@ARTEfr

@ARTEfr

Ratnashree Biswas

@RatnashreeB

Starting a 'Historical places to visit in India' thread! 😊❤️
Buland Darwaza (Door of victory) at Fatehpur Sikri, UP, India. Built by Emperor Akbar in 1601 to commemorate his victory over Gujarat #india #historicalplaces #BulandDarwaza #sightseeing #Akbar

Taj Mahal, Agra, India. Built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his late wife Mumtaz Mahal in 1632. ❤️😊 It took around 22 years to build this magnificent structure. Made of white marble. #TajMahal #Agra #India #ShahJahan #MumtazMahal #historicalplaces

Agra Fort, Agra, India 😍 Built by Emperor Akbar in 1565. Fun fact- it is built entirely of red sandstone.😊 #Agra #AgraFort #India #UNESCO #historicalplaces

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Death Matters

@themrityu

#Hindu #Funerary Monuments - Chhatri

Chhatri is a memorial chapel built over a #tomb found throughout the region of #Rajasthan, #MadhyaPradesh and #Maharashtra. These memorials commemorate the death of rulers, their consorts, relatives and the elite. 1/🧵

If Samadhis were funerary monuments of saints in #Hindus, Chhatris were #Rajput's choice of the memorial. They made sure that the memory of the chivalry of their ancestors passed on to the next generations. Though, all Chhatris did not necessarily contain the mortal remains. 2/

Chhatri i.e. umbrella, first appeared as a canopy above the tomb in #Islamic #architecture. #Hindu kings transformed the tomb into Chhatri. By the 16th C, Rajput courts had started building Chhatris. It was a place where a noble was cremated, memorialized and later worshipped. 3/

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Hindustan Times

@htTweets

➡️ #ElectionsWithHT | Chief Minister #YogiAdityanath to contest from #Gorakhpur in #UPElections2022

➡️ Deputy CM KeshavPrasad
Maurya to contest from #Sirathu assembly segment

Track updates - bit.ly/34HNfVM

#ElectionsWithHT | #BJP declares former #Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya as candidate from #Agra (Rural) for upcoming #UPElections2022

Track updates - bit.ly/34HNfVM

#ElectionsWithHT | #BJP declares #MrigankaSingh, daughter of BJP veteran late Hukum Singh, as candidate from #Kairana for upcoming #UPElections2022

Track updates - bit.ly/34HNfVM

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LiveHistoryIndia

@LiveHIndia

#Onthisday, it’s Christmas in #Armenia. Even more interesting, this was once Christmas Day around the world. It is well-known that the exact birth date of Jesus was not historically recorded. Until the 4th century CE, it was largely celebrated on #January6.
1/5

Roman Emperor Constantine moved the date to December 25, in 336 CE, apparently because he wanted to weaken an established Roman pagan celebration – the feast of the winter solstice.
2/5

But for Eastern Europe, including Armenia, December 25 had no special meaning. Armenia was also a proudly Christian country by Constantine’s time. They saw no need to shift the date. And so Christmas Day remains January 6.
3/5

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IPES-Food

@IPESfood

💡 How the resetting of corporate control of food systems is already well under way 👇🏾

📰 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🧵 A thread on #foodsystems & the #UNFSS /1

Few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, but this #UNFSS is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food #governance.

/2

Once Guterres appointed a Special Envoy and the structure of the Summit was announced, the drivers behind the Summit became clear.

🔎 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

/3

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Vipin M. Vashishtha

@vipintukur

https://twitter.com/adamjkucharski/status/1355496548612907012

Shocking! Can’t the rich countries postpone vaccination of their less susceptible population & donate excess quota of vaccines to the underprivileged, LMICs of Africa?

https://twitter.com/adamjkucharski/status/1355496548612907012

Need such policies to spare more vaccine doses for the needy. We now have plenty of data on the futility of the 2nd vaccine dose to the pre-infected, seropositive individuals

thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

This research has relevance to India also.
A single dose #ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine serves as an effective immune booster after priming with natural #SARSCoV2 infection up to at least 11 months post infection.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Indian Civil Liberties Union

@ICLU_Ind

#FREEfood4covidpatients verified as of 21st April 21:03pm

1. #Maharashtra:
roti Bank - 86555800 masgaon, Mumbai (pick up only)

2. #Delhi:
Jain Shankar Samiti - 7678169499, Rohini sector 3, Delhi (door delivery)

#TheICLUSquad
#CovidResources

3.#Ahemdabad
: ruchit shah - 951211525 (door delivery) order one day prior before 10 pm

