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Crash! Oil price nosedives into negative territory for the first time in history amid Coronavirus pandemic
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Crash! Oil price nosedives into negative territory for the first time in history amid Coronavirus pandemic

United States oil futures plunges below zero for first time in history in unprecedented wipeout on Monday with traders dumping May contracts as analysts warn that crude storage will fill to the brim by next month, and US shale firms weigh the real possibility of shutting down production. Oil producers are running out of room...

Press Club of India urges UP CM Yogi to drop bogus cases against “The Wire” editor, not to treat media freedom lightly
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Press Club of India urges UP CM Yogi to drop bogus cases against “The Wire” editor, not to treat media freedom lightly

Raising concern over the FIR lodged by the UP police against The Wire and its founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan, the Press Club of India (PCI) has shot off a letter to the UP CM, urging Centre and the state government not to treat “freedom of media lightly”. Here is the full text of letter issued...

India’s Burgeoning Digital Surveillance State, Further Amplifying By Covid-19 Pandemic
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India’s Burgeoning Digital Surveillance State, Further Amplifying By Covid-19 Pandemic

India is on the path to developing a sprawling surveillance state along the lines of China’s own surveillance model. The contact tracing techniques developed for the COVID-19 pandemic are now accelerating the process of deploying surveillance technologies in India. The government of India has launched its own contact tracing app called Aarogya Setu. In a...

SDPI welcomes the lockdown, the government should try to solve the problem on war scale: Mohammad Afzal khan
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SDPI welcomes the lockdown, the government should try to solve the problem on war scale: Mohammad Afzal khan

District general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of India muzaffarpur, Mohammad Afzal khan said the lockdown decision is mandatory, that the world, including my country, India is suffering from an epidemic that is like a resurrection, the most important treatment is physical distance, so it is necessary to make this physical distance sure and...

India: Health Ministry informs 909 new COVID-19 cases , 34 deaths in past 24 hrs
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India: Health Ministry informs 909 new COVID-19 cases , 34 deaths in past 24 hrs

The total number of novel coronavirus cases in the world’s second-most populous country, India has risen to 8,447, while the death toll mounted to 276, with the fast-spreading virus in various parts of the country, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases reached over 7,409, while 765 people were either...

Opinion | The Best Weapons Against Novel COVID-19: Honesty and Trust
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Opinion | The Best Weapons Against Novel COVID-19: Honesty and Trust

As the coronavirus sweeps across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, uncertainty and fear are gripping the streets. Citizens are turning to their governments to act; however, lack of transparency over decades has bred distrust and, in many instances, undermined state credibility. People cannot be certain if daily reporting and updates are true....