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Educated daughters vs strong daughters: The difference

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Indian government, Indian law, and pro-female organizations in that land talk about increasing education of girls and women. I get very amused at this ineffective and useless propoganda that does nothing great to help the girl child and women. This is because most women even if educated are unable to continue work, career or do entrepreneurship because their parents or in-laws or community will not allow them. So it means educate them for namesake and then make them stagnant to do caring and cooking jobs at home. In short, educate them and again throw them in the same gutter or furnace as before. Education gives them no financial independence, no autonomy, no freedom to decide for self or children. Then what is the role of education for them? Nothing. I pity the parents who think that educating a daughter makes them finish their duty towards her. They continue to rear her as a cow or sheep. The net result is an educated women with no respect or autonomy and no space of her own. This ca...

US FDA clears and approves the first-ever at-home rapid coronavirus test based on LAMP!

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The USA FDA has given emergency approval to the first at-home rapid coronavirus testing kit. The results would be available in 30 minutes. Lucira Health is responsible for the development and manufacturing of the test kit. It could become the method of choice for fast testing on a mass scale and outside the healthcare facilities.  The First at-home rapid coronavirus test Lucira Health has come out with the first-ever at-home rapid test for COVID-19. The US FDA has provided a green light to this test on an emergency level since the pandemic is raging high in the world still and especially in the USA. One can run the test from the start to the finish at home itself and also procure the results in less than an hour. It is a potential route to test for COVID-19 on a widespread scale and outside the healthcare settings.  Lucira's at-home test [Source: NYTimes] The company's website states that it needs just a nasal swab for testing and the results would be available in half-an-hour...