Topic: Indore
Coronavirus cases reach 1,681 in Indore after 27 test positive in 24 hours
The death toll also went up to 81 as two more patients succumbed to the viral infection in the district.
Tracking Covid in Indore, Bhopal — story of delayed govt action, attempts at covering it up
Two reporters of ThePrint spent 14 days in the MP hotspots. What they found was a state scrambling its resources to ensure extensive contact-tracing and containment exercise.
Madhya Pradesh finally gets a health minister, after nearly a month of Covid-19 crisis
Senior BJP leader Narottam Mishra is new health minister of Madhya Pradesh where Shivraj Chouhan govt is facing flak for its handling of the pandemic.
Muslim burials soar in Indore as hospitals ‘shut out non-Covid patients’ during lockdown
ThePrint visits Indore’s graveyards to find the reason behind the spike; workers & families say hospitals refused entry for heart attacks & other diseases.
‘Should we poison our kids?’ — Indore daily wagers complain of sparse, erratic food supply
Authorities claim they are delivering dry ration of 15 items, including rice, dal, tea and sugar, but residents say quantities not adequate.
This Indore hospital ‘first in India’ to try TCZ in critical Covid cases, claims good results
Pulmonologist Dr Ravi Dosi, who leads 100-member team at the Indore hospital, tells ThePrint TCZ fights off 'cytokines' blamed for causing mortality in critically ill Covid patients.
These 10 cities have over half of India’s Covid-19 cases. Ahmedabad, Indore among top 5
The 10 cities account for 8,958 of total 17,265 cases in India as of Monday. Most of the 170 districts identified as hotspots across the country are in these cities.
Serious Covid-19 situation in Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata: Home Ministry
The Union home ministry noted several incidents of violence against healthcare workers, violation of social distancing norms & movement of vehicles in urban areas.
In Covid crisis, Madhya Pradesh deserves better than a CM acting as health minister
Madhya Pradesh has a chief minister, but no cabinet; a health department but it has become a hotspot. Is this even remotely an ideal situation when a pandemic is raging across the state?
BJP could finally expand its one-man MP cabinet, functioning under CM for 25 days now
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been acting as a one-man cabinet ever since the BJP toppled the previous Congress govt and took charge on 23 March.
FCI has highest rice, wheat stock since 2005. Modi govt continuing legacy of bad economics
It is clear from the rising stock of rice and wheat that the government has been buying more from farmers than what it requires during a pandemic.
Modi govt drops plan to merge 3 state-owned general insurance companies
Decision to merge the 3 companies — National Insurance Co Ltd, United India Insurance Co Ltd, and Oriental Insurance Co Ltd — ahead of their proposed listing was announced in 2018 budget.
Defence
There’s ‘thinning down’ of Chinese troops at Finger 4 at Pangong lake, but no pullback yet
India-China disengagement at Pangong lake will be a focus area in the next round of military talks at the corps commander level.
Read my lips, forget the camera
Say Central forces' angry soldiers. They need reform, committed leaders. And very sensitive handling.