Poll-bound Bihar has the second lowest positivity rate in the country, and is testing over 1 lakh samples every day, with a case fatality rate of just 0.5 per cent.
Nitish has lost his temper at hostile sections of the crowd, and launched vicious attacks on his rival Tejashwi Yadav, his father Lalu and their family.
Chirag Pawan has been hitting out at Nitish Kumar on a daily basis, but the Bihar CM has chosen not to react to him and maintained the same approach during his Saturday rally in Alauli.
Opposition says 25% IAS and IPS officers hailed from Bihar over the last decade but only 12% people between 15 and 59 have a regular income stream in the state.
There is visible anger directed at the CM — with Nitish Kumar’s moniker of ‘Sushasan Babu’ giving way to terms such as ‘Paltu Ram’, ‘Paltu Kumar’, ‘Dal Badlu’.
Tejashwi Yadav is drawing huge crowds but there is also a marked change in his campaigning, with the RJD leader striking a chord with the electorate and exuding confidence.
Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion
New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.
Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Antigen tests “even” if over 80% cannot explain the low TPR, since doubling it, accounting for a 50% false negativity would still not significantly increase the TPR. Numbers fudging cannot be ruled out(more a serious possibility). At the end of the day it all boils down to mortality. And for lack of medical infra, stigma of Covid, rational fear of hospitals etc. would mean people dying of Covid in their homes. Unreported, unconfirmed, misreported Covid deaths could easily be at least 5 times the claimed mortality. Comparing deaths with last year for the same period would be worth looking into. However the opaque system in place rules.
Antigen tests “even” if over 80% cannot explain the low TPR, since doubling it, accounting for a 50% false negativity would still not significantly increase the TPR. Numbers fudging cannot be ruled out(more a serious possibility). At the end of the day it all boils down to mortality. And for lack of medical infra, stigma of Covid, rational fear of hospitals etc. would mean people dying of Covid in their homes. Unreported, unconfirmed, misreported Covid deaths could easily be at least 5 times the claimed mortality. Comparing deaths with last year for the same period would be worth looking into. However the opaque system in place rules.