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The diving team onboard INS Makar which went on search-and-rescue ops for the missing crew of Barge P-305 and the tug boat Varapradha, in Mumbai on May 22.

The Navy recovers all missing bodies from P-305, the barge that was hit by Cyclone Tauktae

After a week of searching for 85 missing people who were feared drowned when a barge sank off the Raigad coast on May 17, the Indian Navy said all the

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Father Stan Swamy

“I would rather suffer and possibly die shortly than go to that hospital,” Father Stan Swamy tells Bombay High Court

In what is seen as a tragic turn of events, on May 21 Father Stan Swamy, during the hearing of his case for bail, refused to go to the government-run

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At a drive-through COVID-19 vaccination centre in Ahmedabad on May 12.

The missing dead in Gujarat

The Vijay Rupani government keeps the casualty figures down, maintaining that it only counted those who died of COVID and not those who succumbed to c

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Irfan Engineer, director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism.

Irfan Engineer on the scapegoating of minorities in a pandemic

Interview with Irfan Engineer, director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism.

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Chief Minister Pramod Sawant in a personal protective equipment suit (left) speaking to COVID-19 patients at Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in Panjim after 26 patients in the hospital died in the early morning that day.

In battle of egos between Sawant and Rane, people lose

The shortage of vaccines and oxygen weakens the fight against COVID in Goa and the conflict between the Chief Minister and Health Minister does not he

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A couple bring an oxygen cylinder for a COVID-19 patient admitted at the Goa Medical College, on May 12.

Oxygen availability in Goa ‘quite grim’, alarming rise in the number of COVID fatalities in the last two days

On May 11, a total of 26 deaths occurred between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Goa Medical College (GMC). Health Minist

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Workers building a temporary shade for ambulances transporting COVID-19 patients waiting for admission to the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on April 28.

Gujarat’s one-time claim of being a model State stands exposed by its inability to cope with the second wave of the pandemic

As Gujarat struggles with the increasing number of cases, many activists and noted members of civil society have suggested that the crisis could be ha

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Members of Aangan interacting with some of the volunteers of the women's network.

Aangan, a Mumbai-based organisation, averts 211 child marriages as the pandemic and attendant economic shocks lead to an increase in child marriages

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Opposition MLAs stage a protest in Mumbai on March 10 demanding the suspension of Sachin Vaze for his alleged role in the death of Mansukh Hiran.

Mumbai bomb scare case has shifted to one about allegations of corruption against politicians and police officers

What started out as a probe into a bomb scare incident near the Ambanis’ residence in Mumbai has spiralled into an investigation into allegations of c

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The fire-devastated ICU ward of the Vijay Vallabh Hospital at Virar, Mumbai, on April 23.

Fire at a hospital’s ICU ward in Virar, Mumbai, claims 15 lives

Fifteen people, including six women suffering from COVID-19, died in a fire which engulfed an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in Virar, a nort

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A worker welds a pipe to stop leakage of medical oxygen gas from a storage unit at Zakir Hussain Municipal Hospital in Nashik on April 21.

Oxygen leak in Nashik hospital leads to 24 deaths

As many as 24 COVID-19 patients died after oxygen supply was disrupted due to a leak in the main oxygen storage tank at the Dr Zakir Hussain Municipal

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Relatives of a COVID-19 victim mourn outside the mortuary of a hospital in Ahmedabad on April 15.

Gujarat may soon overtake Maharashtra in COVID numbers

COVID numbers in Gujarat are rising dangerously, straining the State’s poor public health infrastructure. But the government is in denial.

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