Politics
With oxygen going rare, Delhi gasps for breath of ...
April 28, 2021
Kayam Raza, a resident of Jaitpur Khadda Colony has been waiting in the queue since morning to get his oxygen cylinder refilled. Raza, whose 70-year-old mother is sick and in urgent need of oxygen, says he could not get her admitted in any hospital and has been waiting to ...
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From helping the world, India turns to seek help f...
April 27, 2021
On Saturday, a C-17 Hercules transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force took off from Changi Airport in Singapore and barely a couple of hours later it landed at the IAF base at Panagarh in West Bengal. The aircraft had just completed a special and urgent mission of transporting ...
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Crematoriums, corpses and chaos
April 24, 2021
“First we had to run a lot to keep him alive, now after his death also we have to struggle to arrange the cremation,” says a young man as he was waiting at Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat, for his turn to conduct the final rites of his relative who had succumbed to Covid-19. ...
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Second wave of coronavirus renders hospitals in De...
April 23, 2021
Ever since the pandemic broke last year, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital in Delhi has been at the forefront of the capital’s fight against Covid19, leading the charge of hospitals run by the Delhi government in the city. But while it proved effective last year, in fac...
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Le Drian visit cements preparations for Modi visit...
April 17, 2021
After a pandemic-forced hiatus which put a severe limitation on high-level bilateral meetings between India and France, the two nations seem to be in a rush to catch up on the lost time and revive the momentum that has been building up in the bilateral ties over the past decade, ...
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Under Modi’s watch, India’s vaccine diplomacy ...
April 15, 2021
With India’s daily case count rising to a new high every day for about a month, the country has once again displaced Brazil from the slot of the country with the second highest incidence of Covid-19 cases. On Tuesday, India registered over 185,000 cases, a jump of 1582 pc from ...
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Covid-19: Cost India pays for election rallies
April 14, 2021
“I am scared for my family’s health as I go back home every evening after election duty here. People are not following the safety protocols and many of them have been part of the election rallies that witnesses thousands of people coming together from all over the state witho...
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Mitti Satyagraha: Retracing Gandhi’s peaceful ba...
April 7, 2021
“In 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi had decided to launch the salt satyagraha in Dandi to get the government to remove ban on domestic salt production and end its monopoly on salt, not many were convinced about the utility of a non-violent protest march passing through villages. But ...
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India donates Covid19 vaccines for UN Peacekeeping...
March 30, 2021
We had forgotten them in pandemic pandemonium. But make no mistake, they are also front-line workers. The UN Peace Keeping Forces (UNPKF) provide most needed global security services in the areas that need them the most. In 2020, they provided security and stability in war-torn p...
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“Time for India to speak up against human rights...
March 25, 2021
Ever since the military coup on February 1 that displaced the elected government of Aung San Suu Kii, Myanmar has been in the grip of widespread protests and a nationwide civil disobedience campaign that the military has tried to crush firmly. But though nearly 200 persons have b...
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