4. #MadhyaPradesh
Mansi - 8319774733 (door delivery) jalabpur city , order before 10am

#TheICLUSquad
#CovidFood

5. #Hyderabad:
food bank -9160508054 (can help in getting groceries)

6. #Agra :
Bhagat Hawaii- 9219570000 , for jalbagh ,Jaipur house, charganj

#TheICLUSquad
#COVID19
#CovidResources

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Navdanya International

@NavdanyaInt

@NavdanyaInt

New publication by @NavdanyaInt: Bill Gates & his Fake solutions to #ClimateChange" - Technofixes, Industrial Ag, Billionaires Ventures, & Fake Food will not save our Planet - Biodiversity & Agroecology are True Solutions to Climate Change bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

@drvandanashiva

Behind a humanitarian veil, Bill Gates favours the interests of corporations, promoting failed technological solutions that harm ecosystems & divert attention from the deep systemic changes needed to address the crises we are facing today bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva

@drvandanashiva

The common thread that runs through all Bill Gates' programs is the idea that innovation and the market will always save us, that any problem can (and should only) be solved through technology bit.ly/BGFakeSolut @drvandanashiva #Gates2GlobalEmpire

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Anuja Jaiswal

@Anuja_Jaiswal11

#Bus with 34 passengers ‘hijacked’ in #Agra as ‘loan recovery’ timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/bus-…

#Update: The #suspect #PradeepGupta has been #arrested after a brief #encounter with the police in connection with the bus hijack incident.

#printedition #TOI

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Mojo Story

@themojo_in

#Agra| Body of a Junior Doctor from S.N. Hospital found near Bamarauli Katara. Dr. Yogita allegedly murdered, body found with bruises. Accused Dr. Vivek Tiwari has been arrested & matter under investigation.

"Dr. Vivek Tiwari has been arrested by the Agra Police and has also confessed that he murdered Dr. Yogita Gautam," Babloo Kumar, Agra SSP

#Agra|
"We knew each other for 7 years. I strangled her to death after an argument. I also used a knife and attacked her on the head. Took the body to a deserted place and covered it with wood," Dr Vivek Tiwari confesses on the murder of Dr. Yogita.

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Sajjad Rizvi

@mullasadra

One of the genres of writing that emerged in #Safavid Iran was triumphalist #Shii history and biographies that imagined a past connected to the sacred time of the Prophet and the Imams as continuous chains of notables figures who made contributions to #Islamic culture 1/

Perhaps the best example was the large work Majālis al-muʾminīn of Sayyid Nūrullāh Shūshtarī known as Qāżī Nūrullāh (d. 1610), scion of the Marʿashī sayyids, who settled in India, becoming judge in #Lahore and eventually dying, following the wrath of #Jahangir in #Agra 2/

The Majālis was written late in his life, a large #Shii history divided into (not surprisingly #12erShii) 12 sections: 1) places associated with the #Imams and #Shii communities such as #Kūfa #Kāshān and so forth 2) #Shii tribes and sayyids such as his own #Marʿashī lineages 3/

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Sahil Deo

@DeoSahil

@aparanjape

Plotting the moving average of new #COVID19 cases and new deaths in #India

12 districts --> 57% cases

#Hyderabad has recently seen a sharp increase of cases

#Kolkata & #Ahmedabad --> high case fatality ratio

(1/3)

@aparanjape @c_aashish @MulaMutha @calamur @CafeEconomics

Next 12 districts make up 8% of all cases

#Jalgaon and #Solapur have a worrisome CFR - 10.9% & 7.7% respectively

(2/3)

Next 12 districts make up 4% of all cases

#Agra has a high CFR - 9.4%

Hope that we can get the case fatality ratio down to near zero!

(3/3)

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Anuja Jaiswal

@Anuja_Jaiswal11

@timesofindia

All #@ASIGoI protected monuments including #TajMahal, which was shut down on March 17, to be open from #June8. @timesofindia @shady2k8 @sthakurtweets @Benarasiyaa @pra0902

#tourismminister #tweet

#UPDATE: However, #TajMahal’s #mosque and 34 other such mosques in Agra, which is amongst the list of #monuments announced for opening, will remain #shut. In fact all #religious place in #Agra will remain shut for public, as per district administration’s decision.

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Anuja Jaiswal

@Anuja_Jaiswal11

@INCIndia

@INCIndia leaders arguing with #Agra cops over #denial of entry of #buses send by the party into #UP. @timesofindia @TOIWestUP @myogiadityanath @priyankagandhi @Benarasiyaa @pra0902

@AjayLalluINC

@AjayLalluINC has been #detained by #agra police.

