9 April 2021
Prime Minister calls for “tika utsav”, a festival to vaccinate between April 11 and 14; no clarity on how the vaccination drive will differ from the days before and after it; and what the target is
Two Pakistani news sites reported that the current round of negotiations allegedly date as far back as to 2018; India’s sidesteps Pakistani reports on back-channel dialogue
Reports of vaccine shortages continue: from Noida, Ghaziabad, Mumbai; shortage of oxygen and Remdisivir in various parts of India including Nashik as covid cases spike; crematorium in Lucknow full
The Supreme Court allows detention of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and the move to deport them back to their parent country Myanmar, where there is an ongoing genocide against them
The Data Scandal: Gadkari's ministry sold India's vehicle data to a pvt firm for cheap; The Indian firm in turn cut a deal with a German one; Officials woke up too late to the privacy breach; The cat had escaped the bag