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Around 11,30,928 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose and 6,02,304 beneficiaries received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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outlookindia.com 2021-05-14T11:43:34+05:30 On May 9, Mahavir Narwal, father of Natasha Narwal, a student activist who led the Pinjra Tod movement, died of Covid. He could not meet, or talk to, his daughter before he died. She had been in Tihar Jail for over a year, charged under UAPA. If you had to pick any moment that exemplified the character of the Narendra Modi regime, this small story is perhaps as emblematic as any. It is a reminder, in miniature, that the Modi government, as it completes its seventh year in power, is presiding over unfathomable scenes of death and suffering...
outlookindia.com 2021-05-14T12:19:39+05:30 India, the land of contradictory existence, displays an ingrained philosophy of detachment balanced with the quest to gain eternity. The latter impulse seems to have taken hold of the present government, goading it to remain steadfast on its decision to create its own Ozymandian architectural legacy—the Central Vista project in New Delhi. Coming up at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore ($2.8 billion), the ongoing initiative has been categorised as an essential service even amid mammoth pandemic misgovernance that has resulted in innumerabl...
outlookindia.com 2021-05-14T11:49:01+05:30 The ancients, across cultures, thought seven denoted perfection. Modern psychologists called it “the magical number”. There are seven colours, seven swaras, seven rishis. But in recent Indian political history, the number hasn’t been all that auspicious. The UPA’s stars were in the ascendant till that year of its reign. And now, as the Narendra Modi epoch completes its own seventh, as the regime surveys the darkened landscape all around, and as the pandemic-hit people of India gaze back at it through ash and smoke, we seem to be in th...