India played down new mutant Covid strains to avoid panic – but this may have backfired: “Had it been more widely known that a faster spreading variant was at play and that it was capable of immune escape, perhaps more care could have been taken"

Data fudging: Bhopal crematoriums flooded with bodies: 187 cremated following Covid norms while records show only 5 deaths; newspaper exposes biggest cover up of Covid deaths figures by the Gujarat government: 300 deaths in just 2 hospitals in Vadodara since April 7th, while official number stands at 16

Government asleep at the wheel: For foreign covid vaccines like Pfizer, India is in the queue with 12 other countries because India delayed its approvals and never entered into any pre-purchasing agreements over the past year

Health minister Harsh Vardhan indifferent to the pandemic: in a meeting today, Harsh Vardhan said he was disappointed with the progress in approving research projects on indigenous cows; He expects 'significant' progress on cow science front before PM speech on 75th Independence-Day

Indian government wants to limit entry to a small mosque citing covid, but on the very same day as it allowed 2.8 million people to gather for the Kumbh on a single day