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.
These 22 people, including seers, were among around 200 passengers of the Haridwar-Ahmedabad Yoga Express, the only train running between the two cities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unjha’s APMC is Asia’s largest spice market, and Patels dominate the business. Farmers prefer to sell produce here because of facilities and quick payments.
The CBI had sought permission from the state govt to prosecute IPS officer G L Singhal, Tarun Barot and Anaju Chaudhary, involved in the alleged fake encounter case in 2004.
In order to contain the surge in Covid cases in the state, the curfew will now remain in force in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot, an official statement said.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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