Online Covid Warriors Save Lives as Government Tracks them Down ‘When the government has failed us, we’re all we have’
When Gotham confronts a terrible crisis for which the city administration seems unprepared, wealthy citizen Bruce Wayne rises against the threat as Batman. But in the present Covid crisis it is ordinary people on and off the social media who are working in solidarity, while the government goes missing or worse.
With recorded cases rapidly rising in March, the official Twitter account of the ruling party, much like the others, featured pictures of large rallies. Now with 100,000 deaths officially recorded in just two months, people collaborating on social media have been saving lives and preventing suffering.
Leading corporate law firms recruit graduates of Jindal Global Law School in 2020 and 2021 ANI | Updated: Apr 30, 2021 09:37 IST
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], April 30 (ANI/OP Jindal University): As many young graduating law students across the nation still face high levels of uncertainty in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of the OP Jindal Global University (JGU), that has been ranked as India s number one Law School earlier in 2021 by QS World University Rankings by Subject, secured a commendable 36 Zero-Day placements for the Batch of 2021.
This is a record 50 per cent increase in the Zero-Day placements compared to that of the batch that graduated last year. The 2021 intake includes 11 pre-placement offers (PPOs) with 8 leading law firms. This is an extension of JGLS continued efforts towards placements, especially during these times challenged by continuously evolving industry requirements during which JGL
BY ABC News Radio | April 29, 2021
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(NEW YORK) India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation’s health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the seventh consecutive day with over 300,000 new infections.
“The exponential growth that we’ve seen in case numbers is really, truly astonishing,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 technical lead, said during a Monday press briefing. “We have seen similar trajectories of increases in transmission in a number of countries, [but] it has not been at the same scale, and it has not had the same level of impact and burden on the health care system that we’ve seen in India.”
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International help is on the way after nearly 6 million new cases were confirmed in the country last week. Atul Loke/The New York Times/Redux Pictures
India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation s health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the seventh consecutive day with over 300,000 new infections. The exponential growth that we ve seen in case numbers is really, truly astonishing, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization s COVID-19 technical lead, said during a Monday press briefing. We have seen similar trajectories of increases in transmission in a number of countries, [but] it has not been at the same scale, and it has not had the same level of impact and burden on the hea