Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh Saturday issued an order to manufacture triple-layer khadi masks in its efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The order was issued during a high-level meeting, chaired by the chief minister, with ‘Team-11’ officials to review the state’s preparedness to tackle Covid-19 and also to take […]
With India reaching the halfway point in the 21-day lockdown, the government has started deliberating on the way forward at the end of the national coronavirus lockdown. From a common exit strategy to a phase-wise restoration of services, here is a list of options that are before the government once the lockdown ends at 11.59 pm on […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called an all-party meeting on April 8 to discuss the situation arising out of the coronavirus. This is the first meeting of Modi with political parties on the outbreak of the deadly virus and comes days after the country has been put under a preventive lockdown. A letter from parliamentary affairs […]
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the government on Saturday put curbs on export of diagnostic kits with immediate effect. “The export of diagnostic kits (diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, preparation diagnostic or laboratory reagents)… is restricted with immediate effect,” the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification. The move […]
As the cases of coronavirus touched nearly 3,000 in India on Saturday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare urged people to use homemade face masks even if they didn’t show symptoms of the infection. The ministry said that along with social distancing, homemade face covers would effective in maintaining personal hygiene and will ensure overall hygienic health conditions. “It […]
Early this week when the security establishment and health workers came close to completing the evacuation of 2,300 people from the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in central Delhi, investigations led the police to conclude that there were more foreigners staying in different mosques in the national capital. On 31 March, the Delhi Police sent an urgent message […]
New Delhi: From readers’ fear of physically picking up copies, to newspaper vendors being denied entry into residential complexes to advertisers withdrawing ads, the newspaper industry has been facing demand, supply and logistics-related challenges ever since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. In Delhi, the print orders of two major newspapers have allegedly dwindled from around […]
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Friday informed the Delhi High Court that in a “lockdown situation”, it is “not possible for this Ministry to organize any evacuation of Indian nationals from Bangladesh or any other country”. “The severe risk posed by arrivals from an increasing number of countries affected by COVID-19 is something that the government […]
New Delhi: A medical team from the Army was deployed at the Narela quarantine camp in Delhi Friday where some of the coronavirus-infected patients from the Tablighi Jamaat event are being kept. This is the first time the armed service has been deployed at a civil centre set up to handle the coronavirus cases. So far, the Army’s […]
The emergence of Nizamuddin Markaz, the headquarters of Islamic organisation Tablighi Jamaat, its members have come under severe criticism for flouting the guidelines issued in the wake of Coronavirus outbreak. However, Maulana Arshad Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, says there was a serious lax on the part of Delhi Police in handling the Tablighi Jamaat issue. In […]