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This news broadcast covers monsoon impacts across India, including 354 percent excess rainfall in Uttarakhand that triggered landslides and closed 187 roads, alongside a landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, which claimed five lives.
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00:01Hello and welcome. I'm Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor. This is 5 Live.
00:05On the programme today, we've got three stories in focus for you.
00:08Number one, we start with the monsoon misery.
00:11Well, if you're anywhere across the country, you must have noticed it already.
00:15Monsoon has pretty much creeped in all over.
00:18It is raining cats and dogs if you are here in the national capital
00:21or perhaps in most part of the country.
00:23But we are still under deficit.
00:25But even with that one or two days, sometimes one or two hours of rainfall,
00:30it seems like our cities are just not prepared and are coming to a standstill.
00:34Not just that, people are dying because of the monsoon shower.
00:38Is this really man-made or is this a weather-changing pattern?
00:42We look at that story on the programme.
00:44Number two story, and this is the one, the hero story of the day,
00:47which is about the quota deaths, remember.
00:51Second drug which was tested on the new mothers,
00:57administered on the new mothers, tested this time around, has failed the test.
01:01Remember, we brought you the story of the fake oxytocin.
01:04Turned out it was just water.
01:06Now, there was another drug which was given to these mothers
01:09that has also failed that test.
01:11What exactly is it and who's going to take responsibility?
01:14We look at that story.
01:15And then, there is a story coming in from Mumbai and this will break a several hearts.
01:20The, you know, Rustam's, if you've ever been there in Mumbai,
01:24is not just an ice cream parlour.
01:28It is a place that used to take you back in the time.
01:31It was caught up in so much nostalgia.
01:33But Dad has got shutters down because could not meet the hygiene standards.
01:39The story there will be brought to you on the programme as well.
01:43But first up, as always, let's talk about the headlines of this hour.
01:49Monsoon has brought fresh chaos to the national capital region
01:52while Delhi escapes the worst of the downpour.
01:55Its neighbouring cities bore the brunt.
01:57Kasiabad and Noida witness severe waterlogging
02:00with roads inundated, traffic crawling and daily life thrown out of gear.
02:05Overflowing drains and flooded streets once again expose the region's drainage
02:09wounds, even as IMD has warned of more heavy rain in the coming hours.
02:18A massive rescue operation is underway in Pune
02:21after a huge amount of garbage collapsed onto a building
02:24at a waste-to-energy plant following heavy rain.
02:27The three-storey structure there was crushed
02:30when the accumulated waste gave way like a landslide.
02:33Almost six to eight workers are still believed to be trapped under the debris
02:38that's a developing story we've got our eyes on.
02:42Meanwhile, landslides is not news only in north, in south,
02:46why not landslide has reopened old wounds in Kerala.
02:50Three days after the tragedy, the death toll has risen to six,
02:53while two people remain missing as rescue teams continue to intense their search
02:58in difficult terrain.
02:59Now remember, the disaster has revived the memories of the devastating 2024 landslide
03:03that claimed hundreds of lives, over 300 people had died at the same spot two years ago.
03:10So what really happened?
03:11Leader of the Opposition, Nair Vijayan, visited the site today,
03:15reviewed rescue operations and alleged lapses in preventive measures.
03:19But he was the Chief Minister when the landslide took place two years ago.
03:24What exactly happened then and how exactly have things changed?
03:27What exactly is the ecological system in the area?
03:30What are they telling us?
03:31All those answers coming up on the show.
03:35Meanwhile, Prime Minister is in Australia for the second leg of the three-nation tour,
03:39where he held delegation-level talks with Australian Prime Minister.
03:42Two leaders announced the series of agreements that they have signed now,
03:48including a uranium supply pack, cooperation on critical minerals,
03:52counter-terrorism, future technologies and support for India's Gagan Yan mission.
03:56The leaders also reaffirmed their commitment to freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific.
04:06The controversy over Dulji Dosan Satlaj is escalating.
04:09A public interest litigation has been filed in Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking immediate restoration.
04:16The petitioner argues that the film was removed without any statutory, judicial or even government order,
04:21violating constitutional rights to free expression and access to information.
04:25Meanwhile, Shiromani Akali Dal, the SAD, has announced that it will screen the movie across Punjab despite the ban,
04:32while the Congress has demanded its restoration and AAP has called the takedown an attack on artistic freedom.
04:39This is one story that has reunited a lot of political parties in Punjab ahead of polls.
