Modi is sad too. :omghaha: :omghaha: :omghaha:
India confronts covid’s sadness
louisprives21 hours ago
“I’ve never seen the sadness of a pandemic of this magnitude,” said Shah Alam Khan, an orthopedic oncologist and professor at the Institute of Medical Science in Delhi, “previously died...
Anger in India over arrests for posters asking Modi about vaccine
At least two dozen arrested after posters criticising the Indian prime minister over vaccine shortage emerged in Delhi.
Rohin Kumar
18 May 2021
Police officers stand guard on a deserted street during a curfew to limit the spread...
India's Covid deaths could be 14 times higher than official figures, report states
According to government figures, more than 3 lakh people have already succumbed to the coronavirus pandemic
Nirmal Narayanan
Covid third wave scare peaks
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic...
BJP supporters say ‘won’t forgive’ Modi for COVID ‘indifference’
India prime minister’s handling of the pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 people leads to disillusionment even among his ardent supporters.
Valay Singh
27 May 2021
The spectre of sudden and needless deaths seems to have...
The death counters: How journalists in Narendra Modi’s home state exposed India’s Covid-19 deception
May 27, 2021
When Rajesh Pathak’s wife took their daughter to get tested for Covid-19 at a Gandhinagar hospital on April 1, she saw two plastic-covered dead bodies being moved out of the...
Can Brand Modi survive a Covid-transformed India?
Brand Modi appears to be woefully out of step: continuously reiterating faith in markets and spectacle when what is needed is bigger government.
Rajesh Mahapatra3 hours ago
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By now, most astute political observers will readily...
India's Deadly vaccine delays
Unexpected vaccine hesitancy, dose shortages, and poor government planning have compounded India's massive immunization challenge.
On a Sunday morning in early April, as Mumbai was in a daze from the first weeks of a surge of COVID-19 and had instituted nighttime...
From Vaccine diplomacy to vaccine famine: India’s Covid vaccination failure
Improper planning, mismatch between target and production, poor analysis of self-needs and the alarming digital divide mars India's vaccine diplomacy.
by Abhishek Kabra May 28, 2021
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Doses of reality
The Serum Institute of India aimed to be a major world supplier of COVID-19 vaccines. India's pandemic got in the way.
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
The original campus of the Serum Institute of India covers 20 hectares next to its equally...
Covid-19 and the disease of inequality
The second wave will deepen inequality. Expand support to states, universalise PDS, and ramp up MGNREGS now
The second wave will deepen inequality. Expand support to states, universalise PDS, and ramp up MGNREGS now
Abandoned by the State that insisted on...
Villagers’ indifference to norms worries officials
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Muktsar, May 27
Despite the repeated requests of Health Department officials to villagers to follow Covid protocols, the infection continues to grow in rural areas in Muktsar district.
In about two weeks, a large...
‘Bigger role’ likely for Modi aide in UP
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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 27
Concerned over simmering “anger” against the Yogi Adityanath-led government in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the BJP appears to be considering a “bigger role” for former Gujarat-cadre IAS AK Sharma, a...
Black fungus, white fungus, yellow fungus: What we know about post-Covid infections
While the yellow fungus is found in reptiles, the white fungus was considered a common and not-so-dangerous infection, but a Delhi hospital on Thursday reported a rare kind of white fungus.
While the yellow...
Rooted in mistrust? Covid-19’s march into rural India is a very different ball game
Friday, May 28, 2021
By Sudhir Katiyar*
As the Covid-19 virus penetrates rural India, the rural communities are responding very differently from their urban counterparts who rushed to the hospitals. The rural...
Death in the Himalayas: Poverty, fear propel India’s COVID crisis
Many in India’s remote villages shun tests for fear of testing positive and being forced to go to hospital far from home.
Pramila Devi’s shrouded body lay on a bier, resting on a rock on the banks of a muddy Ganges.
The...
India: COVID claims lives of hundreds of journalists
Journalists have paid a heavy price while doing their jobs covering the pandemic in India. But the federal government has yet to recognize them as frontline workers.
For journalists covering the coronavirus health crisis in India, the past...
India’s doctors are battling the pandemic—and a yoga guru’s misinformation campaign
Shoaib DaniyalMay 27, 2021
Ramkrishna Yadav or “Baba” Ramdev, as he is known to the public, shot to fame as a yoga teacher on television during the early 2000s. In 2006, he started Patanjali, a company making...