DCGI clears Bharat Biotech, SII COVID-19 vaccines but efficacy question unanswered

Down to Earth reports that despite The Drug Controller General of India approving the restricted emergency use of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines manufactured by Bharat Biotech International Ltd and Serum Institute of India, key questions about the efficacy results remain unanswered.

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10 Questions the DCGI Needs To Answer About the Two Vaccine Candidates Approved

“Multiple breaches of protocol” and unseemly haste have raised questions over the approval given to the two vaccines for use against Covid-19 in India. The Wire poses ten questions on the protocols followed, answers to which are critical in ensuring that the vaccines gain wide and willing public acceptance.

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Ranjan Gogoi RS seat made big news in 2020. But he is among 70% SC judges with retirement gigs

When former Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi, was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in March last year, within months of his retirement from the Apex Court, its propriety was questioned. However, an analysis by The Print reveals that of the SC judges who have retired since 1999, a whopping 71 per cent, 73 out of 103, accepted assignments after demitting office. These included appointments to tribunals, human rights commissions, ad-hoc commissions, court-appointed committees, and as lokayuktas.

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India’s Invisible Farmers

Despite their critical and significant role on the farm, women in rural India are hardly counted as farmers. A recent study reports that 75 percent of rural women are engaged in farming full-time, apart from performing household chores. Their status is also affected by the fact that women are rarely the owners of their land. This denies them access to credit as well as government programmes. StoriesAsia talks to women farmers in Bihar’s Buxar district and brings you their story.

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#Ennore | Why the Tamil Nadu govt made this map disappear? | Asiaville Tamil Explainer

Asiaville reveals how the Tamil Nadu government made a 1996 map “disappear” and discreetly replaced the ‘inconvenient’ map with a new one a year later, to facilitate the construction of a petrochemical park in Ennore. The earlier map, on which the Coastal Zone Management Plan for Ennore was based, recorded the important salt-water bodies, sand dunes, mangrove forests and salt pans which were all buried in the second map.

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