04:48It's double trouble for Trinamul Congress in West Bengal.
04:51In a major action, ED has frozen three TMC bank accounts holding 440 crore followings.
04:58A search is linked to an alleged money laundering probe involving the Carewell Group.
05:03The TMC has dismissed the action as politically motivated, insisting all donations were legally declared to the Election Commission and
05:11the Income Tax Department.
05:12Meanwhile, a fresh political controversy has erupted after a video surface showing Mamata Banerjee slapping a TMC worker during a
05:19protest rally.
05:23Mumbai's iconic K. Rustam and Company in Churchgate has been ordered to shut down after Maharashtra Food and Drug Administrator
05:30suspended its food license
05:32over alleged serious hygiene violations during a surprise inspection.
05:36FD officials reportedly found live rats, house flies, unsafe storage of daily products as well and food items without mandatory
05:44labels, batch numbers or even manufacturing dates.
05:50A major breakthrough in diabetes care has arrived in India.
05:53Novo Nordisk has launched the world's first once-a-week insulin for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
06:02The new therapy reduces the number of insulin injections from 365 a year, that's a daily injection, to just 52,
06:09aiming to ease the burden of daily injections and improve treatment adherence.
06:13Priced at 2,611 for a 700-unit pack, the economy says that the therapy is about 30-40%
06:23cheaper than many existing daily insulin options.
06:29West Asia conflict has flared up once again just weeks after a U.S.-Iran peace deal had raised hopes of
06:36de-escalation.
06:37United States carried out fresh strikes on multiple locations in Iran, including Bandar Abbas and also Chabahar port and also
06:47several other places.
06:49Visuals that are on your screen right now released by the Iranian military show that the Bandar Abbas port engulfed
06:56in flames with thick smoke rising into the sky.
06:59Meanwhile, Donald Trump declared that the deal with Iran is over.
07:05In retaliation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Corps and Navy targeted multiple U.S. military installations across the Gulf using missiles
07:13and drones, including the U.S. 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain.
07:17Salman Port there and in Ali Al-Salman Air Base in Kuwait.
07:23Now, Bahrain has sounded warning sirens and urge residents to take shelter amid fears of further strikes.
07:28Meanwhile, Trump said that he is Iran's number one target and remains on a hit list himself.
07:39Alright, let's talk about the big story that we are tracking.
07:43The Great Indian Monsoon, once again, turning into India's greatest annual mess.
07:50From rivers, carrying away LPG cylinders.
07:53That's right.
07:54We'll go to those pictures full frame also for you to see exactly what's happening there.
08:00There are hundreds of LPG cylinders that are just washed away by the flooded scenes.
08:05Look at that.
08:08Hundreds of LPG cylinders just washed away in what is said to be a very, very dangerous act.
08:20All of this happening in Draigarh, Maharashtra.
08:24Authorities have warned that anybody near should not be taking any of these cylinders
08:30or getting greedy by it or, you know, trying to access these cylinders at all
08:35because they were potentially dangerous as well into what, how exactly they are put out right now.
08:43Nearly 3,000 LPG cylinders, both filled and empty, were swept away after floodwaters breached the HPCL LPG bottling plant
08:52at the Patal Ganga.
08:54Dramatic visuals show gas cylinders floating down the swollen river, triggering a major recovery operation.
09:00The Draigar District Administration has also appealed to the public not to keep or tamper with any recovered cylinder.
09:40The story is similar in Gujarat Surat.
09:42The floodwaters have finally receded, but the devastation is only beginning to surface.
09:46The city's traders are now counting massive losses after an intense spell of 15 to 18 inches of rainfall in
09:54just a few hours.
09:55Floodwaters submerged major commercial areas, leaving textile go-downs, mobile phone shops underwater for more than 24 hours.
10:05As water is finally being pumped out, the scale of destruction is becoming clear.
10:09Trade bodies say goods worth crores of rupees have been damaged, while several mobile shops owners have estimated losses of
10:1850 lakh to almost a crore each.
10:23Look at the condition of those shops there in Surat.
10:26Traders have blamed blocked drainage due to an ongoing bridge construction project,
10:32even, as Fausta says, the final damage assessment will begin only after the basements are completely cleared of water.
10:51The floodwaters have been damaged, while the floodwaters have been damaged, while the floodwaters have been damaged.
11:07This is the textile market of this building, and in this building, there are two floors go down, and the
11:15two floors go down are the basement, and the basement is complete.
