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Topic: Oxygen

NASA’s Perseverance rover creates oxygen on Mars, for the first time ever

MOXIE, a toaster-sized instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, produced 5.4 g oxygen in an hour — enough for an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes.

Modi govt had a year to prepare for 2nd Covid wave. Now, patients don’t have oxygen to breathe

The second Covid wave need not have been this fatal had the govt planned better and in advance, for just this kind of crisis.

Centre increases oxygen supply to Delhi, but hospitals have only hours left till they run out

A status check of several major govt and private hospitals in Delhi show that many of them are running a full house with less than a day's worth of oxygen supply to count on.

Delhi hospitals gasp as Haryana refuses to share oxygen, then Centre steps in to resolve row

Haryana’s Home and Health Minister Anil Vij says since Rajasthan & Himachal blocked supply to his state, it would use what it produces for its own needs, and only share what’s left.

‘Why is Centre not waking up to gravity of the situation’: Delhi HC on oxygen crisis

The court said the steel and petrochemical industries are oxygen guzzlers and diverting oxygen from there can meet hospitals’ requirements.

Amarinder Singh writes to Centre seeking daily allocation of 120 MT of oxygen for Punjab

Punjab's cumulative Covid tally surged to 3,09,316 Tuesday with 4,673 fresh cases while the death toll climbed to 8,045 as 61 more people succumbed to the disease.

Delhi govt ‘looted’ oxygen tanker going from Panipat to Faridabad, alleges Anil Vij

Haryana minister Anil Vij said that all oxygen tankers will move with a police escort so that such incidents do not happen in the future.

Protesting farmers reject allegations about blocking oxygen transport to Delhi

BJP MP Parvesh Verma Tuesday night alleged that transportation of medical use oxygen into Delhi was hampered due to the road blockade caused by protesters.

Viral photo of woman on road with oxygen cylinder not recent, is from 2018

The viral photograph was from an incident that took place in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, in April 2018.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.