Cattle await their feed at a farm in Maine. In widespread posts online in recent weeks, misinformation purveyors have spread false claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are being quietly added to the food supply, threatening staunch vaccine holdouts. Another asks: “Did you know they will be giving all of our livestock the covid vaccine this year?” A TikTok video shared …
As India witnessed the highest number of Covid cases in over four months, former AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria on Wednesday said the new XBB.1.16 variant could be driving the recent rise but emphasised there was no need for panic as long it does not cause severe illness and deaths. New variants will keep coming as the virus keeps on …
Kristalina Georgieva says Beijing has room to take measures to support the world’s second-biggest economy. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday Beijing had room to take measures to prop up growth amid a deteriorating outlook for the world’s second-biggest economy. In a video speech to the annual Boao Forum for Asia in China’s Hainan province, Georgieva said policy …
As it is, some of the transformational changes enumerated by Modi are strictly in the government’s own mind. They would be immediately have been struck by the credit the PM is seeking on account of getting “600 million people free from open defecation in just 4-5 years”. Central Public Sector Enterprises claimed they had constructed 1.4 lakh toilets in government …
