‘Greatest Challenge’: Raghuram Rajan Warns Govt Against Driving All COVID-19 Efforts From PM Office
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has suggested to the government to call people with proven expertise and capabilities, including from opposition parties, to deal with perhaps the greatest emergency being faced by the country since Independence following the coronavirus outbreak. He also cautioned that driving everything from the Prime Minister’s Office, with the same overworked […]
China hurdle out of the way, UNSC to discuss Covid-19 pandemic this week
Three days after China demitted Presidency of the UN Security Council, 10 non-permanent members led by Dominican Republic have forced the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to agree to a closed-door informal consultation on the Covid-19 pandemic this week. This comes after an attempt by Estonia to have the UNSC discuss the pandemic with more transparency […]
Favourite cricketer, best captain, best ODI opener: Hanuma Vihari names his choices
Indian batsman Hanuma Vihari has picked Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar as his favourite crickeer of all time. He took to Twitter to answer questions from fans in a Q&A session where he responded to queries such as his favourite ODI opener, his favourite captains among other topics. Answering one such question, the young batsman, […]
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 […]