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[ad_1] In Bengal's Dhupguri, CPM and Congress have joined forces to take on the Trinamool Congress.New Delhi: The BJP and the Opposition INDIA alliance have, so far, achieved a tie in the by-elections to the seven seats that took place on Tuesday. While BJP candidates have been elected from the Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly seats in Tripura and Bageswhar in Uttarakhand, the Opposition bloc has won in Jharkhand's Dumri, Puthupally in Kerala and Dhugpuri in West Bengal. The Samajwadi Party, which is a member of the INDIA alliance, is leading in Uttar Pradesh's Ghosi constituency.  Here are the latest updates: In Tripura, BJP's Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat while the tribal-dominated Dhanpur was won by Bindu Debnath.In Uttarakhand's Bageswhar, after taking an early lead over the BJP's Parwati Dass, the Congress party's Basant Kumar fell behind. Ms Dass defeated Mr Kumar by over 2,400 votes. The bypoll was held after the death of four-time MLA and cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das in April. Delivering a big blow to the ruling CPI(M), Chandy Oommen of the Congress-UDF alliance won the Puthuppally by-election in Kerala by a margin of over 36,000 votes. Mr Ommen, son of late Congress stalwart Oommen Chandy, gained a clear edge in the first round and retained that position till the counting of votes was completed. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) candidate Bebi Devi has won the by-election to the Dumri assembly seat in Jharkhand's Giridih district and defeated All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) party nominee Yashoda Devi by over 17,000 votes.Dara Singh Chauhan, the sitting MLA from Ghosi assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh and a popular OBC leader, rejoined the BJP after resigning from the Samajwadi Party. His resignation necessitated a by-election in Ghosi, in which the Samajwadi Party's Sudhakar Singh is leading by over 24,000 votes as per latest trends.Over in West Bengal, two INDIA bloc parties - the Congress and the CPI(M) - joined forces to take on another Opposition ally, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), in the BJP-ruled Dhugpuri constituency. However, the TMC's Nirmal Chandra Roy prevailed and asserted the Mamata Banerjee-led party's control over the seat.Of the seven seats that went to polls, Dhanpur, Dhugpuri and Bageshwar were held by the BJP. Ghosi was held by the Samajwadi party while the seat in Jharkhand was held by the JMM. Tripura's Boxanagar seat and Kerala's Puthupally were with the CPM and the Congress, respectively. [ad_2]

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5 राज्यों में विधानसभा चुनाव: बंगाल में आखिरी दौर की थोड़ी देर में खत्म होगी, इसके बाद चैनलों के एग्जिट पोल्स की शुरुआत

5 राज्यों में विधानसभा चुनाव: बंगाल में आखिरी दौर की थोड़ी देर में खत्म होगी, इसके बाद चैनलों के एग्जिट पोल्स की शुरुआत

Hindi News National Exit Poll 2021 Result LIVE Updates; Mamata Banerjee | West Bengal Assam Kerala Tamil Nadu Puducherry Assembly Election Exit Poll Ads से है परेशान? बिना Ads खबरों के लिए इनस्टॉल करें दैनिक भास्कर ऐप नई दिल्लीकुछ ही क्षण पहले कॉपी लिंक बंगाल में आखिरी चरण की वोटिंग साढ़े छह बजे खत्म हो जाएगी। अब बंगाल समेत पांच राज्यों के एग्जिट पोल्स का इंतजार है। सबकी नजर बंगाल पर ज्यादा…

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Assembly Election Results 2021 Vidhan Sabha election 2021 Bengal Election results Live

Sun, 02 May 2021 08:06 PM असम की जीत पर क्या बोले पीएम पीएम मोदी ने ट्वीट किया, ”असम के लोगों ने एक बार फिर एनडीए के विकासवादी एजेंडे और हमारी सरकार के जन हितैषी रिकॉर्ड को आशीर्वाद दिया है। मैं असम के लोगों को आशीर्वाद के लिए धन्यवाद देता हूं। मैं एनडीए के कार्यकर्ताओं की कड़ी मेहनत और लोगों की अथक सेवा की सराहना करता हूं।” पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी ने केरल के सीएम पी विजयन, तमिलनाडु में जीत हासिल करने…

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പോസ്റ്റൽ ബാലറ്റുകളുടെ വിവരങ്ങൾ തേടി കേന്ദ്ര മുഖ്യ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് കമ്മീഷന് രമേശ് ചെന്നിത്തലയുടെ കത്ത്.

