Indian pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare announced the launch in the country of a generic version of the antiviral Remdesivir, an effective drug for the treatment of severe cases of COVID-19, at the most competitive price in the local market.
The medicine, which will be marketed under the brand name Remdac, will be priced at around US $ 36 (Rs 2,800) for each 100-milligram injection, the company said in a statement.
This places Remdac as the cheapest drug of this type on the market compared to generics from other Indian firms such as Cipla or Hetero, whose prices range between US $ 50 and US $ 60.
“Remdac is the most affordable drug, as we would like patients to have access to this essential drug in the treatment of COVID-19”Said Sharvil Patel, CEO of Cadila Healthcare (also known as Zydus Cadila).
This brand of Remdesivir will be available from this Thursday in public and private hospitals throughout India, the third country most affected by the pandemic and one of the main manufacturers and suppliers of medicines in the world.
India, only behind the United States and Brazil, already has 2’396,637 confirmed cases and 47,033 deaths, according to the US Johns Hopkins University.
The launch of the new generic comes after local media warned of a limited inventory of the product and the boom in its sale on the black market.
Last July, the company signed a non-exclusive agreement with the US company Gilead Sciences Inc – the main producer of the antiviral – to manufacture and sell it and, thus, increase the global supply of the drug in case of need.
The drug, whose use was authorized “of emergency”By the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but not yet fully approved, it was shown to be effective in severely COVID-19 patients in clinical trials.
In order to guarantee stocks of the drug, the American Gilead said last week that, by October, it will be able to manufacture enough doses for everyone and that it is prepared to deliver two million more by the end of the year.
KOMPAS.com – A man named Surndrasinh in Indiasuicide after 22 months of not having sexual relations with his wife, it is quoted as saying Daily Mail, Tuesday (11/8/2020).
The man’s wife, Geeta Parmar (32) was arrested because of a complaint made by her mother-in-law, Muli Parmar (55).
Muli said his son was forced to commit suicide after suffering mental stress. According to the woman’s confession, her son and daughter-in-law did not have sex during their 22 months of marriage.
On July 27, after attending a funeral, the Parmar family visited Surndrasinh’s home and found that the man had committed suicide.
Unfortunately, it is not clear what the man had committed suicide with.
Geeta, who lives in Maninagar, Gujarat, India, was arrested by police on charges and reports made by her mother-in-law.
Launch Times of India, because during the marriage Geeta and Surndrasinh never had sexual intercourse, it is claimed that Surndrasinh suffered from mental stress because he felt the relationship had failed.
The husband and wife also often quarreled and Geeta eventually moved to her parents’ house.
In her first report, Muli claimed that she watched her son and daughter-in-law’s rooms have separated. They even reportedly slept on different mattresses.
“At that time when I asked my son, he said that he did not have sexual relations with Geeta because she promised not to sleep with her husband.”
AGI – Muli Parmar, a fifty-five-year-old woman from Ahmedabad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, had her daughter-in-law arrested accusing her of causing her son to commit suicide by refusing to have sex with him. The Times of India reports the story.
“I once went to my son’s room and found that he and his wife were sleeping in separate beds,” the woman told police, “when I asked my son why, he explained that they were not having an affair. physical as his wife had taken an oath that she would not sleep with her husband. “
The woman therefore denounced her daughter-in-law Geeta Parmar, for instigating suicide, asserting that the situation had brought her son, Surendrasinh Parmar, to such “mental stress” that he was forced to take his own life. Upon receiving the complaint, the police arrested the 32-year-old.
According to Muli Parmar, the absence of sex exacerbated the tensions between the two, prompting them to quarrel over minor issues until Geeta returned to live with her parents. Surendrasinh then blocked the woman’s phone but then fell into depression. Relatives allegedly found him hanged from a ceiling fan on July 27, after leaving him alone at home to attend a funeral. The unhappy marriage had lasted just 22 months.
The Serum Institute of India, the largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume in the world, set the maximum price of the COVID-19 vaccine, which has been estimated at $ 3 per dose, according to the newspaperThe Times of India.
The price will be funded for $ 150 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the amount will be administered by GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, for its acronym in English). The Serum Institute partnered this Friday with GAVI and the foundation of the tycoon and his wife.
The grant will streamline manufacturing and delivery of up to 100 million doses for India and middle-income countries. In total, it is planned to distribute to 92 countries. Among the candidates for vaccines to be financed are the British AstraZeneca and the American Novavax.
The doses of the vaccine are expected to be administered in the first half of 2021. The schedule will depend on the results of the phase 3 trials and the approval of the Comptroller General of Drugs of India and the prequalification of the World Health Organization (WHO).
This Sunday, global cases of COVID-19exceeded 19.4 million, although this week’s daily contagion curve seems show some slowdown, after two months of rapid growth of the pandemic, according to confirmed data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The number of victims killed by airline planes Air India Express derailed at Calicut (Kozhikode) Airport, Kerala, Indiaon Friday (7/8) night it continued to increase up to 17 people.
