Today s column addresses questions about whether Congress will correct an issue caused by Covid-19 that could mean lower lifelong benefits for those born in 1960, potential repercussions of Social Security overpayments and withdrawing a retirement benefit and reverting to survivor s benefits.
Thanks for queues for oxygen, hospital beds, outside crematoriums : Rahul to Modi govt
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi accused the government of misreading and mishandling the situation and alleged that all early warning signs were ignored, including from scientists
PTI | May 2, 2021 | Updated 08:24 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at fault. He runs a highly centralised and personalised government machinery, Rahul Gandhi said in his interview to PTI
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with PTI, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the entire world is shaken by the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in India and there are queues everywhere, whether for oxygen cylinders, for life-saving medicines, for hospital beds and even outside crematoriums.
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NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday sparred with the Congress over the latter’s “unsolicited” supply of oxygen cylinders to foreign missions and also asked the diplomatic community to not hoard oxygen which remains scarce in the city. This followed reported efforts on social media by two foreign missions to source oxygen cylinders from Indian Youth Congress chief BV Srinivas who has become the ‘go to’ person for Covid-related help on Twitter.
The New Zealand high commission tweeted on Sunday morning from its official handle tagging Srinivas and his team about an urgent requirement for oxygen. Later though, it deleted the tweet and said in another tweet that it was trying all sources to arrange for oxygen cylinders urgently and its appeal had “unfortunately been misinterpreted, for which we are sorry”.
With massive security measures in place and elaborate Covid-19 safety precautions, counting began at 8am across the state. Photo by S Lenin
CHENNAI: Initial trends in counting for the Tamil Nadu assembly election on Sunday pushed M K Stalin’s DMK in the lead with the ruling AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam not far behind. In the Union territory of Puducherry, the AINR Congress-BJP alliance established a lead ahead of its Congress rival.
In the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha by-election, Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of H Vasantha Kumar, whose death due to Covid-19 caused the vacancy, was ahead of BJP’s Pon Radhkrishnan.