Large protests in spain over pardon to separatists, Swiss says no to climate measures that they say are too steep.
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GST cuts; limit on Hajj, G7 vs China
G7 takes on China but their commitments to climate change so far has been poor; Covid-19 has forced Saudi to ban foreigners from Hajj.
June 12- Covaxin’s Hard Reality, Sombre Spain
Covaxin’s troubles do not seem to end. Supreme Court has said it will pull back from deciding the fate of Italian marines who shot and killed two Indian fishermen.
June 11: Tata Has Veggies, Meds and Delivery
Tata Digital, as we have been highlighting before, is on a buying spree. Its latest acquisition puts it on the online pharma map. Does Yogi Adityanath have butterflies in his stomach as he goes to meet the Top-2 in Delhi?
June 10 – Sensitive Infos; Digi Coins
The SII has doubled the price of polio vaccine, the delay over Covaxin data is strange and the health ministry’s “keep vaccine stocks secret” advisory to states is even more strange. Bitcoin has been legalised in a country. Guess which?
June 8 – Free Jabs; Google’s Hefty Fine
There is a new drug for Alzheimer’s but there is also a controversy around it. CO2 levels are at its highest yet and India’s Covid numbers are the best it has been since two months.
June 5: Delta Variant vs Vaccines; Aliens on Earth
Today we learn about more evidence that getting both shots of the Covid vaccine is extremely important. Kerala has won a case against Karnataka. Update your economics with a UN report on food prices and RBI’s expectations of GDP. And on the blog, watch how an elephant pays its respects to his dead mahout.
June 2 – More Covid Vaccines, ‘Ice’ in Iceland Is Shrinking Fast
Your News of June 2
May 19 – Darwin’s Collapse
In News of Today: There appears to be little relief in the Middle East, the GoI is having an image problem and is throwing the kitchen sink at it, and an iconic natural structure has fallen.
May 16– Of Broken Trusts
Today’s stories see how the Israeli Army may have violated that and how a BBC journalist quits before a probe into his alleged violation is made public. In other news, do dreams have a survival purpose? Scientists seem to think so.