Canberra, Australia, April 30 (KMS): The Indian High Commission in Canberra has condemned a report published in The Australian, a daily newspaper, wherein Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s missteps and complacency have been held responsible for the devastating second wave of coronavirus in India. The article titled “Modi leads India …
Read More »As COVID-19 infections engulf India, Modi govt fails to guarantee free vaccines
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): The coronavirus catastrophe continues to worsen across India, with the country reporting 3,645 new fatalities yesterday, a new high in the number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day. India also recorded 379,257 new cases, another world record in daily infections, taking its overall …
Read More »Feature: Guardian readers in India on the Covid crisis
‘It’s everywhere you look’ New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): “It’s like we are in the middle of the apocalypse,” says 40-year-old Pia Desai, who lives in New Delhi, at the centre of the coronavirus crisis that has brought India’s healthcare system to its knees. “Every family I know has been …
Read More »India PM Modi urges people to get out and vote for his party despite staggering pandemic and piles of bodies
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): In normal times, the tweet by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling people to go out and vote would be a routine call to action. But as his country drowns under the worst wave of the coronavirus pandemic the world has seen so far, it …
Read More »Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Narendra Modi to resign over pandemic
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): A hashtag calling for the resignation of the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, was briefly blocked on Facebook on Wednesday, hiding more than 12,000 posts critical of the Indian government as the coronavirus pandemic spirals out of control in the country. Facebook users based …
Read More »Doctors threatened for blowing whistle on India’s oxygen crisis
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): Authorities in India have been accused of covering up the spiralling healthcare crisis after doctors were threatened for blowing the whistle on oxygen shortages and criticism of the government was censored online. The chief minister Yogi Adityanath of the state of Uttar Pradesh, a firebrand …
Read More »Indians turn to black market, unproven drugs as virus surges
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): Ashish Poddar kept an ice pack on hand as he waited outside a New Delhi hospital for a black market dealer to deliver two drugs for his father, who was gasping for breath inside with COVID-19. But the drugs never arrived, the ice that was …
Read More »India Covid-19: Deadly second wave spreads from cities to small towns
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): India’s deadly Covid-19 second wave has devastated big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Pune. Hospitals and crematoriums have run out of space, and funerals are taking place in car parks. But the pandemic has now firmly gripped many smaller cities, towns and villages where …
Read More »India to use animal crematorium site as it struggles to cope with rise in COVID deaths
New Delhi, April 30 (KMS): India has been grappling with an exponential rise in COVID cases following which several states, including Delhi, have been forced to reintroduce lockdown-like curbs on social movement. Amid an unexpected rise in deaths, Delhi’s municipal authorities have decided to create temporary human funeral pyre platforms …
Read More »Coronavirus sends Modi from ‘Vocal for Local’ to relying on global aid
New Delhi, April 29 (KMS): Less than a year after taking a sharp protectionist turn, the government of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is relying on overseas help to fight the world’s worst Covid-19 crisis. Nations including the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany have pledged aid after …
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