11:18This is the textile market of this building, and the building, there are two floors go down, and the building,
11:26there are two floors go down, and the building is complete.
11:55This is the textile market of this building, and the building, there are two floors go down, and the building
12:08is complete.
12:34This is the textile market of this building, and the building is complete, and the building is complete.
12:54And the story is erringly similar in UP's Ghaziabad as well. From Crossing Republic to Indra, you know, Indrapuram there,
13:03roads remain heavily waterlogged with overflowing drains.
13:07And contaminated sewage spilling onto streets, disrupting traffic and daily life.
13:12In a dramatic incident near Atal Chowk in Vasundra, a road caved in after the ground gave way near an
13:19under-construction site, sending a Tata Punch car over there on your screen, as you can see, into a large
13:26pit.
13:26A scooter also fell into that ditch, while police diverted traffic, and cranes were brought in to retrieve the vehicles.
13:44Due to incessant rain in the last more than 24 hours, massive waterlogging can be witnessed in various parts of
13:52Delhi NCR.
13:54Right now, I am present at National Highway 24, and this is the area which connects Akshar Dham to Merit,
14:02and then goes towards Haridwar, and then to Uttarakhand.
14:05Right now, from where I am reporting, is the area which falls between Vijayanagar and Lalkuwa of Ghaziabad.
14:12And here, you can see, as to how massive waterlogging can be witnessed, various vehicles can be seen, stuck in
14:22traffic.
14:22Traffic of more than 2 to 3 kilometers can be seen here, and due to massive waterlogging, many vehicles are
14:31stuck.
14:31Ambulances are also stuck in these traffic jams.
14:35You can see, as to how one ambulance is also crossing this traffic jam, which has happened due to the
14:42incessant rain.
14:43And because of that, waterlogging can be seen here.
14:46Yes, there are officials from NHAI, local authorities have also reached here to clear the traffic, to clean the water
14:55which has been accumulated here.
14:56But due to the continuous rain, waterlogging continues to be there, and this is certainly causing havoc on the lives
15:06of common man.
15:08People are facing a lot of problems due to incessant rain.
15:11Various vehicles have now broken down, and these vehicles are parked here on National Highway itself.
15:18And there is one more story, one more visual, which I can show you.
15:21This is the story of NS24, but on the left side, left pavement of NS24, there is another road which
15:28connects the National Highway.
15:30And there also, you can see, as to how one vehicle has broken down, and it is stuck there, you
15:35know, in drainage.
15:36And because no authority turned up there to help the commuter, the owner of the vehicle had to leave the
15:44spot by locking, by leaving his vehicle here at this very spot.
15:51So the situation is actually becoming worrisome.
15:54People are stuck in traffic for hours and hours, and there is no solution which is being provided to the
16:01common man.
16:02I am Pius Mishra in Gazibad for India Today.
16:07And across Delhi NCR, relentless rain left road submerged, traffic crawling and normal life disrupted.
16:13In Meheroli, for example, streets turned into pools of water, forcing commuters to wade through flooded roads and endured long
16:20traffic snarls.
16:21In east of Kailash, strong winds uprooted a tree near the Iskorn Temple, while another tree collapsed, was reported nearby,
16:27underscoring the risks posed by intense weather as well.
16:31With more rain on the way, the IMD has now placed Delhi under a red alert.
16:36Warning of heavy downpours, thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds as civic agencies brace for another spell of monsoon chaos.
16:46The year has changed, but the situation hasn't.
16:51On the onset of monsoon, this particular picture from the national capital, from Lutian zone, exposes the preparation of the
17:01agencies, civic agencies in the national capital, more so in the Lutian zone, which comes under the NDMC.
17:09We are standing right in front of the apartments where several member of parliament live.
17:17This is Narmada apartment entry point, which is three more apartments connected.
17:24On the other side is another row of apartments where our members of parliament live.
17:31And even last year, we had a situation at BD Marg, where you had water logging till your knee.
17:41And the reason being is that there is no possible way for this water to get out.
17:49And somebody from the NDMC has to come here, literally open the manhole in order to ensure that the water
17:58logging is dealt with.
17:59And because of that, the commuters, the locals who live here, the staff who work at the flats of MPs,
18:07all of them have to face problems.
18:10So this has become a regular or rather annual feature where somebody from the NDMC will have to come here
18:17at BD Marg to deal with the water logging, to open the main hole for this particular water logging to
18:25be dealt with.
18:25And why the agencies are not working properly, you know, in advance for this, we don't know.
