-The Indian Express A native of Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur, Kumar was preparing for a 25-hour bus ride to his hometown with his family of 10 in fear of a lockdown. Ranchi: AROUND ONE month ago, Anuj Kumar, a brick kiln worker in Gujarat’s Sathara, heard from a local NGO worker that the government had started a new scheme – One Nation, One Ration Card (ONORC). “The purvata mamlatdar [provisions official] asked me to...

-Newsclick.in The deeper rot in agriculture can be overcome through more far-reaching reforms, starting from an overhaul of pre-capitalist land relations and relations of production that continue to shackle productivity and are at the root of aggravating poverty, unemployment and inequality in rural India. It has been more than five months since farmers from different parts of the country began protesting in Delhi. They have been unflinching when it comes to their...

-Twocircles.net Pyare Khan from Nagpur has spent around Rs 1 crore for procuring oxygen tankers, oxygen concentrators and cylinders. Through newspapers, he learnt about the severe shortage of oxygen in hospitals and wanted to contribute to addressing the shortage of oxygen in his city. Everyone can recognize an entrepreneur when seeing one, but no one knows how they became one. Was it in their nature – they were just born to build...

-NDTV.com Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra were given more oxygen than they asked for, the Delhi High Court said. New Delhi: States like Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra were given more oxygen than they asked for, but Arvind Kejriwal government's repeated appeals were not granted, the Delhi High Court said today, questioning the Centre about the rationale involved. The Central government has to either show justification for this or "make amends", said the two-judge...

-Newslaundry.com The Standing Committee on Health highlighted shortages of medical oxygen and hospital beds. The government seems to have ignored its report. As the second wave of the pandemic rips through the country, the public is asking two big questions. How prepared was the government? Did it anticipate a crisis of this magnitude to hit India? Turns out, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare produced a report in which it...