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How Modi turned Covid-19 into a cash machine 6815

• Special
• May 24, 2020

Kapil Komireddi

To Narendra Modi, Covid-19 is not so much a disease as a deus ex machina. Before he announced the largest lockdown in human history on 24 March, the Indian prime minister was submerged in a pool of self-engineered crises. Citizenly protests against his legislative disfigurement of Indian secularism had erupted in every major city, more than four dozen lives were devoured at his doorstep in February in the worst religious bloodletting in Delhi since the 1984, unemployment was soaring, and the economy was poised to post the slowest pace of growth in a decade. Modi&rsquo

Modes of transmission of the COVID-19 virus 3442

• Special
• Apr 05, 2020

Respiratory infections can be transmitted through droplets of different sizes: when the droplet particles are >5-10 μm in diameter they are referred to as respiratory droplets, and when then are <5μm in diameter, they are referred to as droplet nuclei.¹ According to current evidence, COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets and contact routes.^2-7 In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.⁸

Droplet transmission occurs when a person is in in close c

‘Save the Baloch’ campaign set up outside UN Office: Why it matters 7051

• Special
• Mar 12, 2020

Manjeet Singh Negi 

The campaign is a push by human rights activists to garner greater international awareness for the near-extermination of the people of Balochistan. (File Photo)

Apavilion is set up outside the United Nations (UN) Office of Geneva adjacent to iconic broken chair named as Save the Baloch.

The campaign is a push by human rights activists to garner greater international awareness for the near-extermination of the people of Balochistan.

Pakistan had occupied Baloch in 1948 and crafted a religious state, imposing alien cultural tra