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May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Adar Poonawalla is in Britain ‘on business’, but is that the only reason?

Serum Institute chief leaves India allegedly to escape 'threats' from ‘biggies’; Poonawalla says he will return, but hints at vaccine production overseas

Indians pay as Centre ignored warning of Covid-19 variants by experts

Despite a warning of a disaster in the making, four scientists and a researcher told both the Telegraph and Reuters that the government did not seek to impose major restrictions to stop the spread of the virus

Bhima Koregaon case: NIA attempts to dismiss Arsenal’s findings about Rona Wilson’s laptop

The US digital forensics firm had found that malware had been planted on Wilson’s laptop in a bid to falsify evidence

How many Indian adults will manage to get the Covid-19 vaccine on May 1?

Health Minister is happy registrations happened, sms went out, but states have already alerted that they may not have enough stocks to start vaccination on May 1

Former Attorney General, Soli Sorabjee, succumbs to Covid-19

He was 91-year-old and will be remembered as a legal eagle, Padma Vibhushan recipient, and a lover of jazz 

Maha govt floats global tender to procure oxygen and Remdesivir

The state government will begin looking into bidders demands for medical supplies April 30 while submissions may continue till May 10.

Covid-19: Scientists revise peak predictions upwards to 38-48 lakh cases in mid-May

Meanwhile, government remains remorseless, even as the healthcare infrastructure struggles to keep up

Anger simmers as bodies pile up outside crematoria in Gujarat

Mismanagement of oxygen and life-saving drugs adds to people’s woes as the Rupani administration, and by extension the Modi regime come under fire for apathy and ineptitude

Twitter removes posts critical of gov’t handling of Covid-19 emergency

The suspended accounts are of activists, politicians, who which have called out the way the government has let the Covid-19 crisis worsen

Probe claims of Rona Wilson’s laptop being hacked: Sudha Bharadwaj’s family and friends

Following cyber forensics reports by internationally-acclaimed Arsenal Consulting firm, friends and family of Sudha Bharadwaj demanded an independent examination into the findings

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May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

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As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

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Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

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