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India’s fiscal budget continues to be a balancing act between spending and borrowingThe Indian finance minister has been walking a tightrope for the past two years.
Updated July 20, 20221 min read
The Indian finance minister has been walking a tightrope for the past two years.
Indians want OTT platforms to do more to serve their entertainment needs.
The death by freezing of four Indian nationals last week, reportedly trying to cross the Canada-US border illegally, has put the spotlight on the dark consequences of human trafficking. It also highlights the desperation among people to escape India’s dire economic conditions.
India’s third wave is adding more proof to the thesis that the omicron variant causes less severe symptoms of covid-19.
A Twitter protest in India started by “men’s rights activists” to lobby against the possible criminalisation of marital rape is helpfully weeding out rape apologists.
The Indian government’s vaccine panel has made way for two of its main covid-19 shots to receive full market approval.
Into the third year of the pandemic and with a third wave raging through the country, India’s data quality still has miles to go.
The global omicron wave has seen many countries report their highest levels of covid infection in the entirety of the pandemic, but with the existence of effective vaccines, albeit unevenly distributed, and improved medical treatment, it has played out differently to previous strains.
As India experiences a rapid surge in new daily covid-19 infections, likely because of the highly transmissible omicron variant, its healthcare workers fear the worst, just months after a wave of delta infections claimed the lives of hundreds of their own.
For months after India’s cruel second wave in April and May, people have been nervously awaiting the next uptick in infections. Now, with cases due to omicron climbing rapidly, it’s fair to say India’s third wave is beginning.
The Narendra Modi government has a foolproof way of ensuring that a public health crisis is not repeated in the years to come. It simply has to look at the grave mistakes of 2021, especially now that the threat of the omicron variant looms.
A rising number of cases of the omicron variant in India have policymakers preparing for another potential covid-19 battle.
There’s yet another person of Indian origin heading a global corporation.
With the omicron variant spreading to more than 60 countries, there’s more understanding about its various aspects.
Africa is not pleased about how one of the world’s largest producers of covid-19 vaccines has conducted itself.
India’s vaccine saga appears to be coming full circle.
India’s economy is a paradox of inequality—and a new global study confirms this.
An Ivy League university in the US now officially acknowledges one of India’s worst social evils.
India’s top medical research body may be making tall claims about Covaxin’s efficacy against omicron—but most of it may be based on little or no data.
India now has two confirmed cases of the omicron coronavirus variant.
It has been a week since South Africa reported the omicron coronavirus variant, and travel bans have been the most visible public health measure that followed.
A growing number of Indians are renouncing their passports, and it’s the opposite of what prime minister Narendra Modi set out to achieve.