479 complete quarantine in Kashmir, sent back home.
479 qurantine’s sent back to home today from many hotels of Srinagar where the administration had put them in quarantine after arriving from other states of India as today all of them were ferried to their respective districts of the Kashmir valley in state transport buses (SRTC).
India isn’t alone, 2 billion informal workers around the world are badly hit by Covid-19
Locking down India for 21 days may slow the spread of the new coronavirus, but it’s quickening the misery of the hundreds of millions of people who work in the country’s informal economy. By some accounts, these workers make up nearly 90% of India’s labor force, from self-employed trash collectors to stay-at-home garment embroiderers. Job security is minimal and the safety […]
Kabul Gurdwara Attack: Bringing Back Sikhs Could Damage Indo-Afghan Ties
The March 25 killing of pilgrims inside a Kabul Gurdwara has led to the demand of bringing back the Sikh community to India from Afghanistan. But experts feel Delhi should desist from adding a “pull-factor” to the existing “push-factor” at this juncture as it would only demoralise the Afghan government and further polarise the fractious […]
Coronavirus: India’s bailout may not be enough to save economy
Mohammad Alam is one of thousands of workers standing in a food queue in India’s capital, Delhi. The factory where he worked shut down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus. A daily-wage labourer, he has no other source of income, so he has been forced to […]
Cautious optimism as Italy shows initial signs of crisis slowing
Turin, Italy – Initial signs of a slowdown in Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, the world’s deadliest, have started appearing across the country in recent days, say officials, providing a beacon of cautious hope to other Western nations where authorities are implementing similar containment strategies – but where the infection rate is still growing fast. Following a national lockdown that […]
Coronavirus: How world reached a million cases in 93 days
At exactly 12pm IST on December 31, a 280-word report from news agency AFP made its way to newsrooms around the world. Citing local media, the report said a mystery virus was causing “viral pneumonia of unknown origin” in the city of Wuhan, where 27 people had been infected till then. The story drew little […]
Use 44,000 youths trained in health sector to plug medical staff shortage: Govt to states
New Delhi: Amid a shortage of healthcare workers to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Narendra Modi government has advised states and union territories to utilise the services of nearly 44,000 youths who have been trained in the sector under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushal Yojana (DDUGKY). In a letter to chief secretaries in states […]
Nafisa Ali: Wish the police stop beating people who are trying to bring food for their families
Veteran actor Nafisa Ali, who is currently in Goa with her daughter, on Thursday took to Instagram to share how local cart vegetable vendors should be allowed in residential areas to prevent long queues in the marketplace. She also suggested that young people visit the elderly living in their vicinity and ask them if they […]
Israel’s health minister gets coronavirus; top officials isolate
Coronavirus has forced more top Israeli officials into isolation after the country’s health minister, who has had frequent contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tested positive, the health ministry said on Thursday. Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife, who also contracted the virus, are in isolation but said they feel well and are […]
One in India’s five Covid-19 patients is linked to Tablighi Jamaat and its Delhi event
New Delhi: The health authorities in India have confirmed nearly 400 Covid-19 patients who have a Tablighi Jamaat connection. With nearly 2,000 positive cases, one in India’s five confirmed coronavirus patients is linked to the Sunni organisation that is under the scanner for allegedly violating social distancing guidelines by convening a massive religious congregation in Delhi in early […]