Buying time with Covid- 19 lockdown won’t work. India’s healthcare can’t scale up in 21 days
Is the coronavirus lockdown justified? One school of thought holds that any societal cost is worth paying to save a life. This seems sensible at first, but we do not honor this dictum in normal times, either in India or globally. We tolerate people dying for lack of resources, often on a mass scale, in […]
Coronavirus: Indian government’s MyGov app has some myth-busters for you
Not only the tech giants like Google, Apple and Facebook that are trying their best to provide users with authentic information on COVID-19 virus (coronavirus) but the government is also making efforts to deliver facts to residents. The Indian government’s MyGov app is doing its bit in fighting fake news and misinformation on coronavirus by […]
Coronavirus: Three More Test Positive, Total Cases 55
Srinagar Three more patients have tested positive for the Coronavirus in Kashmir taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 55, the official spokesman said. Taking to social networking site Twitter, government spokesman Rohit Kansal wrote: “ UPDATE : 6 new positive cases confirmed in Kashmir Division. All contacts of previous […]
COVID-19: Ten year old among 3 positive, J-K tally rises to 52
Srinagar: The number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday crossed 50 mark as three more persons have been confirmed to have contracted the dreaded disease, all of them from Kashmir and include a ten-year-old boy, who had hugged a man who later tested positive for coronavirus. Official sources told that the boy, a […]
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 […]