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Dr. Runa Jha, Chief Pathologist and Director at government laboratory, featured by UN Women as one of five women on the...

Posted by Kanak Mani Dixit on Friday, May 1, 2020

Posted by Ashutosh Tiwari on Saturday, May 2, 2020

अमेरिकी कंपनियों ने यूएस डिपार्टमेंट ऑफ स्टेट्स के साथ हुई सीक्रेट बैठक में चीन से अपना व्यापार समेटकर भारत ले जाने का...

Posted by Pranesh Jha on Friday, May 1, 2020

I am pretty sure that the Founding Fathers would change the Constitution after this clusterf$&@

Posted by Alex Romanovich on Thursday, April 30, 2020

बिहार में 28 लाख मजदूरों ने घर वापसी के लिए आवेदन दिया है. ये महाराष्ट्र और दक्षिण भारत के राज्यों से फंसे हैं,...

Posted by Pranesh Jha on Friday, May 1, 2020

Nobel Laureate Tasuku Honjo refutes claims of novel coronavirus being man-made False quote goes viral on social media Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor Tasuku Honjo of the Kyoto University Institute of Advanced Study on Monday released an official statement through the university refuting claims to have alleged that the coronavirus was man made. ........ A false quote citing Honjo has been making rounds on social media platforms such as WhatsApp. The forward states that Honjo had previously worked with a laboratory in China and that he had said that the virus was not natural. ....... “In the wake of the pain, economic loss, and unprecedented global suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I am greatly saddened that my name and that of Kyoto University have been used to spread false accusations and misinformation,” Hojo said in the official statement. ......... The text message that has gone viral on WhatsApp claiming that Japan’s Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Tasuku Honjo had said that coronavirus is “manufactured by China” and ends with a link to Honjo’s Wikipedia page. .......

the broadcasting of unsubstantiated claims regarding the origins of the disease is dangerously distracting

....... Earlier this month, WhatsApp limited the number of forwards that a user can send in order to stop users from spreading misinformation The platform has also launched a Covid-19 information hub in association with the World Health Organization.

Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of 'assault-style' firearms — effective immediately

Posted by Madheshi Association in America - MAA on Saturday, April 25, 2020

Posted by Madheshi Association in America - MAA on Saturday, May 2, 2020

We left a playbook. He ignored it.

We created an office to prepare for pandemics. He gutted it.

We had CDC officials in China to detect and contain outbreaks. He pulled them out.

Trump can try and shift blame all he wants, but the fact is his actions left us unprepared. https://t.co/NdsINZ307m

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 2, 2020

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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 2, 2020

Merkel Makes Sense

Germany's Merkel wants green recovery from coronavirus crisis Governments should focus on climate protection when considering fiscal stimulus packages to support an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said ......... Merkel wants to combine the task of helping companies recover from the pandemic with the challenge of setting more incentives for reducing carbon emissions. ....... Speaking at a virtual climate summit known as the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, Merkel said she expected difficult discussions about how to design post-crisis stimulus measures and about which business sectors need more help than others. ......... “It will be all the more important that if we set up economic stimulus programmes, we must always keep a close eye on climate protection,” Merkel said ........ supporting modern technologies and renewable energies. ......... U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the conference there could be an opportunity for the world in the “dark times” of the coronavirus crisis. ........ “The restart can lead to a healthier and more resilient world for everyone,” he said. ...... Merkel said governments should pull in private-sector money through international financial markets to finance the costly shift towards a more climate-friendly economy........ Merkel also welcomed the more ambitious goal set by the European Commission, the European Union’s executive, of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by up to 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. .......... The EU agreed last week to build a trillion-euro recovery fund to revive economies ravaged by the pandemic and has already signed off on state aid worth 1.8 trillion euros ($1.95 trillion).