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TopicCOVID-19

Topic: COVID-19

India registers 4.12 lakh new Covid cases, 3,980 deaths in past 24 hours

The active Covid cases have increased to over 35.6 lakh comprising 16.92% of the total infections, while the recovery rate has dropped to 81.99%, the health ministry data said.

This 500-bed Covid facility near Akshardham is just what Delhi needs amid all despair & horror

Last week, the healthcare centre became the first in Delhi to get its own oxygen plant. It plans to add more plants. 

PM Modi, Amit Shah’s airtime declines with the worsening pandemic

Govt stayed away from TV news. There were some tough questions waiting.

Govt receives 1,764 oxygen concentrators as foreign aid, sends them to 38 medical facilities

Health ministry has also received 450 ventilators and 1.35 lakh remdesivir vials. The distribution of supplies was done considering criteria including active cases, positivity rate.

Ex-Union minister & RLD chief Ajit Singh dies over 2 weeks after testing positive for Covid

Singh, 82, had diagnosed Covid-positive on 20 April. His son Jayant Chowdhury appealed to people who wish to pay their last respects to stay at home 'as far as possible'

Armed forces can turn Delhi’s Covid situation around in 48 hours. Time to call them in

The full potential of the armed forces is not being utilised. They are not in the decision-making loop and military representatives have not been consulted.

US backs waiver of IP rights on Covid vaccines, India welcomes decision

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said this is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid pandemic call for extraordinary measures.

Why does it feel like Indian stock markets live on another planet?

The question is a fair one, considering the risky asset class in a country struggling with its most horrific calamity since its violent partition & independence nearly 75 years ago.

India’s struggle to track new Covid variants could worsen crisis

Experts fear second- or even third-generation versions of the B.1.617 variant could already be circulating in India. And variants are outracing vaccination progress in many countries.

India is being fed and fooled same way as Romans served ‘bread and circuses’: Jignesh Mevani

A hospital in Gujarat goes empty the day after its inauguration by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and no one asks why.

On Camera

Is support reducing for Kolkata doctors? Mamata not the only one who has to course correct

West Bengal is ready to welcome its daughter home for Durga Puja, but the family is unable to keep the deep-rooted discord within from spilling out. At its head is Mamata Banerjee.

How Modi govt’s Atmanirbhar policy could have hobbled BSNL’s efforts to catch up in 4G race

Restrictions on use of equipment from global vendors have necessitated new indigenous technology being developed, tested & deployed—further delaying BSNL's 4G & 5G launch.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

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?