18:32But last year, we had extreme water logging here up till the level of your knee.
18:38And this year, even when there is no heavy rainfall, this is either light rains or moderate rains since morning.
18:46Even then, the situation in the National Capital and Lutian Zone, right outside the apartments of the members of parliament,
18:54this is what it looks like right now.
18:57Water logging, water which is stagnant, and it is waiting for the NDNC officials to respond to this situation with
19:06video journalist Anurag Saxena.
19:08This is Amit Bhardwaj reporting for India today from Delhi.
19:14Three people, meanwhile, have died after an under-construction three-story building collapsed in Delhi's Rohini on Wednesday evening.
19:20Five people were pulled out of the debris during an overnight rescue operation, but three could not be saved.
19:26Delhi police have now launched an investigation to determine whether construction norms are violated or negligence led to the clause.
19:34Of course, in the victim, I had to find out some other direction of the building,
19:41and even the train was removed from Delhi to the police.
19:47But this is still a new vehicle that has arrived here.
19:55There are a lot of machines here.
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21:31Let's move on to Mumbai then.
21:32Mumbai's monsoon isn't just flooding roads, it's bringing danger crashing down from above.
21:37In just eight days, the BMC has recorded a staggering 1,696 tree fall incidents across the city.
21:44Let me say that number one more time.
21:471,696 tree falling incidents across the city in just eight days.
21:54That's like deforestation.
21:56The worst was July 6th when 523 trees and branches came down in a single day, followed by 428 more
22:06on the 7th of July.
22:08Every fallen tree is a potential threat to lives, homes, vehicles.
22:12Remember, one had fallen on a school bus and an 11-year-old died.
22:15With more rain forecasts, the growing number of tree fall incidents are raising fresh questions over the city's preparedness and
22:22whether enough is being done to prevent the next tragedy.
22:26But look at the numbers here.
22:29All of these are numbers from just one year.
22:32If I put it all together and compare it to the previous year, something happened this time around which has
22:38led to these massive trees falling on the road with just one spell of shower.
22:44The environmentalists in Mumbai say it is all because of concretization, which is leading to roots weakening and trees falling.
22:54Otherwise, this number of over 1,600 trees in just about eight days is unprecedented, never heard of.
23:06But moving from Mumbai to Pune, there, a massive rescue operation is underway in Pune after a major incident at
23:12a waste-to-energy plant in Moshi.
23:1523 workers were feared to have been trapped after a huge amount of waste collapsed onto a building following days
23:22of relentless raid.
23:23So far, there have been one casualty.
23:2514 workers have been rescued, while eight are still fear-trapped beneath the debris.
23:32Dramatic drone visuals there captured the scale of the collapse, as teams from NDRF, the Army as well, and the
23:39Fire Department raced and are practically trying to race against time to try and rescue those who have just come
23:46crashing down with the load of the debris.
24:16Dramatic drone visuals, at the same time,
24:19But let's move on to another part of the country which is facing unprecedented monsoon, a 354% excess rainfall,
24:30and that is just in 24 hours.
24:32I'm talking about Uttarakhand.
24:34Uttarakhand is reeling under an intense monsoon assault with the state recording a staggering 354% excess rainfall in just
24:4424 hours.
24:46Haridwar, Uddham Singh Nagar and Terry witnessed extremely heavy rain, triggering landslides, rockfalls, widespread disruption.
24:55At least 32 roads have been closed after debris blocked key routes, while rivers and streams continue to swell.
25:06The IMD has again issued a red alert for several districts, warning of more heavy, very heavy rainfall over the
25:12next two days.
25:13Rescue and emergency teams have been pulled into alert, as well as authorities urge people to avoid unnecessary travel.
25:20So many of us run to the hills.
25:22It's time to be very, very cautious.
25:25This visual telling you a very, very disturbing story.
25:34My colleague Ankit Sharma joins us live from Dehradun for more on this.
25:37Ankit, every monsoon we hear of these stories, year after year, the governments change, chief minister change, but nobody has
25:46been able to solve the problem.
25:49There is something fundamentally going wrong in the way we are expanding and constructing in our hills.
25:55Uttarakhand being a tragic, tragic, you know, victim of unprecedented construction, unchecked construction, and the nature is giving back.
26:08Yes, absolutely.
26:09Sonal, the basic flaw which we are committing is dearing into the nature, and the nature is revenging heavily and
26:16badly.
