It took eight months to invite bids for over 150 oxygen generation plants costing just Rs 200 crore. Six months later, most still aren’t up and running.

On 16 April, the Bharuch General Hospital had only one doctor and five nurses for seventy-two patients, almost all of whom had severe COVID-19.

Over the last week, there have been serious discrepancies between municipal corporation records and the state government's official bulletin.

The incident occured on April 16, when some BJP leaders of the party’s Vadodara unit, including its president Dr Vijay Shah, had reached the crematorium to participate in the last rites of a party...

Interviews with officials and workers at cremation grounds across the state provide a glimpse into the massive official undercounting underway.

Many hospitals don’t mention the viral infection as the cause of death

TNIE finds stark mismatch between figures reported by health officials in 13 districts and those published by govt in media bulletin

Bhopal: On Saturday morning, Narendra Pramar rushed to the city's biggest Bhadbhada crematorium to collect the last remains of his father, Keshav Pramar, 68, who fell prey to COVID-19 a week ago and...

Many Indians are pillorying Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his response to a scary surge in coronavirus cases, sickened by him addressing tens of thousands of people at state election rallies and...

India's government and parts of the media ignored warnings about a rising wave of cases, experts say.

India's daily Covid-19 cases jumped by a record 2,73,810 on Monday as the health system crumbled under the weight of patients, bringing total infections closer to that of the United States, the

The world is facing a stark reality. More than a year after the pandemic began, it is getting worse. In India this surge is not a wave, but a wall. Coronavirus cases are rising so rapidly that the...

Official figures show that in just the first three quarters of 2020-21, 9294 MT of oxygen was exported from the country, more than double the 4502 MT exports in the previous year. The vast majority...

There are 17,752 beds for Covid patients in the capital, out of which 2,824 are available. On the other hand, of the 4,147 ICU beds, only 48 are available. The surge in bed occupancy has meant an...

Hawkers, slum dwellers, food couriers and migrant workers bear the brunt of pandemic policing amid deadly second wave.

As India’s Covid-19 crisis deepened, heartbreak and hope unfolded in real time on Indian Twitter, writes Priya Ramani.

Besides, by making states responsible for buying vaccines, Modi’s government has deftly deflected possible criticism for future shortages.

Over the last week, India administered about 2.7 million doses on average per day, down from 3.6 million during the previous week. The new vaccination policy shifts the monetary burden of...

Complacency and lack of preparation by the Indian government pushed the country into an unprecedented crisis.

Now, a third mutation in the B.1.167 has been identified and experts are hoping that this time, given the alarm bells ringing all around, the pace of intervention and follow-up picks up.

He said that those criticising the export of vaccines are short-sighted and irresponsible.

The Kumbh is held every 12 years but the Haridwar mela comes 11 years after the last because the Centre and the state government chose to appease astrologers rather than look after public health.

While the Bombay HC said public health cannot be sacrificed at the altar of a right to observe a festival like Ramzan, and the Delhi HC permitted only 50 devotees to pray at a mosque, the Uttarakhand...

AHMEDABAD: Atleast 11% of the 313-passengers tested at the Sabarmati Station were tested positive to the coronavirus.

The government of Maharashtra state, home to Mumbai, imposed lockdown-like curbs on Wednesday for 15 days.

Thousands migrant labourers working in Delhi scramble to get home to their villages in Uttar Pradesh after a week-long lockdown was announced in the national capital. Gaon Connection met a few tired,...

Barely a week into Maharashtra's current partial lockdown, Jamna Rathod made a phone call early on Sunday morning. "People here have begun to go hungry again," she told Brinelle D'Souza, assistant...

According to local officials, the spillage was noticed around 12.30 pm, following which hospital authorities were alerted

Vinay Srivastava died after his oxygen level dipped alarmingly. Hospitals refused to admit him without CMO letter, even though he had symptoms of Covid.

Many falsely believed that the country had defeated Covid. Now hospitals are running out of oxygen and bodies are stacking up in morgues

As families beg for help on social media, the government plays politics.

Vaccine manufacturers will now be able to play off one Indian state against the other. The rich will get their vaccines, at the cost of the poor.

New variant suspected of stoking surge that is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums

New Delhi, April 21, 2021 – Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state should immediately release journalist Siddique Kappan from custody and allow him to freely seek medical treatment for COVID-19,...

At 9 pm on Saturday night, Saqib Idrees, a volunteer working with an Emergency Response Team in Lingarajapuram in Bengaluru received a message from the relative of a COVID-19 patient seeking a plasma...

Many facilities stopped production because govt did not procure the ventilators it had ordered last year

Ajay Singh Yadav only managed a final video call with Raj Karan before his close friend became the latest of an alarming number of young Indians, including children, falling victim to the new...

Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava has come strongly against the policy of lockdowns being announced by state governments across the country. In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Bhargava said that the...

Facing a rising wave of coronavirus, and record case numbers, India finds itself battling for breath.