‘Focus on Covid-19 at home’: Beijing to US after expelling US warship from South China Sea
China scrambled aircraft and sortied ships to track and expel a frontline US warship from near a Beijing-controlled island chain in the South China Sea on Tuesday, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has said. Accusing the guided-missile destroyer USS Barry of carrying out a “provocative act” and violating Chinese sovereignty, the PLA’s southern command said […]
P Chidambaram spotlights MSMEs concern on paying April wages, advises govt
Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide Rs 1 lakh crore wage protection assistance to 6.3 crore Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to help them pay wages and salaries to 110 million people engaged in these MSMEs for the month of April. And for non-MSMEs, he said the government should announce […]
Actor Irrfan passes away at the age of 53
Actor Irrfan passes away at the age of 53. He was rushed to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital yesterday due to breathing issues. The actor was suffering from neuroendocrine tumour.
‘Biased And Tendentious’: India Rejects US Panel Report On Religious Freedom
India on Tuesday rejected its criticism by a US commission on religious freedom, terming its observations on condition of minorities and religious freedom as “biased and tendentious”. In the 2020 edition of its annual report on International Religious Freedom, the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) alleged that religious freedom in India witnessed a […]
US Religious Freedom Monitor Recommends Designating India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’
New Delhi: A US government body monitoring international religious freedom has recommended that the state department include India in the list of “countries of special concern,” joining a group of 13 other countries that include China, Pakistan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Unveiling the 2020 annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious […]
Domestic makers of rapid kits in a fix as ICMR halts their use
Local manufacturers of antibody based rapid testing kits (RTKs) for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), whose kits were validated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and approved by the Central Drugs Standard Organisation (CDSCO), seem to be grappling with a sense of uncertainty as they are yet to receive any orders from the ICMR. […]
Covid cases climb to 31,000, spike puts deaths over 1,000
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in India crossed the 30,000 mark on Tuesday while that of fatalities due to the pandemic exceeded 1,000, as the country maintained a precarious grip on a disease that officials fear could peak over the next couple of months. According data disclosed by state health departments, the total number of Covid-19 […]
Lockdown: Man Walks For 15 Days From Mumbai To UP’s Shravasti, Dies In Quarantine
Fifteen days ago, Insaaf Ali began walking from Mumbai to reach his home in Shravasti district in Uttar Pradesh. A labourer in Mumbai’s Vasai, Ali struggled for food and water on the way but continued to walk almost 1,500 kilometres. He reached the outskirts of his village on Monday and was immediately taken to a […]
Justice can be done without robes or congregation: CJI Bobde on lockdown lesson
The Supreme Court was hoping to start tapping artificial intelligence to reform its processes in March but then came COVID-19 and, as it has done across the board, the outbreak pushed all plans to the backburner and has forced a rethink in the judiciary as well. In an interview at his office in his residence, Chief Justice […]
12-year-old dies of ‘stomach pain’ after 6 Agra hospitals refuse treatment over Covid scare
Agra: A 12-year-old boy succumbed to 16 hours of excruciating pain in Agra after half-a-dozen nursing homes and hospitals allegedly refused to treat him, fearing that he might be Covid-19 positive. Nihal Singh, the deceased, was suffering from acute stomach pain. After being turned away from six private nursing homes and hospitals, when his father finally […]