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 China floods: 12 dead in Zhengzhou train and thousands evacuated in Henan Twelve people have died after record-breaking rainfall flooded underground railway tunnels in China, leaving passengers trapped in rising waters. Video shared on social media shows evening commuters just managing to keep their heads above water. Water is seen rushing onto platforms. More than 500 people were eventually rescued from the tunnels in Henan province, officials said. Days of rain have caused widespread damage and led to 200,000 evacuations.

 

  The horrors of Kerala’s dowry deaths The suspicious deaths of three women, all below the age of 25, have once again blown the lid off the spectre of domestic violence and dowry-related persecution in Kerala, sparking conversations about the position of women in a family. Written By Vishnu Varma | Kochi | Kerala has the highest female unemployment rate in the country according to various rounds of NSSO surveys on employment and unemployment. (File) It had only been three months since her marriage, but Suchitra S, 19, had given her mother, Sunitha, enough hints that she was being harassed over dowry payments by her in-laws. So much so that when Sunitha heard the news of a 24-year-old Ayurveda student in Kollam dying allegedly by suicide over dowry harassment on June 21, she immediately dialled her daughter, asking her not to take any extreme step. “We’re always there for you,” the mother is reported to have told her daughter. And in response, she said, “No, amma, I’ll never do anything

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 Urgent action needed. None of these political shenanigans will help the BJP win elections in Uttar Pradesh next summer if a third wave rages through the state like the second wave did. This will be the first election in which the most important issue is going to be healthcare. Written by Tavleen Singh  New Delhi |  Updated: June 13, 2021 UP Chief Minister with PM Modi. (File) More than once while switching between news channels, have I been fooled by Yogi Adityanath’s devious, deceptive trick. What appears to be a news story about the ‘extraordinary’ success of his government in dealing with Covid is not a news story at all, but you only find this out if you spot ‘impact feature’ written in an obscure corner. The first time I came upon this deceitful self-promotion film was when pictures of corpses floating in the Ganga first appeared. Soon after came reports by some of the world’s best reporters of shallow graves on the river’s sandy banks and proof from crematorium data that the Yog

Top radiologist Padmavati Dua dies after long battle with Covid Chinna Dua is survived by Vinod, and her daughters Mallika Dua, an actor and comedian, and Bakul Dua, a clinical psychologist. Updated: June 12, 2021 8:14:09 am On social media, Chinna Dua was known for her exquisite and enviable saree collection, and myriad talents such as singing and cooking. (Instagram/@Chinnadua) Radiologist Padmavati Dua, wife of journalist Vinod Dua, died on Friday after a prolonged battle with Covid. She was 61. Padmavati, known popularly as Chinna Dua, and her husband had both been admitted to Gurgaon’s Medanta Hospital on May 14. Vinod, who was discharged on June 7, confirmed the news on Facebook. “Chinna no more,” he posted at 10:26 pm. Three days ago, on June 8, he had posted, “Chinna is not over the hump as yet.” Dua worked as a radiologist until 2019, including 24 years (from 1992 to 2016) at Diwan Chand Aggarwal Imaging & Research Centre. On social media, she was known for her exquisite a

  Roche India launches first batch of antibody cocktail for treating Covid-19 In a joint statement with Cipla, Roche India said that the second batch of the Covid-19 drug will be made available by mid-June. The cost of each dose, the statement said will be ₹59,750. Roche India is a subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche. (REUTERS PHOTO.) Drugs majors Roche India and Cipla announced on Monday the first batch of Roche’s antibody cocktail drug is now available in India for the treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 in patients, who are at high risk. The cocktail drug (Casirivimab and Imdevimab), priced at  ₹ 59,750 per dose, received emergency use authorisation (EUA) by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on May 5, for use against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). “The first batch is now available in India, while the second one will be made available by mid-June. In total, these can potentially benefit 200,000 patients as each of the 100,000 packs, which will

  World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Off of Antarctica The chunk of ice is larger than the state of Rhode Island By  Ben Turner, LiveScience  on  May 20, 2021 The humongous chunk of ice calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Credit:  ESA and Earth Observation An enormous iceberg, a little bigger than the state of Rhode Island, has broken off of  Antarctica . The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles (170 kilometers) long and 15 miles (25 kilometers) wide, was spotted by satellites as it calved from the western side of Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf, according to the  European Space Agency . The berg is now floating freely on the Weddell Sea, a large bay in the western Antarctic where explorer Ernest Shackleton once lost his ship, the Endurance, to pack ice. The 1,667-square-mile (4,320 square kilometers) iceberg—which now the world’s biggest and has been called A-76, after the Antarctic quadrant where it was first spotted—was captured by the E