11 Covid sufferers died in India lack of oxygen



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11 Covid sufferers who had been within the ICU died at a central authority health center in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati on Monday night after the availability of scientific oxygen was once disrupted. The deaths had been reported at a time when India is combating a dangerous 2d Covid wave and lack of scientific oxygen has emerged as a key problem.

Traumatic visuals captured the chaos throughout the wards at SVR Ruia Sanatorium as scientific body of workers attempted to save lots of lives, reports PTI.

At the same time as households of sufferers alleged that the oxygen provide was once disrupted for roughly 25-45 mins, Chittoor District Collector M Hari Narayanan mentioned “there was once a five-minute lag in reloading the oxygen cylinder that led to the force to drop,” which resulted in the deaths.

“The oxygen provide was once restored inside 5 mins and the entirety is now customary. We’ve hooked up bulk cylinders and there is not any reason why to fret. A significant crisis was once avoided as a result of fast motion by way of scientific body of workers,” he mentioned.

The prolong in arrival of oxygen tanker from Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu had induced the disaster, he additional mentioned. The health center has a capability of over 1,100 beds; there are over 100 sufferers within the ICU, and 400 on oxygen beds. About 30 docs had been in an instant rushed into the ICU to wait to the sufferers.

Leader Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has condoled the deaths and ordered a probe into the incident.

On Sunday, in neighbouring Telangana, a two-hour disruption in oxygen supply reportedly resulted in the dying of a minimum of 3 sufferers at a central authority health center in Hyderabad, even though the government deny it.

NDTV visited King Koti Sanatorium and met number one attendants of sufferers who showed that for just about two hours, there was once a dip in oxygen provide.

20-year-old Rohit was once in truth taking a spare oxygen cylinder for a replenish. His 38-year-old brother Krishna Chaitanya is within the ICU on the health center.

“My brother’s oxygen pulse score fell to 60. We panicked, so did some 200 others on the health center. Thankfully we had our personal oxygen cylinder within the automotive. Until we fetched it, attendant of a 70-year-old affected person at the subsequent mattress gave him (his brother) oxygen from a spare 2d cylinder that they’d,” Rohit instructed NDTV.

In the previous few weeks a number of tense tales on hospitals in India scrambling to get scientific oxygen have made international headlines amid the combat towards the unconventional coronavirus pandemic.

Ultimate week, a 12-member National Task Force has been set up by way of the Best Court docket to evaluate availability and distribution of scientific oxygen – on medical, rational and equitable foundation – around the nation.

India has logged over 2.66 crore coronavirus circumstances because the pandemic broke; about 3.66 lakh circumstances had been reported the day past.

Andhra Pradesh has reported over 12.87 lakh circumstances up to now; over 22,000 infections had been recorded the day past.

   

We are ashamed to look at the development of Bangladesh: Pakistan PM



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Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif praised the economic progress of Bangladesh and said that they are ashamed to look at the development of Bangladesh.

According to a report by Pakistan-based media Dawn on Thursday (April 25), Shahbaz Sharif said this in a view exchange meeting with business representatives at the Sindh Chief Minister's residence in Karachi on Wednesday (April 24).

He said that before independence, Bangladesh i.e. East Pakistan at that time was considered a burden to the country. But they have made tremendous progress in the growth of industrialization.

Shahbaz Sharif said, I was very young when...we were told that it was a burden on our shoulders. Today you all know where that burden has reached (in terms of economic growth). And now when we look at them, we feel ashamed.

Currently, Bangladesh is ahead of Pakistan in almost all indicators of the socio-economic sector.

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Mass arrests could not stop anti-Israel protests at American universities



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US universities have erupted in protest over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian-besieged Gaza. This pro-Palestinian movement is being suppressed even after mass arrests. Rather, as the days go by, the protests are spreading.

The news agency Reuters reported that police made mass arrests at Atlanta's Emory University amid protests. A graduation ceremony at the University of Southern California was canceled due to the protests.

