Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been calling for a financial package for the poor and has asked the government to provide Rs 6,000 into their accounts to tide over the current crisis.

Restating that everyone is watching what is happening in India with concern, IMF director Gerry Rice said its economic impact will depend on path of the pandemic and how long serious situation goes on.

According to latest reports, at least 14 people have died. However, aided by fake news, BJP has led a misleading campaign on this violence.

Every aspect of COVID-19 treatment is as an opportunity for graft in India, it said, and asked govt to set up “anti-corruption control rooms” up to the district-level for relief.

Both trips are seen as significant as these developments suggest a thaw in ties between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Allahabad High Court strongly berated the UP government after stories of citizens begging for oxygen with authorities went viral on social media and ordered an inquiry.

In conversation with Srinivas B.V., president of the Indian Youth Congress.

The court lashed out at the Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma who said, "Let us not go into the rhetoric that people are dying."

Rakesh Mishra, a member of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequencing Consortia (INSACOG), which is advising the government on virus variants, says experts had warned in March that it was “very very clear there is real danger and a threatening situation”.

It is imperative for governments to move beyond pandemic towards the “new normal” and get their economies back on track while grappling with the constraints created due to spread of the pandemic.