പോസ്റ്റൽ ബാലറ്റുകളുടെ വിവരങ്ങൾ തേടി കേന്ദ്ര മുഖ്യ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് കമ്മീഷന് രമേശ് ചെന്നിത്തലയുടെ കത്ത്.

തിരുവനന്തപുരം/തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് കമ്മീഷൻ വിതരണം ചെയ്ത പോസ്റ്റൽ ബാലറ്റുകളുടെ വിവരങ്ങൾ പുറത്തുവിടണമെന്ന ആവശ്യവുമായി പ്രതിപക്ഷ നേതാവ് രമേശ് ചെന്നിത്തല. ഈ ആവശ്യം ഉന്നയിച്ച് പ്രതിപക്ഷ നേതാവ് കേന്ദ്ര മുഖ്യ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് കമ്മീഷന് കത്ത് നൽകി. തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് ഡ്യൂട്ടിയിൽ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന സർക്കാർ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർക്ക് വിതരണം ചെയ്ത പോസ്റ്റൽ ബാലറ്റുകളിൽ ക്രമക്കേടുണ്ടെന്ന ആരോപണം ഉയർന്നിരിക്കെ പ്രതിപക്ഷ നേതാവിന്റെ ആരോപണം…

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'जिन्ना के दादा और पिता थे हिंदू...' जिन्‍ना पॉलिटिक्‍स में अब केरल गवर्नर आरिफ मोहम्मद खान की एंट्री

‘जिन्ना के दादा और पिता थे हिंदू…’ जिन्‍ना पॉलिटिक्‍स में अब केरल गवर्नर आरिफ मोहम्मद खान की एंट्री

हाइलाइट्स जिन्ना का जिन्न शांत होने की बजाय और बढ़ता जा रहा है अब जिन्ना के दंगल में केरल के राज्यपाल भी कूद पड़े हैं वाराणसी में एक कार्यक्रम के दौरान जिन्ना के दादा को बताया हिंदू अभिषेक कुमार झा, वाराणसीयूपी विधानसभा चुनाव में अखिलेश यादव ने हरदोई की अपनी यात्रा में जिन्ना का ज़िक्र क्या किया, सूबे की सियासत में जिन्ना पर रोज़ कोई न कोई टिप्पणी कर रहा है। आज़मगढ़ की रैली में भी गृह मंत्री अमित…

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Kerala CPM publicly condemns former minister

Kerala CPM publicly condemns former minister

The CPI(M) on Saturday publicly condemned senior party leader and former state minister G Sudhakaran for his alleged failure to work for the success of the party candidate in the assembly polls earlier this year, the constituency in which He had represented three times in a row. Announcing the decision, the CPI(M) state committee said in a release that the modus operandi of reformation during…

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आज आएंगे 5 राज्यों के विधानसभा चुनाव के नतीजे, क्या है बहुमत का आंकड़ा, जानिए सब कुछ

आज आएंगे 5 राज्यों के विधानसभा चुनाव के नतीजे, क्या है बहुमत का आंकड़ा, जानिए सब कुछ

4 राज्यों और 1 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश में विधानसभा चुनाव के नतीजे आज यानी 2 मई को घोषित होंगे। चुनाव आयोग असम, तमिलनाडु, पश्चिम बंगाल, केरल और पुडुचेरी में सुबह 8 बजे से वोटों की गिनती शुरू करेगा, और शाम तक रिजल्ट की घोषणा कर दी जाएगी। इसी के साथ ये साफ हो जाएगा कि राज्य में किस पार्टी की सरकार बनेगी।   आयोग ने पूरी की तैयारी रविवार को होने वाली मतगणना के लिए चुनाव आयोग ने तैयारियां पूरी कर ली है।…

