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India’s excess deaths during pandemic up to 4.9 million, study shows ​​​​​​​

India has officially reported more than 414,000 deaths due to COVID-19, the third highest tally in the world after the United States and Brazil, but the study adds to growing calls from experts for a rigorous nationwide fatality audit.
“What is tragically clear is that too many people, in the millions rather than hundreds of thousands, may have died,” the report said, estimating the excess death toll during the pandemic at between 3.4 million and 4.9 million.

The report did not ascribe all the excess deaths to the pandemic.

No Caste Census Other Than SCs, STs: Govt

“The state governments of Maharashtra and Odisha have requested to collect caste details in the forthcoming census. The government of India has decided as a matter of policy not to enumerate caste-wise population other than SCs and STs in census,” he said replying to a written question.

Indian shares fall on mixed corporate results, global selloff

“There are two silver linings to the market, though. First, oil prices have started cooling off after the oil producing nations’ cartel OPEC+ agreed to boost supply, and second, unemployment data has been reported to be on the lower side,” said Anita Gandhi, wholetime director at Arihant Capital Markets, Mumbai.

Two-thirds of Indians have coronavirus antibodies, survey shows

The survey showed 67.6% of adults were seropositive, while more than 62% of adults were unvaccinated. As of July, just over 8% of eligible adult Indians had received two vaccine doses.

About 400 million of India’s 1.4 billion people did not have antibodies, the survey showed.

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China tops list of U.S. cybersecurity agency’s top risks

A newly created U.S. cybersecurity agency said Thursday that China represents the greatest strategic risk to the U.S., and as a result, the agency’s top operational priority is reducing the risks from Chinese compromises to the global supply chain, including emerging 5G technology.

Deadlock continues as EU rebuffs Johnson bid to reopen Brexit Deal

“We welcome the U.K. government’s engagement,” European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud told reporters in Brussels. “The letter does not provide a legally operable solution to prevent the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland, it does not set out what alternative arrangements could be, and in fact it recognizes that there’s no guarantee that such arrangements will be in place by the end of the transitional period.”

Nuclear watchdog says Russia resumes sharing radiation data

The mysterious accident at a naval weapons testing range on the White Sea in northwestern Russia earlier this month has been accompanied by changing or contradictory information from Russian authorities. That has led to speculation about what really happened in the town of and what type of weapon was involved.

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