Even as the country is coming together to battle the coronavirus, Aam Aadmi Party is still doing what Aam Aadmi Party does best. AAP MLA Raghav Chadha yesterday claimed that the Yogi government was beating up migrants who were leaving Delhi and heading home towards Uttar Pradesh. “Sources tell me […]
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The Quint Quotes Doctor As Saying India In Stage 3 Of Covid-19, Changes Headline After Being Called Out
In times of a national emergency, responsible media outlets take great care in verifying the information that they put out, and are doubly careful when publishing news that can cause panic. However not all Indian outlets are not being particularly responsible as the country deals with Covid-19. Yesterday, The Quint […]
Alleged Infosys Employee Who Asked People To Sneeze And Spread Coronavirus Arrested By Police
One can fully appreciate how grave India’s coronavirus crisis might be when educated people are not only not following the lockdown, but also actively asking people to break it. An Bangalore-based techie, who is allegedly an Infosys employee, has been arrested after urging people on social media to spread the […]
Doctor Retweeted By Rahul Gandhi Apologizes, Says There Are Enough Masks
Even as the Indian government is fighting the coronavirus, it’s also having to fight the misinformation that’s been spread about its efforts. Earlier today, a doctor had claimed that there was a shortage of masks in India. “Please don’t send me to war without weapons @PMOIndia. Please arrange #PersonalProtectiveEquipment for […]
Fake Twitter Account Pretending To Be A Doctor Claims That India Is Running Out Of Masks
Even as India is pulling together to fight a global epidemic, motivated agents are going to extraordinary lengths to spread rumours and panic. Earlier today, a Twitter account with a named Vasundhara Sangwan claimed that India doesn’t have enough N95 masks. “Wearing this mask for more than a week, as […]
Pune-based Mylab Has Just Made India’s First Covid-19 Test Kit
India is now among the handful of nations that have developed their own Coronavirus test kits. Pune-based molecular diagnostics company Mylab Discovery Solutions Pvt Ltd, which specialises in molecular diagnostic kits has developed first made-in-India test kit for COVID-19 in a record time of six weeks. The kit — Mylab […]
Shashi Tharoor Shares Article Praising Kerala Govt From Fake Hoax Site, Refuses To Take It Down
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is lionized by India’s liberals for his English — they fawn over his vocabulary, they swoon over his accent, and they proclaim him an intellectual because he uses words that they need a thesaurus to understand. But beneath Tharoor’s veneer of linguistic sophistication might lie what […]
The Hindu’s Editor Says That Making Noise On Janta Curfew Will “Hurt Or Frighten Birds & Animals”
For decades, we’ve thought that newspapers were authoritative purveyors information, written by subject matter experts who were specialists in their own fields. But now, through social media, we’re finally getting to know the people who run newspapers up close — and the results aren’t very flattering. Suhasini Haidar, who’s the […]
Man Claims He Wasn’t Thermal Scanned At Ahmedabad Airport, Airport Shares CCTV Footage To Prove Him Wrong
For years, India’s government machinery has been thought to be staid and slow, and as the levers of the bureaucracy moved, it could take years for a simple query to be answered. The coronavirus outbreak is showing how things have changed quite a bit since. Last afternoon, a Twitter user […]
Doctor Responds After Kunal Kamra Hints He’ll Show Middle Finger At 5 PM During Janta Curfew
Even as people have responded with shock at horror at Kunal Kamra’s tweet in which he’d implied that he’d show the middle finger while the rest of India honours its health workers at 5 pm tomorrow, a doctor — true to form — has responded in the classiest way possible. […]