Tag: India government
On the ground and afar, diaspora boosts India’s virus fight
India's large diaspora — long a boon to India's economy — is tapping its wealth, political clout and expertise to help its home country...
India’s virus surge damages Modi’s image of competence
NEW DELHI — India’s hospitals were packed with coronavirus patients, relatives of the sick scrambled to find supplies of oxygen, and crematoriums were running...
Indian government faces lockdown calls, contempt charges
NEW DELHI — India's government faced calls for a strict lockdown to slow a devastating surge in new coronaviorus cases, and a court in...
Donors race to aid India during COVID-19 surge
The catastrophic wave of Covid-19 in India has prompted donors to send millions of dollars to the country, which Tuesday crossed the grim mark...
India’s deepening water crisis at the heart of farm protests
RANSIH KALAN. India — Every year, Swarn Singh sows rice in his fields, knowing that the thirsty crop is draining northern India's Punjab of...
India’s COVID-19 human crisis spirals with record new cases
NEW DELHI — India’s coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open up its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a...
India grieves 200K dead, with likely many more uncounted
NEW DELHI — Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove...
Asia Today: India records 320K cases as foreign help arrives
NEW DELHI — India recorded more than 320,000 new cases of coronavirus infection Tuesday as a grim surge of illness and death weighed on...
New UK aircraft carrier to set sail for Asia next month
LONDON — A fleet of British warships and military aircraft billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K....
SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system
NEW DELHI — Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his...
