SC to Centre: Arrange bhajan, namaz to prevent panic among migrants New Delhi, March 31 The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to rope in community leaders of various faiths to conduct ”bhajan-kirtan” and ”namaz” to check panic among migrant workers in shelter homes amid the coronavirus outbreak. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the […]
The home quarantined coronavirus suspects and patients will have to send their selfies on the Quarantine Watch, a mobile application developed by Karnataka government’s revenue department to keep a track of the isolated persons. The government warned the home quarantined people that they will be sent to mass quarantine centres if they violate the rule. […]
At least twenty-four more people, who attended the religious congregation in Nizamuddin’s Markaz, the Delhi headquarters of Tablighi Jamaat, have tested positive for Novel Coronavirus, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. Jain said he was not certain about the number of people who attended the gathering but estimated that 1,500-1,700 had assembled there. The minister […]
A gathering at a mosque in Nizamuddin West mid-March has emerged as the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak not just in parts of the region now put under strict lockdown, but in Telangana, which announced Monday five Covid-19 related deaths of persons who were part of this gathering. It is also being linked to cases in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil […]
New Delhi: The Department of Science and Technology (DST), which functions under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Monday released a fund of Rs 1 crore to help a Pune-based start-up scale up the production of a device that promises to significantly reduce the presence of the novel coronavirus in a closed room within an […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has decided to stick to schedule and start the 2020-21 academic session for schools from the first week of April through online classes. If the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted by mid-April, the government is also looking at conducting the remaining Class 10 and Class 12 board exams in the first week of May. Amit […]
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, infecting millions worldwide, a team of scientists has discovered that Covid-19 could have spread among humans for years or even decades before now. According to findings published in the journal Nature Medicine, the virus could have possibly been transmitted from animals to humans much before it was first detected in Wuhan province of […]
Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has written a strongly-worded letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the exodus of tens of thousands of migrant workers from the national capital Delhi over the weekend that forced the Centre to ask bordering states to seal their borders and look after the migrants. The missive was sent after […]
Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor has tested positive for Coronavirus for the fourth consecutive time, causing considerable concern to her family. Kanika, who was hospitalized on March 20 after she tested positive for Coronavirus, had returned form London on March 9 and then travelled to Kanpur and Lucknow and during her stay she developed cough and fever. After […]
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Sunday asked all states and Union territories to allow transportation of all goods, without distinction of essential and non-essential, during the lockdown period. The home secretary made it clear that the newspaper delivery supply chain was also allowed under exemptions given for print media. In a letter to chief […]