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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicCovid pandemic

Topic: Covid pandemic

China’s state-run airline suspends flights to India carrying Covid supplies for 15 days

Sichuan Airlines said it has decided to suspend the flights due to sudden changes in the epidemic situation in India and to reduce the number of imported cases.

Hoarding of oxygen, medicines creates panic & causes shortage: AIIMS chief on Covid crisis

Top health experts from AIIMS also stressed that vaccines and Covid-appropriate behaviour together can break the chain of transmission.

This Muslim trust in Surat is helping Covid patients breathe easy

The Rehman Education and Charitable Trust estimates it has provided 300 oxygen cylinders to those in need this April. They are also helping Covid patients access drugs like remdesivir.

From 1 Covid funeral/day in Feb to over 85 now — Delhi crematorium struggles to cope with surge

In first week of April, Delhi's Old Seemapuri crematorium saw 13-14 Covid funerals a day, which went up to 32 on 22 April, 52 on 23 April and 86 on 24 April — the highest so far.

Insensitive Biden-Harris undoing 30 yrs of trust-building, resurrecting anti-Americanism in India

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

US ‘concerned’ over India’s Covid crisis, says will ‘rapidly deploy additional support’

Biden administration has been under pressure from think tanks to ease restrictions on items needed by India to manufacture Covid vaccines.

Indian veganism is a thing, and taking off. Especially in the pandemic

Excited by the business potential, many non-vegan entrepreneurs in Bengaluru and Delhi have established their own vegan-friendly businesses.

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

Unintended victims of Covid — India’s foreign policy and an MEA unable to do its real job

India urgently needed to reach out to world capitals and engage with nations that were looking for an alternative to China. But the pandemic kept MEA occupied.

Intriguing story of India’s slackening vaccination numbers despite Modi’s ‘Tika Utsav’ push

The number of vaccinations per day has fluctuated through April and shown an overall downward trend, at a time when Covid cases and deaths have been surging.

On Camera

The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.