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Electricity bill burns a hole in Chennaites pockets amidst lockdown and frequent power cuts

At a time when household incomes have fallen short owing to the state government imposed lockdown in view of the raging second wave of the Wuhan virus pandemic, residents in Chennai have been shocked with high electricity bills. Consumers who usually receive a monthly bill in three digits have received exorbitant bills in 4 digits.

“I a vegetable and fruits trader at the Koyambedu market. I have had no income for the past few weeks. It is becoming difficult to manage finances at home. On top of that they send a bill amounting to more than ₹5000. How am I supposed to pay this?”, laments Sathya, a resident of Anna Nagar, Chennai.

Another resident of Porur who makes a living by working as a domestic worker has received a bill amount of more than ₹4000. “I have 3 children to take care of and a very old mother-in-law. Work is also not stable due to the lockdown and corona cases. Many are asking me to not come to work. Yesterday I had received ₹2000 money from the ration shop. It has now gone into paying this bill.”, she says.

Kokila from Saidapet who also works a domestic worked has received a bill of ₹2000 while her average monthly bill is around ₹700-800.

“On one hand, there has been frequent power cuts for the past 10-15 days. On the other hand they take away whatever little we earn away. The joke is one us.”, says Kokila.

Another user whose house has been locked for the past three months has received a bill of ₹2704. “This is the bill they gave for a locked house. I am in my native now and I can’t go back to Chennai.”, he said.

 

The reason for the high price is that consumers are being asked to pay the highest amount they paid in the year 2020. Also, people are also being made to pay an additional security deposit.

“This comes at a time when many are scrambling for their lives and livelihood. Powercuts have also increased after the DMK came to power. Why is this amount being charged now without considering the plight of people? Why are they so inhumane?” said Karthikeyan, from Arumbakkam.

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China builds new strategic highway close to Arunachal Pradesh

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As China keeping developing its infrastructure in Eastern Ladakh it has also completed building a strategic highway close to the Arunachal Pradesh border, reports Economic Times.

The strategic highway has been constructed by China through the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon which is the world’s deepest gorge with a maximum depth of 6009 metres at a cost of $310 million without any concern for environmental impact.

The 67.22-kilometer-long highway connects Pad Township in the Chinese city of Nyingchi with the Baibung Township in Medog County. This highway will cut the travel time between the two towns by eight hours.

The highway also includes a 2.15-kilometre-long tunnel and the construction of the highway had begun back in 2014 when India had barely had any infrastructure due to the policy of the Congress government which believed not to antagonize China.

The altitude difference between the highest and the lowest spots of the highway is as high as 2,892 metres and Medog is the last county in Tibet located close to Arunachal Pradesh as China tries to open a new conflict front against India.

China still claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of its own territory which India has strongly rejected.

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Congress demands Twitter complies, labels Toolkit expose as ‘manipulated media’

Following a letter written by the Congress party to Twitter asking them to permanently suspend the accounts of BJP leaders for allegedly “spreading misinformation” after the “Toolkot” fiasco, the social media giant has flagged the ‘toolkit expose’ tweet of BJP leader Sambit Patra as ‘manipulated media’. 

On Thursday (20 May), the Congress party in a letter to Twitter asked for permanent suspension of the accounts of BJP president JP Nadda, Union minister Smriti Irani, and BJP leaders Sambit Patra and BL Santosh for sharing the alleged “forged” document.

In the letter to Twitter, the Congress had said senior functionaries of the BJP were “grossly misusing” Twitter and this has led to “large-scale dissemination of false information and has the potential to cause social unrest in the country”.

Immediately, Twitter marked Dr Sambit Patra’s tweets exposing Congress’ links to the toolkit as ‘Manipulated Media’.

In its policies section, Twitter said, “We may label Tweets that include media (videos, audio, and images) that have been deceptively altered or fabricated. In addition, you may not share deceptively altered media on Twitter in ways that mislead or deceive people about the media’s authenticity where threats to the physical safety or other serious harm may result.”

Twitter has claimed that the tweets have violated its “Synthetic and manipulated media policy” but this action can only be called a unilateral attempt to silence one side by labeling that the BJP leader was manipulative.  

The toolkits allegedly prepared by the research department of the Congress party talks about carrying out PR exercises with the help of “Friendly Journalists” and “Social Media Influencers” to malign the Modi Government and the Kumbh Mela.

