Who all will get vaccines free? When will they hit stores? 4 Covid questions on every mind
PM Modi has stated the provision of free vaccines to three crore priority beneficiaries. But that has left the question open for the other 27 crore, reports Abantika Ghosh.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s daughter featured in the second list. Does the UPSC’s policy of declaring results in two instalments benefit reserved categories? writes Arvind Kumar.
Majority Indians have natural immunity. Vaccinating entire population can cause great harm
For recovered Covid patients, the vaccines provide no benefit and some harm. It is thus unethical to vaccinate them, writes Sanjiv Agarwal and Jay Bhattacharya.
For the first time ever, astronomers are witnessing a galaxy’s ‘death’ as it’s happening
Research team accidentally discovers galaxy that is dying nine billion light years away using the ALMA, or Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, reports Sandhya Ramesh.
GoAir pilot sacked for anti-Modi remarks served IAF for 25 years, flew in VVIP Squadron
Unish ‘Miki’ Malik retired from the IAF in 2010 as Group Captain. After 2004 tsunami, he had flown then-PM Manmohan Singh to Great Nicobar, reports Snehesh Alex Philip.
Network Effect, the force that could finish off both Trump and WhatsApp
To be mainstream, a platform has to have ‘everyone’ on it. And an influencer has to be on the platform where ‘everyone’ is, writes Shivam Vij.
Neither ‘udta’ nor ‘padhta’ Punjab. Question is how India’s no. 1 state in 2003 fell to 13
Punjab, once India’s richest state, has slipped and fallen behind. MSP and subsidies should continue, but it needs to rediscover its entrepreneurial impulse, writes Shekhar Gupta in this week’s ‘National Interest’.
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