NDTV TOP STORIES
1. Following the shocker from the government in Parliament that no deaths were reported due to the lack of Oxygen in the second wave by states. Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain slams the Centre. The Shiv Sena demands a case against the government for lying in Parliament. 2. From across India, countless families describe how a desperate ordeal for oxygen during the second Covid wave was faced by them. In Lucknow, a 61-year-old man died at home gasping for breathe as his oxygen cylinder ran out. 3. Doctors also contradict the government's claim on no oxygen deaths. Delhi's Batra hospital lost 12 people to oxygen shortage. The hospital director tells NDTV, ' we lost one of our own'. 4. A big jump in India's tally of Covid cases and deaths, India reports 42,015 Covid cases and close to 4,000 deaths. This is because Maharashtra's backlog is added to the daily tally after the state revises its data. 5. Parliament standing committee on information technology headed by Shashi Tharoor, will take the matter related to Pegasus surveillance on the 28th of July. 6. Eid celebrations around the country amid the Covid pandemic. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweet their greetings.
