Covid’s deadly new wave with 200,000 new daily cases recorded: Many Indian hospitals overwhelmed by COVID surge as beds, oxygen fall short; Crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle To Keep Up As Covid Deaths Rise

Effect of Covid: Rich Got Richer & Poor Poorer; Stocks went up Rs 90.8 lakh cr in 2020-21; interest rates crashed Middle class shrunk by 3.2 cr; number of poor went up 7.5 cr; 1.66 cr people dropped out of workforce, while working pop went up 2.88 cr

Communal media: after a man named Mahesh defiles Hanuman idols, channels that are viewed by lakhs of people daily add false Muslim angles to stroke tension and violence

Delays by Modi government in permitting foreign covid vaccines and no pre-purchase agreements has meant that Moderna is ‘not keen’ & Pfizer has ‘conditions’ before they make an India launch

State persecution of dissenters: Journalist Siddique Kappan in jail for six months now for going to Uttar Pradesh to report on gang rape case; Delhi Court Grants Bail to Umar Khalid in a Delhi Riots case because of the lack of evidence and ‘sketchy’ material, pointing to false charges