New Delhi: The story of a man living with three wives and 32 children inside a jhuggi has been doing the rounds on social media since Saturday. The post includes the photo of an old man, surrounded by three women and many children. One user, Vivek Kumar Sharma, shared the post on Facebook, which has since […]
IN WHAT could be an indication of a potential lifting of the ongoing countrywide lockdown, state-owned Air India announced on Saturday that it has opened bookings for some domestic flights from May 4 and certain international flights for travel June 1 onwards. Other domestic airlines including IndiGo have also opened bookings for certain sectors. For […]
STATES which have received rapid test kits, either from the Centre or sourced independently, are devising own strategies on how to use them. While some like Chhattisgarh plan to use these as tracers to check for community transmission, others like Goa and Karnataka are prioritising it for persons with ILI (influenza-like illness) symptoms, some others […]
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday came under fire from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the leading opposition party in the state, for not evacuating it students from Kota in Rajasthan but its ally, the Congress, sided with the state government. Lalu Prasad’s heir apparent and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav squarely […]
As India entered the 24th day of the lockdown, the death toll due to the virus increased to 452 and the total number of cases neared the 14000 mark. As per the Health Ministry, a total of 1007 cases and 23 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said there has […]
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday asked journalists in the state to highlight positive news amid the Covid-19 pandemic, saying negative reports were leaving people “depressed”. “This is not my opinion, I have heard this. People are getting very depressed seeing negative news all the time,” she said in a video address to the media […]
Following the central government’s decision to extend the nationwide lockdown till May 3, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday announced a string of relief measures for the stressed banking and financial sector. Das announced a cut in the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 3.75 per cent. […]
Nuh (Haryana): Mufti Zahid Hussain Qasmi Sadar, the headmaster of the nearly 100-year-old Bada Madrassa in Nuh, Haryana, where the Tablighi Jamaat has a deep presence, is seated with a group of associates. Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and wearing a skullcap and red keffiyeh, the 45-year-old is animatedly discussing a media report about the Jamaat’s alleged violation […]
The 170 districts identified as coronavirus disease (Covid-19) hot spots across the country are home to about 37% of India’s population, with Tamil Nadu accounting for the most “red zones” – 22 of its 37 districts – among the states, according to the government’s data. On Wednesday, the Union health ministry declared 170 districts in […]
The United States has provided nearly USD5.9 million in health assistance to India to slow the spread of COVID-19, the State Department said Thursday. The amount is being used to help India hinder the spread of the disease by providing care for the affected, disseminating essential public health messages to communities and strengthen case-finding and […]