Bharat Rakshak

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I have been thinking about the current situation and jotted down a few points for improving the response to future Covid waves or other pandemics. There has to be a system for handling such abnormal situations and not having a system leads to chaos, gloom and misery as we currently witness. Issues: ...

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https://www.livemint.com/news/india/natco-pharma-seeks-approval-for-covid-drug-candidate-molnupiravir-capsules-11619411860308.html Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma Limited on Monday said it has applied to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for approval of Phase-III clinical trial o...

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I believe Rupee fell due to RBI maintaining accommodative stance on the interest rates. The fear being artificially low rates inconsistent with inflation expectations will cause capital flight from Indian markets. Remember the taper tantrum of 2013, when US announced that they will taper off QE (whi...

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It's a net loss making effort for the large private hospitals that are participating in the vaccination effort. They are doing it out of genuine CSR feeling or out of guilt for the fleecing they are doing of their covid patients.

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Is the entire amount per MSP transferred to the farmers' accounts, or any commissions and fees deducted ? Is it the state govt or the central govt (or its agencies) that does the transfer? If any commissions/fees are deducted prior to transfer, is there any transparency on how much is deducted and f...

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I wish GoI comes out with tele-medicine protocols and mandates the hospitals to provide tele-medicine support to almost all the patients and admit only severely ill patients (ones requiring ventillator support) to the hospitals. In most other cases, they can prescribe medicines (the list has become ...

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I hope GoI takes steps to at least cause major inconvenience to the gora (Americans in particular) diplomatic staff working in India. After the Devayani Khobragade's incident, GoI took some small steps such as removing barricades and extra security staff at US embassy in Delhi. I am sure these would...

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I think it is unfair to SII and BB if other vaccines are not price-controlled in the Indian market.

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What action on the GoI's part demonstrates error in judgment ? The original vaccination plan made it clear they would first vaccinate HCWs, then the high risk groups working down from the highest risk groups to lower ones. That's exactly what has happened so far. Your justification that exports wer...

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The vaccine export strategy isn't hard to parse. SII started production in December, and GoI started stockpiling some of it, but not all of it. It must be remembered that vaccines are perishable. It's not like kharif and rabi crops in FCI. Well, the original expiry was set at 6 months. It is now 9 ...

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I am seriously suspecting the vaccination points to be superspreader sites, with seniors and vulnerable people stepping out and into decent amount of crowds for the first time and crowds acting as source multipliers for an infection. ... The said people started showing symptoms from a week to upto ...

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manjgu wrote:anything below 4M is criminal IMHO

The vaccine supply and demand from 45+ age group are currently matched. If the daily average falls below 2.5 Mil or if the production increases (July/August), GoI can reduce the age limit or open up for all.

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Looks like the current production capacity is only 70 million doses per month (65 SII and 5 Bharat Biotech). The hope is to increase the capacity to 130 million doses per month by August(?). Apparently some doses that were supposed to be exported in March didn't go out, so we are now able to do 3 mi...

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Govt is doing a terrible job of vaccinating the population. The stupid f***s have introduced totally avoidable bureaucratic processes, wasting a lot of time of people getting vaccinated and of the hospital employees. They shouldn't be requiring anything more than an aadhaar number, but they enter al...

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CalvinH ji, I think you are right. Gadkari used the phrase "GPS imaging". I guess this is what he meant. Some states are already using similar tech for issuing speeding tickets via SMS. I got one 3 years back on Hyd ORR. As part of Fastag implementation, they linked registration numbers to...

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This means toll booths would still be required and manned to make sure that vehicles do have fastags. The vehicles may not be having the fastags, or they can easily be made unreadable by sensors.

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Folks, I am curious to know how the GPS based toll collection that Gadkari was talking about would work in India. Would this require all the vehicles to carry some kind of tracking device? How practical is it in Indian conditions? How do they verify that all vehicles using the highways have the trac...

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The govt. has lost precious time in scaling up the vaccine operation and the optics of sending vaccines abroad but not vaccinating our own people are going to look terrible in short few weeks from now. We must utilize our existing national vaccine infrastructure. Unused vaccines sitting in storage ...

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The CoWin registrations and daily vaccination numbers already started to fall. Hope this fall is just an aberration.

GoI, stop being clever by half and vaccinate every one interested in getting vaccinated.

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^^^ You have to divide that number by 2 to account for two doses. GoI seems to be more interested in scoring brownie points by giving away huge numbers of doses to others (including pakis :evil:), than take up the vaccination on war-footing, scaling up to 10M/day and let the private sector participa...

