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Health workers and others before performing burial of a person who died of COVID-19 in Jammu, Saturday, May 22, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Breaking news: âPM Modi chokes during virtual meet with doctors, frontline workers of Varanasiâ, May 21, 2021
It was the tears that Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually shed while addressing the medical and frontline personnel of his parliamentary constituency on May 21 that made news, not the fact that nowhere in that speech was there the slightest acknowledgment of the failures of his government, or a smidgeon of regret that so much devastation has happened under his watch.