Indian diaspora struggles to help a homeland ‘gasping for air’
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Workers refilling oxygen cylinder at an Oxygen refilling plant. 60 Covid Care Centres spread across Sangli district require 500 tonnes of oxygen daily
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. Updated: 01 May 2021, 07:09 AM IST Bloomberg
Jaspreet Rai is desperately trying to do her part for the country she left more than 30 years ago: help its people breathe.
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Jaspreet Rai is desperately trying to do her part for the country she left more than 30 years ago: help its people breathe.
Rai, 53, who moved to Endicott, NY, the birthplace of IBM from Punjab, in India, is the founder of Sanrai International, a provider of oxygen concentrators. With India now the epicenter of the pandemic, counting about 3,500 Covid-19 deaths daily, and oxygen supplies running out, Rai has rushed to help her former homeland cope with its worst crisis in recent history.
NEW DELHI, India The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee’s tireless efforts today bore fruit when its team of lawyers succeeded in securing bail for 18 farmers arrested by the Delhi police about January 26’s incident. These 18 farmers were facing severe criminal charges, like an attempt to murder and robbery, after being indicted in three false FIRs registered in Alipur and Nangloi police stations.
Sharing the development with the media, DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa informed that the Delhi police had falsely imposed severe criminal charges on these farmers so that their release could be delayed for a long time. “With the grace of the Almighty Lord, our lawyers have succeeded in securing bail for them,” he added.