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Scary Covid Surge: Time For Action, Not Controversies, Polemics
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the covid situation getting worse, the Kerala Government has imposed stricter restrictions, even as it came down heavily on the Centre’s vaccination policy which it feels is fundamentally flawed and highly discriminatory. The embattled State Government issued stringent guidelines to restrict public movement and...
Global Media Blames Modi For Pandemic Second Wave
By Arun Srivastava It has been an act of careful carelessness. Narendra Modi knew that the second wave of corona would hit the Indian soil hard, but he pretended to be unaware of the impending threat; poor innocent guy. An insight into his conduct would make it clear that...
Centre’s Wrong Policies Have Led To Resurgence Of Inflation
By Prabhat Patnaik The official wholesale price index for March 2021, which was released a few days ago shows it to be7.39 per cent higher than for March2020. Such a high rate of inflation has not been seen in India for over 8years. It was only in October 2012...
Medical Oxygen Stock Needs Faster Replenishment
By Gyan Pathak Despite sufficient stock of oxygen in India, COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the country have been dying because its unavailability. Distribution issues have been preventing its availability at the hospitals. The centre has been monitoring the situation for over a year, but issues still remains unresolved....
EC Acted Quite Late In Banning Big Poll Rallies In West Bengal
By Arun Srivastava Though under strict instructions from the Calcutta High Court to adhere to the Covid norms and enforce health safety norms during the assembly election process, including campaigning, the Election Commission has managed to safeguard the interest of its political masters by not agreeing to club the...
Covishield Pricing Method Raises Inconvenient Questions
By Prosenjit Datta Serum Institute of India’s (SII) announcement of the Covishield prices it will charge the Union government, the states and, finally to the private hospitals raises several disquieting questions. According to a clarification released by SII, it was charging the Union government around Rs 150 per dose...
Modi-Shah Duo Are Responsible For Havoc Caused By Second Wave Of Covid-19
By Prakash Karat The Covid-19 cases crossed over 2,34,000 on April 17, the very day Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Asansol, West Bengal, where he congratulated the people for coming in large numbers and declared that he had not seen such crowds in a rally before. This...
Causing Deaths Through Artificial Oxygen Crisis
By Gyan Pathak India has sufficient stock of oxygen, says the Union Government. It means the catastrophic oxygen crisis in the country is created either artificially for profiteering, criminal neglect of responsibility, or obstructing its smooth movement by design or carelessness. This essential commodity for sustaining human life is...
Health Infrastructure In Narendra Modi’s India Is Collapsing First
By Krishna Jha India has entered a new horror phase of Covid 19, which no other country has faced till now. According to reports, there are 3.16 lakh new cases, highest ever for any country. The number does not include those in Ladakh and Tripura, either the suffering or...
Millions Of Indians Are Now Paying Heavy Price For The Follies Of Modi Regime
By Sushil Kutty A section of America is battling what it terms as “medical tyranny”, asking people to “fight now” or forever “lose your freedoms and die as a medical experiment prisoner.” The adherents of this worldview reject masks, vaccines and lockdowns. They go so far as to say...
