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 […]
Five suspected militant associates of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were arrested by joint forces in north Kashmir’s Sopore sub-district on Monday. Police said the arrests were made by joint teams of Police, Army’s 22 RR and CRPF’s 92 battalion. “The five were arrested during the investigation of a grenade lobbying incident on the house of a civilian […]
Srinagar, April 14 (KNS): Handwara Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a notorious drug peddlers in karalghnd area of Qaziabad and have recovered Heroine like substance from his possession. A statement issued to KNS reads, its continuous offensive against menace of drug abuse under the command of SP Handwara Dr. G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy-IPS, Handwara […]
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 […]
Hockey India on Tuesday postponed all its rescheduled national championships indefinitely after the national lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic was extended till May 3. These tournaments were rescheduled to start on April 29 and continue till July 3 but have been suspended for now. “…Hockey India has taken a decision to postpone the remaining […]
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the extension of Covid-19 lockdown, Twitter users started posting messages wishing each other good luck. And the phrase they used is a twist to the popular phrase used in Star Wars movies: ‘May the force be with you’. “May the 4th be with us,” said a Twitter user with […]
The Aarogya Setu app launched by the Centre earlier this month, which has clocked over 1.5 crore downloads within two weeks of going live, might soon be made into an e-pass for movement of citizens. Government officials pointed out that a functionality for the app has been suggested wherein it can approve people, who are clear of […]
On Tuesday, the total number of coronavirus cases in the country rose to 10,363. According to the Ministry of Health, India now has 8,988 active Covid-19 cases while as many as 1035 patients have recovered or discharged. The coronavirus death toll in the country stands at 339. In Maharashtra, the total number of coronavirus cases […]
After an initial reluctance amid the Covid threat, home delivery of LPG cylinders has picked up in the Valley. The distributors have, however, urged the customers to be in touch with them through SMS and sanitise cylinders after they are delivered. “Initially, people deployed to do home deliveries were reluctant, fearing that they may get […]