A day before, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had said that India would start randomly testing 2% of international passengers arriving at its airports for Covid.
Over Rs 440 crore sanctioned to pay for Covid tests. Officials say tests were included under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana when they cost a few thousand & were less accessible.
India has 3,000 labs that can do RT-PCR tests. Puducherry-based Vector Control Research Centre wants these to be used for mass testing mosquitoes to eliminate elephantiasis by 2030.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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