The document titled ‘Cornering Narendra Modi & Covid Mismanagement’ begins by highlighting how the ‘Kumbh mela’ is to be used to malign the Hindu festival while calling Eid as a ‘happy gathering’.  The “toolkit” suggests politicizing the congregation by repeatedly labeling it as a ‘super spreader’.

The toolkit created alleged by the AICC states “Use the phrase Indian Strain whenever talking of new mutant. Social Media volunteers can call it Modi Strain,“.

It also gives instructions to ‘dismantle the image of Modi’ by ‘targeting Gujarat’ and by using ‘dramatic pictures of dead bodies and cremation’.   

It also says how international media can be used to attack PM Modi and also using ‘liberal intellectuals’ to attack PM CARES’.

The Congress party has said that it has filed a case against BJP president J P Nadda and spokesperson Sambit Patra.

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EPS urges TN Govt to take action on doctors and nurses who snatched away ventilator and oxygen from COVID patient

Leader of Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami has condemned the action of the doctors and nurses who had snatched the ventilator machine and oxygen from a corona patient in Cuddalore government hospital.

According to a statement issued by Palaniswami, Raja (49), son of Kannan Mudaliar, a resident of Nadu Veedhi, Tittakkudi Municipality, Cuddalore District, was admitted to Cuddalore Government General Hospital on the 8th of this month with symptoms like shortness of breath due to a corona virus infection. He was being treated at the Intensive Care Unit of the Cuddalore Government Hospital.

At about 9 AM yesterday, when the patient was having breakfast, the doctor and nurses on duty arrived and tried to take away his ventilator machine and oxygen. The patient’s wife had complained‌ and tried to stop them. But the doctors and nurses reportedly pushed her down and took away the machine and oxygen. The patient died as the wailing wife was trying to save him. A video of this incident had been doing the rounds on social media.

In light of this, Leader of Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami has condemned the incident and has urged the state government to book the culprits under appropriate criminal sections of the Indian Penal Code. He has also asked the government to give solatium to the bereaved family.

Health Minister Ma. Subramanian has said that he has ordered for an inquiry into the matter.

Are American entertainers fearing ‘cancel culture’ to speak about Hamas atrocities?

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As Israel systematically targets Sunni Islamist terror group Hamas, the number of actors, directors, producers, and other people associated with the entertainment industry in America have not extended any support to Israel as it fights to protects its citizens.

An open letter written by the Creative Community for peace says, “We are deeply concerned by the escalating violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The loss of life and violence is heart-breaking. We call on the leaders of all parties to end the violence, urge calm, and work toward de-escalation.”

Some of the names of the people who wrote this letter and signed this open letter include Gene Simmons (Artist/KISS), Meghan McCain (Co-Host, The View), Haim Saban (Chairman & CEO, Saban Capital Group), Sherry Lansing (Former CEO of Paramount Pictures), Orly Agai Marley (President, Tuff Gong Worldwide), David Draiman (Frontman, Disturbed), Selma Blair (Actress), Michael Buble (Artist), Diane Warren (Songwriter, Producer), and Ben Silverman (Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Propagate Content) are among nearly 130 signers of the joint statement, which was made public Friday.

However, almost none of the famous American Jewish celebrities have signed it. Neither director Steven Spielberg nor Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat fame, who spends all his time attacking the right and the republicans in America, have signed the letter. The ‘cancel culture’ that has gripped America has perhaps forced many celebrities to remain quiet fearing any semblance of support for Israel could mean loss of acting, writing, and directing opportunities.

As Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately at Israel while using Palestinians as human shields, the terror group found support from a vast section of American liberal left. Professional models like Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa, Sidney Pools, and the so-called progressive wing of the Democratic party Ilhan Omar, Togel MalaysiaMarc Lamont HillRashida Tlaib, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have supported it.

Bella Hadid whose father is Palestinian American businessmen said, “Future generations will look back in disbelief and wonder how we allowed the Palestinian suffering to continue for so long. A human tragedy unfolding right in front of our eyes. Politicians stutter neutral words in fear of being reprimanded, whilst the world remains silent to avoid offending the wrong people. History has taught us to speak up. You are on the right side or you are not. It’s that simple.”

