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'Didi died': India must not delay vaccinating pregnant women against Covid

Women contracting Covid-19 during pregnancy are over 50% more likely to experience complications and they are more at risk of death.

Pleas to adopt 'Covid orphans' illegal, shelter homes last resort: Experts

They need the support of their extended family, say state and NGO welfare workers.

Geotextile tube meant to prevent costal erosion in tatters in AP, Odisha

Nearly 34% of India's coastline was under varying degrees of coastal erosion, noted a report by the National Centre for Coastal Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Second wave dents rural economy leading to knock-on effect on recovery

With several state governments announcing local and state-wide lockdowns, economic impact would not only dent rural households' fragile financial health, but rural consumption is also decreasing

Savings dry up, few jobs: Covid second wave hits migrant workers harder

Workforce is facing grim reality of hunger as many people do not carry ration cards with them.

97% Indians poorer post-Covid; steady fall in salaried jobs: Mahesh Vyas

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy CEO Mahesh Vyas explains whether India's economy can make another quick recovery

The only way out is to vaccinate 70-80% of the country: S Vincent Rajkumar

S. Vincent Rajkumar, an oncologist and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, talks about how India can avert a possible third wave of Covid-19

India allowing industries to expand with little scrutiny is disaster risk

The March 2021 amendment of EIA notification of 2006 reduces the scrutiny of habitually polluting units which want to increase capacity and product mix.

India needs specialised healthcare to treat Covid-19 in children: Experts

Country must prepare though there is no science or data to back fears that children will be hit in the next wave of infections.

Different Covid vaccines not a problem, may do better: Virologist Polly Roy

Using different vaccines for the first and second doses is a good idea, says the expert in molecular virology.

India's western states lack critical infrastructure for cyclone management

States lag in installing saline embankments and underground cabling to ensure continued supply of services.

Grassroots health workers fight vaccination hesitancy in rural India

Rumours spread that vaccines can cause impotence amid suspicions that the government is conspiring to kill people.

Patent waver for Covid vaccine without tech transfer won't speed up supply

Intellectual property rights (IPR) on drugs and vaccine formulae give creators an exclusive right over inventions for a certain period of time, and prevent pharmaceutical companies from making it.

No Covid safety: How UP panchayat polls resulted in deaths of teachers

The polling officers that included teachers and shiksha mitras or para-teachers, were trained from April 9 to April 15.

Covid vaccination lowers cases, deaths among elderly in some Indian states

India began vaccinating healthcare and frontline workers on January 16, 2021; people over the age of 60 from March 1,people between the ages of 45 and 59 from April 1.

Key Covid-19 indicators surged from Feb 2021 but govts failed to act

Key epidemiological indicators such as the doubling time of Covid cases and the test positivity rate had started rising from mid-February 2021. Central and state governments ignored it until too late

Covid-19: Why India needs to vaccinate undocumented immigrants, refugees

For humanitarian reasons and to keep the rest of the population safe, India cannot afford to leave refugees and undocumented immigrants out of the Covid-19 vaccination drive

RT-PCR coronavirus tests and false negatives: Why is that happening?

As Covid-19 case numbers increase rapidly, and people are finding it hard to get RT-PCR tests done, get a sense of what is happening on the ground

Left wing extremism: What's the truth behind Congress' Naxal attacks claim?

Congress had claimed that 5,213 Naxal incidents and 1,416 civilian deaths have been reported since Amit Shah became the Union Minister for Home Affairs

'India's Covid-19 case fatality is not lower than of other countries'

Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy says that the myth that India has low Covid fatality rate has led to people not taking it seriously