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If People Can t Breathe, What Will They Do With a New Parliament?
Families of COVID-19 patients are angry with the government s focus on the vanity project even as the pandemic crisis continues.
Healthcare workers assist a COVID-19 patient out of an ambulance outside a south Delhi hospital. Photo: Tarushi Aswani
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New Delhi: Reshmi stands next to a body covered in white shroud laid on a stretcher. As the hospital guards question the purpose of her arrival, she says, âI have just come for a death certificate for my father, please let me in.â Pushing her fatherâs body with healthcare workers, Reshmiâs isn’t crying anymore. But her eyes reveal a deep-seated disappointment.
Plea to Halt Central Vista Project: Delhi HC Reserves Judgment as Centre Adopts Adversarial Role
Although both the Centre and the PIL petitioners recognised the right to health as part of right to life, the Centre refused to admit the risks to health in continuing the construction during the pandemic.
Construction is underway for the Central Vista project. Photo: Seraj Ali
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New Delhi: In most public interest litigation (PIL) cases, where the petitioners and respondents agree on the principles involved, the latter are magnanimous enough to declare to the court that they would not treat the petitions as adversarial, and instead explore how best to address the concerns raised in the petition.
Watch | Post-Poll Violence in West Bengal and Fake News Ecosystem
In conversation with Himadri Ghosh, a journalist based in West Bengal.
Video10/May/2021
After the declaration of results of the state assembly election in West Bengal, news of violence from various parts of the state began to be reported.
The re-elected Trinamool Congress government acknowledged that 16 people had died in the post-poll violence. However, other parties, including the BJP, have alleged that the numbers are higher and that at least 20 people have died.
According to the families of the deceased, nine from BJP and eight from the TMC have claimed to have lost kin in the violence. A member of the CPI(M) and a supporter of the Indian Secular Front have also been reportedly dead.
The Show Must Go On: IPL and the Crematorium Next Door
What news may be more uplifting to a gasping COVID-19 patient than that our own Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma have just blasted sixes that carry the red cherry all the way to the crematorium, asks Badri Raina in this satirical piece.
Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell of the Royal Challengers Bangalore during an IPL match. Photo: PTI
There is that old adage: âmisery loves company.â
In India, especially, there is no dearth of small-time moralists who pontificate that when children, women, men are unable to breathe outside hospital gates, by the roadside, in make-shift mortuaries, waiting to die for the lack of a sick bed, oxygen, not to speak of medicine, everybody should be grieving.