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“Republicans defended every single legislative chamber that they held,” Kincaid says. “Some of them were very close going in the election, like in Arizona, and a few other places where it was almost a foregone conclusion in the eyes of a lot of people that those chambers would flip, and they didn’t.” … [Read more...] about The election won’t stop the partisan gerrymandering epidemic

While BK Singh of Rashtriya Lok Samta Party from Warisnagar constituency reported most assets worth over Rs 85 crore, followed by Ananta Kumar Singh of Rashtriya Janata Dal from Mokama constituency (Rs 68 crore) and Gajanand Shahi of Indian National Congress from Barbigha (Rs 61 crore).  … [Read more...] about Bihar Elections 2020: Average asset of candidates is Rs 1.72 crore, ADR report reveals

A vaccine works by mimicking a natural infection. A vaccine not only induces immune response to protect people from any future COVID-19 infection, but also helps quickly build herd immunity to put an end to the pandemic. Herd immunity occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely. The good news is that SARS-CoV-2 virus has been fairly stable, which increases the viability of a vaccine. … [Read more...] about Bill Gates, the virus and the quest to vaccinate the world

There are broadly four types of vaccine — one, a vaccine based on the whole virus (this could be either inactivated, or an attenuated [weakened] virus vaccine); two, a non-replicating viral vector vaccine that uses a benign virus as vector that carries the antigen of SARS-CoV; three, nucleic-acid vaccines that have genetic material like DNA and RNA of antigens like spike protein given to a person, helping human cells decode genetic material and produce the vaccine; and four, protein subunit vaccine wherein the recombinant proteins of SARS-COV-2 along with an adjuvant (booster) is given as a vaccine. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 impact: Bill Gates says over 50% of business travel will ‘go away’

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections are slated to be held on 1 December. The polls have gained a lot of attention nationally due to a high pitch campaign and war of words between Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). … [Read more...] about KCR faces BJP, AIMIM scare in Hyderabad municipal polls