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Tamil Nadu wasted 8.8% of its Covid vaccine doses, UP has the largest stock, govt data says

According to govt data, India has stock of 1.06 crore doses as of Thursday. Another 20,48,890 doses are in the pipeline.

Modi govt to procure 1 lakh portable oxygen concentrators from PM Cares Fund

The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by PM Modi to discuss the measures needed to improve the supply of Liquid Medical Oxygen for Covid-19 management.

Modi govt invited bids for 150 oxygen plants in October. Today, just 33 are up

While oxygen produced by PSA plants is believed to be less pure than liquid oxygen derived from cryogenic tech, they could have helped ease ongoing medical oxygen crisis.

N-E Delhi hits ‘new low’, deputes 6 govt teachers to assist in Covid bodies management

The teachers have been allocated shifts & will be required to coordinate between families of the dead, hospital staff & hearse van drivers, for proper and timely removal of bodies

People forgot about Covid as cases dipped, we were not prepared when it returned: UP minister

Speaking to ThePrint, UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh acknowledged that the Covid numbers are overwhelming, and the existing infrastructure ill-equipped to handle the crisis.

‘Lockdown’ Maharashtra could have stricter curbs as state struggles to ramp up vaccinations

The Uddhav Thackeray government has already tightened restrictions on movement of people in Maharashtra from 8 pm Thursday, including on inter- and intra-district travel.

‘Healthy fear’ of Covid — Modi govt has a new pandemic communication pitch

The campaign could include videos, sound bites from celebrities and influencers, encouraging vaccination and urging people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour.

Focus on pvt sector, no comparison with world — how Modi’s latest Covid address was different

At 19 minutes, Modi’s address Tuesday was shorter than some of the speeches he made at the start of the pandemic. The longest of these lasted 31 minutes and 40 seconds.

In new UP system for Covid hospital admission, doctors will take call, not CMO

UP ministers Jai Pratap Singh and Suresh Khanna held a meeting Wednesday to review Covid-19 situation in the state, where the controversial CMO rule was taken up.

How Modi’s mantra of ‘cooperative federalism’ has unravelled under 2nd Covid wave strain

Central and state officials say ‘tsunami was staring us in the face’ before cases started spiking, and Modi govt did not map data with action required on the ground.

On Camera

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?