With 87 COVID-19 Deaths In Last 24 Hours, Fatalities In India Reach 2,293, Cases Near 71,000
India registered another 87 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total fatalities due to the novel coronavirus to 2,293, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Tuesday. The country recorded another 3,604 COVID-19 cases during the same period which took the total number to 70756. The MoHFW said that of […]
Sensex slips nearly 400 points in opening deals, Nifty below 9,200 mark on Asian cues
The benchmark equity indices on the BSE and National Stock Exchange (NSE) opened over 1 per cent lower on Tuesday taking cues from their broader Asian peers which slipped on growing worries about a second wave of coronavirus infections after the Chinese city where the pandemic originated reported its first new cases since its lockdown was lifted. At 9:15 […]
Explained: How will the pandemic play out? Some possible scenarios, from research
FOR THE last several months, the key questions on everybody’s mind have included how long the Covid-19 pandemic will run, and whether the disease will resurface season by season. Two new studies, first reported in The New York Times, project various shapes the Covid-19 curve can take. One study, published in Science, projects that winter outbreaks will probably […]
MHA asks railways to run at least 100 special trains a day to ensure migrants return home
The Home Ministry on Monday asked the Railways to start running at least 100 special trains per day for the next few weeks to ensure the return of migrant workers to their native places, an official said. Addressing a press conference, Home Ministry Joint Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava said the ministry held a meeting with […]
How the Riyaz Naikoo encounter unfolded, as his Beighpora village watched in ‘surprise’
Beighpora: When security forces landed at Beighpora village — where Hizbul Mujahideen’s top commander Riyaz Naikoo lived — around 10 pm on 4 May, local residents thought it was just another “routine” operation. “We thought it was a routine check as the Army had been coming and checking our village at least two to three times a month,” […]
‘India Headed For A Nutritional Health Emergency’
India is headed for a serious nutritional health emergency soon unless the government takes immediate steps to address the problem, say doctors from Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD). The problem is not just due the nationwide lockdown to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, but because of “already existing diseases which are in abundance and […]
On exiting Covid-19 lockdown 3.0, PM Modi asks chief ministers to come up with blueprint
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked chief ministers to spell out how they want to deal with the lockdown regime after May 17 when the third spell of the lockdown expires. PM Modi, who has described stopping the coronavirus disease from spreading to rural areas as the big challenge, said social distancing was the […]
Kashmiri students studying in KWMC Bangladesh appeals for early evacuation
Srinagar, May 11(KNS): Kashmir based students studying in Kumudini Women’s Medical College Bangladesh on Monday appealed authorities for early evacuation to their homes. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), students appealed Union and UT governments to take immediate steps and ensure their evacuation to their homes in wake of Covid-19 pandemic as they are stranded […]
Death toll due to COVID-19 rises to 1,981; cases climb to 59,662
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 39,834, while 17,846 people have […]
Truck carrying fodder damaged in fire on Jammu-Pathankot highway
A truck carrying fodder was damaged in a fire on Jammu-Pathankot highway in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The truck reached Pla-Morh from Punjab and was being unloaded when it suddenly caught fire as the driver tried to move it forward, a police official said. He said fire and emergency […]