SC to Centre: Arrange bhajan, namaz to prevent panic among migrants
SC to Centre: Arrange bhajan, namaz to prevent panic among migrants New Delhi, March 31 The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to rope in community leaders of various faiths to conduct ”bhajan-kirtan” and ”namaz” to check panic among migrant workers in shelter homes amid the coronavirus outbreak. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the […]
How the novel coronavirus is mutating, and if you should be concerned
Bengaluru/New Delhi: As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the world, the cyberspace has been abuzz with claims that the Covid-19 strain in India is a less virulent mutation than the one travelling abroad. BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy and gastroenterologist D. Nageshwar Reddy are among those who have made such claims. While […]
Buying time with Covid- 19 lockdown won’t work. India’s healthcare can’t scale up in 21 days
Is the coronavirus lockdown justified? One school of thought holds that any societal cost is worth paying to save a life. This seems sensible at first, but we do not honor this dictum in normal times, either in India or globally. We tolerate people dying for lack of resources, often on a mass scale, in […]
Coronavirus: Indian government’s MyGov app has some myth-busters for you
Not only the tech giants like Google, Apple and Facebook that are trying their best to provide users with authentic information on COVID-19 virus (coronavirus) but the government is also making efforts to deliver facts to residents. The Indian government’s MyGov app is doing its bit in fighting fake news and misinformation on coronavirus by […]
India should make SuperCloud, disease tracking a must to overcome pandemics like Covid-19
The pandemic period began some years ago, but we only realised it in January 2020. The coronavirus pandemic follows in a long line of zoonotic diseases — HIV/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS, H1N1, etc — that have stricken us in the past few years. The human and economic cost of Covid-19 will be unimaginable. How do […]
Officers to contact those displaced in riots, Delhi govt tells Delhi High Court
New Delhi: The Delhi government Monday informed the Delhi High Court that its officers were going to get in touch with the 275 families of the victims, who were displaced after the northeast Delhi riots, to ascertain whether they require food or medicines. A bench of justices Sanjeev Sachdeva and Navin Chawla was also informed by […]
Frightening picture’: Prashant Kishor tweets video of migrants crying, begging
Election strategist Prashant Kishor has tweeted a video of scores of migrant workers, locked inside a cell crying and asking to be set free, and sought the resignation of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Thousands of migrant workers have walked hundreds of kilometres from big cities along with their children back to their villages after […]
COVID-19 Lockdown: 8 Year Old Dies of Hunger as Family Struggles to Make Ends Meet
Patna/Arrah: The impact of imposing a lockdown without any preparations is beginning to show. An eight-year-old boy, a resident of Arrah’s Jawahar Tola’s slum area in Bhojpur district merely 60 km away from the capital of Bihar, allegedly starved to death due to lack of work, and subsequently food, during the current lockdown. The young boy, […]
Limited community transmission has begun in India: Health ministry document
Limited community transmission of the Covid-19 disease has begun in India, a Union health ministry document has said, admitting for the first time the country is entering that phase of the outbreak when the source of a patient’s infection cannot be traced and isolated. India has reported 1,190 cases and 29 deaths due to the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which causes the deadly […]
COVID-19: Here’s How Many Prisoners Will Be Temporarily Released From Jail, By State
New Delhi: Adhering to the Supreme Court’s March 23 directive to the states to consider releasing some prisoners to decongest jails and curb the possible spread of COVID-19 in them, various state governments have begun releasing inmates – convicts and under-trials – either on parole or on bail. By the coming week, the country will […]