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Read what a filibuster means in the us senate. An example: So, if there is no filibuster mechanism, it is ok to block the highways for months by these Hindu hating mobs (and a few Hindu sell-outs with ulterior motives). It is obvious to most folks on this forum that there is no merit to these so ca...

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FLIPPING - ROBBING INDIA OF ITS TAXES, IP & DATA "Shades of the East India Company type of situation here - Indian market, Indian customers, Indian developers, Indian workforce. However 100% foreign ownership, foreign investors. IP and data transferred overseas. Transfer pricing issues fog...

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I would like to understand the pros and cons of revoking MFN to China. China might challenge the revocation, but there is apparently a "war-time or other emergency in international relations” provision for this. India used it last year against Pak (which never reciprocated in the first place). ...

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sreerudra wrote:Remember Mumbai attacks? They didn't care to hand off Hadley guy. They don't really care.

That's a funny way of putting it. They were careful to not hand over Headley to cover their own role in terrorism against India.

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Trump is not likely to concede. It is interesting to see how and when all this will end. Indians in US stay home for the next few days.

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The theory of 40-50% people not being susceptible to the virus has many counter examples. Can't explain mass infections at TTD or Tablighi event etc. But it also has supporting data and examples of NYC and stockholm which seem to have reached Herd Immunity at 20% infection rate.

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Came across some information, based on which it looks like: Not all people are susceptible to Covid-19 Some 40-50% unexposed people already have immunity from T-Cells (from earlier corona viruses, so this virus is not so "novel") 80-90% of family members of infected persons are not getting...

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^^^ Japan, South Korea and Taiwan developed technology and were able to manufacture goods useful for the rest of the world. Once you are able to produce things competitively, you automatically become a huge trading nation. In India's case, we just gave away the huge prize of Indian market to everybo...

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I would like to understand the benefits of WTO membership for India. I only see the downside and not much upside. Indian domestic market will be huge in a decade. We are giving foreign entities access to this huge market and what are we getting in return? We mostly export raw materials and low value...

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It is very important for the App ban to continue for atleast 1 more year so that good desi alternatives get established. Even after that, Govt should ban app bundling by OEM which would favor Chinese who control 80% of the market. Otherwise whenever the ban is lifted, all Chinese apps will be back ...

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A few months back there was some discussion (probably on EV thread) about Aluminum-Air batteries and Indian Oil Corporation's collaboration with Israel's Phinergy on this technology. Here is an update on this: IOC-Phinergy to begin metal-air battery field trials; in talks with auto companies Metal-a...

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Top leadership of the country is squarely responsible for the stupid restrictions leading to unnecessary deaths of security personnel. Everybody wants to be a Mahatma in this country, sacrificing others' lives.

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Gyan wrote:Once Upon a time even if BRF everyone was RRR fan. I was given a Board warning for posting an article written by MD Nalapat Critical of RRR, even though I did post any additional comments.

Once upon a time, MMS was a revered figure on this forum -- I think right upto the S-e-S moment.

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GOI can't absorb more pressure on the deficit. That is the problem - unlike the US, we can't print money against bonds that China will buy, so that US will buy more of their goods. Only other options are foreign borrowings (sovereign bonds at low interest), cracking down heavily on the high value d...

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Saar, I hope you are right and I am wrong.

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GoI (and state governments) appear unnerved and clueless as to how to deal with Muslims, be it the Shaheen Bagh protesters, Tablighi a****les or the aam crowd pelting stones on cops and healthcare workers. How shameful is it for a country of India's size to send the NSA at 2:00 AM to convince plead ...

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Crossed 800 today. Rapid rise. I expect the next 2-3 days to see rapid rise, as lot of people came in between 21-23. 5 days incubation period cases coming up. Reporting 843 now. https://www.covid19india.org/ The official site https://mohfw.gov.in/ has not yet updated the count (still 724). https://...

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Came across a 3 year old story about an inexpensive, full-featured, portable ventillator created by an AIIMS doctor and an engineer to help patients needing ventilator support get care at home. They have since productized it: https://www.agvahealthcare.com/ . Here's a video on the quint: https://fit...

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Currently, no company manufactures 100 percent indigenous ventilators in India. Most companies either import, assemble or partially produce it with components sourced from Europe, US and China. But this supply has been hampered with the countries restricting critical exports owing to the COVID-19 p...

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A Deshmukh wrote:we were at 197 in the morning. 250 now.
https://www.mohfw.gov.in/

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