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Breaking News, April 15 | LIVE

Breaking News, April 15 | LIVE

Image Source : INDIA TV Breaking News, April 15 | LIVE Daily dose of news plays a very important role in our daily life. For some people, the morning is incomplete without knowing what’s happening across the world. Some digital-savvy people have a habit of consuming news even when they are travelling or in their free time. In today’s world, where people rely on news websites for everything…

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Latest News Today - PM Narendra Modi Slams Pinarayi Vijayan Government, Says

Latest News Today – PM Narendra Modi Slams Pinarayi Vijayan Government, Says

Kerala Assembly Election 2021: PM Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Palakkad. Highlights PM campaigned in Kerala for “Metro Man” E Sreedharan In Palakkad, the BJP has fielded E Sreedharan Today, the Prime Minister hit out at the LDF and the UDF Palakkad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning in Kerala today for “Metro Man” E Sreedharan, called the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and…

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ഉറപ്പും, കണക്കുകളും തെറ്റിക്കുന്ന സമുദായ സമവാക്യം ഭരണമാറ്റം നിർണയിക്കും.

ഉറപ്പും, കണക്കുകളും തെറ്റിക്കുന്ന സമുദായ സമവാക്യം ഭരണമാറ്റം നിർണയിക്കും.

തിരുവനന്തപുരം / നിയമസഭാ തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിൽ സമുദായ സമവാക്യങ്ങൾ പിണറായി സർക്കാരിന് എതിര്. സമുദായ സമവാക്യങ്ങൾ നിർണായകമാകുമെന്ന് ഉറപ്പായിരിക്കുന്ന തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിൽ, ഹിന്ദു സമുദായത്തിലെ നായർ-ഈഴവ വോട്ടുകളുടെയും മുസ്‌ലിം-ക്രിസ്‌ത്യൻ വോട്ടുകളുടെയും മാറ്റങ്ങൾ ഭരണമാറ്റത്തെ നിർണയിക്കുമെന്നു പഠനം. നായർ സമുദായത്തിനിടയിൽ ബി ജെ പി വലിയ തോതിൽ സ്വാധീനം നേടിയെടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നതായാണ് സെന്റർ ഫോർ ദ സ്റ്റഡി ഓഫ് ഡെവലപിംഗ്…

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Bribery case against Kerala BJP president: Court orders probe into phone conversations

Bribery case against Kerala BJP president: Court orders probe into phone conversations

A court in Kerala’s Wayanad has ordered a probe into alleged phone call recordings between Kerala BJP chief K Surendran and regional party Janadhipati Rashtriya Sabha (JRS) treasurer Prasita Azhikode. election bribery case. Both Surendran and Prasita have been ordered to submit voice samples at Chitranjali Studio in Kochi on October 11 to test possible matching with the voices in the call…

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The Pandemic Will Be More Deadly This Year - Look At India

On Sunday alone, 261,500 new infections were recorded. That's as bad as the U.S. during all but the worst five days of the pandemic in December and early January.

Covid-19 is going to kill more people in 2021 than it did last year. If you want to see why, look at what's happening in India.

Cases have been surging in the country of 1.37 billion people. On Sunday alone, 261,500 new infections were recorded. That's as bad as the U.S. during all but the worst five days of the pandemic in December and early January. Case counts are rising far more quickly, too. Average infection numbers over the past seven days have run at nearly three times the level two weeks ago, a pace of growth that the U.S. last saw in the early days of the outbreak a year ago.

The real numbers may be yet higher. The city of Bhopal used Covid-19 protocols to cremate or bury 84 people last Tuesday, according to the Hindustan Times, while declaring only five Covid deaths. The B.1.617 variant, which isn't well understood yet, has features associated with higher infection rates and lower antibody resistance. It's turning up in more than half of viral samples taken in India.

