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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
‘Social unrest’ warning as Modi looks to extend India’s lockdown
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NEW DELHI: Key industries are warning of social unrest unless India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes concessions when he announces any extension Tuesday (Apr 13) to a three-week pandemic-lockdown for the country’s 1.3 billion people. The lockdown ends at midnight Tuesday, but several state chief ministers have already said they plan to extend it for at
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 12, 2020
COVID-19 cases, deaths rise in India’s biggest slum
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NEW DELHI: Coronavirus cases in Mumbai’s densely populated Dharavi slum – one of Asia’s biggest – have risen to 43 including four deaths, officials said on Sunday (Apr 12) as they ramp up testing in a race to contain the spread of the illness. Since the first virus death in early April, Indian authorities have stepped
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 12, 2020
Pandemic spells death sentence for India’s non-virus patients
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NEW DELHI: Liver patient Shahjahan’s family feared the worst when a New Delhi public hospital told her to leave because her bed was needed in a coronavirus unit. The 40-year-old mother had been on a ventilator with an acute infection for almost two weeks when she left Lok Nayak hospital on Tuesday night (Apr 7). Advertisement
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 7, 2020
Scammers try selling world’s tallest statue as COVID-19 pandemic boosts India’s cyber crime
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MUMBAI: Police in India lodged a case this week against an unknown online fraudster who tried selling the world’s largest statue for US$4 billion, claiming the proceeds would be used to help the Gujarat state government fund its fight against the coronavirus. While the plot to sell the Statue of Unity, a monument that is
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 27, 2020
India’s COVID-19 heroes come under attack
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NEW DELHI: They have been hailed as India’s coronavirus “heroes”, but doctors, nurses, delivery drivers and other frontline workers have been attacked and in some cases evicted from their homes by panicked residents. Some e-commerce giants have even halted deliveries partly due to the harassment of staff, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi said abuse of
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 26, 2020
India’s coronavirus cases tick up despite immense lockdown
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NEW DELHI: Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday (Mar 26) to improve basic services to 1.3 billion people locked indoors to slow the spread of the disease. Streets were silent across India’s cities and towns on the second day of a three-week, 24 hour shutdown as
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 24, 2020
India’s poor, hammered by COVID-19 lockdown, fear for future
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MUMBAI: Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai’s streets for two months last year, unable to make ends meet on his meagre taxi-driving profits of roughly US$5 a day. After he got married in December, his wife put some money towards renting a small apartment, and they moved in together. But with much of India now
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 5, 2020
India’s COVID-19 cases rise to 29, hit major payments firm Paytm
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NEW DELHI: The total number of known coronavirus cases in India rose sharply to 29 on Wednesday (Mar 4), including 16 Italian tourists who had tested positive for the disease as well as an employee of a digital payments company who had travelled to Italy. On Monday, the world’s second-most populous country had only six
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 4, 2020
India’s COVID-19 cases rise to 28, including 16 Italians
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NEW DELHI: Sixteen Italians in India have tested positive for COVID-19, India’s health minister said on Wednesday (Mar 4), as the total number of cases in the country rose sharply to 28. On Monday , the world’s second-most populous country had only six reported cases of coronavirus, but it is one of places US intelligence agencies are
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Commentary: India’s handling of COVID-19 a man-made tragedy
NEW DELHI: “India is walking home,” declared the headline in The Indian Express as newspapers and television screens filled with images of millions of migrant workers, clutching their meagre belongings, trekking along India’s deserted highways to return to their homes, hundreds of kilometres away. Such images were last seen in India seven decades ago, when the