The big news: Oxygen leak in Maharashtra hospital causes 24 deaths, and nine other top stories

Other headlines: Centre increased Delhi’s oxygen supply after top hospitals flag shortage again, and Covaxin showed 78% efficacy in phase 3 interim results.

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· 6 hours ago

Char Dham Yatra cannot be a repeat of Kumbh Mela, says Uttarakhand HC, asks state to issue SOPs

The Char Dham Yatra is scheduled between May 14 and May 18.

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· 10 hours ago

‘Poor and disadvantaged will suffer’: Congress criticises Centre’s new policy on Covid vaccines

The Centre announced that from May 1, states can directly buy the shots from vaccine manufacturers.

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· Yesterday · 07:42 pm

West Bengal polls: ‘Jai Shri Ram a slogan of the people, not of BJP,’ claims Amit Shah

The Union home minister said the people of West Bengal have coined the slogan against the ‘injustice’ in the state under Trinamool Congress rule.

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· Yesterday · 07:50 am

Mamata's cash-transfer state earns her tremendous support – but also generates resentment

Welfare is so fundamental that even communal polarisation and ‘cut money’ complaints fall along lines of whether the person received state benefits or not.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Yesterday · 06:30 am

BJP to stop large rallies in Bengal, to limit gatherings to 500 amid surge in Covid-19 cases

The state Assembly elections are underway amid a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections, with three more phases remaining.

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· Apr 19, 2021 · 10:30 pm

The Political Fix: Why do we know so little about the calculations behind India's vaccine rollout?

A newsletter on Indian politics and policy from Scroll.in.

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· Apr 19, 2021 · 09:30 am

Bengal: BJP releases audio clip of Mamata Banerjee on Cooch Behar firing, TMC calls it ‘bogus’

In the purported clip, Banerjee is heard asking a TMC leader to hold rallies with the bodies of those killed in firing by security forces on April 10.

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· Apr 17, 2021 · 05:16 pm

Coronavirus pandemic caught us off guard again due to Centre’s gross unpreparedness: Sonia Gandhi

The Congress chief expressed concern over shortages of medical equipment, and the Centre’s preferential treatment to states ruled by the BJP.

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· Apr 17, 2021 · 03:48 pm

West Bengal polls: EC notice to TMC leader for comments on Scheduled Caste community

The poll panel said it had received a complaint from the BJP after Sujata Mondal Khan allegedly called members of the community ‘beggars by nature’.

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· Apr 17, 2021 · 01:48 pm

Not Hindutva, not cut money: Biggest reason for BJP’s rise in Bengal might be rigged panchayat polls

Trinamool’s panchayat capture in 2018 acted as an inflexion point, decimating the Left and propelling the BJP to the status of the main opposition party.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Apr 17, 2021 · 09:00 am

As India is battered by severe Covid-19 second wave, where is Narendra Modi and his government?

The prime minister and his Cabinet appear to have abdicated their roles, downplaying the danger of variants, politicising vaccine shortages, encouraging crowds.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Apr 16, 2021 · 09:46 am