As caseloads push medical facilities toward capacity, the health system itself is starting to crack. Vaccine stocks, hospital beds and even oxygen supplies are running short, leading to bitter arguments between the states and the federal government. In some places, the dead are being transported by truck because cities have run out of hearses. Elsewhere, crematoria have started to break down because of the sheer number of bodies being burned.

If things don't change soon, the country will be facing 3,000 deaths a day -- twice its current level, and 10 times what was being seen through most of this year -- Bhramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the University of Michigan, wrote last week.

As my colleague Mihir Sharma has written, arrogance, hyper-nationalism and incompetence helped foster a fatal sense of complacency amid India's apparent success against the outbreak earlier this year. Until a few weeks ago, lockdown restrictions had been progressively loosening for months. Cinemas were allowed to open to full capacity Feb. 1. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country "in the endgame of the Covid-19 pandemic" in early March, at almost precisely the point that cases started to surge again.

Worryingly, the clear signs of a second wave haven't prompted much course correction since. With elections underway in the states of Assam and West Bengal, the Twitter feed of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been interspersing updates about the virus with Trump-style footage of him, unmasked, addressing mass rallies:

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The other side isn't necessarily doing much better, either. West Bengal's chief minister, an opponent of Modi's BJP, only got around to canceling her campaign rallies Sunday.

Worse may be to come. The Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage festival that's normally the largest mass gathering on earth, is now underway on the banks of the Ganges, attended by an estimated 3.5 million people. That's well down on the numbers in a normal year, and even Modi, far too late, urged over the weekend that the event be purely "symbolic" rather than physical. Still, it's far above the mere thousands allowed to other mass events like last year's Hajj in Saudi Arabia and Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq.

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Even held outdoors, such events carry a profound risk of spreading the most infectious variants to every corner of the country. Close to 10% of people returning to Gujarat's largest city, Ahmedabad, from the festival tested positive for Covid over the weekend, the Press Trust of India reported Monday. Hitherto, the coronavirus has mostly hit the relatively affluent, urbanized parts of the country that are best able to cope with it, such as the southern states of Kerala and Karnataka, the capital Delhi, and Maharashtra, home to Mumbai. If the Kumbh Mela seeds it in rural districts, where the majority of India's population lives, the death toll could be higher still.

There's a lesson in this for the world. The 1.2 million people who've died from Covid so far this year already represent about two-thirds of the 1.8 million fatalities in 2020. Yet people are behaving as if it's already over. That's removing the sense of unified urgency that led many nations to make such strides in turning around the pandemic last year.

Vaccine supplies for the richest (and, thanks to global initiatives, poorest) countries are relatively ample. Yet those for middle-income nations, where the majority of the planet's population lives, are grossly inadequate, blocked by restrictive patent rules. India, with one of the world's largest pharmaceutical industries, is far better placed than most midsize economies to cope, but even it is crumbling under the strain.

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The more people infected in emerging countries while the rest of the world looks away, the more opportunities Covid-19 will have to develop into fresh strains and prolong this death and misery. We must do better. The globe is still under attack, but our defenses are in disarray.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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The Petrifying Situation of the Indian Media

India ranks so badly for press freedom because much of the media has simply stopped doing its moral job, and, as a culmination of facts, journalism is in some serious trouble in the world’s largest democracy. I’m afraid the consequences could be dire.

A cluster of mics of different channels of India's television media, accountable for shaping the social and political thoughts for the most of the country's population.

March 6, Vinesh Kunhiraman, The Media One anchor, goes on air, just like any other day in the office, about to tell his channel’s five million viewers in Kerala about the death anniversary of a famous comedian and the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic.

But just a few minutes into the broadcast, he sees the managing editor rushing towards the studio floor gesturing desperately. As soon as Kunhiraman realizes that something’s not right, his image dissolves into a blue screen, a message shows up on the screen saying that there’s no signal and that they regret the inconvenience. The channel’s uplink, all of sudden, goes dead.

