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Modi condoles Dr Matoo’s death, praises Omar’s plea

NEW DELHI, Mar 30: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the death of Omar Abdullah's uncle and appreciated the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister's call to supporters to respect guidelines and not gather at either his residence or the graveyard.Prayers ...

J&K DSP Davinder Singh's police custody extended till Apr 3

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 (Agencies): Delhi's Patiala House court on Monday (March 30) sent has sent Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Davinder Singh, who is accused of allegedly ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, to further custodial interrogation till April 3. Davind...

COVID-19 test in Rs 100

NEW DELHI, Mar 30: The government's Council for Science and Technology Research (CSIR) director general Shekhar C Mande has promised to shortly come out with a paper test kit for checking the caronavirus in five to ten minutes and that too in just Rs 100. Presently, t...

India not yet facing COVID-19 community transmission due to lockdown: Govt

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 (Agencies): Union Health Ministry on Monday (March 30) clarified that the country is still in the local transmission stage, fit reaches the community transmission stage, the Ministry will admit it but the country is not there yet while responding to q...

PM shares yoga videos, urges people to remain fit during coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 (Agencies): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (March 30) posted animated yoga videos in response to a query during his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio show on Sunday (March 29) about how he was maintaining his fitness amid the 21-day nationwide lockdown to ...

Army doctor, Junior Commissioned Officer test positive for coronavirus COVID-19

KOLKATA, Mar 30 (Agencies): A colonel-rank doctor tested positive for coronavirus at Kolkata's Army Command Hospital on Sunday (March 29). The 52-year-old Army officer had returned from Delhi recently. Sources said that the Army officer has been put under quarantine. ...

Coronavirus COVID19: FIR registered against a private company in Noida for hiding employees travel history

NODA, Mar 30 (Agencies): An FIR has been filed against a Noida based company named 'Cease fire' for hiding travel history of employees who had recently returned from foreign visit. Chief Medical Officer, Gautam Budh Nagar, Anurag Bhargava registered the FIR against the...

Coronavirus: Delhi govt to promote students till Class 8 without exams

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 (Agencies): The Delhi government on Monday announced that students from nursery to class 8 will be promoted to the next class in the national capital. In a joint digital press conference with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia ...

Centre not planning to declare emergency in mid-April, says Indian Army

NEW DELHHI, Mar 30 (Agencies): Amid reports that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre is planning to declare emergency in mid-April to tackle the coronavirus menace, the Indian Army on Monday (March 30) clarified that this is absolutely fake news. ...

Migrant workers sprayed with chemicals in UP, Bareilly DM admits 'mistake'

LUCKNOW, Mar 30 (Agencies): The exodus of migrant workers from cities to their native villages has emerged as one of the biggest crisis amid the lockdown imposed in view of the Coronavirus outbreak. While the images of migrant workers walking afoot hundreds of miles t...

175 people from Nizamuddin being tested for Covid-19, police cordon off area

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 (Agencies): The Delhi Police on Monday cordoned off a major area in Nizamuddin where several people showed symptoms of coronavirus infection after taking part in a religious gathering a few days ago. The gathering of around 200 people was organised w...

Naidu asks MPs to contribute from MPLADs for Covid-19

NEW DELHI, Mar 29: Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu has appealed to all Members of Parliament to contribute at least rupees one crore initially from their MPLADS funds to supplement the central government’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.In a letter to all...

Total lockdown doesn't suit India, Rahul writes to PM

NEW DELHI, Mar 29: Within hours of Prime Minister Modi apologising to the people for imposing three weeks of total lockdown, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote to him to "seriously consider the potentially devastating impact it would have on our people, our society and...

Priyanka for free mobile service

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday wrote to chairmen of BSNL, Airtel and other mobile service companies to provide free incoming and outgoing calls for one month to help those going home on foot because of the corona lockdown. She urged th...

Petitions on Delhi exodus

NEW DELHI, Mar 29: Lucknow based activist Dr Nutan Thakur has approached the Supreme Court and National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) in the matter of exodus of lakhs of Delhi workers. In her complaints sent through email, Nutan has said that there has been mass ex...

Coronavirus: UP to release 11,000 prisoners on parole to decongest jails

LUCKNOW, Mar 28: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to free 11,000 prisoners lodged in 71 jails in the state amid the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, an official statement stated on Saturday. The decision comes after the Supreme Court earlier this week directe...

Sonia calls for buses for migrant workers walking hundred of miles

NEW DELHI, Mar 28: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has written to the Prime Minister to provide one-time state transport services to lakhs of migrant workers forced to walk hundreds of miles to reach their home towns and villages as there is o public transport availabl...

Andhra and Karnataka govts carry out joint quarantine operations for migrant labourers amid lockdown due to coronavirus COVID-19

AMARAVATI, Mar 28 (Agencies): The state governments of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka carried out a joint quarantine operation to help over a thousand migrant labourers from various districts of Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh administration received the information ...

Govt laxity may trigger Corna holocaust

NEW DELHI, Mar 28: A Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba's advisory to the states on Thursday to increase the health surveillance of over 1.5 million entering India since it began screening all incoming travellers from January 18 from 14 to 28 days has set the alarm be...

Beggars of 10 cities on the Centre’s scanner

NEW DELHI, Mar 28: Beggars in ten cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Indore and Nagpur will be fed under a central scheme announced by the union ministry of social justice amid allegations of thousands of poor people living in hunger because of the lockdown. Other cities...

Agri, allied activities exempted from lockdown

NEW DELHI, Mar 28: The Home Ministry on Saturday exempted agriculture and allied activities from the lockdown by issuing a second amendment to the guidelines issued under the Disaster Management Act. The relaxation is to ensure uninterrupted harvesting of crops, Agric...

