Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that some people were indulging in profiteering while supplying rapid test kits for COVID-19 to the government and demanded that the Prime Minister take strict immediate action against them. The Congress cited media reports about rapid test kits for COVID-19 being sold at around 150 per cent profits […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s Aarogya Setu application can be misused by Pakistan intelligence operatives by slight tampering of its name, defence sources have told ThePrint. The healthcare application was designed and created in the wake of Covid-19 to collect data on one’s location and cross reference it with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)’s […]
Srinagar: The COVID-19 test of a woman who died after giving birth to two stillborn babies in a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag on Saturday has returned positive. This has caused concern in the area as the body was handed over to her family, who have already conducted the funeral. Experts say the bodies […]
Srinagar: To reach out to maximum students amid the coronavirus lockdown, the School Education Department in Kashmir is starting audio classes from next week in collaboration with the All India Radio, officials said. The educational broadcast will enable students to learn through the medium of radio while sitting in their homes and the idea behind the […]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by minors, according to a statement by a top official. The decision comes on the heels of another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging, replacing it with jail time, fines or community service and bringing one of the […]
Former India paceman RP Singh had a great start to his international career and was even part of the team that won the 2007 ICC World T20. The left-arm paceman though failed to fulfil the early promise he showed, although he continued to perform well in the domestic circuit. During his playing days, he developed […]
India on Monday reported nearly 600 fewer cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) than Sunday even as the country’s infection tally went up to 27,892, the Union health ministry’s data showed. There were 1,396 new cases of Covid-19 and 48 deaths in the last 24 hours as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to interact with […]
Hi there, As of late Sunday night, the number of Covid-19 positive cases in the country stood at 26,917, a little less than the double the 16,116 on April 19 evening, according to the data update on the website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of cases a week previous to that […]
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 […]