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From bare hills to thriving home for Asiatic Lion — how Girnar scripted a green makeover

Over the last 3 decades, Girnar, near the more famous Gir reserve, has scripted a transformation that not only helped wildlife but also local inhabitants.

Amit Shah reviews Covid situation in Gujarat, visits 950-bed facility for patients

Shah was accompanied by Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani to the facility, being set up with the help of DRDO. The home minister said a will also be set up in Gandhinagar.

Happy hypoxia, diarrhoea, severe infection: How 2nd Covid wave is affecting young patients

ThePrint reports from Gujarat, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand, four high burden regions, on the trends doctors are seeing when it comes to young patients with Covid-19. 

Form policy for distribution of remdesivir in view of high demand: Gujarat HC tells state

At present, remdesivir injections are used ‘in the order of preference which apparently is need-based and in priority of hospital’, the high court said in its order.

More ‘deaths by illness’ in Ahmedabad than Covid as crematoriums see rise in ‘bimari’ funerals

As crematoriums struggle with rise in funerals, workers say there are many deaths being tagged as 'death by illness' instead of 'due to Covid'. Families allege govt trying to keep numbers low.

22 people on a train back from Kumbh found Covid positive at railway station in Ahmedabad

These 22 people, including seers, were among around 200 passengers of the Haridwar-Ahmedabad Yoga Express, the only train running between the two cities.

How not to ‘Kumbh’ amid Covid spike — this Gujarat town shows the way during Navratri

The town of Unjha is on a mission to break the Covid transmission chain. To that end, it has voluntarily closed an important temple & its spice market, the biggest in Asia.

Gasping patients wait in ambulances, Ahmedabad’s largest Covid facility has no bed for them

All Covid patients waiting outside Ahmedabad Civil Hospital find themselves in this position because the hospital is out of oxygen and ventilator beds amid a surge in infections.

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

Ambulance drivers, working 12-hr shifts, claimed each patient has to wait for 5-6 hrs, at least, to get a bed in hospital. The wait for an ambulance itself goes beyond 12 hrs at times.

In UP, MP & Gujarat, BJP ministers & MLAs are blaming bureaucrats for Covid spike mess

UP minister writes to state health secy alleging ‘laxity’, MP MLA accuses additional chief secy of ‘fudging figures’, while in Gujarat, BJP chief battles CM over distribution of drug.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.