Actually, this was no technical difficulty. The channel was cut off as a consequence of order issued by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to block the channel for 48 hours, because it had covered February’s biggest news story -- mob attacks on anti-CAA protesters and in Muslim-dominant areas of Delhi, which took place just a few days after the result of Delhi’s Assembly Elections, which ultimately flared into a broader unrest and the Delhi Riots --  in a way that seemed “critical towards Delhi Police and R.S.S.,” the order said.

This shows a glimpse of how tolerant the government of world's largest democracy actually is about it’s criticism, despite many of the government ministers and the Prime Minister Modi himself stating that he wants the government to be criticized as it makes a democracy stronger and motivates him to work better.

WIDE URGE TO ADVERTISE “POSITIVE STORIES”

PM Modi addressing the nation amidst the coronavirus pandemic and about the government’s steps to address it.

Just before he announced the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown, PM Modi met with top news executives and urged them to publish “inspiring and positive stories” about the government’s efforts. Then, after the lockdown stranded half a million migrant workers, with some dying along the highways, government lawyers persuaded the Supreme Court to order all media to “publish the official version” of coronavirus developments, although outlets are still allowed to carry independent reporting.

A large section of leading broadcasters were quick to welcome this decision of the apex court, but left many intellectuals with questions on India’s constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of press.

India’s media universe is vast, perhaps the biggest in the world: More than 17,000 newspapers, 100,000 magazines, 178 television news channels and countless websites in dozens of languages. Thousands of Facebook pages call themselves news publishers, and YouTube is filled with local bulletins on everything from real estate trends to police raids.

Under immense pressure from the government, many media owners have fired their journalists who have criticized the PM and his government, and asked their media houses to not to run stories of hate-crime trackers that may embarrass the government or the ruling party. Instead, media houses have been asked to, and have been running what is being called “positive and inspiring” stories so that a “healthy environment” is being maintained throughout the country, and that could actually lead to a number of conclusions from various points of views.

This is so evident at the time of the coronavirus pandemic, where media houses have been given official orders to run the “official versions of the stories so that people do not panic”. Indian media has been constantly pressing on to project the fact the fact how India have been tackling the coronavirus pandemic outbreak way better than the much developed western countries, but not many compared, what we should call, the “other statistics” -- the amount of daily covid tests conducted, and its comparison with the same countries it claims to be performing better from. 

Media, being the fourth pillar in any democracy, is morally obliged to present the facts in the way they should, in order to be in the best interest of the people as a whole. Even the academic study of journalism has part where it teaches the students, or the future journalists, to see government’s policies and steps with suspicion, as if media starts supporting government everywhere in any democracy, things could turn out to be disastrous, yes of course it is evident.

They can only ask PM about how much does he sleep, from where does he get the motivation, how much of a fakir he is. And this is the same person who left an interview with just three minutes into it because he was being asked bitter questions about his role during the 2002 Gujarat Riots, Modi was being interviewed by Karan Thapar then, and has not given any such bitter interview ever since even after becoming the Prime Minister of India, and has not even indulged in any press conferences but one, that too just before the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls, in which he did not answer a single question, in fact, gestured many to Amit Shah to answer.

Instead, days before 2019 Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi gave an "non-political" interview to a Bollywood actor, Akshay Kumar, in which he was asked questions like "how does he have his mangoes".

STRATEGICALLY CONTROLLING THE  COUNTRY’S THOUGHT PROCESS

It is a fact, even is a part of academic structures in schools, that Adolf Hitler ran a hate propaganda against the Jews for his political gains, most probably fulfilled his personal desires too through it, and eventually built such a large campaign that he was able to convince millions of Germans that a clear minority population composition of 6 million Jews were a threat to Germany and it’s integrity, and that to eradicate and eliminate them by killing them in large numbers and fleeing them was the only possible way to save Germany.

At first, this sounds outlandish for any democracy, as to solve differences between communities, especially by the side of government, rather sounds pretty un-democratic. But the fact that Hitler was able to convince this as only possible way out is very intriguing, as he off course had a popular public support. How was he able to do that?

