Author: Dr Anand Mali
At the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, India saw an unprecedented demand for medical oxygen. Scores of patients were gasping for breath and those attending them were running from pillar to post to get an oxygen cylinder. Covid-19 situation was not much different in Tamil Nadu, where Chennai resident Seetha Devi lost her mother due to oxygen shortage on May 1. She had Covid-19. To prevent others from struggling like her mother, Ms. Seetha Devi has now started an autorickshaw oxygen service outside the RGGGH where her mother waited for hours. My mother R. Vijaya, who was…
Lawyers of Muhammad Asif Hafeez have claimed that US’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents met the Lahore-born gold and silver trader in Dubai between 2014 to 2017 and asked him about the whereabouts of India’s most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim, 1993 Mumbai bombings, Tora Bora, the Taliban, and Karachi businessman Jabir Motiwala. This may be noted that Hafeez is also known as ‘Sultan’ of the alleged drug selling network that extends from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan to the Middle East and African countries. American agents asked Muhammad Asif Hafeez to help them with information for…
In a heartbreaking incident, a man was forced to bring his daughter’s dead body from hospital by tying it to his car’s seat in Rajasthan’s Kota.The picture of the father taking his daughter’s dead body tied with the seat belt of his car has gone viral on social media. It is alleged that the father was asked for Rs. 20000-35000 by ambulance drivers for a distance of 85 kilometres in Rajasthan. Father was not in a condition to pay this much of the amount and decided to take the body in his car. It happened in Kota city on Monday…
Mallya has repeatedly sought access to funds to meet his mounting legal costs, both in Britain and India. Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya on Wednesday lost an appeal to gain further access to court-held funds to cover his costs for legal proceedings in India. A High Court judge in London held that the 65-year-old had failed to provide sufficient evidence in support of the over 750,000 pounds (nearly Rs 7.7 crore) he sought. The judge said there was no breakdown and no invoices in support of the amounts being sought. “The banks have repeatedly asked for this information and Mallya has…
Flight ticket and travelled as the only passenger on board an Emirates flight from Mumbai to Dubai on May 19. Bhavesh Javeri, 40, thus enjoyed an exclusive flight on a 360-seater Boeing 777 aircraft. “I stepped into the aircraft and the airhostesses all clapped to welcome me aboard,” Bhavesh Javeri said. Bhavesh Javeri, who has boarded over 240 flights between Mumbai and Dubai so far, added, “I have flown so much, but this is the best flight ever.” On the flight, meanwhile, Bhavesh Javeri had a great time conversing with the crew as well as the commander, who also offered…
A viral message has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp claiming that French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier has said that “all vaccinated people will die within two years” and that the COVID-19 vaccination drive is a “big blunder.” This message is FAKE. The fake message claims, “Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier has confirmed that there is no chance of survival for people who have received any form of the vaccine. In the shocking interview, the world’s top virologist stated blankly.” The fake message was linked to a report in LifeSiteNews, which is a Canadian far-right anti-abortion advocacy…
The Telangana government cancelled a Hyderabad hospital’s license to treat COVID-19 patients and issued show-cause notices to three other hospitals on May 18. These stern measures come a day after the Telangana High Court directed the state government to seriously look into overcharging by hospitals in the state. Dr G Srinivas Rao, Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, announced the action taken on the private hospitals Dr Rao told the media that they received 26 complaints on the WhatsApp number that the department had provided, for citizens to lodge complaints against private hospitals that are overcharging them. “Three hospitals…
The Centre again revised the gap between the two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield – a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) last week. At the beginning of the vaccination drive in January, the two doses were meant to be administered with a gap of four-six weeks. Later, the Centre revised it to four-eight weeks. Last week, it said that the doses of the vaccine are to be administered 12-16 weeks apart, following a recommendation by a government panel, saying it was a “science-based decision”. The central government has lately come under a lot of criticism over…
A symbol of national pride and vital part of Japan’s transport infrastructure, the famed high-speed “bullet train” got some unwanted attention from regulators this month after the driver briefly abandoned his controls to take a bathroom break leaving the futuristic, aerodynamically elongated N700S and its 160 passengers to hurtle along the tracks at 93 miles-per-hour (150 kmph) A Japanese train driver faces possible punishment after he left the cockpit of a speeding bullet train for several minutes to go to the toilet. He had asked a conductor, who did not have a driver’s licence, to man the train which was…
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has launched an investigation into a case of 161 passengers on board a chartered SpiceJet flight flouting onboard Covid norms while attending a mid-air wedding ceremony on Sunday. Because of a brutal new coronavirus wave that saw India’s death toll pass 300,000 on Monday, most states only allow 50 guests at weddings but 161 friends and family of the newlyweds were on the jet on Sunday. The flight, operated by SpiceJet and chartered by a Madurai businessman, took off from Madurai and landed back in the city after a two-hour “joy ride” on…