Devastating Coverage
Riyaz Wani
PM Modi during an election rally at Bihar in October 2020
The ongoing catastrophe in India has attracted a hell lot of bad press internationally. Major foreign newspapers, portals and television stations have blamed the Indian government for creating and precipitating the current crisis. This is the second time after the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019 that foreign media has been so roundly critical of Delhi.
In one case, the foreign ministry issued a rebuttal to an article published in
The Australian. The article was originally published in the British newspaper,
The Times written by Phillip Sherwell with the headline,
The senator in-charge of the upper house's investigation into the government's handling of the crisis said that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro refused to purchase Covid-19 vaccines, preferring to rely on herd immunity to defeat the coronavirus.
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