Another four people were arrested in the past 24 hours until Thursday morning in connection with the clashes and vandalism carried out by Hefazat-e-Islam activists and supporters in Brahmanbaria last month. So far, 55 cases have been filed and 387 people arrested over the violence, the police
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Negligent manslaughter.
That’s the only way to describe the Modi government’s abominable, grotesque mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. India has passed the grim milestone of 200,000 dead. Every day, more than 350,000 Indians are added to the 18 million COVID cases already recorded.
Every four minutes someone dies of COVID in the nation’s capital, Delhi with infection rates spiking among younger people. Hospitals are overflowing: often, two COVID patients share a bed.
Beset by oxygen shortages, hospitals are sending SOS tweets begging the government for supplies. There’s looting of oxygen canisters from hospitals at gunpoint. Haryana’s Health Minister accused the Delhi government of stealing his state’s oxygen tankers. State governments have deployed armed police at oxygen production plants.
Biden administration says it’s consulting ‘nonstop’ with India with first aid shipment en route
The Biden administration has been consulting “nonstop” with the Indian government on their priorities as the country grapples with a catastrophic coronavirus surge that has left its healthcare system on the brink of collapse, according to a top US Agency for International Development official.
Jeremy Konyndyk, the senior advisor coordinating agency-wide Covid-19 efforts at USAID, told CNN Thursday that the shipment of supplies on its way to India “has been developed really closely in coordination with them.”
Those shipments the first by the Biden administration left Travis Air Force Base in California aboard a US Air Force aircraft on Wednesday and are expected to arrive in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Friday morning local time. A third shipment will leave Travis Air Force Base on Friday with PPE, oxygen, test kits, masks.