Coronavirus Pandemic: When, Where And How To Use Face Masks To Protect Yourself
The COVID-19 scare has led to a lot of confusion over the first line of defence: face masks. Even as hospitals and healthcare personnel on the frontline struggle to source proper respirators and medical masks, there are many who have bought or stocked up on these without really needing them. Others wear surgical or even […]
Coronavirus LIVE news updates: India sees 704 cases and 28 deaths in last 24 hours; biggest rise so far
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Live Updates: India recorded 704 cases and 28 deaths — highest single-day spike in the count of both — in the last 24 hours, Ministry of Health bulletin said. Briefing the press on Monday, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secreatry, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said about 63% of those who died of COVID-19 were of 60 years […]
India likely to agree to Trump request for malaria drug HCQ for Covid-19 patients in US
New Delhi: India is considering positively US President Donald Trump’s request for a shipment of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), along with a few other countries, two days after it imposed a complete ban on the export of the drug. ThePrint has learnt that India is considering requests from Brazil and a few SAARC countries apart from […]
As classes move online, IITs find 10% students can’t access lessons from home
As the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) gradually migrate classes online, many institutes have discovered that about 10 per cent of their students are not equipped to access such instruction from home. All schools and higher education institutions are closed in the country in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. Except IIT-Kharagpur, all older IITs have […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
India Lights Millions Of Candles, Lamps To Fight ‘Darkness Of Coronavirus’ On PM Modi’s Request
Million of people on Sunday night lit candles, lamps and flashed torches to ward off ‘darkness of Coronavirus’, as requested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is the second time Modi has sought to rally people amid the ongoing lockdown to combat the pandemic, which has claimed more than 65,600 lives globally and inflicted over 12 […]
‘No One Should Die Of Hunger’: Man Skips Mother’s Funeral To Feed Poor Hit By Lockdown
Shakeel-ur-Rahman last saw his ailing mother in December when she came to Delhi from Bihar’s Samastipur district for treatment. It turned out to be their last meeting. “I thought I would meet her once the lockdown is lifted, but not everything goes as per our plans,” the 40-year-old businessman said on Sunday as he readied […]