26:17Every year, we see tremendous energy coming from nature and devastation.
26:22We saw Dharali in Chamoli, and we have seen 2013 Kidarnath tragedy as well, killing thousands and thousands of people.
26:31But we haven't learned a lesson yet, and every year, it comes our way.
26:36This year, we were expecting that the monsoon will shift, and the pattern was changing during the early days of
26:44monsoon arrival on 1st July.
26:46In our ground report, we showed that how Dehradun and Haridwar and Udamsilnagar were heavily impacted by the heavy rainfall.
26:54Now, the monsoon is shifting towards the hills, and our red alert has also been issued.
26:59So far, 187 roads have been closed in many hill districts of Uttarakhand, including Dehradun and Udamsilnagar plain areas.
27:07The mostly affected area is in Podi, which is about 35 road closures so far.
27:14Landslide reports have been emerging from different parts of Uttarakhand, including Teeri,
27:19where we also saw last evening that how a big structure caved in heavily, because the construction was done on
27:28identical flow.
27:29My question to you is very simple.
27:32I want to understand, what is the government doing about it?
27:35The BJP government in Uttarakhand has been promising tourism, but what about ecology?
27:42Have they acknowledged this? Is there a special team working on it?
27:45What is the plan of action?
27:48Well, the government has been busy in making statements, and so far we haven't seen any structural changes in their
27:56policy and respect towards the environment, per se.
27:59But we have seen rampant construction and cutting of forest, and the construction we saw in Teeri, like I was
28:07explaining that in Teeri, huge construction caved in heavily towards the slope,
28:12because the construction was made on a 90 degree slope on a hill.
28:16Now, you can imagine that the fragile Himalayan areas are very, very brittle, and they are just growing.
28:23They cannot tolerate heavy structures on their heads, and that is why whenever the calamity struck, whenever there is a
28:31rock falling or landslide,
28:33the heavy structures also come under the damage or under the ambit of such devastation.
28:41And we have seen that how people lost life, and people are buried under the debris as well.
28:48Okay.
28:48So, we have to learn a lesson yet.
28:50But yet to learn a lesson, the government, you are saying, has not made any concrete plan.
28:54There is no plan to sort of understand, and for me, the story is not just about not planning for
28:59the monsoon,
29:00and, you know, unregulated construction.
29:02For me, the story is also of corruption, because for somebody to build a house like that, there must have
29:07been something going wrong for somebody to give clearance as well.
29:11So, this is clearly a story of corruption as well that one has to see.
29:14But for the moment, thanks, Ankit, for joining us with the very latest.
29:22Meanwhile, the story of poor construction, bad planning, not preparing, not keeping, you know, construction and development in sync with
29:32the environment is a story that goes across the country.
29:35It's pan-India.
29:36It's not just in Delhi.
29:38It's not just in metros.
29:39It's not just in Uttarakhand.
29:40It's down south as well.
29:42Because look at the visuals coming in from Vainar.
29:45On the 7th of July, 2026, landslide at the Kalyadi near the Mepati in Kerala's Vainar district was a disaster
29:53waiting to happen almost for Kerala,
29:55which has witnessed extreme weather events almost every year since 2018.
30:00The Mepati tunnel road was never an ordinary construction.
30:05In fact, an entire infrastructure project as well.
30:07Remember, it was in the same Vainar district where two years ago, a massive landslide had again taken hundreds of
30:14lives.
30:15So are we not learning the lesson?
30:17The government has changed.
30:19Have they not realized the problem?
30:21Or is there a larger ecological question at play?
30:24I took those questions to my colleague and she brings us this report from ground.
30:50Two years ago, Kerala woke up to one of the biggest tragedies in its history,
30:54the Vainar-Mundakai-Churumala landslide in which more than 100 people lost their lives and many people are still missing.
31:13Two years later, we're back in Vainar covering one more landslide in which five people have lost their lives as
31:19of now
31:20and three people are missing.
31:21Now, this region, Kalladi, where this landslide took place is very close to Churumala-Mundakai.
31:26It's on the way to Churumala-Mundakai region and repeated incidents like this are raising a lot of concerns among
31:32the citizens of Vainar,
31:33especially people living close to Mepati, where these two landslides have taken place in a span of two years.
31:39Now, this raises more concern also because there's a tunnel construction going on,
31:44a tunnel project construction going on connecting Kori Kod and Vainar
31:48to ease the connectivity problems of the residents of Vainar.
