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Forests are supposed to fight climate change, but in India’s case opposite could be true: forests could succumb to climate change if no urgent ameliorative measures are taken. Saadia Azim By 2050, nearly all of India’s forest cover will figure as climate change hotspots, which means they will be at greater risk of climate change than other regions. This would not only threaten the survival of forests but also affect the forest-dependent communities leading, in turn, to large-scale migration, public health concerns and climate refugees. India is one of the ten most forest-rich nations in the wo...
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Nearly a third of the world’s Tuberculosis cases occur in India. Notwithstanding the impact of COVID and financial challenges, the country remains committed to eliminating the disease by 2025 By Tariq Hashmat March 24 is commemorated as World TB Day every year, to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of the disease and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. This World TB Day, Kruxd does some number-crunching about India – the country with the heaviest TB burden in the world – to track its battle with the contagion over the last few ye...
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The pandemic has exposed our knowledge gap. There’s an urgent need to promote evidence-based reasoning and interdisciplinary approach, powered by collaboration. By Jisha Krishnan India celebrates National Science Day on February 28 every year. It is a celebration of the discovery of the Raman Effect – a discovery that earned Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. The idea behind the day was to encourage young minds to develop interest in science and understand its significance. Today, as the world struggles to cope with an unprecedented influ...
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As the country reels under a catastrophic second wave of COVID infections, its testing capacity is struggling to catch up. The race to overtake the infection is getting more challenging. By Tariq Hashmat On February 11, 2021, India’s recorded 9353 cases of COVID-19. The count, since then, has continually risen, crossing the 400,000 mark on April 30. While most of the country’s cases still come from hotspot states like Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka, the infection, undoubtedly, has gone deeper into the country, as each state witnesses a second wave much worse than the first. Don’t test, don’...
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When it comes to COVID-19 deaths, the ground reality in India’s second wave seems far worse from what is captured by official statistics. We explain three reasons for the alleged underreporting of deaths By Anuja Venkatachalam In India’s fight against a second wave of COVID infections, it has been alleged that there are grave discrepancies in the official death statistics reported by the government. Field visits made by journalists and interviews with crematorium staff, hospital staff and local government officials suggest that COVID-19 deaths are being substantially underreported in many stat...
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An analysis of International Fact Checking Network’s repository of fact-checked stories to understand the trends of misinformation in 2020. By Nabeela Khan In mid-February 2020, the World Health Organisation announced that the new coronavirus pandemic was accompanied by an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation. Little did we know that the avalanche of misinformation will be so gigantic that fact-checking organisations in India alone will end up checking 1927 claims in between January, 2020 and December 2020. To analyse the misinformation landscape over the past one year, we collated data from Internat...
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Reaching a record-high increase in infections, these Indian states are at the frontlines of battling the deadly second wave By Anuja Venkatachalam Battling a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections, India recorded the highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases with 3,79,257 Indians testing positive on Thursday. The current rate of infections is over 4 times the rate of infections during the first wave, when the highest single-day increase was recorded at 97,859 cases in September 2020. Maharashtra, which recorded the highest number of cases in the first wave is also the most affected state...
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As of March 17, more than 6.5 million people have been fully vaccinated in India, with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. And that’s a meagre 0.47 per cent of the population. By Tariq Hashmat As India braces itself for the second wave of the coronavirus infection, the country’s vaccination drive – touted as #LargestVaccinationDrive – assumes greater significance. The first phase of the vaccination drive, which began on January 16, 2021, was restricted to healthcare and frontline workers, covering nearly 30 million people. The second phase, which started on March 1, is covering high-risk popul...
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There is no scientific evidence to prove that a health drink made of Indian date leaves, sacred fig leaves, and Cynodon leaves can cure HIV By Tej Kumar A YouTubevideo with over a hundred thousand views claims that “HIV patients can be cured within 9 weeks if they daily take a health drink which is made up of Indian date leaves, sacred fig leaves and Cynodon leaves”. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove this. The person in the video claims himself as an independent scientist and goes on to explain that “Indian date leaves have wonderful ingredients which can cure HIV. HIV patients...
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On December 19, 2020, India joined the United States in having more than ten million Covid 19 cases. To put things in perspective, the number of global cases crossed that number by June end. Barely 5 months later, the United States had the same number of cases as the world had in June. About 40 days later, India too crossed the grim milestone. By Pradeep Krishnatray As nations, India and the United States are worlds apart. India is three times smaller than the US but has three times its population. Its economy in terms of (nominal) GDP is almost 10 times smaller. Its health infrastructure lags...
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