Shiv Sena accuses Modi government of Covid-19 mismanagement
As per the latest figures, Uttar Pradesh reported 12,547 fresh Covid-19 cases taking the total case count to over 1.6 million, while Maharashtra’s Covid count stands at 5,344,063 or over 5.3 million.
Sanjay Raut said the Narendra Modi...
‘Everybody is angry’: Modi under fire over India’s Covid second wave
From an approval rating of 80% earlier in the year, now tough questions are being asked of PM’s leadership
Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Pyres burn at a crematorium in Delhi. Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images
Mon 17 May 2021...
None of what you said matters when it comes to election time, because India is a post-truth society. Your average Hindu thinks cow dung and urine cure covid and that ancient Indians travelled on spaceships.
Epidemiologists say India’s centre for disease control withheld COVID-19 data since pandemic began
Vidya Krishnan
In the first week of February, the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, a government initiative under the health ministry’s National Centre for Disease Control, recorded in...
Modi Govt Has Withheld Covid Data
Rukmini S25 Sep 2020, 5:08 PM IST
The ‘NDA’ incidents also place a spotlight on this issue of accountability. Just before the session of Parliament was to begin, the government announced that there would be no Question Hour, and only ‘unstarred questions’ – to...
'Massacre of data': Experts say India is undercounting its Covid deaths
India reels from more than 300,000 daily infections and nearly 3,000 deaths for the past several days but experts say the true number of fatalities is several times higher from what is being reported by government officials...
300 scientists ask Modi to give access to data for charting Covid-19 spread
The request for wider dissemination of the coronavirus-related data gains urgency because India is gripped by a ferocious second wave that risks creating new mutant strains
Indian scientists and medical researchers are...
Data is crucial during a pandemic, fudging it is no less than a criminal act
Experts are finding it challenging to calculate the excess deaths due to COVID-19 as India has not historically been recording official deaths, even before the pandemic
A couple of nights ago, a handful of journalist...
As pressure builds on India’s Narendra Modi, his government is trying to silence its critics
Usha M. Rodrigues April 29, 2021 2.33am EDT
As COVID-19 ravages India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is becoming increasingly draconian in its crackdown on social media, particularly when it...
Social media is a lifeline for desperate Indians. And a threat for Narendra Modi
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business
Updated 8:37 PM ET, Sat May 1, 2021
On most days, Network Capital, a business networking group with over 67,000 members on Facebook (FB), focuses on providing its community with...
India orders Twitter and Facebook to take down posts critical of its coronavirus handling
11:12 AM EDT•April 24, 2021
Image Credits: Nasir Kachroo / NurPhoto / Getty Images
A copy of one of Indian government’s orders disclosed by Twitter. (Lumen database)
Twitter and Facebook have taken down...
'How Can Modi Be Forgiven?' India's COVID-19 Crisis May Be Turning the Middle Class Against the Prime Minister
Nilanjana Bhowmick/New Delhi
May 7, 2021 10:51 AM EDT
On April 24 at 3:22 a.m., a doctor in Delhi’s Guru Tegh Bahadur hospital sent an urgent plea via Whatsapp to a colleague. She had...
Indian government issues take down order of critical COVID-19 tweets
The Indian government made an emergency request on Friday to block tweets that were critical of its COVID-19 handling.
Aimee ChanthadavongApril 26, 2021 -- 03:09 GMT (20:09 PDT)
Twitter has confirmed it was asked by the Indian...
‘There are so many hurdles.’ Indian scientists plead with government to unlock COVID-19 data
By Priyanka PullaMay. 4, 2021 , 12:10 PM
People wait in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, on 29 April.
AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade
Reporting for this story was supported by a...
To Hindus, words are action. All they do is talk, talk, talk, and then take some oxygen, and then talk some more. When the oxygen runs out, they float down the Ganges.
The U.S. CDC assumes deaths are under-reported by a factor of 10. If India reports 4,000 deaths a day, then the real number is likely 40,000. The U.S. CDC believes the second wave will kill at least 10 million people, and the death toll could be as high as 40 million or even more.