Bhima Koregaon Case: How 2-minute Phone Call Keeps Jailed Activists In Touch With Families
It had over a month since jailed activist Varavara Rao’s family had heard from him. They were anxious and desperate to know how the 80-year-old poet-activist-journalist, who has been languishing in prison for alleged links to Maoists, was doing. On Saturday, a two-minute call from Rao came as a huge relief to his wife Hemalatha […]
Coronavirus Live Updates: Fight Against COVID-19 No Less Than War, Says PM Modi; Urges BJP Workers To Donate
India continues to record new Coronavirus cases, taking the total tally past 4,000, and the death toll past the 100-mark, according to the Health Ministry. The rate of doubling of COVID-19 cases in India is 4.1 days presently but if the cases linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation would not have happened, it would have […]
BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is actually a Kapil Mishra, but with Allah on his lips
Seeing National Security Adviser Ajit Doval’s pictures at the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz meeting, a question comes to mind: Can someone tell Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi that it’s his job to represent India’s minorities in the BJP-led government instead of representing the BJP before the minorities? If an award was being given for the most incompetent cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government, no one would come close to India’s […]
Fear keeps refugees in Malaysia at home amid coronavirus lockdown
When Malaysia announced everyone should stay at home as part of a nationwide Movement Control Order (MCO) on March 18, Mai Mai, who is originally from Myanmar’s Kachin State, did what she was told. Crammed into an apartment she shares with eight other refugees in Kuala Lumpur, with no legal status and suddenly out of […]
Covid-19 hospitals across Kashmir perform testing swiftly: Director Health
‘Contact tracing going on scientifically, sample collection being taken to doorsteps’ SRINAGAR, APRIL 05: At a time when the world is grappling with deadly coronavirus pandemic, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has established timely COVID-19 hospitals—which are working round the clock and performing sample testing swiftly. Director, Health Services Kashmir, Dr Samir Mattoo said that […]
Cycling home to meet sick dad, Rajouri man may shake admn’s quarantine plans
The UT administration is in a quandary over the arrival of a Rajouri resident from Mumbai, who is currently pedalling his way home to meet his ailing father. Senior officials believe that coming from Maharashtra makes him a potential case of coronavirus and 14-day quarantine would be essential upon entry. Mohammad Arif, who works […]
Man shot dead in Philippines for flouting coronavirus rules
A 63-year-old man was shot dead in the Philippines after threatening village officials and police with a scythe at a coronavirus checkpoint, police said on Saturday. The man is believed to have been drunk when he threatened village officials and police manning the checkpoint in the town of Nasipit in the southern province of Agusan del Norte […]
Kupwara gunfight: Officer among five army men killed, death toll 10
Srinagar: Five militants and as many soldiers including a JCO from army’s elite para force were killed on the fifth day of an ongoing operation in the woods of Kupwara district in north Kashmir on Sunday. Defence ministry spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said that the slain militants were infiltrators and that the operation was still going […]
India Lights Millions Of Candles, Lamps To Fight ‘Darkness Of Coronavirus’ On PM Modi’s Request
Million of people on Sunday night lit candles, lamps and flashed torches to ward off ‘darkness of Coronavirus’, as requested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is the second time Modi has sought to rally people amid the ongoing lockdown to combat the pandemic, which has claimed more than 65,600 lives globally and inflicted over 12 […]
40 students and Businessman walk home after completing quarantine period in Gulmarg
Gulmarg, April 05 (KNS): At least 40 students and Businessman were on Sunday discharged by Baramulla administration after they completed 14 days of quarantine period. According to Kashmir News Service Correspondent,40 students and Businessman have successfully completed the 14-day- quarantine period and were discharged from the accommodation provided to by administration officials said. SDM Gulmarg, […]