Qatar summons Indian envoy over remarks of BJP spokesperson. Demands “public apology and immediate condemnation of these remarks from Indian Govt ; allowing such Islamophobic remarks to continue without punishment constitutes grave danger human rights mofa.gov.qa/en/all-mofa-ne… Significantly, Qatar’s protest comes during the visit of India’s Vice President to the country

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In January this year, I found out that a job I thought I had with Harvard University wasn’t real. It was one of the lowest points of my life. For nearly a year, the ⁦@nytimes⁩ did an investigation and found some startling facts nytimes.com/2021/12/16/tec… It wasn’t just me. I was one of several “prominent female journalists and media personalities in India who were targeted, even after one of the women alerted Harvard and the public about the unusual cyberoperation”

Holding the government accountable for the complete collapse of our healthcare systems, for not getting oxygen in place despite warnings of shortages- that is NOT a “blame game”. That is our job as citizens while we also focus on helping each other 1/n Too many people want to whitewash this crisis, blame the media, shoot the messenger and shoot everyone else but never demand answers from the government so that lessons are learned and more people don’t have to die 2/n

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Back in 2017, this is what @PrannoyRoyNDTV wrote about fixed ratings: “Virtually every city in India has a 'ratings consultant' who, for a relatively small fee, will ensure higher ratings for any channel” “ The method is simple: the consultant gets to know the homes where the people-meters that measure viewership are located. These are meant to be anonymous homes, but the consultant manages to find out addresses”

New statement by @MEAIndia: “The position with regard to the Galwan Valley area has been historically clear. Attempts by the Chinese side to now advance exaggerated and untenable claims with regard to Line of Actual Control (LAC) there are not acceptable” 1/n MEA: Indian troops are fully familiar with the alignment of the LAC in all sectors of the India-China border areas, including in the Galwan Valley. They abide by it scrupulously here, as they do elsewhere. The Indian side has never undertaken any actions across the LAC” 2/n

MHA order in guidelines in lockdown 4.0 is finally here. Here goes:
1) states and UTs can decide on classification of red, orange and green zones. Only essential activities will be allowed in red zones. This is imp because in Delhi for example, the entire city won’t be a red zone 2) What is banned nationwide:
Domestic and international flights; schools, colleges, religious gatherings, pools, malls, hotels, restaurants ( except home delivery), metro services, cinema halls

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What is NOT allowed across India, irrespective of Zone: travel by air, rail, metro, inter-State movt by road; schools, colleges, hotels and restaurants; cinema halls, malls, gyms, sports complexes etc; social, political,cultural and other gatherings; religious places 100 % coverage of Aarogya Setu app among residents of the Containment Zones. Containment Zones to have intensified surveillance protocols, with contact tracing, house to house surveillance, home/ institutional quarantining of persons based on their risk assessment

PM: lockdown extended till 3rd May PM: have to maintain the same discipline in this lockdown, must ensure the virus doesn't spread anymore

Former SC judge Justice Kurien Joesph tells NDTV former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha has “shaken the confidence of the common man in the independence of the judiciary” 1/n Justice K Joseph: “am surprised as to how Justice Ranjan Gogoi who once exhibited such courage of conviction to uphold the independence of judiciary, has compromised the noble principles on the independence and impartiality of the Judiciary.” 2/n

Thread on a briefing by a senior US admin official on Trump visit to India: POTUS will talk about the controversial Citizenship Act, religious freedom in India, and Kashmir when he meets Prime Minister Modi next week 1/n Senior US Official: “we are concerned with some of the issues ( CAA) And the President will talk about these issues in his meetings with PM Modi and note that the world is looking to India to continue to uphold its democratic traditions, respect for religious minorities.” 2/n

A final joint resolution is now ready for debate in the EU Parliament today and tomorrow on the CAA,which has been put forward by 560 of the parliament’s 751 MPs. Conservatives not part of this. Text says “CAA is discriminatory in nature and dangerously divisive” 1/n Resolution “warns against the increasing nationalism which has resulted in the fuelling of religious intolerance and discrimination against Muslims; worried that the NRC may create a large-scale statelessness crisis and cause immense human suffering” 2/n

India bracing itself for massive pushback against the CAA and J&K in EU Parliament this week. As many as 6 resolutions critical of India have been tabled by 625 out of 751 MEPs. The resolutions say the CAA and NRC could cause the “largest stateless was crisis in the world” 1/n One resolution is also strongly critical of the private visit to J&K by a group of MEPs last October, says “they failed to denounce human rights violations in the area; and denounces the use of this trip to legitimise Prime Minister Modi’s nationalist agenda” 2/n