COVID cases in Chennai have been steadily declining with the recovery rate at 98% since February 10 but that cannot be an indication of the pandemic ending, as per experts.
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Residents of Thiruvalluvar Nagar, a part of the Kallukuttai settlement on encroached land for more than 30 years, are neither being provided basic facilities nor being resettled to another part of the city.
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Residents pay to clean sewage in Kandancavadi along OMR Expressway as they do not have drinking water and sewage connections more than a decade after being integrated into the city under the Greater Chennai Corporation.
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Residents of Thiruvanmiyur complained of the high level of harmful Totally Dissolved Solids (TDS) in their drinking water supplied from the Nemmeli desalination unit. It was first noticed by residents on January 15.
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"Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was re-elected in 2019, pressure has increased on the media to toe the Hindu nationalist government’s line."
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Asian College of Journalism presents a special lecture by Dr. Cindy Royal, Director, Media Innovation Lab, Texas State University, on “Product Development and Management in Journalism” on October 8 (Friday) at 6:30 PM.
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Yusuf Omar speaks about entrepreneurial and social Journalism at ACJ. He notes the importance of building an audience and creating a community that is interactive.
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"We are transitioning into a world that will have camera-first interactions. A lot of media houses haven't figured out what that interactive world might look like," says Yusuf Omar, co-founder of Hashtag Our Stories.
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Michael Safi, an international correspondent at The Guardian, speaks about the protocol that the journalists part of the pegasus project had to follow.
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Prof. Jarvis comments on the state of television media in India today. He recollects the time he saw a debate on an Indian news channel.
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Prof. Jarvis addresses a question about social media and data. Instead of blaming everything on the internet, Jarvis reframes the question. He asks: "How can we create a community, an example, a mechanism that challenges this hegemony."
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Prof. Jarvis notes the importance of representation. The media industry has been populated by the privileged for far too long.
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