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 […]
PM Modi dials former presidents, Opposition leaders to discuss Covid-19 situation
Amid the ongoing 21-day lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reached out and held a discussion with former presidents, former prime ministers as well as opposition leaders on the coronavirus pandemic which has infected 3,374 people and claimed at least 77 lives so far. According to sources, Modi spoke to former presidents Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil and former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and Deve […]
How high-level group formed by govt has stepped up Covid-19 fight
A group of senior bureaucrats has held six meetings with international organisations, over 40 NGOs and several industry bodies in just six days since its formation, highlighting the sense of urgency in the Narendra Modi government to tackle the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The empowered group on “Coordinating with Private Sector, NGOs, and International Organisations for COVID-19-related Response […]
Won’t spare those spreading fake news, communal messages on virus: Uddhav Thackeray
Two days after BJP president J P Nadda urged his party leaders to refrain from giving any communal colour to the COVID-19 outbreak, Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray warned that strict legal action would be taken against people spreading “fake news” and “communal hatred” over the pandemic. “Like coronavirus, there is another virus that is emerging, which is creating a rift […]
Virus, lockdown take toll on mental health: Stress, anxiety, insomnia rise as people fret over future
Noida resident Preeti (name changed) has not slept for four days because she has been experiencing “paralysing” anxiety. The nationwide lockdown has aggravated her paranoia over COVID-19 and intensified her depression and anxiety. It doesn’t help that she can’t get the face-time she needs with her counsellor. To make up for this, they speak multiple times a […]
India Inc awaits fiscal push from Centre to keep afloat
As businesses around the country reel under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it has necessitated, business owners, executives and experts are looking to the government to do enough to keep companies afloat and healthy and, more importantly, to ensure that they do not engage in mass retrenchments. The government has hinted […]
Home ministry adviser, CRPF DG in quarantine after indirect contact with Covid-19 patient
New Delhi: The Union home ministry’s senior security adviser, K. Vijay Kumar, and top officers of the CRPF, including Director General A.P. Maheshwari, have gone into self-quarantine as a precautionary measure after coming in indirect contact with the force’s chief medical officer. The CMO tested positive for the novel coronavirus Thursday, security sources told ThePrint, adding […]