Emory University officials said protesters not affiliated with the college entered campus grounds early Thursday morning. When they refused to leave, the police used chemical spray to disperse them.

According to CBS News, about 108 people were arrested at Emerson College in the city on Wednesday night local time. Earlier in the evening, 93 people were taken into police custody from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

Anti-Israel protests have spread to dozens of US universities within a week of starting at New York's Columbia University.

Meanwhile, a clash between protesters and police took place at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Later, authorities said that 34 people were arrested from there. These new arrests came after massive arrests of protesters at Columbia, Yale and New York universities.

Students gathered Wednesday (April 24) to protest at the University of Southern California's Alumni Park. At this time they were stopped by the riot police. Protesters were told to leave within 10 minutes by an announcement from a police helicopter. However, the students who remained at the scene were arrested for trespassing.

The protests at the University of Southern California were reportedly peaceful at first. Later the tension spread with the presence of the police. Protesters threw water bottles at the police when they tried to arrest a woman. At this time, they kept shouting slogans - 'Let him go'. Besides, they surrounded the police officers and shouted slogans like 'I want the liberation of Palestine'.

It should be noted that on October 7, the Palestinian independence organization Hamas entered Israeli territory and carried out an ambush. 1200 people were killed. Because of this, since that day, the Israeli forces continue to attack Gaza indiscriminately. 34 thousand 305 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in the attack that lasted for more than six months. Apart from this, there is a severe humanitarian crisis due to lack of food, water and medical equipment.

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Iran is cracking down on women who don't wear Hijab



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Iran is cracking down on women and girls who don't wear Hijab. The country has started a new campaign named 'Noor' from last April 13. Since then, the implementation of the Hijab law has started to become stricter.

Iran has strict laws on wearing the Hijab. Strict action is taken against those who break this law.

Some videos of women being assaulted have gone viral on social media. In them, it is seen that women who go out without Hijab are forcibly picked up in cars by the members of the 'Morality Police'.

A video shows a mother and daughter walking through Tehran's busiest square in the capital. At that time, they were surrounded by five female and two male members of the police. When they tried to evade arrest, they were violently beaten and taken into a car.

Dina Ghalibaf, a female student at Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University, wrote on the micro-blogging site X that she was barred from boarding the metro. When she insisted, she was taken to a room. She claimed that she was beaten and sexually harassed there.

The student was arrested a day after making such a post and taken to Evin prison.

British newspaper The Guardian spoke to some of those arrested. One of them told the media that eight members of the police surrounded her last Saturday. At that time, she was called "prostitute", "naked American prostitute" and insulted her. Apart from this, the young woman claimed that men also touched her during the arrest.



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Boeing incurs huge losses after door open incident



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Boeing lost a huge amount of money due to the opening of the doors of the Boeing aircraft of Alaska Airlines in mid-air. US aircraft manufacturer Boeing reported a loss of US dollar 343 million in the first quarter of this year (January-March).

An unused door on an Alaska Airlines Boeing Max 9 collapsed moments after takeoff from Portland, Oregon last January. Although the Alaska Airlines plane was able to land safely in this incident, questions about Boeing's safety have been raised around the world.

As a result, Boeing reduced the production of the aircraft according to their target. As a result, Boeing is forced to pay huge losses in the first quarter of this year.

After the Alaska Airlines incident, the United States Aviation Agency ordered the grounding of 171 Boeing Max 737 aircraft. In the wake of the incident, Boeing's chief immediately admitted the mistake and promised to fix the problem with 100% transparency. But even this did not save the end. Boeing's CEO was eventually forced to resign.

In order not to cut the heat of this incident, a former Boeing engineer recently talked about the manufacturing defects of the Dreamliner 787. He recommended grounding all Dreamliner aircraft worldwide. In this incident, the safety of Boeing was questioned again.

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