaccination, exposing policies that are incredibly out of sync with the populace. The requirement for online registration for vaccination means that it excludes millions without access to the internet or smartphones, those who are not literate, an
In a politically sensitive decision, the Maharashtra government on Thursday revoked the 6-year old prohibition imposed in Chandrapur district of the Vidarbha region, an official said here.The decision to lift the liquor ban in the district - .
Is Big Tech finally standing up to authoritarian regimes? The latest confrontation between the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Delhi and Twitter has fuelled such a speculation. In a rather dubious directive, the Centre had ordered the popular social media platform to get rid of the label, ‘manipulated media’, that had been applied to some posts shared by senior functionaries of the party and the government. The instruction has been followed quite predictably by a raid on Twitter’s offices. Hearteningly, Twitter has stood its ground so far, refusing to yield to this naked aggression on the part of the government. Any media content including videos, audio, visuals that is deemed to have been fabricated is red-flagged as ‘manipulated media’ by Twitter. Such a censorious certification is issued only after the application of due process like technological verification as well as human review. In this particular instance, the BJP disseminated a ‘toolkit’ pre