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Chapal Mehra retweeted
Election Commission ignored video footage and dismissed complaints of vote suppression in UP's Sambhal
The returning officer was Gyanesh Kumar's son-in-law
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A #mystery who draws up these #campaigns. Generic footage & messaging & music? This is #awareness & #stigma reduction? Will this #engage anyone? We deserve better People with some creativity need to do this @SATB1231 @JPNadda @ddgtb2017 @realTBpeople @abantika77 @MoHFW_INDIA
TB से लड़ाई में दूरी नहीं, सहयोग जरूरी है।
TB का समय पर पता लगाना और पूरा उपचार कराना बेहद महत्वपूर्ण है। लेकिन TB से प्रभावित व्यक्ति के साथ सामाजिक दूरी, डर या भेदभाव उसकी मुश्किलें और बढ़ा सकता है।
सही जानकारी अपनाएं, लक्षणों को पहचानें, जांच कराएं और मरीज को उपचार पूरा करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करें।
#TBMuktBharat #EndTB
#geopolitics in the hands of the daft is both harmful and dangerous! @NavtejSarna is right about fighting the US bullying. If only we would listen.
Chapal Mehra retweeted
Election Commission Says Supreme Court ‘Upheld’ Form 6 Changes, But Did It?
@SravastiDasgup2 finds that it did not.
Do read. thewire.in/government/electi…
Chapal Mehra retweeted
Stop punishing women for the crimes committed against them.
Across our country, women are afraid to walk the streets, afraid of being harassed, afraid of being raped. And the government’s answer: stay at home.
This is patriarchy at work: a system that blames the victim and shields the criminal. It is time to smash it.
The solution is not to lock women inside. It is to make our streets safe, to confront the mindset of men who mistreat women, and to punish those who attack them, swiftly and without exception.
Thousands of students and young people are on the streets demanding safety for women. I urge even more young women, especially GenZ across India to come out in stronger numbers.
This government is deaf to your pain and will only listen when it’s under pressure.
Peaceful protest is your democratic right, and I stand with you wholeheartedly.
Chapal Mehra retweeted
#Watch | Thousands of students take out a protest march against the Astha Kunj rape case and issues concerning women’s safety at Delhi University in New Delhi on Monday (September 28, 2026).
📹: @Sushil_Verma9
Chapal Mehra retweeted
Another day, another @IndianExpress break on the EC.
Sept 23. Our investigation breaks. The EC responds the same day: its platforms are protected against "unauthorized tampering", and EROs "function as per statutory powers."
What we didn't know was this.
The very next day, Maharashtra's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) wrote to the EC in Delhi asking for FOUR changes to ECINet, so EROs could use the discretion the law already gives them.
The same concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had put on record.
Stay with me for @vallabhozarkarr's cracker of a story in today's edition
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Chapal Mehra retweeted
This is what Bengal voted for.... First JU now SRFTII... these uneducated morons are out to destroy Bengal
This is an imp observation. As #healthcare costs rise in India we face increased suffering, death & poverty. Health is everything! The state needs to act. Increase access to #primarycare @doctorsoumya @abantika77 @sridhartweet @JPNadda @tabassum_b @susanbyrnes @jgershman
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She is Ritika Chopra and she deserves all the credit.👏👏👏.. posting this coz you will not find her face on the YT thumbnail of so called "sachhe patrkar" videos today...
Chapal Mehra retweeted
TB care cannot stop at medicines. Mental health support, dignity and sustained care must be part of the TB response.
A 37-year-old man in Kanpur, who had been undergoing TB treatment for five years, died by suicide. His family told police he had become physically weak, mentally distressed and increasingly withdrawn as his health deteriorated.
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#TB #MentalHealth #TBAndMentalHealth #EndTB @ChapalMehra @VashitaMadan @AnantBhan @TbDivision
Chapal Mehra retweeted
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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I thought he only opened his mouth to aggressively defend Modi.
🇮🇷🇮🇳 Iranian President Pezeshkian is addressing the BRICS Summit.
Behind him, India’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal is absolutely demolishing a box of nuts.
Eating. Licking his fingers. Going back in.
Eventually, someone takes the box away.
A diplomatic intervention in the truest sense.
Writer: Oliver
An imp intersection TB and #mentalhealth something we don't speak of enough! @abantika77 @tabassum_b @doctorsoumya @DrSingh_AIIMS @MoHFW_INDIA @sridhartweet @jawharsircar @Swasticharan @StopTB @TBProof
Why a framework on tuberculosis and mental health?
Because despite growing evidence, lived experience and decades of learning from affected communities, mental health remains insufficiently integrated into TB care.
This framework asks a fundamental question:
What would it take to build TB programmes that recognise and respond to both physical and mental wellbeing?
By bringing together evidence, lived experience and implementation perspectives, the framework attempts to provide a starting point for that conversation. @ChapalMehra
