”Egis India - the India arm of French construction, engineering, and mobility consultancy provider - is planning to make an equity investment in the airport redevelopment and privatization plans of the Indian government. The company plans to invest 75 million euros in India in the next five years across various sectors."( Business Today) Equity here means:
“It has been stressed enough times how no one anywhere in the world will be safe from the Covid-19 and its variants until everybody everywhere is inoculated. Therefore, it is inevitable the iniquitous distribution of the vaccines has drawn global ire with loud calls for equal access.”(The New Times) Iniquitous here means:
” President of Stanford University Marc Tessier-Lavigne expressed his unequivocal support for Chinese and Chinese American colleagues following the arrest of Gang Chen, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), according to a statement released on the university's website."(Global Times) Unequivocal here means:
” Covid-19 and the subsequent damage it has heaped on us, as a society and as a nation, will take many years to heal mainly for those who live on the margins. It has led to a widening of gaps between the haves and have not – be it access to education, health, jobs, and opportunities. Many, especially in the opposition, argued that this exercise should have perhaps kicked off with the prime minister or other prominent politicians taking the first shot. But the visuals of an ordinary health worker Manish, getting inoculated before netas, VVIPs, and even the AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Guleria and NITI Aayog's senior member, Dr. VK Paul, was empowering and egalitarian in ways that can hardly be encapsulated in words. In many ways, that image defines the amazing story of a resilient Bharat, that emerges every now and then from the shadows of a privileged India, through this pandemic and through the last 74 years." Egalitarian here means: