Continued restrictions on internet in J-K during a pandemic are troubling: UN rapporteur
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression has said that limitations imposed by the government on internet in Jammu & Kashmir have made access to basic information difficult for healthcare professionals. In his report titled “disease pandemics and the freedom of opinion and expression”, David Kaye, UN rapporteur on freedom of […]
Justice can be done without robes or congregation: CJI Bobde on lockdown lesson
The Supreme Court was hoping to start tapping artificial intelligence to reform its processes in March but then came COVID-19 and, as it has done across the board, the outbreak pushed all plans to the backburner and has forced a rethink in the judiciary as well. In an interview at his office in his residence, Chief Justice […]
What moves gold prices? Lessons from the spectacular gains in history
Gold loves a crisis, the old adage goes. And with prices up 13% this year to their highest since 2012 and many predicting further gains as investors search for safe places to put their money, it looks true for the coronavirus crisis so far. But, as individuals and countries alike see a drop in income, […]
Beijing to shut Covid-19 special hospital, clears all cases
Beijing: Authorities in Beijing are set to close a COVID-19 special hospital after clearing all the cases even as China reported six new coronavirus infections and 40 fresh asymptomatic cases, health officials said on Tuesday. The move to shut down the hospital comes after China’s coronavirus epicentre Wuhan recently closed 16 temporary hospitals and discharged its last […]
12-year-old dies of ‘stomach pain’ after 6 Agra hospitals refuse treatment over Covid scare
Agra: A 12-year-old boy succumbed to 16 hours of excruciating pain in Agra after half-a-dozen nursing homes and hospitals allegedly refused to treat him, fearing that he might be Covid-19 positive. Nihal Singh, the deceased, was suffering from acute stomach pain. After being turned away from six private nursing homes and hospitals, when his father finally […]
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries plans its first rights issue in 30 yrs to pare debt
Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s largest company by market value, plans to sell shares to existing investors in a rights issue for the first time in about 30 years as the energy-to-technology conglomerate steps up efforts to pare debt. The board of the Mumbai-based company will consider the proposal on April 30, when it announces its […]
350 Tablighi members who recovered from Covid-19 ready to donate plasma
Around 350 members of the Tablighi Jamaat, who had come to Delhi to attend its congregation in Nizamuddin Markaz last month and were subsequently diagnosed with coronavirus, have agreed to donate their plasma to treat severely ill patients in the city. So far, 25 of them have donated for plasma therapy. Senior officials in the health department […]
Explained: Why rapid tests are off, again
On Monday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) put an end to the question of rapid tests when it told the states that the newly procured kits for such tests had failed quality checks and should be returned to the suppliers. This effectively brings the curtains down on a long conversation on rapid testing between […]
3 girls dead, one untraceable
Srinagar, Apr 27, KNT: Three girls died while one is untraceable after cloud burst triggered flash floods in two different areas of South and Central Kashmir on Monday evening. Police sources told KNT that a cloud burst triggered flash floods in Chotipora area adjacent to Sedow Forest area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Two sisters […]
Cop’s militant aide son only casualty in Guddar Kulgam, police deletes tweets
Srinagar, April 27 : Only one “militant associate”, and not four militants as claimed by the government forces earlier, was killed at Guddar in the Devsar area of the south Kashmir district. The slain, Aqib Mushtaq Lone who had completed engineering recently from a college in Chandigarh, is a son of a police officer […]