Adolf Hitler addressing the people in a rally

In Hitler’s Nazi Germany, media was censored by the government, as a result of which what the media can open as news in public domain was solely controlled by the Hitler’s government, which led to media only praising Hitler as Germany’s Savior and projected every person who criticized Hitler as a traitor, giving Hitler complete power to prove so, and execute him. The whole anti-Jewish sentiment was a result of years of propaganda run by the Hitler’s media to earn a wide public support to execute his dangerous plans and unleash havoc.

Seems familiar? A considerable section of the world society sees the same signs repeating in India based on religious grounds. Starting from near-end of 2014, India’s media has run a large scale propaganda based on religious grounds, resulting in instilling of hatred against the largest religious minority in India, and convincing people that they do not belong here. As a result, India has seen a sudden upsurge in mob lynchings based on communal lines, a strong hostility against sections of society, challenging the integral character of India’s Unity in Diversity and it’s very traditional secular character.

CAPTURING THE STILL “FREE VOICES”

The current NDA government and PM Modi are backed up by an army of online allies who discredit and harass independent journalists; female journalists, in particular, have been besieged with abuse and rape threats. And the police say Hindu nationalists were behind the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, a female newspaper editor hailed as one of India’s most crusading journalists.

And for the most part, Indian news outlets have knuckled under, concluding that since much of the public supports the prime minister, they should, too. Even skeptical journalists censor themselves, afraid to be branded anti-national by a government that equates patriotism with support for PM Modi.

The Modi government has been particularly concerned about broadcast media, which reach into every corner of the country. In such a scenario, months before 2019 elections, an ABP journalist, named Punya Prasun Bajpai, questioned the results of government’s scheme of providing financial help to farmers, and broadcasters stated that the broadcast of the show was being interrupted in various parts of the country until the ABP journalist was being asked to leave days after the incident. 

There are numerous such examples of journalists and reporters being left out and asked to leave by the broadcasters, so that they’re not being branded as anti-nationals, or lose sponsors or afraid that cases might be filed against them.

Arnab Goswami, from the Republic, hosting his debate program

Arnab Goswami of the Republic TV has come out be one of the most prominent Right wing, pro-government journalist in recent times, with constant praises for PM Modi, his government and his policies and of course his ideologies, and has constantly questioned the opposition for every misdeed in the country. He accused the Congress and Sonia Gandhi of sending goons to attack him in April.

Ravish Kumar, NDTV, in between his daily debate program

Ravish Kumar of NDTV, another popular journalist, this time one who has been critical of government, not only during the NDA tenure, but a hard critical of UPA government too. Being a hard critical of PM Modi and Amit Shah, he has been abused constantly on social media and death threats for him and his family, and the Modi and Shah’s BJP has now boycotted Ravish for years, by not sending any spokesperson in his show.

PM Modi, after taking over the PMO, gave his very first interview to Arnab Goswami, and Arnab has been backing up with frequent interviews of PM Modi, and his senior ministers.

Ravish won the Ramon Magsaysay Award, also known as Asia’s Nobel, in 2019. Even after this, no other channel even covered this achievement of Indian media. Many speculated that had Goswami win the Ramon Magsaysay, would PM Modi, or any of the senior ministers or his senior party members have congratulated him, or tweeted the same? Because not a thing even close to this happened.

THE CURRENT MILIEU

An usual Production Control Room of a news channel, responsible for working behind what we see on air

It is very much evident that the Indian Media is in a state of crisis, it simply ‘cannot speak the truth to the power’. From not being vocal about about how big a blundering failure the 2016 demonetization was and the dent it hit on the economy, to constantly attacking the opposition rather than questioning the power, to reporting from the AC studios and not about the situation from the ground, to initially having ignored the migrant laborer's crisis and much more, all this suggests that from the view of the best interests of a tolerant democratic nation, Indian Media has had been in a deep state of crisis.