Gigi Hadid and the father of her child British musician and former member of the boy band One Direction, Zayn Malik, also shared a UNICEF report with his 31 million followers, informing them of the Palestinian children who have been killed in the conflict.

Trevor Noah, who took over the Daily Show from Jon Stewart, a Jew, said, “I just want to ask an honest question here. If you are in a fight where the other person cannot beat you, how much should you retaliate when they try to hurt you?”

By this logic when a terrorist group launches hundreds of rockets full of explosives and shrapnel at the civilian population, Israel should not respond. Should a country not have the right to defend its citizens and allow an Islamist terror group that has sworn to kill all Jews just getaway?

Former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss in an article titled “The Bad Optics of Fighting for Your Life” wrote, “How many dead Israelis are necessary for a response to be OK? Did anyone have the temerity to tell America that we shouldn’t go after the Taliban or hunt Osama bin Laden after 9/11 because they had no realistic chance of destroying America?”

The situation in America is so bad it is like the 1950s when many actors, writers, and film producers were targeted for being Communists by the Togel SDY House for their ‘un-American activities’. The only difference now is it is the left-liberal cabal that thinks it only has the moral platform to declare who is right. It is they who are terrorizing everyone who speaks against them and brand them as fascist or Islamophobic.

No Human Rights for Israelis?

Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai who is always quiet when Hindu and Muslim girls are kidnapped in Pakistan and are forcibly converted to Islam and married off, tweeted a video expressing her ‘solidarity’ with Palestinian people. “A Palestinian child should be sitting in a classroom, not in rubble,” Yousafzai, 23, wrote in a message accompanying her video. “World leaders must act immediately to protect the human rights of Palestinians.”

In her video, Malala laments that Isreal is killing Palestinian people, willfully forgetting that Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians and lest we forget one of the dead civilians was also an Indian medical caregiver.

It is also very interesting to note that Malala has never spoken on the genocide China is committing against the Uyghur Muslims or spoken out against the deadly blasphemy law in Pakistan. She has also never talked about the forced disappearance of thousands of Baloch people.

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China state broadcaster CGTN spews anti-Semitism on the ongoing violence in Gaza

The Israeli embassy in China has protested against state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) for blatant anti-Semitism on the ongoing violence in Gaza.

It all started when CGTN broadcast host Zheng Junfeng during a broadcast said that there are concerns over US support to Israel because of the influence that the Jewish lobby has over the US foreign policymakers and accused the US of using Israel as a ‘beachhead’ in the middle-eastern world as a proxy to defeat pan-Arabism, Associated Press reports.

The embassy from its official Twitter handle said, “We are appalled to see blatant anti-Semitism expressed in an official Chinese media outlet, we have hoped that the times of the “Jew’s controlling the world” conspiracy theories were over, unfortunately anti-Semitism has shown its ugly face again,”

Beijing has openly supported Palestine during this conflict with Jerusalem as it tried to cozy up to Iran. It must also be noted that China does not officially recognize Judaism as a religion.

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All you need to know about black fungus

As the second wave of the Wuhan virus pandemic rages across the country, another disease in tandem is being reported in several places – Mucormycosis aka the black fungus disease. It was recently announced in Rajasthan and has been reported in Delhi, Chennai and other regions. Here is all you need to know about it.

What is the black fungus?

The black fungus, or the cloud eye fungus, is originally a fungal infection that only affects 1 in 100,000 people in the world. It is also called mucormycosis. The downside of this is that it has an overall mortality rate of 50%. It primarily affects those with severely affected immune systems. Thanks to the fact that the coronavirus infection has left a huge dent in the immune system of most people in India, it is now spreading fast in Rajasthan and the northern part of India.

How is it caused?

It is usually caused when the fungus comes in contact with any kind of skin opening like cut, burn or open wound. It is particularly fatal for those with diabetes and HIV. Certain COVID treatments shoot up the blood sugar levels, causing them to become an easy victim of this disease.

Symptoms of Black Fungus

One should immediately be rushed to the doctor if they are experiencing some kind of these symptoms:

  1. Facial swelling
  2. Fever
  3. Cough
  4. Chest pain
  5. Nasal congestion
  6. Black lesions on the nose
  7. Abdominal pain on a prolonged basis

While this is not an exhaustive list, this is the most commonly found list of symptoms that have been found in patients in India so far.

