Tag: India

India Covid patients suffocate from oxygen crisis amid surge

- Times Report -
People prepare a funeral pyre for a family member who died of COVID-19 at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of COVID-19 victims

Indian authorities scrambled on Saturday to supply oxygen to Indian hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid low supplies as the country is crippled with the world’s worst coronavirus surge.. The 3,46,786 infections over the past day brought India’s total infections past 16 million, only behind the United States. The Health Ministry

Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

- Times Report -

At least 22 Covid patients have died in a hospital in India after loosing oxygen supply due to a leak, reports BBC. The incident occurred on Wednesday while an oxygen storage tank was being refiled at the Zakir Hussain hospital in Nashik city. There was no oxygen flowing to ventilators for about

Uncertainty looms large over vaccination

- Apurbo Roy -

The future of vaccination program in Bangladesh looks bleak due to broken supplies of the injection vials as the lone supplier Serum Institute of India failed to ship the vaccines in time, officials said. Bangladesh government signed an agreement with the Serum Institute of India for procuring some 30 million dosesAstraZeneca,

Why pay too much attention to India?

- Afsan Chowdhury -

This is an intense period of Indian election and in two places – West Bengal and Assam - Bangladesh is an important hate card that works to get votes.  Bangladeshis are painted as illegal immigrants who steal jobs and prosperity. The objective is to ignite fear and thus gain votes

Covid-19 forces India into vaccine importer from exporter

- Times Report -

The coronavirus pandemic has suddenly turned India into a Covid vaccine importer from a mass exporter, proving it can change the course of everything on its track. India has reported over two lakh Covid cases for the second day in a row, becoming the second country in the world to report

Night curfew in Indian capital till April 30

- Times Report -

The government of the Indian capital Tuesday announced a night curfew across the city in the wake of a relentless surge in Covid-19 cases. The night curfew will be in place daily from 10 pm to 5 am till April 30, the government of Delhi said in an order. On Monday, Delhi

India’s Myanmar dilemma reflects a changing world

- Afsan Chowdhury -

Once India worried only about Pakistan but now its headaches is spread across the region. The recent border cease-fire with Pakistan indicates that Pakistan is only one of its problems. Maybe the biggest but others are there too. For the moment, Myanmar doesn’t look good for India. It had hoped that