Aimed at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the move sets up a clash over free speech amid a widening political and public health crisis. NEW DELHI — With a devastating second wave of Covid-19 sweeping across India and lifesaving supplemental oxygen in short supply, India’s government on Sunday said it ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to take down […]
Read MoreOverwhelmed by the pandemic, the country that is a leading maker of vaccines is facing its own crisis at home — and that may be a problem for a world in need of vaccine. NEW DELHI — India is the world’s leading producer of vaccines, but over the past week it has also been the global leader […]
Read MoreIn WhatsApp chats, video calls, Facebook groups and forums, a global community has scrambled to save, and sometimes mourn, Covid-stricken loved ones. LONDON — First, there was the scramble to find her father a bed in intensive care. Then came the price gouging for an all but impossible to find therapeutic injection. And, through it […]
Read MoreWith the Covid-19 crisis pushing the health care system past the breaking point, online grass-roots networks have sprung up to get aid to people who need it. NEW DELHI — Rajni Gill woke up with a slight fever in mid-April, the first warning that she had Covid-19. Within a few days, she was breathless and […]
Read MoreMourners and staff members of the Ghazipur crematory, in New Delhi, performing rituals in a parking area on Wednesday. Credit…Ishan Tankha By Aman Sethi Mr. Sethi is a New Delhi-based journalist and writer who has been covering India’s Covid-19 crisis. April 30, 2021 NEW DELHI — The first 36 corpses were placed in the designated concrete […]
Read MoreIt was supposed to be a day when India made a bold step forward in its fight against Covid-19, when everyone 18 and older in its vast population became eligible to be inoculated. Instead, several states reported that vaccine shortages had forced them to delay expanding access, and the country’s latest report of new cases remained higher […]
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Overconfidence and missteps contributed to the country’s devastating second wave, his critics say, tarnishing the prime minister’s aura of political invulnerability. NEW DELHI — His Covid-19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister assured the public in March that India had reached the pandemic’s “endgame.” A few weeks before that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to global leaders that […]
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It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complainby Arundhati Roy During a particularly polarising election campaign in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, waded […]
Read MoreComplacency and lack of preparation by the government pushed the country into an unprecedented crisis. By Ramanan Laxminarayan Dr. Laxminarayan is an economist and an epidemiologist. NEW DELHI — A lethal, fast-paced second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has brought India’s health care systems to the verge of collapse and is putting millions of lives and […]
Read MoreThe pandemic sent 32 million people in India from the middle class last year. Now a second wave is threatening the dreams of millions more looking for a better life. By Karan Deep Singh and Hari Kumar Published April 16, 2021Updated April 23, 2021 NOIDA, India — Ashish Anand had dreams of becoming a fashion designer. A former flight attendant, […]
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