Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday had a meeting with Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and discussed the academic calendar of educational institutes in the backdrop of COVID-19 crisis. “The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu had a meeting with Union HRD Minister, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ at Upa-Rashtrapati Bhawan today […]
If the SARS-CoV2 virus spreads deeper into the country, India’s poorest states face a potential triple burden of disease in the face of Covid-19, data from states on disease and death shows. States like Bihar not only have the poorest health infrastructure and a high level of communicable and respiratory diseases, but their populations also […]
New Delhi: An Army doctor, involved in the force’s operation against the Covid-19 pandemic, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while a colleague of his, who was exhibiting symptoms, has tested negative. Army sources told ThePrint that the doctor, a lieutenant colonel-rank officer, had not travelled abroad, but was a visitor to quarantine centres being […]
Hours after Mumbai witnessed a protest by migrant workers demanding arrangements to go home, the Delhi government swung into action, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the city’s transport head urging people to not fall for rumours on availability of buses at the city’s exit points. Kejriwal issued a short video message, in which he requested migrants from Uttar […]
Railways is set to cancel around 39 lakh tickets booked for travel between April 15 and May 3 due to extension of the nationwide lockdown and suspension of passenger trains till then in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told PTI. With the national transporter allowing tickets to be booked during the 21-day lockdown […]
For the third consecutive day, new cases of novel coronavirus infection in Kerala remained in single digits, a possible indication that the health department’s sustained contact tracing measures and testing protocol is finding effect. The state reported eight new cases of infection Tuesday, five of which were due to travel history from Dubai and the remaining through […]
In Lockdown 2.0 beginning on Wednesday, Ministers as well as the states will now combat the coronavirus crisis by marking the areas as Red, Orange and Green zones. These zones will be declared as per the number of coronavirus-affected people. Sources indicated that a consolidated report submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office from the Home […]
India has the largest postal service in the world – and now it is stepping in to help deliver lifesaving medicines during a countrywide lockdown aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The BBC’s Ayeshea Perera in Delhi reports. Red postal vans are a familiar sight in India. They make thousands of journeys every day, criss-crossing […]
Mumbai: “It is a horrible thing to be a daily wage labourer in such times, but even worse is to be a Muslim labourer from (West) Bengal,” says 30-year-old Ershad Hossain, a worker at a local garment shop in Wadala’s National Market. On April 11, Hossain had walked over three kilometres from the National Market to […]
Congress leader P Chidambaram has said that his party supports the government’s decision to extend the lockdown till May 3 but added there was nothing new in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Tuesday morning. “We understand the compulsion for extending the lockdown. We support the decision. But beyond the lockdown, what was […]