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With Covid surging again, India must reactivate disease surveillance, vaccine supply chain

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With Covid surging again, India must reactivate disease surveillance, vaccine supply chain

The Covid outbreak in China, US and Japan has prompted Centre to ask states to step up vigil. The visuals from China are indeed alarming and tragic. The country messed up its Covid strategy with the zero-Covid approach. But there’s no room for complacency in India. The Omicron variant of the virus may have run … Read more

Union IT minister argues that data bill strikes the right balance between rights, commerce & innovation

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Union IT minister argues that data bill strikes the right balance between rights, commerce & innovation

The UAE digital minister recently saying that “the future will have Indian fingerprints on it for everyone and everywhere,” sums up India’s expanding presence and stature in today’s fast-digitising world and changing technology value chains. From three decades of being a consumer of all technologies we have become architects, designers and producers of tech platforms, … Read more