Indus Daily

30/05/2020

*Genre - Wildlife*

*Duration- 30 minute*

Have you seen the recent headline grabbing Netflix show on the world of Big cats in America called Tiger King?

If not, then this article will give a comprehensive overview of the world of exotic pet ownership in America and the associated problems.

https://longreads.com/2020/03/16/tiger-trafficking-in-america/

A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?

30/05/2020

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=925062557955697&id=1725157181127911&sfnsn=wiwspwa&extid=Xje6kiykSclSdkug&d=w&vh=e

This video seems to be doing the rounds...

Some thoughts in consultation with a Doctor.

Regards

Monitoring of Oxygen saturation would be useful in patients who have respiratory symptoms and not in regular people. The pathogenosis of how Covid invades is still a research topic. The present thoughts are that it sits on a receptor called ACE2 which is present in all parts of our bodies but more in the lungs ( due to the surface area??) and destroys the underlying tissue creating a bad reaction (inflammation). The body reacts to it and thereby causes more inflammation and small clots in the blood vessels. These block the vital organs causing death. Therefore there is multi organ failure in the very sick patients.
Now how your body reacts to the virus is primarily determined by your immunity status, genetic factors and presence of other diseases or disorders. Again we see that 80-85% people are asymptomatic or very few symptoms because of above reasons.
So, the question of whether pulse oximetry would detect respiratory failure specifically in Covid infection is debatable. Pulse oximetry will detect that your blood is not getting enough oxygen in any setting whether asthma, pneumonia, shock cardiac arrest, etc and it is not sensitive enough.
Would like to end it by saying that any person who is having a pulse oximetry reading of less than 93% has to be in hospital to be observed and treated.

25/05/2018

In the wake of internet shutdown in Tuticorin, here’s how frequent suspension of internet services has become in India.

25/05/2018

“And it’s just like, waking up in beds, I don’t even remember getting there, and having to get drunk to have a conversation with this person because we both know why we’re there but we have to go through these motions to get out of it. That’s a personal struggle, I guess, but online dating makes it happen that much more. Whereas I would just be sitting at home and playing guitar, now it’s ba-ding”—he makes the chirpy alert sound of a Tinder match—“and … ” He pauses, as if disgusted. “ …

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/08/tinder-hook-up-culture-end-of-dating

As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see.

18/04/2018

What’s your password bro?

18/04/2018

We don’t need no education

13/04/2018

When the country is in ICU

06/04/2018

https://www.ecologise.in/2017/05/28/the-bishnois-indias-original-environmentalists-who-inspired-the-chipko-movement/

The Bishnois may be considered as India’s first environmentalists. The famous ‘Chipko Movement’ was inspired by the true story of Amrita Devi Bishnoi, who refused to let the king’s men cut trees in her village. Her head was severed. More than 300 people who did the same were killed for tryin...

16/03/2018

A great perspective on single women and adoption from our returning contributor Gayatri Abraham. Please read and share far and wide ... .

http://www.indusdaily.com/single-women-and-adoption/

As I was contemplating what to write on women and adoption for Women’s Day, an article in Times of India caught my attention – New rules favour single, financially stable women. My instant reacti…

23/02/2018

"And, in a country where we’re taught not to waste food because so many go to bed hungry, if images of streets littered with food doesn’t melt our social media bubbles, I can’t think of anything that will." - Eashan Ghosh

http://www.indusdaily.com/demonetization-redux-potato-market-mayhem/

In November 2016, Uttar Pradesh’s potato farmers faced up to arguably their biggest crisis in a generation. A severe liquidity crunch had caused potatoes to lose nearly half their market value in j…

13/02/2018

Will India defer to China again?

If India cannot operate in its own 'sphere of interest', are we even a regional power? Fuggetaboudit!!

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/maldives-political-crisis-to-test-indias-asia-ambitions.html

A political crisis in the Maldives will test India's foreign policy in Asia.

18/01/2018

"It’s fair to ask how much longer this team stays together if it doesn’t deliver a defining success. It’s definitely fair to ask this today, when, somehow, they find themselves as far away from greatness as they’ve ever been."

http://www.indusdaily.com/indian-test-cricket-running-out-of-time/

This Parthiv-Pujara moment isn’t the reason why this match was lost. Yet, if ever a picture told the story of a series, this would be it. Since India last toured South Africa for a Test series, Sou…

08/01/2018

What is the easiest way to boost the use of bitcoin, you ask? Try to regulate it ...

https://news.bitcoin.com/litigation-filed-india-immediate-intervention-flow-of-bitcoins/

Litigation has been filed in an Indian High Court by a public prosecutor of cybercrime cases. Claiming that cryptocurrencies facilitate crime, he calls for their immediate ban or regulation.

05/12/2017

Now it's Google's turn. India comes of age ... and the world comes knocking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/technology/google-india.html

As major companies chase India’s new internet users, Google is changing core products to work better on low-end smartphones and use less data.

05/12/2017

25 years on from the events that shaped a generation and transformed India ... a retrospective. Where were you when they brought down the mosque?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42106056

Hindu mobs tore down the 16th Century Babri mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya on 6 December 1992.