‘Modia’ breaks rank: Indian media turns on government over country’s Covid response
The majority of the tightly-controlled Indian media usually tows the BJP line – now some have prime minister Narendra Modi in their sights
27 April 2021 • 6:00pm
A makeshift Covid-19 quarantine facility set up at a banquet hall in New Delhi, India
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Opening up their morning copy of Sandesh, a leading Gujarati daily newspaper, readers were confronted with an unusually shocking scoop.
Reporters had camped outside Ahmedabad Civil Hospital’s Covid wing and, in the process, revealed the authorities in Gujarat had been massively undercounting the state’s Covid-19 death toll.
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2021-04-26 08:05:29 GMT2021-04-26 16:05:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW DELHI, April 26 (Xinhua) The seventh phase of local elections in India s eastern state of West Bengal is underway amid a huge spike in COVID-19 cases, officials said Monday.
The ongoing phase is being held in the shadow of spiraling COVID-19 cases. During the past 24 hours, 15,889 fresh COVID-19 cases and 57 related deaths were reported across the state.
The polling started from 7:00 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. (local time) amid tight security and adequate arrangements, according to officials.
In the ongoing phase, the voting is going on in 34 constituencies from five districts.
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West Bengal elections 2021: Covid-19 fear grips voters as party biggies lock horns
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“Offering better healthcare is our motto, if Sanyukta Morcha is voted to power,” he said. “He had helped people during Covid lockdown and healthcare crisis,” said Asit Das, a resident of a slum on the fringes of Ballygunge’s Bondel gate area.
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There is a complete shift in the voters’ mind in West Bengal from the excitement about the high-decibel assembly poll to the surging pandemic wave in the state. The candidates in South Kolkata’s Ballygunge constituency one of them is a medical doctor are also following the same line.