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India’s Narendra Modi pushes his narrative via propaganda 12:38AM May 17, 2021 India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Picture: AFP Struck by the global opprobrium of its ruinous bungling of India’s fight against the coronavirus, the Narendra Modi government is frantically making all attempts at...

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Delhi Police arrest 15 people, files 17 FIRs over posters critical of PM Modi On Thursday, police received information about the posters following which senior officers of the districts were alerted PTI Delhi Police has registered 17 FIRs and arrested 15 people for allegedly pasting posters...

17 Arrested Over Posters Against PM Modi In Delhi PM Modi's government has been sharply criticised by the opposition and international media for appearing more intent on addressing the bad publicity than solving the COVID-19 crisis. Saurabh Shukla Delhi police have registered more than 21 FIRs...

COVID-19 Is Devastating Rural India Lauren FrayerMay 16, 20217:53 AM ET The extent of COVID-19's wrath in rural India is not fully known. Hospitals are full. Testing is scant, illiteracy is high and most deaths are never registered. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In India's biggest cities, there...

This is so typical of Hindus: they lie, cheat, rape, and exploit their fellow countrymen in a time of great need. I thought karma was a Hindu concept. A Desperate India Falls Prey to Covid Scammers As the health care system fails, clandestine markets have emerged for drugs, oxygen, hospital...

Top India scientist quits COVID panel over differences with gov’t Virologist Shahid Jameel resigns from a forum of scientific advisers set up by the government days after questioning the handling of the pandemic. Health workers attend to a patient at the BKC jumbo field hospital, one of the...

Explained: How India failed in procuring enough Covid vaccines Centre promises two billion vaccines by year-end but vaccine famine in the interim is being glossed over, writes Coomi Kapoor Explained Desk In early 2020, Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest manufacturer (in terms of...

India's coronavirus variant expected to dominate UK Britain's health minister has said a fast-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in India is likely to become the dominant strain of the virus in the UK. Health officials are conducting door-to-door testing in several areas of the...

This is just so Indian: utterly incompetent, disorganized, chaotic, bumbling, stupid, argumentative, and running around like headless chickens. Too many cooks? 15 committees, dozens of experts behind India’s fumbling Covid response Multiple committees — some formed at the start of the...

Helping the caste-oppressed hit hardest by COVID in India By Cheryl Wills and Debora Fougere New York City PUBLISHED 10:35 AM ET May. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED May 16, 2021 @10:35 AM The out-of-control COVID outbreak in India has devastated all parts of the population, but it has hit so-called...

Isn't it a little too late to beef up health infrastructure in the villages? :omghaha: :omghaha: :omghaha: As Covid spreads to villages, govt says beef up health infra TNN / May 17, 2021, 02:57 IST NEW DELHI: With Covid-19 now spreading to villages, the Centre on Sunday issued new...

Covid kills over 1,000 bank employees as virus ravages India Mumbai INDIAN banks have lost more than a thousand employees and many more are infected, according to a industry body, underscoring the heavy toll the virus has taken in the Asian country battling the world's worst coronavirus crisis...

If this is what an Indian victory looks like, may India be victorious forever. ‘Each burning pyre is an unspeakable horror’: One researcher’s account of India’s Covid-19 crisis The dreadful statistics coming out of India are not just numbers – they relate to people and to suffering. Vyoma Dhar...

British Airways Cabin Crew Refusing to Work Flights to India Amidst Worsening COVID-19 Situation Mateusz Maszczynski Photo Credit: British Airways British Airways cabin crew are said to be failing to turn up to work on flights to and from India over fears of an explosion in COVID-19 cases in...

Nuh sarpanches claim deaths, rife Covid symptoms TNN / May 17, 2021, 02:41 IST Covid numbers in Nuh, Gurgaon’s neighbouring district in south Haryana, have started to come down, official data shows. But illness in the villages isn’t, sarpanches say. The heads of several villages in the...

ANALYSIS-India's once-in-a-century budget runs into trouble as virus strikes back (Repeats story published on Sunday) * India budget lacked contingencies arising from a second wave * Fresh lockdowns dent chances of 2021/22 growth of 10.5% * India mulls cutting expenses to prioritise COVID-19...

Low smartphone reach coupled with lack of digital literacy hit rural India Covid vaccine drive According to data released by the telecom regulator for February, tele-density, or the number of wireless devices per 100 people, was 60% in rural areas, compared with 140 in cities. A majority of the...

Covishield, Covaxin Vaccines Less Effective Against B.1.617 Coronavirus Strain: Indian Council of Medical Research Both Covishield and Covaxin appear to be only half effective in producing antibodies against the B.1.617 strain of coronavirus, scientists said. According to a series of reports...