Once the fungal moulds attack human sinuses, it soon spreads to the lungs, the brain and the central nervous system.

The disease goes undetected in early days of infection. A CT scan of the sinus can helps doctors to identify the fungal disease.

Black fungus in India

Because of the rising number of cases, several states have declared it a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897. These states include – Rajasthan, Gujarat, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Karnataka, and Assam.

The Centre on Thursday had urged the states and Union territories to make black fungus or mucormycosis a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, stating that the infection is leading to prolonged morbidity and mortality among COVID-19 patients

There were several cases where doctors were forced to remove people’s eyes and jawbones to prevent it from entering the brain.  One hospital in its capital, Mumbai, reportedly had seen 24 cases in two months, as opposed to six for the entirety of last year.

Treatment

There are currently two drugs that is prescribed for treating mucormycosis – Amphotericin B and Posaconazole – provided the infection is diagnosed early.

Why is the disease prevalent among COVID victims?

It is said that the Steroid treatment increases vulnerability of patients who have had COVID. It is because Steroid doses suppresses the patient’s immune system to keep adverse symptoms in check and thus makes the body accessible for the fungus.

However, a healthy immune system fight the fungus without causing any problems.

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Sadhguru congratulates TN Govt on move to make temple affairs transparent

Terming it a “historic step in the right direction,” Sadhguru, Founder-Isha Foundation, took to Twitter to congratulate the Tamil Nadu Government and the state Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department on their decision to upload online, records related temple assets, temple work, administration and personnel.

Sadhguru’s message read: “Congratulations to the HR&CE Dept. & Govt. of Tamil Nadu on taking a historic step in the right direction. We appreciate your swift action, responding to citizens’ call. Transparency is the first step towards good governance. Best Wishes. –Sg”

Sadhguru was responding to the news that the state HR&CE Minister Sekar Babu has instructed officials to make public all information about temple assets, temple administration and other related work and activities. The Minister’s directive also includes a plan to clear temple encroachments and collect “fair rent for buildings and other revenues” of temples.

Sadhguru launched the #FreeTNTemples campaign earlier this year and had urged the state government to authorise third party audits to determine the quality of temple management as well as establish unambiguous data about temple properties, rents, administrative policies, day-to-day rituals and personnel appointment.

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Father-daughter duo create ‘medi-robot’ to prevent healthcare professionals from coming in direct contact with patients

A father-daughter duo has created a ‘Medi Robot’ that could make great waves in the healthcare field. Akanksha, who is an undergraduate student from BITS Pilani, has created the ‘Medi Robot’ with her father to help healthcare professionals to stay away from direct contact with patients.

This robot can examine infected patients and perform basic diagnostic tests. Not only can it check the blood pressure level, oxygen levels and blood sugar levels, but also doubles up as a nebulizer. It can also be used to transport food and medicine.

Speaking about this robot, Akanksha said, “this robot can not only be used as a transportation tool for food water and medicine to the patient but also be used as a surveillance tool. It offers two-way communication, and a sanitization facility, by means of both liquid sanitization and UV sanitization. In addition to that it also includes oxygen cylinders.”

This not only helps the healthcare professionals who are using it to stay safe, but also helps the patient to get immediate attention and be monitored as and when they have an emergency instead of waiting for someone.

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Madhya Pradesh BJP MP unclogs toilet with his hands at COVID treatment centre

The video of a BJP MP cleaning the toilet at a special corona treatment centre has gone viral on social media.

Janardhanan Misra, a BJP MP from Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, is a great proponent of the central government’s Clean India initiative. He had gone to inspect the Corona treatment center set up at Mauganj block in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh.

While inspecting the Corona centre, Janardhanan Misra saw that the toilet was clogged and dirty. He wore gloves and used his hands to unclog and clean the toilet without waiting for anyone’s help. After cleaning the toilets, he instructed the officials to keep the toilets clean and warned that strict action would be taken if toilets were not kept clean the next time.

In this regard, MP Janardhanar Misra said, “No work is small or big during this pandemic. The toilet was dirty. So I cleaned it to make people aware and understand the importance of cleanliness.”

This is not the first time Janardhanan Misra has cleaned public toilets. In 2018, When he inspected a school in the Kajuha village in Rewa district, he found that the toilets were dirty and decided to clean them himself.

 

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