If it had not been the case, no journalist in any democracy, can openly criticize the voters on live television of being freeloaders, anti-national and being abused for not electing those in central government in a state assembly election, and walk free without even a complaint. Sudhir Choudhury of Zee Media did the very same back in February after the results of the Delhi State Assembly elections, having called a democratically elected Chief Minister as a terrorist.

No wonder why India has further slipped in the latest Press Freedom Index Rankings to 142nd Rank out of a total of 180 countries, very close to Pakistan, ranked 145th, the only comparison most of the Indian Media understands.

If ever our future generations are allowed to look back upon how India lived in the hallucination of being in its best of times what actually also could be a very strong contender of being one of the most dark times in the history of Independent India along with the 1975 Emergency, Indian Media of the current times would also have to bear a lot of credit for the same, along with many strong names both in the government, and the government institutions.

Information and Pictures’ Reference -

The New York Times

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The Effect Of Hyper Mutated Omicron COVID Variant

The world is already suffering from the catastrophic effects of coronavirus, and the emergence of the Omicron COVID variant makes things worse. This harmful virus was detected on 26 November by #WHO in South Africa.

After that, this virus traveled to Hong Kong and other parts of the globe. With the detection of 10 more new cases of Omicron virus, the Omicron #virus count of India reaches 97. Due to this, the government is making every effort to convenience unvaccinated people to get vaccines soon.

Presently the UK is the country that is highly affected by the hyper mutated Omicron virus, with 11,710 total cases. The second comes in line with Denmark. 9,000 active cases.

The mutation of this virus is more complex than the previous virus of the SARS family; it is changing properties at a very fast rate and is a bit difficult for researchers to understand.

#Weakness, tiredness, fatigue, low fever and sore throat are some of the early symptoms of the newly identified Omicron virus. Each nation’s government is trying to control its spread by conducting testing at international airports and crowded public places.

It has been reported that Omicron virus has worse symptoms than its previous counterpart, i.e., delta virus. This virus has been detected in several states of India, including Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Kerala and #Punjab.

The latest news coming from Punjab state is that the first Omicron case was found in Chandigarh last Sunday in a two-year-old male who was returned from Italy in November. He was asked to stay in the home despite detecting any symptoms. His COVID-test was conducted in which the Omicron variant was confirmed on 11 December.

It is spreading at an unprecedented rate in Punjab. As per the stats, this virus will severely affect the population of Punjab in January and December 2022. According to the recent survey, around 603780 people got infected from COVID 19, and approximately 16,622 lost their lives. This count is quite high.

The spread of hyper mutated #Omicron COVID variants has stressed the election commission about how to plan for the upcoming elections of the Punjab assembly. On Wednesday, the chief election commissioner Sushil Chandra visited Chandigarh for 2 days election commissioner Rajiv Kuma to discuss Punjab assembly elections.

Given this, the Punjab health department decided to send around 300 #COVID samples to GMC Patiala after every 15 days. Before this, around 15 samples were already sent for examination. Also, the election commission has rolled up sleeves to take every measure to promote social distancing. Special training is being given to the district-level officers on maintaining adequate distance between the voters in the booth.

Chief electoral officer Karuna Raju said that about 25,000 booths in the state would be equipped with masks, PPE kits, sanitizers, and gloves. Also, votes will be appropriately screened on the entry gates, and the count of voters in the polling will be no more than the specified limit.

Raju also said separate exit and entry gates would be made to promote social distance. The entry to each voter will be given after proper thermal scanning and checking. Any person with a body temperature exceeding the ideal limit will not be permitted to enter the voting area and will be isolated instantly. However, they will be allowed to vote at the end wearing PPC kits.

The election commission is working hard to enforce political parties to follow the safety guidelines created by the health department. Also, it’s tying up with the Punjab Pollution Control Board to reduce the biomedical waste generated from the masks and gloves. The chief election commissioner said that the dedicated team would dispose of all the waste in one of the five waste treatment plants located in Pathankot, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Mohali and Muktsar.

News Refrence:

https://digitalbuzznews.com/the-effect-of-hyper-mutated-omicron-covid-variant/

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