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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Kashmiri Students Returning From Bangladesh Refuse Quarantine, Vandalize Srinagar Airport
Even as the government is scrambling to identify and quarantine all people who could be exposed to the coronavirus, not everyone is helping out with its efforts. Kashmiri students returning from Bangladesh vandalized the Srinagar airport after government officials sought to quarantine them. After medical authorities requested the 160 returning […]
Even Hardcore Leftists Can’t Stop Praising PM Modi’s Coronavirus Speech On Twitter
It took a virus which threatens to wipe out our civilization, but India’s right wingers and left wingers finally agree on something — PM Modi delivered an outstanding speech in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak yesterday. While India’s right-leaning community predictably threw its full weight behind PM Modi’s initiatives […]
Modi Government Is Her Second Parent: Man Whose Daughter Was Evacuated From Italy
Even as India is pulling out all stops in battling the coronavirus at home, heartening stories of people who’ve managed to get back to India while stuck abroad are also emerging. A man whose daughter was evacuated from Italy has called the Modi government her “second parent”. “I used to […]