31:51Now, this project was launched by the previous LDF government
31:54and the UDF government who were in opposition at that time had raised concerns,
31:58opposed the project, raising concerns regarding environmental concerns.
32:02Now, the UDF government, after coming to power, did not issue an order stopping this project.
32:07The construction continued because, you know, earlier we've seen how the people of Vainar
32:11were positive about this project because it eased their connectivity problems.
32:15It saved around 70 kilometers time between Kori Kod and Vainar as the people of Vainar depend on Kori Kod
32:23for a lot of requirements, especially medical emergencies.
32:26So, in that case, this was a positive project.
32:28See, this was project seen positive by the people of Vainar.
32:32But the concern here is regarding the safety measures.
32:35Now, the government did get environmental clearance to, you know, to begin the construction of this project.
32:42But there were concerns raised back then also regarding the environmental concerns,
32:47regarding the studies that were conducted of constructing a project in ecologically sensitive zones like this.
32:54Now, when we spoke to some of the public representatives,
32:57they say that there is a soil nailing method that's been used here, which is not ideal,
33:02considering that, you know, this is very ecologically sensitive.
33:05Our land, our soil is very sensitive.
33:07The climate is very sensitive.
33:09You know, when you look into all those factors, the soil nailing is not a right method.
33:14Now, the government said that this is a man-made disaster as the construction company did not remove
33:18a certain set of mud that was accumulated despite giving orders.
33:22The construction company says that was not the region where the landslide took place.
33:26So, a lot of confusion, a lot of clarity needs to be brought in and that will be brought in
33:30after the detailed analysis and detailed reports submitted by the subcommittee
33:34that will be appointed to probe into the incident.
33:36Based on that, the government will take another call, take a call regarding whether this project can be continued.
33:42With the death toll rising in families still waiting for news of the missing,
33:47this disaster has once again brought the spotlight on Mepadi's fragile terrain.
33:54Experts have long warned about unstable slopes, extreme rainfall and unchecked development in these hills.
34:02As rescue operations continue, the focus will inevitably shift from relief to accountability
34:08and whether enough has been done to prevent history from repeating itself.
34:14With Sri Moll from Wayanad in Keralam, Bureau Report, India Today.
34:21So, you see, the story is the same from north to south, from east to west, from metros to, you
34:28know, rural centers as well.
34:30The monsoon fury, just a week of monsoon really in most of the country has brought people, lives to a
34:36standstill.
34:37And we simply do not seem to be understanding why or even raising a question.
34:43We're talking about raising questions. Let me take you to the next story.
34:46Remember the Cota maternal deaths probe?
34:48We reported extensively on this story and brought to you the disturbing question of fake oxytocin.
34:55Remember in those stories, we pointed out that oxytocin injection, another drug,
35:00which is oxytocin, by the way, is a drug that is given to sort of stop the bleeding at the
35:05time of a cesarean,
35:07you know, operation that takes place.
35:10They had found water in it.
35:12Then an AIMS team had gone in to sort of review the entire situation and what they have found is
35:17that it was not just oxytocin that was fake.
35:20Another drug has failed quality test.
35:24This is Dino-Prostone gel, a medicine routinely used to induce labor during childbirth.
35:30That has been declared substandard by the Rajasthan Drug Department.
35:35Investigators say that the gel contained only 50% of the prescribed active ingredient and also failed the mandatory wage
35:41uniformity test,
35:43meaning the batch should not meet two critical quality standards.
35:47Now, what makes the findings even more serious is that this wasn't a privately sourced medicine.
35:53The drug was supplied through the Rajasthan government's procurement system and had reached the new medical college hospital in Kota,
36:00where the maternal deaths were under investigation.
36:04The government has since frozen the entire batch in Kota, blocked its supply across Rajasthan,
36:09and directed hospitals not to use the medicine while the drug department carries out a detailed investigation.
36:16Now, remember, this is the second drug to fail quality test in Kota Probe after oxytocin.
36:23Notably, like I told you, AIMS team had recommended testing multiple other medicines as well used during the treatment,
36:29and the latest report has intensified concerns over the quality of drugs supplied to government hospitals.
36:35The questions are also now becoming impossible to ignore.
36:39How did a substandard labor-inducing drug enter the government supply chain?
36:43Were pregnant women administered these medicines that failed quality standards?
36:47How many hospitals received the affected batch?
36:50And are more government-supplied drugs under scrutiny?
36:54And above all, who will be held accountable if poor quality medicines put lives at risk?
