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12 Jun

Teenager who filmed the murder of George Floyd, given journalism award by Pulitzer

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Darnella Frazier (18), the teenager who filmed the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, has been given a special journalism award by the Pulitzer Prize board. She was awarded the citation for her courage, the Pulitzer committee said. The Pulitzers are the most prestigious journalism awards in the US. Her film started protests for racial justice around the world and was used as evidence in the trial that convicted police officer Derek Chauvin. The committee said they honoured her for "courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world,…

11 Jun

Ethiopia is now facing a Famine: Reports UN humanitarian chief

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"There is famine now, this is going to get a lot worse," said UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock, addressing the crisis in northern Ethiopia. UN analytic study found that 350,000 people were living in "severe crisis" in the Tigray region. Tigray has been torn up by continuous war between government forces and rebels. This has displaced 1.7 million people since the fighting began in November 2020. The food situation in the region has reached the level of a "catastrophe", which it defines as starvation and death affecting small groups of people spread over large areas. Thus, UN's World Food Programme…

11 Jun

India records lowest single day rise in Covid-19 infections in two months

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91,702 new cases of Covid-19 reported in India, the lowest single-day rise in infections in around two months. This is the fourth day in a row when daily infections in India are below one lakh. The total infection tally stands at 2,92,74,823, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday morning. The death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 3,63,079 with 3,403 new fatalities. States like Tamil Nadu with 16,813 cases, Kerala with 14,424 cases, Maharashtra with 12,207 cases, Karnataka with 11,042 cases and Andhra Pradesh with 8,110 registered maximum cases. As per updated data, 68.25 per cent of…

10 Jun

Delta variant of Covid-19 can infect Covishield Or Covaxin vaccinated people, claims AIIMS study

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The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in collaboration with the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) have done two separate studies which have shown that the Delta variant of COVID-19 can infect people who have received one or two jabs of either Covishield or Covaxin. In the AIIMS-IGIB study, no death has been reported in the 63 subjects, but the study has found out that the Delta variant is predominant in the reinfection cases. All of them got breakthrough infections and among the samples which were genome sequenced, the Delta variant…

09 Jun

What does India’s new vaccine policy actually mean? Read here

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PM Modi announced: "From 21 June, all adults over the age of 18 will be vaccinated [for] free,". "Whether it is the poor, the lower middle class, the middle class, or the upper middle class, under the central government programme, everyone will get free vaccines," He said. How has the policy changed? Prime Minister Modi's addressed the nation on TV, in which he talked about the history and logistics of vaccine programmes in India. This is where he made the announcement. Prime Minister Modi made a national TV address on the vaccination programme Under the earlier Covid vaccine policy, half…

08 Jun

18 Employees killed in Pune chemical factory Fire

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At least eighteen employees of a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Pune have died and several are missing as a massive fire broke out in the sanitiser-manufacturing unit of the firm on Monday. Some 37 workers were trapped inside the building when the blaze started around 15:45 on Monday. Fire engines rushed to the spot as smoke billowed from the compound - firemen had to break walls on either side to rescue people. The factory belonged to SV Aqua Technologies, a company that makes chlorine dioxide products, which is typically used in water treatment. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences…

07 Jun

Many states start unlocking as Covid-19 cases start to decrease in India

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National capital Delhi and financial hub, Mumbai, are among the cities that are opening partially. The crushing second wave saw hospital beds, medicines and even oxygen run short as cases spiked and deaths rose. But experts continue to advice precaution amid a lagging vaccine drive and the threat posed by new variants. Less than four percent of India's 1.4 billion people have been fully vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy too remains a challenge, especially in rural areas. India reported about 101,000 new infections on Monday and more than 2,400 deaths - far lower than the nearly 400,000 daily cases it was recording…

07 Jun

Passenger train collision in Pakistan kills and injures Dozens

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At least 40 people killed and dozens more injured in a collision of two passenger trains in southern Pakistan. Officials said that one train travelling in Sindh province had derailed and landed on another track. A second train packed with passengers then collided with it and overturned. Rescue teams took the injured to nearby hospitals and it is thought that several are in a critical condition. According to local media reports, 150 people died in such incidents between 2013 and 2019. Dozens of people have been killed in the crash "There are about six to eight bogies [carriages] that are…

07 Jun

Our country has fought on many fronts to tackle Covid: PM Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the nation on the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the country. This comes on the heels of several states across the country including Maharashtra and Delhi beginning the process of ‘unlocking’ by gradually easing coronavirus-induced restrictions and curfews. His address comes on a day India reported 1,00,636 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 61 days. “This is the biggest pandemic in the last hundred years. The modern world had neither seen nor experienced such a pandemic. Our country has fought together on many fronts during such a big global pandemic—from making ventilators to preparing a…

05 Jun

India orders 300 million doses of an unapproved coronavirus vaccine

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India has ordered 300 million doses of an unnamed amd unapproved vaccine from Indian firm Biological E. The coronavirus vaccine is is in Phase 3 trials, and had showed "promising results" in the first two phases, the federal government said in a statement. However, the $206m order has not received emergency approval. India has administered just over 220 million jabs so far, although much of its 1.4 billion population is now eligible for the vaccine. Less than 15% of the country has received at least one dose of the vaccination, largely because of a severe shortage of doses. India is…