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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicOxygen Shortage

Topic: Oxygen Shortage

Oxygen tankers ‘held hostage’ at Haryana plant, taking 6x longer to fill, Delhi claims

As the country grapples with second Covid wave, Delhi is reporting a grievous shortage of medical oxygen, a life-saving resource for patients.

Lack of oxygen blamed as 24 patients, including 12 with Covid, die at Karnataka govt hospital

Staff at Chamarajanagar district hospital say all patients died when the facility ran out of oxygen. District authorities say too early to reach that conclusion.

Govt to set up 10,000 oxygenated beds at temporary hospitals near industrial units

After meetings with PM Modi, govt noted that gaseous oxygen produced in many industries can be tapped for medical use and a pilot for five such facilities has been initiated.

’50 lives at risk’ — Delhi’s Madhukar Rainbow Children Hospital raises oxygen-shortage alarm

A hospital official said they don't have a liquid oxygen storage tank and depend on oxygen cylinders from a private vendor. The children's hospital needs 125 oxygen cylinders a day.

India’s oxygen emergency is more logistical

There are only a finite number of oxygen tankers and cylinders. So the logistics of refiling them and bringing them to the destination is a severe bottle-neck.

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India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Many 'independent' reports, intended to shape policies, are sponsored by industry groups or entities with deep pockets and vested interests. This process must become transparent.

India may cancel green projects struggling to find clients

While the move could free up grid capacity struggling to keep up with rapid renewable rollout, it would be a major setback for green ambitions. India aims to double clean power capacity to 500 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.