Front Page At PM-CMs meet: Covid surge peak likely mid-May, challenge until July, infra… (GS-2) Price, distribution: States want clarity from Centre (GS-2) India taps channels for urgent supplies, US hints ready to help (GS-2) Second Surge Mumbai third sero survey: 36% have Covid antibodies (GS-2) Government exempts oxygen, key equipment from Customs duty, cess … Read more
Front Page Customs duty on vaccines, oxygen waived for 3 months (GS-2/3) Will hang anyone obstructing oxygen supplies, warns Delhi HC (GS-2) 384 rescued, 10 bodies recovered after avalanche in Uttarakhand (Prelims – Avalanche / GS-3) Business RBI to issue cybersecurity norms for payment services (GS-3) Profiles A space for science, experiments and unity (GS-3) … Read more
Front Page Delhi on its knees, Chief Minister Kejriwal urges PM Modi: need your… Serum Institute’s Rs 600/dose for Covishield in private hospitals is its highest… Covid hearing: Salve pulls out as amicus, SC flays criticism of order Railway, IAF on job, must not stop any oxygen tanker: PM Modi tells surge states Second Surge … Read more
Front Page As oxygen supply dips, 25 die in Delhi hospital (GS-2) Centre allots 5 kg of grains free to poor (GS-3) Rising prevalence of U.K. strain in Delhi (GS-2) CJI pushes T.N. to let Sterlite plant reopen (GS-2/3) Business SBI trims GDP outlook on COVID wave (GS-3) ‘RBI intent is key to curb further … Read more
Front Page Delhi, UP, Gujarat, Haryana oxygen demand outstrips supply ; PM holds crisis meeting (GS-2) Second wave will not affect big reform push, says Nirmala Sitharaman (GS-2) SC move to take up Covid-19 cases follows censure of Centre, it… (GS-2) April, November last year: Officials, House panel flagged oxygen need, shortage (GS-2) Nine and … Read more
Front Page We expect national plan from Centre on oxygen, drugs: SC (GS-2) Centre cracks down on curbs to oxygen movement (GS-2) New cases cross 3.32 lakh; 2,247 more deaths (GS-2) Create special corridor for oxygen supply to Delhi, HC directs Centre (GS-2) Business Retail asset quality concerns re-emerge as cases surge: ICRA (GS-3) COVID … Read more
Front Page Serum lists one price for centre, one for state govt; unprecedented and unfair, say states Pfizer: Will supply Covid-19 vaccine only through government channels Second Surge Serum announces covishield price, to make 10 – cr doses a month by July Five more states announce free vaccine, Gehlot asks Centre to make it free … Read more
Front Page Centre steps in to restore oxygen supplies to Delhi (GS-2) Saving lives the bottom line, HC tells Centre (GS-2) Very few post-vaccine infections: ICMR (GS-2) Covaxin phase 3 trial shows vaccine has 78% efficacy (GS-2 / Phase 3 trials) India at 142nd rank on press freedom index (Prelims) India adds 3.15 lakh cases, … Read more
Front Page Need to do our best to avert lockdown, states should use it only as last resort : PM to nation ‘Crisis in HCs’, Supreme Court sets timeline for Govt to clear judges’… SC stays HC lockdown call as UP says infringes domain, will trigger… Second Surge UP, Assam govts announce free vaccination to … Read more
Front Page Use lockdown only as absolute last resort, Modi tells States (GS-2) HC order for lockdown in 5 U.P. cities stayed by top court (GS-2) Ban industrial use of oxygen now, HC tells Centre (GS-3) U.S. currency watchlist an intrusion into policy: official (GS-2) Business Govt. says container shortages resolved (GS-3) Local curbs have … Read more