Based on information from the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the plane carrying 191 people fell into a valley and broke into two parts after skidding about 10 meters at the end of the runway.
Reported AFP, Saturday (8/8), the death toll could increase considering that more than 100 people were injured. As many as 15 of them are in critical condition.
According to the list of patients seen AFP, among the dead included a 10 month old baby and a 1.5 year old toddler.
Then, another victim who died was Deepak Santhe, one of the pilots of the plane.
Senior local police officer Abdul Karim told AFP, the fifteen critical victims are being treated at the hospital.
Local media citing data from flight tracking websites noted the plane attempted to land twice.
When interviewed by a local TV station, the survivors said the plane went up and down many times before landing in the rain.
Rescue workers and residents immediately went to the scene to help passengers get out of the plane.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also mourned the accident.
“I am very sad about the plane crash in Kozikhode. My condolences to those left by their loved ones. For those who are injured, hopefully they can recover soon,” Modi said via his Twitter account @narendramodi.
(ANSA) – NEW DELHI, AUGUST 7 – The toll of coronavirus cases in India has exceeded the two million mark. This was announced by the country’s health ministry.
In the last 24 hours, there have been more than 60,000 new infections, bringing the total to 2.03 million infections. At the same time, there have been around 900 other deaths, totaling 41,585 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Turkey’s Hagia Sophia’s Step vs India’s Babri Mosque Destruction.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, As the Prime Minister of India knows Narendra Modi fulfilled his campaign promise to his supporters by building a magnificent Hindu temple on the site Babri Mosque historic.
On Wednesday (5/8), Modi laid the first stone for the construction of the Hindu temple which also coincides with the one-year anniversary of the revocation of special rights in Kashmir which is a Muslim-majority country. Symbolic of this development he did by placing bricks made of silver in the construction of the temple of the god Rama.
And regarding the controversy, here we present the study of Prof. DR. Isra Ahmad Khan, who received his PHD degree from ‘Aligarh Muslim University’, India. The current author is Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Ankara University Social Sciences, Turkey.
This article we quote from the Turkish news agency, Anadolu Agency (aa.com.tr). Opinion from Prof Israr Ahmad Khan entitled: ‘Turkye’s Hagia Sophia move VS India’s Babri Mosque demolition ‘(Turkey’s Hagia Sophia move vs destruction Babri Mosque India).
Here is the complete article:
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The Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul was restored to its original position as a mosque designated by the Honorable President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 10, 2020. The world has witnessed its official opening as a mosque on Friday, July 24, 2020.
Immediately after the return from the museum to the mosque, the worldview lifted its hue and wept over this change. Some of the arguments include that the policy has been the start of a malicious attempt to equate it with the conversion of the Babri Mosque to a Hindu temple in India.
Proponents of this opinion argue that if a church can be converted into a mosque like in the Hagia Sophia in Turkey, then a mosque can also be turned into a temple by a court India and the Indian government.
However, it seems that this argument is nothing more than a camouflage to mislead the masses on the one hand, and on the other hand is a misreading of history. Both historical perspectives must be seen in their entirety. The conversion of the Babri Mosque to a Hindu temple and the return of the Hagia Sophia museum to its original position as a mosque must also be seen with sincerity.
The Babri Masjid Case: An Overview
The Babri Mosque was built by Mir Baqi, a Mughal army commander with the permission of the Mughal Emperor of India, Zahiruddin Babur, on a hilltop in Ayodhya (a city in India) where there were no temples or other construction in 1528-29 AD
This history is written in the mosque above the mihrab. And this writing remains the mosque until 22 December 1949, where Muslims pray five times a day and special prayers every week on Fridays. On the night of December 23, 1949, some evil Hindus placed the idol of Ram near the mosque’s pulpit and announced the next morning that a statue of the god Rama had appeared in the mosque and that it needed to be converted into a Temple of Rama.
This controversy reached the city court which immediately imposed a ban on Muslims and Hindus from using the Babri Mosque as a place of worship. According to court orders, the mosque was locked on the same day.
Furthermore, in 1950 a civil lawsuit was filed by Hindus to allow them to perform ‘puja’ (worship) in mosques, and by Muslims to open mosques for prayers.
On 26 January 1986 the Ayodhya city court allowed the mosque to be opened but only to Hindus. This court order totally prohibits Muslims from entering the mosque premises. The same year the Hindu organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) formed a committee for the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of the five-century Babri Mosque.
In 1992 the Babri Mosque was destroyed by the masses with a bomb, despite a Supreme Court order prohibiting it. This mass action at that time was indicated by the protection of the Congress Party and the Hindu nationalist party, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), which is now the ruling party in India.
Despite all these developments, the court case regarding the Babri Mosque continued into 2010 when the Allahabad High Court divided the site of the Babri Mosque into two, one for Hindus and one for Muslims. It must be remembered that the court was unable to cite evidence of the place as a Hindu temple prior to the construction of the Babri Mosque.