37:01Let me take all these questions to my colleague, Sharath, who's been reporting on this story.
37:06He joins us live from Jaipur.
37:09Sharath Ji, we've told you that oxytocin, which was not oxytocin medicine, was not water.
37:14Now, the gel that is put into labor-inducing drug, is also a substandard.
37:20The minister also gave a statement in that time, that they didn't come to dance, and they said that dehydration
37:28can also be due to the death.
37:29But whatever the family you talked about, our team talked about, everyone said that they were healthy mothers.
37:35There was nothing wrong with them, and they lost their life, only because the hospital did not do its due
37:42diligence.
37:43I want to know one thing.
37:45In all these inquiries, what was the action that happened in that hospital, the procurement of your inspectors, the DG,
37:55the in charge of the hospital,
37:58is there any action that happened, any compensation for the families, who also gave their daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter's
38:06daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter?
38:08Thank you very much.
38:47Thank you very much.
38:49Thank you very much.
38:52Thank you very much.
39:25I am going back to you.
39:27I have to send out what the drug we have for,
39:34and how bad we have been sent to you.
39:38How many people have been sent to you?
39:42This drug is called Kotech Health Care Company.
39:47What is the drug in the country?
39:51foreign
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40:28เคนเฅ,
40:28เคฏเคนเฅ เคฌเคกเคผเคพ เคธเคตเคพเคฒ เคนเฅ เคเคฟ เคเคคเคจเฅ เคฌเคกเคผเฅ เคธเคเคเฅเคฏเคพ เคฎเฅเค เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคคเคพเคจ เคเฅ เค
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40:41เคฎเฅเคซเฅเคค เคฆเคตเคพ เคนเฅ เค
เคเคฐ เคจเคเคฒเฅ เคจเคฟเคเคฒเฅ เคคเฅ เคซเคฟเคฐ เคเฅเคฏเคพ เคนเฅ?
40:44เคจเคนเฅเค เคถเคพเคฐเคค เคเคชเคเฅ เคชเฅเคฐเฅ เคฌเคพเคคเคเฅเคค เคธเฅ เคคเฅ เคเค เคนเฅ เคฌเคพเคค เคธเคฎเค เคฎเฅเค เค เคฐเคนเฅ เคนเฅ เคจเคพ,
40:48เคเคฟ เคเคชเคจเฅ เคเคเคชเคจเฅ เคเฅ เคฌเฅเคฒเฅเคฎ เคเคฐ เคฆเคฟเคฏเคพ, เคฒเฅเคเคฟเคจ เค
เคธเฅเคชเคคเคพเคฒ เคเฅ เคเฅเคฏเคพ เคเฅเค เคเคฟเคฎเฅเคฎเฅเคฆเคพเคฐเฅ เคจเคนเฅเค เคฌเฅเค เคคเฅ เคนเฅ,
40:52เคเฅเค inquiry เคจเคนเฅเค เคฌเฅเค เฅ เคนเฅ,
40:54เคนเฅเคฒเฅเคฅ เคฎเคฟเคจเคฟเคธเฅเคเคฐ เคเฅ เค
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40:56เคเคจเคเฅ เคเคชเคฐ เคเฅเค เคจเคนเฅเค เคธเคตเคพเคฒ เคเค เคพ เคฐเคนเคพ เคนเฅ, เคเคฟ เคเคชเคเฅ เค
เคเคกเคฐ เคฎเฅเค เคนเฅ เคเฅเคธเฅ เคฐเคนเคพ เคนเฅ,
41:00เคเคฐ เคฌเคพเคเฅ เคเฅ เคฐเคฟเคชเฅเคฐเฅเคเฅเคธ เคเคพ เคนเฅ,
41:02เคเคคเคจเคพ เคนเคถ-เคถ เคคเคฐเฅเคเฅ เคธเฅ เคเฅเคฏเฅเค เคเคจเฅเคตเฅเคธเฅเคเคฟเคเฅเคถเคจ เคนเฅ เคฐเคนเฅ เคนเฅ,
41:05เคเฅเคฏเคพ เคเคฐเฅเคฌ เคเคเคธเคพเคจ เคเฅ เคฒเคพเคเคซ เคฎเฅเคเคฐ เคจเคนเฅเค เคเคฐเคคเฅ เคนเฅ?
