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    ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family

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    Yiyun Li lost both her sons to suicide. Her new memoir reveals her as a very special writer

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    A new book suggests ways for professionals to develop AI literacy to thrive in an AI-first world

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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance

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    ‘Sarzameen’ trailer: An Army family is torn between duty and love

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    Uganda, India and beyond: What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about the insecurities of expulsion

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    Why a letter by Chhattisgarh’s forest department ignited protests

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    I saw firsthand how callous prison officials and their negligence led to Stan Swamy’s death

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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch

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Covid-19 crisis: The pandemic has turned into a desperate plea for oxygen and hospital beds

The unrelenting second wave of Covid-19 continues to batter the healthcare system.

Scroll Staff
Apr 29, 2021 · 10:01 am
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अस्पताल में ऑक्सीजन खत्म होने का अनाउंसमेंट..अपना मरीज अस्पताल से ले जाएं..ये गाजियाबाद के राजनगर का गार्गी अस्पताल है.. pic.twitter.com/uEHkMmiKFf

— Pragya Mishra (@PragyaLive) April 27, 2021

Communities helping each other, when no sense of a government or institution that can help exists. This is Oxygen Sewa in Delhi's Bhogal Market area. Video ctsy: Anon. pic.twitter.com/rDb1avjWYR

— Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) April 27, 2021

Watch long queue outside a oxygen cylinder refilling center in Sikandra, Agra (only one side of the facility's main gate).

People have been waiting for over 10 hours, braving scorching heat, to get supply of life saving gas for their relatives in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/qGmREZIaGR

— Deepak-Lavania (@dklavaniaTOI) April 27, 2021

#CoronavirusCrisis | COVID surge grips #UttarPradesh; acute oxygen shortage hits Agra. Watch this ground report by @JournoAshutosh. #Newstrack pic.twitter.com/hsJK8MYAFk

— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) April 27, 2021

Bodies piling up.

Makeshift crematoriums burning nonstop.

Hospitals resorting to social media to plead for supplies.

This is the shocking state of India's COVID crisis.

H/T @amcoren pic.twitter.com/2jtF63ifYN

— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) April 26, 2021

"At least 250 to 300 bodies are brought here daily."

India's crematoriums overwhelmed with pile-up of bodies amid Covid spike https://t.co/DUSa8M1GaK pic.twitter.com/mavMBlNUBb

— The National (@TheNationalNews) April 28, 2021
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