‘Dead bodies all over’: Lucknow funerals tell a story starkly different from UP govt’s claims
On 15 April, Yogi govt’s health bulletin said Uttar Pradesh recorded 104 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours. But Lucknow alone saw 108 funerals that day, and this is just at crematoriums and not cemeteries, reports Jyoti Yadav.
Top officials earn Modi flak — ‘should have been better prepared’ to handle 2nd Covid wave
The dressing down came at a meeting chaired by PM Modi last week to review the status of preparedness to handle the Covid surge in the second wave, reports Moushumi Das Gupta.
Over 2 dozen IAS officers down with Covid, putting strain on already stretched civil service
The second Covid-19 wave has hit the Indian civil service hard, with many top policymakers in the central government out of action after getting infected by the virus. Many of these officers, especially in the health ministry, had been at the forefront of handling the pandemic, reports Sanya Dhingra.
Modi govt got blinded by first wave success praise as corona waited to strike
When the world began to bedazzle by India’s defiance of dooms-day predictions, it made Modi swell with pride, writes Zainab Sikander.
PM Modi’s speech was short – on answers that Indians demand of him during second Covid wave
It is one thing to lose territory in Ladakh and convince the public that it was China that got a thrashing. It is quite another to convince we have done our best to those running from hospital to hospital, writes Yogendra Yadav.
As Modi govt faces up to Covid disaster, BJP learns a tough truth — the virus doesn’t vote
Till February this year, Narendra Modi and the BJP were congratulating themselves on having avoided the tsunami of Covid. Now India is a hare in headlights, writes Shekhar Gupta in this week’s ‘National Interest’.