Morning Digest | WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency; interview with Mohammed Zubair, and more

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Nod for close to 80 FDI proposals from China

In the past two years, 80 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals from countries sharing land borders with India were granted permission to invest in India, according to data provided by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Right to Information Act (RTI). Almost all proposals were from China, an analysis of the data shows.

WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency

The World Health Organisation has declared the global monkeypox outbreak a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ (PHEIC), one step below that of a ‘pandemic.’

I think I was made an example for others: Mohammed Zubair

JournalistMohammed Zubair, co-founder of the Alt News  fact-checking portal, is back home and attending his cousin’s wedding in Bengaluru, after a 23-day stay in prisons and police custody in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, over several First Information Reports (FIR) filed against him in a matter of a week. He spoke to The Hindu’s  K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj.

U.S. President Joe Biden likely has highly contagious COVID-19 strain, says doctor