This South Delhi kitchen turns out 70,000 meals a day for lockdown-hit homeless & migrants
New Delhi: At the end of a narrow, winding road in Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri stands a lone godown. Correction: It was a godown, but now functions as a public food shelter run by the People’s Welfare Society that has been operational since 29 March to feed homeless people and migrant workers across South Delhi during the Covid-19 lockdown. […]
Mumbai, Pune set for lockdown till May 15
The Maharashtra government is likely to extend the second phase of the lockdown until May 15 in coronavirus hotspots Mumbai and Pune, officials indicated. On Saturday, Maharashtra recorded the biggest single-day spike in confirmed cases reported – 811 – taking the state total to 7,682. Of this, 5,049 cases have been reported from Mumbai – the highest […]
Indian envoy in UAE “appalled” after mortal remains of 3 deceased nationals sent back
Indian Ambassador to the UAE Pavan Kapoor has expressed shock over the mortal remains of three Indians being sent back to Abu Dhabi after they were flown to their families in India, according to a media report on Saturday. The deceased were not coronavirus cases but were returned by the authorities in New Delhi, the […]
India crosses 26,000 Covid-19 cases with biggest one-day spike
India’s tally of confirmed coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases shot past the 26,000-mark on Saturday with the biggest single-day spike in infections, driven largely by Maharashtra and Gujarat where the outbreak has been growing at a much faster pace recently even as the rest of the country shows some improvement. According to HT’s analysis of daily […]
Coronavirus Live Updates: India Records 1554 Fresh Cases, 45 Deaths In Last 24 Hours
The new coronavirus has claimed at least 200,736 lives since its outbreak in China in December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. More than 2,864,070 cases were registered in 193 countries and territories. Of these cases, at least 772,900 are now considered recovered. The average doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in […]
Govt eases curbs on shops: what is open, and what is not
The Centre has issued an advisory relaxing curbs to allow functioning of select shops within and outside municipal limits with effect Saturday. In a fresh addendum to its April 15 lockdown guidelines, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued orders to exempt all shops in residential areas and market complexes in rural areas from the lockdown. Under […]
Coronavirus update: India records 1,428 new Covid-19 cases, 57 deaths in last 24 hours
There were 1,429 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 57 deaths across the country in the last 24 hours, the Union home ministry said on Saturday, which marks a month since India was put under a nationwide lockdown. India’s tally of the coronavirus disease stands at 24,506—including 18,668 active cases, 5063 cured, discharged […]
Probe into Delhi riots: Student activists, PFI under police scrutiny
Umar Khalid shot to limelight after he was slapped with sedition charges along with nine other students, including then JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, for allegedly organising an event to protest against the “judicial killing” of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on February 9, 2016. It is alleged that anti-India slogans […]
Centre issues advisory easing curbs on select shops, sending four teams to new hotspots
On the day it red-flagged Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad and Chennai among “major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots” and decided to send four new teams to monitor these cities, the Centre issued an advisory late Friday night relaxing curbs to allow functioning of select shops within and outside municipal limits. This will not, however, apply to […]
Coronavirus India LIVE Updates: 1,752 new cases recorded in 24 hours — highest single-day rise
Coronavirus India Latest News Live Updates: With 1,752 new positive Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India recorded its highest single-day spike in cases on Friday, taking the country’s tally to 23,452. While the death toll stood at 723, as many as 4,813 persons have been cured and discharged so far. Earlier today, in a press briefing, the […]