New Delhi: The leadership of the Tablighi Jamaat should have shown “sensible responsibility like the RSS… and cancelled its programme”, Sangh sah sarkaryavah (joint general secretary) Manmohan Vaidya said Monday. Addressing a press conference via video link, Vaidya said the Sangh had cancelled several programmes in deference to the government’s call for social distancing. But even as he criticised the Tablighi […]
Srinagar, April 6 (KNS): While reacting to J&K administration’s directive to fell all female Russian poplar trees “to contain” pollen related infections in Kashmir, CPI (M) J&K Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik today said it would be an economic and ecological disaster which needs to be averted. A statement issued to KNS said the decision of the […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has injected an unprecedented amount of uncertainty into the global economy, as countries across the world battle growing infections, implement wide-ranging social-distancing strategies and attempt early fiscal interventions to stabilise markets. Top 10 most resilient countries, according to the 2019 Global Resilience Index 1. Norway 2. Denmark 3. Switzerland 4. Germany 5. […]
The unthinkable, at least for sports fans, already has happened. Coronavirus Outbreak Coverage | Sports News The games, as we know them, are shut down. We’ll never know if San Diego State was a Final Four contender or if Tiger Woods would have defended his green jacket at the Masters. There was no opening day in baseball. […]
The Indian Railways has converted as many as 2,500 coaches into isolation wards for Covid-19 patients, the ministry announced on Monday. The coaches have a combined capacity of at least 40,000 beds, it added. “In times of lockdown, when manpower resources are limited and have to be rationalised and rotated, different zones of Railways have almost done […]
A local police constable was injured in accidental firing on Monday in high security Gupkar Road area of Srinagar city. Police said a police constable of the Special Security Group (SSG) was injured when his service rifle went off in the SSG lines in Gupkar Road area on Monday. Police said he was shifted to […]
WrestleMania 36 Part 2 was truly historic as Drew McIntyre reigned supreme over Brock Lesnar to capture his first WWE Championship, Charlotte Flair bested Rhea Ripley to reclaim the NXT Women’s Championship, “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt took John Cena into the darkness in a Firefly Fun House Match and Edge outlasted Randy Orton in a […]
Could a tiny hilltop village in Italy help us solve some of the mysteries around coronavirus? Last week, the village of Nerola, was suddenly declared a red zone, after a dozens of coronavirus cases were discovered. It’s been sealed off by the army, and everyone who lives there put into quarantine. Now medical researchers are […]
On 23 March, a 56-year-old man living in a vast, labyrinthine slum in the western Indian city of Mumbai went to see a doctor. He was feeling feverish and had a bad cough. The garment trader lived in Dharavi where more than half-a-million people are spread over 2.5 grubby sq km, which is less than […]
The Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai, listed a COVID-19 hotspot by the government, was shut and declared a containment zone on Monday after three doctors and 26 nurses from the hospital tested positive for the novel coronavirus, NDTV reported. 270 nurses and patients from the hospital are being tested for coronavirus. Entry and exit to the hospital […]
