13 April 2021
Madhya Pradesh government concealing data of both corona cases and Covid deaths: “On Sunday, there were 17 deaths due to Covid in the state capital; The health department had revealed in its health bulletin for Bhopal a figure of 547 corona cases with just two deaths”
Super-spreader events: Polls and Covid go hand-in hand in Bengal, state now has third highest fatality rate in India; Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand says, “If you take the blessings of Mother Ganga in Kumbh, there should be no corona”; meanwhile Haridwar sees a huge spike in covid cases amid massive Mahakumbh gathering
Days after denying a shortage of vaccines and criticizing the opposition for demanding foreign vaccine approvals, the government approves foreign covid vaccines for emergency use in India
Covid accelerates India's millionaire exodus: India's wealthy have topped a list of people seeking to relocate abroad through visa programmes that offer citizenship or right of residence in other countries in return for investments
Mounting debt, lack of govt support driving Telangana tenant farmers to suicide: According to Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV), a farmers’ rights organisation, a staggering 80% of farmer suicides in Telangana are by tenant farmers