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Topic: COVID-19

As India battles oxygen crisis, JSW cuts steel output to ramp up supply of life-saving gas

JSW Steel Ltd said it is reducing output to augment liquid medical oxygen supply to more than 900 tons a day by April-end, and more than 20,000 tons for the entire month.

Cannot be mute spectator to crisis, says Supreme Court on bid to monitor Centre’s Covid prep

SC asks govt to clarify ‘basis and rationale on which Covid-19 vaccines are being priced’, and seeks response on availability of medical oxygen & medicines for Covid treatment.

Will donate minimum 4.5 lakh vials of remdesivir to Indian govt, says US’ Gilead Sciences

As part of expanding the availability of remdesivir in India, drug firm Gilead Sciences said it is providing support to its licensees to expand their local manufacturing capacity.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s niece and former MP Karuna Shukla dies of Covid

Shukla, 70, quit the BJP after 32 years in 2013, claiming the party was under a grip of power politics. She joined the Congress in 2014 and became a member of the 14th Lok Sabha.

Ireland to send 700 oxygen concentrators to India to aid its fight against Covid

The Irish embassy said the oxygen concentrators are expected to reach India by Wednesday morning.

No patent waiver, but here are the alternatives vaccine makers are offering for Covid shots

Proposal for intellectual property & and patent rights waiver was first introduced at WTO in 2020 by India and South Africa. It has been opposed by US and Europe.

Plea in Delhi HC for action against ‘star campaigners’ for violating Covid norms in Bengal

The petition said the 'unhindered and uncared-for all out campaigning' has resulted in a spike in Covid cases in the state where the positivity rate has gone up from 5% to 24%.

Delhi govt to import 18 cryogenic tankers from Bangkok, 21 oxygen plants from France

In light of the shortage of medical oxygen during the Covid crisis in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the situation has improved significantly in the last two days.

Jailed gangster Chhota Rajan tests positive for Covid, admitted to AIIMS

Rajendra Nikalje, alias Chhota Rajan, has been lodged in the Tihar prison in New Delhi since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015.

US says can share AstraZeneca doses with India over next two months, after FDA review

Washington has said US is looking at options to share unused AstraZeneca Covid vaccine shots ‘as they become available’, and that it could be May-June when they finally reach India.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

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?