#TejashwiYadav, who proved his political mettle in the recent Bihar polls by spearheading a high-voltage campaign against the BJP-JD(U) in the absence of father Lalu Prasad, has been emphatic in his call for a Congress-led joint Opposition to take on the BJP.
If you raise ground issues, people support you. The Chief Minister would mock us and say how will we give 10 lakh jobs, and then his own ally promised 19 lakh jobs: @yadavtejashwi
We gave him ( #NitishKumar ) one chance, and he did what he is known for. During the Union #Cabinetexpansion, he again did a U-turn. His words hold no value. We don’t have a machine to detect that if he joins us, he will not do a U-turn again: Tejashwi Yadav
Every party wants to fight on more seats. When you are fighting as part of an alliance, whether it is the #Congress or #RJD, it is all one. People voted for our agenda. Our effort was to focus on winnability: Tejashwi Yadav
The RJD is the only party that has never compromised on its ideology, on its commitments, despite what Laluji had to face. Many parties joined the NDA, BJP at some stage, but not the #RJD. We have always fought against communal forces who want to sell the country: Tejashwi Yadav
Some criticised for not doing chores, others moulded by the heat of farms. Living up to a brother who represented the nation, rejoicing a sister who bought a stick with daily wages. Playing #hockey to escape an alcoholic father and to vindicate a father who fought societal norms.
From cradles of the sport to a Naxal stronghold. These are the larger-than-life back-stories of the Indian hockey’s giant-killers: #Tokyo2020#Hockey
#RaniRampal (26, Forward) Haryana:
Rani has been playing international hockey for almost half her life, a journey that began with her playing with a broken hockey stick while wearing a salwar-kameez. She made her debut at the age of 14. Now 26, she is the key player of the team.
Replug | It was a long and winding road that took the child born at Anand Bhawan to his last steps as the Indian Prime Minister at Teen Murti Bhawan. It was not an easy journey.
(Excerpted with permission from #JawaharlalNehru by Aditi De) indianexpress.com/article/parent…
#WhatsApp is taking the Indian government to court over the traceability clause in the new IT Rules 2021.The new IT rules include a traceability clause that requires #socialmedia platforms to locate “the first originator of the information” if required by authorities.
In its plea, it is learnt #WhatsApp is invoking the 2017 Justice KS Puttaswamy vs Union Of India case to argue that the traceability provision is unconstitutional and against people’s fundamental right to #privacy as underlined by the SC decision indianexpress.com/article/techno…
It should be noted that this rule will impact most messaging apps such as #Signal, #Telegram, Snapchat, Wire and others. Signal is completely end-to-end encrypted (E2E) and, in fact, WhatsApp relies on the Signal protocol for its own encryption.
An analysis of real-world data from the UK details the effectiveness of Pfizer & #AstraZeneca vaccines against two variants of the #SARSCoV2 coronavirus: one, denoted as B.1.1.7, with its origins in Kent, UK, and the second, denoted as B.1.617.2, that was first detected in India.
Indian public policy has massive interest in this information since the broader B.1.617 variant is expected to, if it has not already, become the dominant strain of the disease within the population in India. #COVID19
Efficacy data for interdose duration for some of the groups is:
2-dose efficacy with 12 weeks gap: 80%
The trial found that a single-dose had a similar efficacy for up to 90 days.
In addition to proving safety, the trial’s purpose was to establish efficacy of the two-dose regimen
How Covid-19 took my father, my teacher away bit.ly/3fDVuEi
As the second wave hit close to home, Indian Express journalist recounts his days and nights in a #COVID19 ward as he watched his father slip away. His account narrates the pain of millions in India.
"It was May 1, my wife Chitra’s birthday. But my mind was in my hometown of Tarapur in Bihar’s Munger where my parents live. The previous night, I had video-called my father Sanjay Prasad Singh, a retired English teacher, and chided him for hiding his fever from me..."
As a nation counts — and also doesn’t count — its dead, as the wave enters villages, The Sunday Express profiles lives lost for the lack of oxygen and listens to what their survivors have to say.
AC maintenance contractor Gurdeep Singh, 37, died on April 27 at New Medical College Hospital, Kota. He leaves behind his wife and a child who turns 2 on May 24.
#Covid19 “I am a nurse, but for my husband, I had to arrange remdesivir through a politician. He kept saying he didn’t want to die… ,”says his wife Maninder Kaur.