Besides Covaxin and Covishield, India's vaccine plan includes vaccines that are still conducting trials and have not been approved by the country’s drug regulator.
June 1, 2021
After years of outright dislike for cryptocurrencies, India’s central bank appears to have had a change of heart.
On May 31, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) told banks and other financial institutions in the country that they should not cite its 2018 circular that barred them from dealing with cryptocurrencies while cautioning customers against virtual coins. The 2018 circular was struck down by the Supreme Court in March 2020, which made it invalid.
“It has come to our attention through media reports that certain banks/ regulated entities have cautioned their customers against dealing in virtual currencies… by referring to the RBI circular dated April 06, 2018 (pdf). Such references to the above circular by banks/ regulated entities are not in order as this circular was set aside by the supreme court,” the latest RBI circular read.
In November 2019, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volumes, acquired WazirX, and last year, CoinDCX, secured financing from Seychelles-based BitMEX and San Francisco-based giant Coinbase.
By describing the complainant a young woman who chooses her sexual partners, drinks on occasion, and has male friends justice Kshama Joshi seems to imply that women with certain personality types can't be rape survivors.
May 27, 2021
When Rajesh Pathak’s wife took their daughter to get tested for Covid-19 at a Gandhinagar hospital on April 1, she saw two plastic-covered dead bodies being moved out of the premises. That day, the government figures listed zero Covid deaths in Gandhinagar. The situation alarmed Pathak, resident editor of a 98-year-old local newspaper Sandesh’s Ahmedabad edition.
Pathak sent his reporters digging. Sandesh journalists talked to sources at the biggest hospital in the state’s biggest city the 1,200 bed Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi in March 2019. With every conversation, their suspicions became clearer: there was a glaring gap in the Covid death counting at the facility.