India Covid Crisis

Health workers carry the body of a person, who died from complications related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), for cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Coronavirus chronicle

Third Covid wave inevitable and imminent in India, warns IMA

Indian Medical Association appealed to the Indian and state governments to no let the guard down on the Covid front saying a third wave was just round the corner

FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a painting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the inauguration of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on a street in Mumbai, India, January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Modi chairs oxygen supply revamp meet, over 1,500 oxygen plants to be set up across India

Policemen direct pedestrians towards a Covid-19 testing booth at a market during a lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus in Jammu, India, Monday, May 31, 2021. Photo: AP via Hindustan Times
Coronavirus chronicle

India reports 43,393 new Covid-19 cases, active cases slide to 458,727

FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises on the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File photo
Politics

India's Modi fires 12 ministers in Covid crisis reshuffle

A health official draws a dose of the AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka Jan 29, 2021. REUTERS/FILE
Coronavirus chronicle

India raises Covid vaccine production amid sharp dip in cases

A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a "Coronavirus Covid-19 Vaccine" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Global vaccine alliance GAVI hopes India will resume exports this quarter

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South Asia

Poorer Indian women lost more jobs, ate less amid the pandemic

Members of the State Disaster Response Force patrol in the Ganges river past burning pyres of bodies that washed up on its banks after monsoon rains swelled it and exposed shallow sand graves dug during the peak of the latest Covid-19 wave in Phaphamau on the outskirts of Prayagra
Coronavirus chronicle

India's Covid death rate hit record in June after calls for better data

A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Panorama

We still don’t know India’s true Covid-19 death toll

Health workers carry the body of a person, who died from complications related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), for cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Coronavirus chronicle

India's daily Covid-19 deaths rise by 853, toll crosses 400,000

Sanika, 15, sits during a follow-up consultation inside a hospital as she recovers after losing her eye upon contracting Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, in Mumbai, India, Jun 29, 2021. REUTERS
Coronavirus chronicle

After Covid-19, 'black fungus' robs some in India of their eyesight

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering before flagging off the "Dandi March", or Salt March, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India's Independence, in Ahmedabad, India, March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave
Politics

After Covid surge, some signs of internal dissent against India's Modi

India's Cipla gets regulator nod to import Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine - CNBC-TV18
Coronavirus chronicle

India's Cipla gets regulator nod to import Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine - CNBC-TV18