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After pursuing terrorists, Delhi Police Special Cell investigates Twitter's 'manipulated media' policy
In the middle of a lockdown, Delhi Police's Special Cell turns up at the offices of social media platform Twitter in Delhi NCR to get "satisfactory" answers on its tweet labelling policy
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Delhi considers lifting Covid-19 limits, despite vaccine shortage
India does not have the vaccine manufacturing capacity to inoculate a big portion of its population anytime soon, while the prospect of importing new supplies from abroad has bogged down amid squabbling between the central and local governments
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Can wildfires be prevented in a world dealing with climate change?
India recorded 82,170 forest fire alerts from April 1 to 14, nearly doubling from 43,031 in the same period in 2020. Forest fires, wildfires and their alerts in the country have gone up sharply in recent times, posing a serious threat to our environment, wildlife and biodiversity
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Pakistan's private vaccine sales highlight the rich-poor divide
Critics say the decision will deepen the divisions within the country, where a large section of the society lives under the poverty line
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As India stumbles, one state charts its own Covid-19 course
Though supplies have tightened, Kerala's hospitals enjoy access to oxygen, with officials having expanded production months ago while coordination centres, called war rooms, direct patients and resources
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Will made-in-India Sputnik V be the country's salvation?
As India struggles with vaccine shortages and a laggard inoculation programme, a clutch of local manufacturers, including Hetero Group of Companies, Gland Pharma and Stelis Biopharma has set out to produce the contentious Sputnik V vaccine in a bid to alleviate supply constraints. Subscribe to Forbes India for early access
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Immunising India: Can Sputnik V save the country?
At least six Indian pharma companies, including Hetero Group, are on track to make some 900 million doses of the Russian vaccine. As India gears up to manufacture the Sputnik there are questions galore
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Global cactus traffickers are cleaning out the deserts
As with the market for tiger bones, ivory, pangolin scales and rhino horn, a flourishing illegal global trade exists for plants
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North Korean weapons are likely here to stay, even if Biden won't say it
Estimates are that the North has at least 45 nuclear weapons, and appears headed to an arsenal roughly the size of Pakistan's, another nuclear state the US once demanded must disarm, and now has all but given up that it ever will
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Sunderlal Bahuguna and the story of Chipko movement
Bahuguna, 94, who passed away due to Covid-19 on May 21, and was credited with coining the term 'Chipko' movement—hug the trees. His work led to a 15-year ban in 1980 on the culling of trees in ecologically-sensitive areas in the Himalayas
