Today, the government health centre inNandpora at Saidakadal locality here wears a deserted look. The only visitor, a stray dog that lies dozing in the compound, basking in the mild May sun. In the pre-pandemic times, however, the health centre .
A Love Letter to India : How Online Platforms Counter the Political Fable of âLove Jihadâ
India Love Project and Project Anti-Caste Love are taking over the digital space to celebrate a love that goes beyond caste, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and age â all social markers.
Photos of couples and love letters uploaded as part of two online projects to promote inter-community love.
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Zainab Darukhanawala and Sinu Daniel have been married for two years now, but their love story has been 10 years in the making. They met each other 12 years ago, a meet-cute that translated into regular dates. By the time they set up a meeting for their respective sets of parents in 2014, they had self-confessedly fulfilled all tropes and cliches around love.
Questions over India’s Covaxin side effects, ethical violations Quartz 1/12/2021
A shadow is lurking over the trial process of India’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine.
Covaxin, the novel coronavirus vaccine co-developed by Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council for Medical Research, has been accused by some trial participants of sidestepping procedures and not making adverse events public. It has denied these charges, but trial volunteers want the government to intervene and halt the phase 3 human trials.
Bharat Biotech began courting controversy on On Jan. 4, when scientists expressed grave concerns over the hasty approval given to Covaxin. Now, its trial participants in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal allege that they were not informed that the jab would be given to them as part of a clinical trial. Covaxin’s third phase of human trials has 25,800 participants across the country.
Stop Covaxin trial on Bhopal gas tragedy survivors: NGOs write to PM Modi
Stop Covaxin trial on Bhopal gas tragedy survivors: NGOs write to PM Modi
Four NGOs working with the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written a letter to PM Modi and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan demanding that Covaxin trials be stopped in Bhopal over gross violations of protocol.
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The NGOs alleged that vulnerable people were being misguided and herded to participate in the trials, and the consent procedure and other protocol of the testing are being flouted. (Representative image from PTI)
Activists write to PM Modi on unethical practices at Covaxin s Bhopal trial site
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Bhopal: A medic administers Covaxin, developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), during the Phase- 3 trials at Peoples College of Medical Sciences & Research Centre in Bhopal.
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Bharat Biotech, in its statement, said that the Covaxin Phase 3 study is being conducted across 26 sites in India in compliance with the study protocol, Indian good clinical practice guidelines, and all regulatory provisions that apply to clinical trials in the country
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Activists involved with the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and health minister Harsh Vardhan about the unethical practices at the clinical trial site for Bharat Biotech s Covaxin at the city’s Peoples College of Medical Sciences & Research Centre.