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Family members stand between burning pyres at the Seemapuri crematorium | Praveen Jain | ThePrint

17 ‘triggering’ images, each tells story of Delhi’s Covid disaster that a thousand words can’t

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Even after death, life goes on. A body lays by the side of the road in wait | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

In the darkness, funeral pyres offer light, sadness & memories of lives lost during Covid

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Migrant workers at Ahmedabad railway station in Mahatma Gandhi's home state of Gujarat | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Fear of Covid & another lockdown pushes migrant workers to start the journey home again

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A view of ICU ward at Ramakrishna hospital, Raipur | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

In Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, hospitals are running out of beds as Covid cases surge

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Plastic memories, a Covid patient wrapped and taped in plastic brought to Ellisbridge for his last rituals | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

In Ahmedabad, wait for last rites gets longer as bodies pile up at crematoriums

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A Covid patient’s family members watch the funeral pyre | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht |ThePrint

Many deaths, not enough hearses: Raipur’s Covid toll sees hospitals truck bodies to funerals

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A grieving couple walks past the queue of ambulances outside the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Outside Ahmedabad’s largest Covid hospital, long queue of ambulances & endless wait for bed

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Journalists look at their voting slips outside the Press Club of India | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Covid notwithstanding, journalists throng Press Club of India on sunny Saturday to vote

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Voters in Peyyad Junction in Thiruvananthapuram stand in front of a hoarding of CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPM candidate I B Satheesh | Photo: Jyoti Malhotra | ThePrint

Drums, prayers, Theyyam & CPM flags painting state red — the colours of Kerala election

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A view of the massive crowd that had gathered to enter the Takhat Sri Kesgarh Sahib gurudwara in Anandpur Sahib Monday | Photo: Manisha Mondal | ThePrint

Thousands gather for Hola Mohalla festival in Punjab, give masks & social distancing a miss

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On Camera

Opinion

If OIC diplomats spoke to Imran Khan freely on blasphemy, here’s what they’d say: Hoodbhoy

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PM Imran Khan asked OIC envoys to convince the West that blasphemy against the Prophet hurts the world’s Muslims. This failure is causing endless trouble in Pakistan.
A transition room for Covid patients waiting for beds at MG hospital, Bhilwara | Rohit Jain Paras | ThePrint

Most countries used ‘Swiss cheese’ model to reduce Covid. In India, the holes were too big

Selling buffalo for a brain scan — Covid has exposed India’s health system

Economy

Health department officials at Majhgaon village in Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district | By special arrangement

‘Worrying signs’: Covid hits rural India hard, it now has nearly half of all new cases

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The total number of daily cases being reported across India is nearly 300 per cent higher as compared to last year, meaning they will exert pressure on rural health infrastructure.

Defence

Last rites being performed at the Brar Square Crematorium in the Delhi Cantonment | By special arrangement

These soldiers are serving 24×7 to cremate veterans, dependents succumbing to Covid

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From 4 pyres at Delhi's Brar Square cremation ground, the infrastructure is being raised to deal with 20 bodies at a time due to the increased Covid toll.

National Interest

Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint Team

Modi govt is in denial & India is back to being a flailing state

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi government didn’t strengthen the foundations of basic governance in the last 7 years. Now, the PM has retreated and ministers are failing, adding to the Covid disaster.
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