Later, Muslims and Hindus filed an appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn this ruling. Then the Supreme Court ruling overturned the High Court decision in 2011. India’s Supreme Court recommended that the plaintiffs settle the dispute out of court in 2017 but with no success.
Then on March 8, 2019, the high court formed a mediation group under the leadership of former Supreme Court Muslim judge, FM Ibrahim Kalifulla. However, the court later declared mediation “failed” on 2 August 2019, and resumed trial of the dispute which was resolved on 16 October 2019.
The last court ruling came on 9 November 2019, during which the court did not say that the Babri Mosque site was originally a temple. The court only ruled that the controversial site should be left to a committee set up to oversee the construction of a Hindu temple and that another plot of land be allocated for Muslims to build a mosque.
The court in its decision did not specify the reasons for the handover of the Babri Mosque site to Hindus. The court ignored disputes over whether the disputed site was originally a mosque or temple and arbitrarily stated that the entire mosque land should be handed over to the Committee to oversee temple construction tasks.
Obviously, the top court’s decision does represent the concept of justice. However, when talking about this, it is more appropriate to see it as political engineering by preferring political masters from the RSS, BJP, and VHP parties.
Overview of the Hagia Sophia Case
The Byzantine emperor Constantius built the Hagia Sophia Basilica in 360 AD It was a wooden building and served as a holy place for Christians of various denominations until the year 404 when it was burned by rioters sparked by political conflict in the royal family during Emperor Arcadius’ reign in (395) – 408 AD).
After about 10 years of ury, there is no building that can be called a church or cathedral. Under Byzantine Emperor Theodosios II (AD 402-450; known as infant emperor because he was only one year old when he was crowned), the Hagia Sophia cathedral was rebuilt in AD 415.
However, Haga Sophia was burned again in 531 AD in an act of rebellion against Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD) who later rebuilt the Greek Orthodox church Hagia Sophia (Divine Wisdom) back in 532 AD
Furthermore, the church remained intact for about 921 years and remained as a church until 1453 AD when the Ottoman ruler Sultan Mehmed II (1444-1446 AD and 1451 AD -1481 AD) conquered Constantinople (now Istanbul).
In this matter, some historians claim that Sultan Mehmed II immediately after the fall of the city turned the Hagia Sophia church into a mosque in 1453 AD However, the claim after being checked is a claim without documentary evidence or indirect.
Difference between Babri Masjid and Hagia Sophia Case
So, from a historical point of view, it is clear that the two cases have nothing to do with each other. Babri Mosque was a mosque from the beginning of its construction in 1529 AD until it was destroyed by cadres of the RSS, BJP, VHP ‘hooligans’ and the so-called political elite in 1992 AD.
The original Babri Mosque was built on a vacant lot atop the hilltop city of Ayodhya in northern India. In history, there is no record that the Babri Mosque was originally a Hindu temple. The RSS, BJP and VHP failed to provide any evidence that the Babri Mosque was built on top of a temple.
The Hindu side’s advisors kept repeating in trials that people believed that the Babri Mosque was originally Ram’s birthplace. Due to socio-political pressure from Hindu nationalist organizations and organizations, India’s Supreme Court ordered the BJP government to hand over the disputed site to Hindu beliefs to build a temple and allocate a separate plot of land for a mosque.
The Hagia Sophia case is fundamentally different from the Babri Masjid case. Hagia Sophia was originally the Hagia Sophia church which was abandoned by Christians and priests which was purchased by Sultan Mehmed II as his personal property and handed over to the Wakaf foundation in 1462 C. Under the Waqf document the property of Hagia Sophia was declared a mosque and this remains a mosque until 1934 when the Turkish Cabinet turned it into a museum.
On July 10, 2020, a Turkish court overturned a 1934 Cabinet edict turning the Hagia Sophia into a museum. And this paved the way for its use as a mosque.
Now everyone who thinks right and loves justice can consider the position of Masjid Babri and Hagia Sophia. If people still claim equality in the two cases, that is self-interest.
The Himalayas were marked as Jammu and Kashmir which were illegally occupied by India
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Pakistan Imran Khan launches map only that country shows the whole territory of Jammu and Kashmir as its territory.
The move was carried out ahead of the anniversary of one year since India revoke Khasmir’s special status unilaterally. The new map marks the Himalayan region as “Jammu and Kashmir occupied by India illegally”, not as “disputed territory”.
“Today is a historic day for Pakistan because the cabinet, opposition and leadership of Kashmir support the new map. Kashmir will become part of Pakistan and this map is the first step,” Khan said in a speech.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the new map shows that Kashmir shares a clear border with China. On August 5, 2019, the Indian government revoked Kashmir’s autonomous status, locked the region, arrested thousands of activists and politicians, and cut off the internet.
Indian authorities are also worried about a protest movement in Kashmir run by India, so they have imposed a curfew since Tuesday. Kashmir is controlled by India and Pakistan in only a few parts, but is claimed by both in full.
Since partitioned in 1947, the two countries have fought three times – in 1948, 1965 and 1971 – two of them fighting over Kashmir.
