Covering India’s Covid crisis: ‘Hundreds of journalists have lost their lives’ New Delhi, May 05 (KMS): Kakoli Bhattacharya was the Guardian’s news assistant over here and had worked for us since 2009. She could find any number or contact I needed and smoothed over any and all of the bureaucratic …
Read More »Trainee Indian doctors pulled from exams to fight world’s biggest COVID surge
New Delhi/Mumbai May 05 (KMS): India postponed exams for trainee doctors and nurses on Monday, freeing them up to fight the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, as the health system crumbles under the weight of new cases and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen. The total number of …
Read More »‘Horrible’ weeks ahead as India’s virus catastrophe worsens’
New Delhi, May 05 (KMS): COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis and a top expert warning that the coming weeks in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people will be “horrible.” India’s official count of coronavirus cases …
Read More »Covid in Varanasi: Anger rises as coronavirus rages in Modi’s constituency
Varanasi, May 04 (KMS): The region around Varanasi, one of the holiest cities in the world for Hindus, is among the worst affected by the second wave of coronavirus sweeping India. Many angry citizens of the region, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, are now asking where their …
Read More »Impact of devastating Indian virus surge spreads to politics
New Delhi, May 04 (KMS): As a catastrophic surge of the coronavirus sweeps through India, the leaders of 13 opposition parties urged the government to launch a free vaccination drive and ensure an uninterrupted flow of oxygen to all hospitals. Several hospital authorities sought court intervention over the weekend …
Read More »Questions raised on fate of oxygen, foreign aid rushed to Covid-hit India
New Delhi May 4 (KMS): One ministry knows not what the other is doing. Amid all the foreign aid that has come to aid India’s fight against Covid, questions now arise over the issue of lack of transparency. India media, like many other national and international news networks, has tried …
Read More »COVID cases spike in IIOJK as 47 new deaths reported
Srinagar, May 03 (KMS): Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir witnessed the highest ever spike in Covid deaths and positive cases ever since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. As many as 47 people died of the Covid while 3,832 persons were recorded infected with the coronavirus. Thirty deaths …
Read More »Saudi oxygen container relabeled in India
Video exposes Indian prime minister Modi’s cheapness New Delhi, May 02 (KMS): Instead of being grateful to Saudi Arabia for donating hundreds of oxygen containers for the much needed Indians amid ravages of Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has found relabeling these oxygen containers …
Read More »Vaccination centres run dry in IIOJK
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, with almost all the COVID-19 immunization centres running dry for the fourth consecutive day, the killer virus continues its ruthless march, recording high fatalities and infections. Amidst this horrible mayhem and lockdown, Kashmir’s premier health institute, the Soura Institute …
Read More »‘Resign Modi’ demand growing as COVID crisis deepens in India
#Modi’sResignationWidelyDemanded Islamabad, May 01 (KMS): Internet users in India are calling upon the Indian fascist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to resign from his office as he has failed to perform and save lives of Indians amid escalating Covid crisis. ResignModi is trending on social media amid spiraling crisis of coronavirus …
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