41:12เคฌเคฟเคฒเฅเคเฅเคฒ เคธเฅเคจเคพ เคฒเค เคฐเคนเคพ เคนเฅ เคเคฟ เคเฅเคธเฅ เคตเฅ เคเคพเคฐ เคนเฅเค เคเคฟ เคงเคฟเคฐเฅ เคงเคฟเคฐเฅ เคเคเคเฅเคตเคพเคเคฐเฅ เคเฅ เคนเฅ,
41:16เคเคธเคเฅ เคฐเคฟเคชเฅเคฐเฅเคเฅ เคเคฏเฅ เคคเคฌ เคคเค เคฒเฅเค เคญเฅเคฒ เคเคพเคเค,
41:18เคฏเฅ เคญเฅ เคเคฎเฅเคธ เคเฅ เคเฅ เคเคเฅเคธเคชเคฐเฅเค เคเคฏเฅ เคฅเฅ เคเฅเคเคพ เคฎเฅเค,
41:21เคเคจเฅเคนเฅเคเคจเฅ เคเคนเคพ เคนเฅ เคเคฟ เคเฅ เคฆเคตเคพเคเค เคเคช เคฏเฅเค เคเคฐ เคฐเคนเฅ เคนเฅ,
41:23เคเคธเฅ เคเค เคฌเคพเคฐ เคเฅเค เคเคฐเคพเค, เคเคธเคเฅ เคฌเคพเคฆ เคฏเฅ เคเฅเคเคฟเคเค เคเฅ เคฒเคฟเค เคเค เคนเฅ,
41:27เค
เคญเฅ เคญเฅ เคเฅเคฒเคเคคเคพ เคเฅ เคซเคพเคเคจเคฒ เคฐเคฟเคชเฅเคฐเฅเค เคเคคเฅ เคนเฅ,
41:30เคตเคนเคพเค เคธเฅ เค
เคญเฅ เคญเฅ เคชเฅเคฐเฅ เคคเคฐเคน เคธเฅ เคฐเคฟเคชเฅเคฐเฅเค เค เคเค เคนเฅ,
41:33เคจเคนเฅเค เคเค เคนเฅ, เคฌเคคเคพ เคจเคนเฅเค เคฐเคนเฅ เคนเฅเค, เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคคเคพเคจ เคเคพ เคฏเฅ เคฐเคฟเคชเฅเคฐเฅเค เคนเฅ,
41:36เคนเฅเคฒเฅเคฅ เคฎเคฟเคจเคฟเคถเฅเคเคฐ เคเฅ เคฆเฅเคเคฟเค, เคนเฅเคฒเฅเคฅ เคฎเคฟเคจเคฟเคถเฅเคเคฐ เคฌเคนเฅเคค เคเคผเฅเคฏเคพเคฆเคพ เคเคธ เคตเคฟเคซเคพเค เคฎเฅเค เคเฅเค เคฆเคฟเคถเฅเคฏเคธเฅเคชเฅ เคฒเฅเคคเฅ เคจเคนเฅเค เคนเฅ,
41:41เค
เคญเฅ เคญเฅ เคตเคน เคฌเคนเฅเคค เคเคฎ เค
เคชเคจเฅ เคเคฟเคฒเคพ เคนเคตเฅเคฒเฅ เคนเฅ, เคจเคพเคเฅเคฐ เคฎเฅเค, เคตเคนเคพเค เคเฅ เคฐเคพเคเคพ เคนเฅ,
42:01It is very difficult to get out of the health minister.
42:18We have to send the hospital to the medical college in the hospital.
42:21What was the procedure in the lab?
42:23Look at the go-down, where these drugs are kept.
42:27There are so bad things.
42:29The system is so bad.
42:31The principal or the doctor have been done with the doctors.
42:35But the principal or the superintendent has not done with it.
42:37This is political posting.
42:39The job is reduced.
42:42You are sending the report every day.
42:44We are sending the report every day.
42:46We are running the whole segment on the channel.
42:49We will request you that we are sending it.
42:52We are sending it to this story.
42:53We will tell you how many tests have been sent.
42:55We must ask questions from the hospital,
42:58who have given their whole pill.
43:00They are all the wrong things.
43:02They are all the labs that are making their medicines.
43:05It may be wrong.
43:06But they are also responsible.
43:09Our money is going to the hospital.
43:12No tax payers.
43:12People are going to trust them.
43:14How has it happened to them?
43:16How has it happened to them?
43:17We must leave this story.
43:18We will not leave this story until you get to the conclusion.
43:21And people will not get to know.
43:23With that, we are going to close the program today.
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