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Arvind Chauhan

@arvindcTOI

#Agra #covid19 figure rose to 634 with 30 new positive cases.

So far 14 staffers of hindi paper have been tested Covid-19 positive. One of hindi channel in #Agra

@OfficeOfDMAgra

Sanitization work started at @OfficeOfDMAgra residence, after a hindi reporter who tested Corona positive yesterday visited campus office to meet SSP and DM

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Arvind Chauhan

@arvindcTOI

@TheOfficialSBI

Meet septuagenarian Radha, who walked 50 km from #Agra to neighboring district #Firozabad, after learning that govt was transferring Rs 500 in bank account. However, after reaching @TheOfficialSBI Pachokhara branch,

she learnt that money is only being wired into #PradhanMantriJanDhanYojana which were opened by bank mitra at customer service point (kisok). Radha owns saving account with zero balance.

Radha, wife of Harveer, the woman originally hailed from Himmatpur village of Pachokhara police jurisdiction of Firozabad district, but migrated to neighbouring Agra in Moti Bagh area of Itmad-ud-daula police limits for daily wage job

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Arvind Chauhan

@arvindcTOI

Pan-India COVID-19 status update:

The number of coronavirus positive cases in #Agra has doubled in 13 days. On average, at least one #Covid_19 patient has surfaced in district every hour in last 10 days. Till Thursday, 44 new cases were reported in Agra, increasing the district tally to 468. #Covid_19india

Agra #COVID19 figure is now 474

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aamir

@Inquilabo

grampradhan spreads fake news about 12 #TablighiJamaat member in #kaushambi police found they were actually Hindus *कोशाम्बी में पकड़े 12 जमाती निकले हिन्दू*
तबलीग़ी जमात पर ग्राम प्रधान ने झूठा आरोप लगाया था, प्रधान पर माम्ला दर्ज।

#TablighiJamaat Chief Mohammad Saad appeals to Jamaat's workers and all Muslims who have been cured of #COVID19 to donate blood plasma for those still infected and under treatment.

The chief of #TablighiJamaat Mohammad Saad has appealed to all #Muslims and especially his members who have been cured of #Coronavirus “to come forward and show this act of kindness to humanity, and help the society and government by donating blood plasma.
indiatomorrow.net/eng/coronaviru…

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Arvind Chauhan

@arvindcTOI

Agra
Total #Covid19 -134
Live #Covid19 - 120
- Paras Hospital & Contact’s- 16
-Fatehpur Sikri & Contact’s - 14 (New)
-Dr P****d M****l & Contact’s -5
Total Samples collected till date -2264
The breakup is of two days
10th Sample - 12
11th Sample - 30

Two more corona positive in Firozabad, toll rose to 18.

The new case are related to Jamaat.

Update:

34 new Covid19 positive cases reported in Agra on Monday morning, increasing the district tally to 138. Out of these 124 are active cases. At least 60 cases related to people who attended the Tabligi Jammat event in Delhi and their contacts.

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Anuja Jaiswal

@Anuja_Jaiswal11

@pra0902

#30 more persons tested #positive for #covid-19 in #Agra on Monday, taking the district tally to #134. @pra0902 @timesofindia @sthakurtweets @kazimtweets @rajvsaxn @harisukumar @shady2k8

Update: #4 more tested #positive, taking the district tally to #138.

#CautionYesPanicNo #CoronaUpdates: positive cases in #Agraregion:
Agra : 138
Mathura :4
Hathras :4
Mainpuri :2
Aligarh: 1

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ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY

@adgpi

INDIAN ARMED FORCES FIGHT COVID-19 TOGETHER

•Six Quarantine Facilities established at #Mumbai #Jaisalmer #Jodhpur #Hindon #Manesar & #Chennai being run by #ArmedForces in which 1737 persons have been quarantined, of which 403 have been discharged on being ascertained fit.(1/n)

•Additional 15 facilities for 7000 people kept as standby at #Babina #Jhansi #Barmer #Bhopal #Kolkata #Binaguri #Bathinda #Hyderabad #Deolali #Kanpur #Gorakhpur #Agra #Vishakapatnam #Kochi & #Chilka.(2/n)

•Dedicated #COVID19 facilities including High Dependency Units & ICUs being prepared in approximately 51 #ArmedForces hospitals across the country.(n/n)

Together we will fight #COVID19

#HarKaamDeshKeNaam
#SayNo2Panic
#SayYes2Precautions

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