India should make SuperCloud, disease tracking a must to overcome pandemics like Covid-19
The pandemic period began some years ago, but we only realised it in January 2020. The coronavirus pandemic follows in a long line of zoonotic diseases — HIV/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS, H1N1, etc — that have stricken us in the past few years. The human and economic cost of Covid-19 will be unimaginable. How do […]
Sensex up over 600 points in opening deals, Nifty hovers near 8,500-mark on global cues
The benchmark equity indices on the BSE and National Stock Exchange (NSE) opened over 2 per cent on Tuesday taking cues from their Asian peers which edged higher as factory data from China held out the hope of a rebound in activity even as other countries across the globe all but shut down. At 9:15 […]
Coronavirus Outbreak Could Throw Millions Of Asians Into Poverty, Says World Bank
The World Bank is estimating that the cornavirus outbreak will cause economic growth to slow significantly this year in China and other East Asian-Pacific countries, throwing millions into poverty. Under a worse-case scenario, the region could suffer its sharpest downturn since a devastating currency crisis more than two decades ago, the bank said in an […]
Officers to contact those displaced in riots, Delhi govt tells Delhi High Court
New Delhi: The Delhi government Monday informed the Delhi High Court that its officers were going to get in touch with the 275 families of the victims, who were displaced after the northeast Delhi riots, to ascertain whether they require food or medicines. A bench of justices Sanjeev Sachdeva and Navin Chawla was also informed by […]
Frightening picture’: Prashant Kishor tweets video of migrants crying, begging
Election strategist Prashant Kishor has tweeted a video of scores of migrant workers, locked inside a cell crying and asking to be set free, and sought the resignation of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Thousands of migrant workers have walked hundreds of kilometres from big cities along with their children back to their villages after […]
CONFIRMED! Tokyo Olympics Rescheduled For July 23-August 8 In 2021
The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year’s games. Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021 — almost exactly one year after the games were due to start this year. Last week, the IOC and Japanese organizers postponed the Olympics […]
COVID-19: Prioritize the treatment of patients; distribute masks & PPEs to staff: Lt Governor
Directs for immediate issuance of 25,000 masks each to the IsG and Divisional Commissioners of both the Divisions JAMMU, MARCH 30: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today chaired a high level meeting at Raj Bhavan to review the arrangements being put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the Union Territory of Jammu […]
Flood Management Measures I&FC installs nine automatic WLRs on river Jhelum, major tributaries
Div Com reviews preparedness of I&FC; 12.6 lacs sand, 80,000 Geo bags kept at different locations SRINAGAR, MARCH 30: Irrigation and Flood Control department (I&FC) had installed nine Automatic Water Level Recorders (WLRs) on River Jhelum at Sangam, Pampore, Ram Munshi Bagh & Asham and at its major tributaries including Sind, Lidder, Doodganga, Vaishaw & […]
District Administration Kupwara distributes cash assistance of Rs 2.59 crore among construction workers, labourers
KUPWARA, MARCH 30: Continuing its efforts to provide timely succor to the needy persons during the lock down, District Administration Kupwara, today distributed Rupees 1.45 Crore among 1880 beneficiaries as Education Assistance under Building and other Construction Workers (BOCW) Act as COVID-19 assistance announced by the Central Government recently. Assistant Labour Commissioner, Kupwara added that […]
Ganderbal District Admin declares Waskura village a Red Zone
GANDERBAL, MARCH 30: The District Administration, Ganderbal, today declared Waskura village as Red Zone and its surrounding villages-Kharbagh, Batwina and Ahan as Buffer Zones as a precautionary measure. Invoking prohibitory orders under Epidemic Diseases Act 1897, Section 144 of the CrPC and Disaster Management Act, 2005, District Magistrate(DM), Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal, said that there would […]