Every heartbreaking picture of migrants walking 100s of kms home should remind us that Solicitor General lied to Supreme Court 45 days back and SC accepted that lie.
Any other country and SG would have been sacked and prosecuted!
A day after our first story broke, the Modi govt showed shoddy figures to claim the lockdown was a “success”. It claimed the lockdown dramatically slowed the transmission, new cases would start dropping sharply after May 3 and that India would have no new cases by May 16. (7/n)
We reported how the Modi govt ignored warnings from its top scientists against imposing a China-like coercive lockdown in the country. The govt scientists said it could have adverse long-term social, economic and psychological impacts. (2/n) https://t.co/RShK8Pt0dV
If you've been asking where's our Dr Fauci-this story is for you.
Our CDC has been refusing to attend pandemic meetings, share data, because... ICMR & CDC "just dont get along"
Meanwhile, epidemiologists say they could save lives if data was shared
https://t.co/Zzx2lvMVsK
Stop calling yourself a feminist if you're not anti-caste, anti-hindu rashtra, anti-hinduism. Or if you have a moralistic stance against sex work, BDSM. Or if you don't believe that sex and gender aren't binaries. Idc if this comes across as gatekeeping. This is elementary.
One of the richest temples can't pay employees' wages because of just one month plus shutdown.
Article further says-"temple management trying to see how to resolve situation "without having to touch" its EIGHT TONNES of gold reserve and Rs 14000 CRORE FIXED DEPOSIT
In a shocking development, it has emerged that a top financial officer of an #AbuDhabi hospital allegedly used his clout to fly back to India using a repatriation flight deployed by the Indian govt to bring back stranded Indians.The official,
Identified is
https://t.co/SWAvKy9FhN
@alok_pandey@meerutpolice The whole policing system is based on violence in India. But who is going to tell these geniuses that they can't beat the virus away
"If we stop going to big cities like Delhi and Mumbai, they will come to a stop. They behaved very badly with us" - This is how those permanently alienated from the fruits of their own labour decide to not sell it. Days of reckoning are ahead.
#Migrants
https://t.co/XVOh5qGjOl