Rectify deficiencies: India to Pakistan on collapse of Kartarpur gurdwara domes
The Indian government has asked Pakistan to urgently repair the domes of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur that were damaged in a storm apparently due to the use of poor quality materials in the shrine’s renovation, people familiar with developments said on Sunday. Several photos posted on social media over the weekend showed at least two domes […]
UP Hospital’s Diktat To Muslims: Undergo COVID-19 Test, Come Only If It’s Negative
A cancer hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district has asked new Muslim patients and their caretakers to come for treatment after undergoing the test for the novel coronavirus and only if the results are negative. In an advertisement in a leading Hindi daily, Meerut’s Valentis Cancer Hospital said India, despite its huge population, had fared […]
Open Flight Bookings Only After Govt Takes Decision: Centre To Airlines
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said airlines are “advised” to open bookings only after the government takes a decision on starting domestic and international commercial passenger flight services. “The Ministry of Civil Aviation clarifies that so far no decision has been taken to open domestic or international operations,” he wrote on Twitter. […]
No Inter-state Movement Of Migrant Workers Allowed During Lockdown: Centre
The Home Ministry on Sunday said that no inter-state movement of migrant workers will be allowed during the lockdown period. Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said that labourers, who are stranded in different parts of the country due to the ongoing lockdown, will be, however, allowed to go to their respective places of work within […]
COVID-19: Teenage Muslim boy from Lucknow “beaten” for buying biscuits, dies
A teenaged Muslim boy from Lucknow who was allegedly beaten up by policemen while he was trying to buy food has succumbed. The slain has been identified as Mohammad Rizwan, he has become the first fatality from purported police high-handedness in enforcing the lockdown in Uttar Pradesh. Rizwan’s father, Mohammed Israil, said his son had […]
India’s Covid-19 cases cross 15,000, death toll rises to 507
The number of coronavirus disease cases in India climbed to 15,712, including 507 deaths, in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry data on Sunday morning showed. According to the health ministry’s data at 8am, there were 12,974 active cases, 2230 people have been sent home after being cured of the coronavirus disease and […]
Flights, trains unlikely to begin on May 3, GoM looks at May 15
Restrictions on air and train travel may continue beyond May 3, when the 40-day lockdown in India to stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic comes to an end, at least three people who attended a Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting on Saturday said on condition of anonymity. One union minister said that there was […]
Over 1,000 J&K Workers On Hunger Strike In Punjab, Demand They Be Sent Home
Pathankot: Nearly 1,200 workers from Jammu and Kashmir, who have completed their quarantine period of fourteen days in different camps in Punjab’s Pathankot district, are on a hunger strike for the last three days seeking they be sent to their towns in the Union Territory. They were stranded in Pathankot after the government imposed a […]
Covid-19: Decoding the low death rate in India, writes Karan Thapar
I am not an expert but I am curious. I tend to focus inordinately on the peculiar, the inexplicable or just the odd. They always catch my attention. And at the moment I can’t stop thinking about the small number of deaths in India due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). As of Saturday evening, the […]
Govt tweaks FDI rules to shield domestic firms. Thank you, tweets Rahul Gandhi
Government approval will be necessary a company or an individual from a country that shares land border with India can invest in any sector, the Commerce Ministry’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said Saturday. It said the government has reviewed the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy to curb “opportunistic takeovers/acquisitions” of […]