Big releases postponed, film, TV and web series shootings halted, theatres unable to screen movies, daily wage employees struggling for their next meal… the Rs 183 billion Indian film industry is going through its worst phase because of the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. While the impact of the lockdown on the industry at large is […]
The countrywide death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 826 and the number of cases climbed to 26,917 on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The country has reported 47 deaths since Saturday night, the ministry said. The total number of cases has gone up by 1,975 since the ministry last updated its data […]
General Bipin Rawat, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) says that the armed forces understand their responsibility in the fight against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and have to ensure that they remain safe to support the people of the country. “As armed forces, we understand our responsibility that at this time when the nation is fighting […]
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday opposed the Central government’s decision to cut back hike in dearness allowance of government employees and pensioners. Singh said that he did not think that at this “stage such cuts were necessary”. In a video message released by the Congress, Manmohan Singh, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, former […]
The COVID-19 lockdown has officially delayed the 2020-21 academic year, with a government-appointed committee recommending that the traditional mid-July start for higher education should be pushed to September. Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16 when the Union government announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as one of the measures to contain the […]
Three fresh FIRs were registered in Punjab against Republic TV channel editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami over his remark on Palghar lynching. In Jalandhar and Phillaur, FIRs were registered on complaint of Congress leaders while in Ludhiana it was registered on the complaint of president of Christian United Federation. In Ludhiana city, FIR has been registered against Goswami […]
New Delhi: The nationwide lockdown in India was timely and if it wasn’t imposed, the country would have seen over 1 lakh positive cases, according to V.K. Paul, NITI Aayog member and chairperson of Empowered Group 1, one of the 11 groups formed to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak. The lockdown in India became a ‘Jan Aandolan’ […]
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said today that plasma therapy showed positive results on coronavirus patients in the capital. Four COVID-19 patients had plasma therapy treatment in Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in the last few weeks. The initial results are positive and encouraging, added Kejriwal. “We are happy with the positive results in the […]
New Delhi: A medical study by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is set to test whether a drug used to treat sepsis and liver cirrhosis can reduce the risk of death in critically ill Covid-19 patients. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has research teams across the world scrambling to find a treatment or vaccine […]
Transactions worth Rs 21,000 crore over four years (2015-2019) done mainly to siphon off funds; falsifying records; a Rs 1,100-crore loan from a “brother to a brother” that violated basic fiduciary norms; sales worth Rs 9,000 crore to over 160 customers who are bogus or do not exist, inflated bank balances and a string of […]