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Washington reverses vaccine export ban while Downing Street dispatches ventilators and oxygen Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageInternational efforts to help India fight its devastating coronavirus crisis have stepped up as th…
Read MoreThe Indian prime minister’s overconfidence lies behind the country’s disastrous Covid-19 responsePolitical hubris met pandemic reality in India this week. At the beginning of March, the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi claimed the country …
Read MoreDespite enforcing one of the strictest lockdowns last year, the authorities seem unable to cope with a renewed Covid surgeAt 7.52pm on 16 April, Vinay Srivastava, a 65-year-old freelance journalist in Lucknow, the capital city of India’s largest state …
Read MoreA ‘double mutant’ strain, lack of medical supplies and the relaxation of lockdowns have combined to foment disasterIndia has seen a terrifying increase in coronavirus cases in the past few weeks. Tuesday saw another new record when the country racked u…
Read MorePrime minister faces mounting anger as new cases exceed 250,000 a day and oxygen supplies run outCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has warned the country’s resurgence of coronavirus was l…
Read MoreDoctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever beforeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDr K Senthil had feared it was coming.He had feared it as he saw the reckless crush of hundreds …
Read MoreBoris Johnson is hoping to improve relations with rising superpower but many roadblocks stand in his way George Osborne, the former British chancellor, tells the story of how, soon after Narendra Modi had been elected prime minister of India in 2014, h…
Read MorePratap Bhanu Mehta has said his ties to Ashoka University ‘may be considered a political liability’One of India’s foremost public intellectuals, known for his trenchant criticism of Narendra Modi’s government, has resigned from his post at a prestigiou…
Read MoreNearly 140 parliamentarians warn trumped-up charges could result in death penalty for Jagtar Singh JohalNearly 140 MPs and peers have written to Dominic Raab urging him to do more to secure the release of a young Sikh man facing the death penalty in In…
Read MoreA year after the city was engulfed by violence, victims are harassed into silence by police and find the law has turned against themFor a year, Irfan has remained almost entirely in his house, too terrified to leave. A Muslim living in north-east Delhi…
Read MoreMy colleagues reporting on alleged police violence at farmers’ protests have fallen foul of Modi’s governmentThe protests against farm laws that were hurriedly passed by the Indian government in September pose the most severe challenge to Prime Ministe…
Read MoreFarmers protesting against new agriculture laws enter grounds of historic fort as violence breaks outFarmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India broke through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s historic…
Read MoreThere’s a growing backlash against Narendra Modi’s autocratic tendencies and the plutocrat donors who fund his party Narendra Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, has probably never read Lord Hailsham. But maybe he should. The former lord ch…
Read MoreIndia launches bid to vaccinate 300m people amid fears over efficacy of domestically produced vaccineEmerging from Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, Ram Verma, a sanitation worker, breathed a deep sigh of relief. As one of the first in India to receiv…
Read MoreNathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandi’s vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP Last Sunday, in a nondescript building in the India city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, a large crowd of men gathered. Most wo…
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