Year: 2020

This morning, Facebook announced the departure of Ankhi Das, the public policy director for Facebook India, South and Central Asia. Last week, Muslim Advocates and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism published a report on Facebook’s global, anti-Muslim problem that blasted Das and the company’s India operations for enabling hate and mob violence against Muslims in India. This departure also comes one day before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before Congress. The following is a statement from Muslim Advocates Public Advocacy Director Scott Simpson:   “Ankhi Das’s legacy is…

The news about political heavyweight and BJP leader Eknath Khadse walking out of BJP was doing rounds, since long. Khadse was at loggerheads with BJP for making him resign from his ministerial post in 2016, in then Devendra Fadanvis led BJP, over the corruption charges. He was sidelined since then from the party since his resignation.   Though not many were pleased with Khadse’s decision, Union Minister Raosaheb Danve, too hit out at his former party colleague and termed him as ‘not an original BJP worker’.   Danve’s statement comes two days after he praised Khadse for his contribution towards building the BJP in the state…

With less than a fortnight left for the November 3 presidential elections, speaking at an election rally, US President Donald Trump said, “I will deliver optimism, opportunity and hope. [Democratic nominee Joe] Biden will deliver pessimism, poverty and decline.” “This election is a choice between a Trump super recovery or a Biden steep depression,” he added. “Normal life will fully resume,” Trump said in reference to US’ recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.   US President Donald Trump  told Americans that he will deliver optimism, opportunity and hope while his Democratic rival Joe Biden will…

The Modi government has estimated a total cost of about $6-$7 per person in India, as confirmed by the people, who requested to remain anonymous.   The money provisioned so far is for the current financial year ending March 31 and there will be no shortage of further funds for this purpose, they added.   Serum Institute head Adar Poonawalla, predicts that the country would need about 800 billion rupees to procure and inoculate people living everywhere from the Himalayas to the most remote Andaman & Nicobar Islands.   The…

BJP’s ‘Free COVID Vaccine for Votes’ Offer for bihar raises concerns of health policy, it is highly politized. Vote for vaccination is absolutely a wrong politics. What exactly is the issue, a common people not able to understand.   The announcement by Nirmala Sitharaman of a free COVID-19 vaccine over 10 crore population of Bihar as part of its election manifesto, and the Opposition deriding this as ‘vaccine politics’. The State is headed for three-phase Assembly polls from October 28. Experts says, if the vaccination is ready, then why they…

US President Donald Trump named coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci a “disaster”, and said, despite signs that the nation was headed toward another coronavirus peak, that people were “tired” of hearing about the virus from “these idiots” in the government.   Trump said, “Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths,” while on a call with campaign workers which the campaign allowed reporters to join, adding Americans were fed up with pandemic restrictions.   Trump and Fauci, a member of his coronavirus task force, have been…