Noida admin mandates no rent from migrants for a month

NEW DELHI, Mar 28: The Noida administration passed an order on Saturday, asking landlords to collect rent from their worker-tenants only after a month, amid reports of migrants undertaking the journey to reach their native places on foot during the 21-day nationwide lo...

Cong offers its leaders' experience in dealing with crisis

NEW DELHI, Mar 28: The Congress on Saturday shared its concern over the large exodus of people to their hometowns and villages on foot in proximity that may defeat the task of the lockdown to control spread of the coronavirus. Its spokesman Ajay Maken also backed dema...

Coronavirus: Amid lockdown, many countries face challenges to repatriate their citizens

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: The United States is preparing to repatriate its nationals from India. Perhaps, initially it was aimed mainly at its diplomats and officials from the country. But subsequently the offer is on the table for all US citizens in India—giving them the op...

Satish Gujral, legendary artist, passes into ages

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: The legendary artist and architect Satish Gujral, renowned for his versatility across different mediums, passed into the ages at his Delhi home on Thursday night. He was 94. He is survived by his wife Kiran, daughters Alpana and Raseel and son Mohi...

Times Group serves legal notice To ThePrint for story on Coronavirus

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: The leading media conglomerate Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd., also known as the Times Group, has served a legal notice to online publication ThePrint for a report it published claiming the novel coronavirus could be transmitted through newspapers and ...

Coronavirus cured people are immune to infection

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: People who survive the coronavirus infection become immune to the virus and they can venture out of their homes even as the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of plasma from the recovered patients to treat some severe cases. A report says...

App to help Delhi police in Corona quarantine initiatives

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: Delhi's Innefu Labs that created automated facial recognition software for Delhi Police is planning to release on Monday or Tuesday, after the final testing, an APP that will map smartphones of the quarantined COVID-19 patients to help police to prev...

Nothing new in rural wage hike, activists blast Nirmala

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: Activists blasted Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for taking the rural workers for a ride by claiming hike in the NREGA (national rural employment guarantee act) wage from Rs 182 to Rs 202 per day that comes to nearly Rs 2,000 per month. They cl...

Sonia offers her MPLADS fund to fight corona

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday offered all her MPLADS fund to the Raebareli administration to fight the coronavirus, a day after her son Rahul offered his fund for Wayanad district in Kerala. In a letter to the Raebareli district collecto...

Covid-19: Cong assails PM for failure to prepare on time

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: The Congress on Friday said it is backing efforts of the government to fight back the coronavirus, but Prime Minister Modi failed in dealing with the crisis on time. Tweeting that it is the responsibility of the leadership whenever such crises hit, ...

Stop mass exodus of migrant workers, MHA tells states

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: The home ministry on Friday issued an advisory to the states to prevent mass exodus of migrant labourers, factory workers and unorganised sector workers lest it shoots up spread of the coronavirus. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was the first ...

How to extend life of critical N95 masks?

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: Existing vaporized hydrogen peroxide methods can decontaminate N95 face masks for reuse, confirm research and clinical teams. Health care providers are facing a critical shortage of N95 face masks that block the coronavirus. The process uses specia...

Time for guilty pleasures

NEW DELHI, Mar 27: While social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19, indulging in your guilty pleasures can help protect you from the mental health disorders associated with isolation, an expert advises. “As a social psychologist who studies the importance of so...

Magic remedy of deadly Covid-19 from China!

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: China accused of spreading coronavirus world over has reportedly found its cure though it has not been yet confirmed by its government. American TV channel CNN claims the Chinese have controlled spread of the deadly coronavirus in Wuhan, the centre o...

Why nation-wide lockdown for 21 days?

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: Why 21 days and will it be enough? Experts say the 21-day nationwide lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a gamble to stop the exponential growth of patients infected by the novel coronavirus and allow the microbe to emerge slower in...

Why lockdown in 4 hours? asks Cong

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: Why declare the 21-hour lockdown, giving only four hours to prepare, the Congress asked on Wednesday, pointing out that the Prime Minister could have announced it at 8 AM instead of 8 PM to give full day to let people stock the necessities. "You gav...

Rahul's remedy to minimise Corona casualties

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday came out with his own prescriptions on how to minimise casualties in the war India is fighting against the Coronavirus. In a tweet, he said the strategy should have two components, one to tackle th...

SC cancels video hearing

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: The Supreme Court has cancelled hearing of all urgent matters via video conference scheduled to take place on Wednesday in view of a nationwide 21-day complete lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. No immediate clarity if any hearings...

Peek inside search for Covid-19 drugs

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: Last week, scientists at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus. This type of emergency—a fast-spreading virus outbreak—is precisely what the National Em...

Tips for social distancing

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: Social distancing, according to infectious disease experts, is one of the best ways to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. But what about its psychological consequences? “It’s important to be creative and maintain as much meaningful connection with ...

Instead of social distancing, try distant socialising

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: The same technologies that people once blamed for tearing society apart might be our best chance of staying together during the COVID-19 outbreak, an expert argues. Social distancing—voluntarily limiting physical contact with other people—has been v...

How to manage Covid-19 anxiety?

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: When is anxiety useful, and when is it destructive? And what about COVID-19 anxiety? Sonia Bishop, associate professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, has studied anxiety and how it affects decisio...

Tiny device detects harmful bacteria in blood

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: A new device can rapidly detect harmful bacteria in blood to pinpoint the cause of potentially deadly infections and fight them with drugs, according to a new study. “The rapid identification of drug-resistant bacteria allows health care providers t...

5 of 15 cases in SC today are from Maharashtra

NEW DELHI, Mar 24: Only 15 cases are listed before two Benches of the Supreme Court for hearing through video conferencing on Wednesday, five of which are criminal cases by the accused from Maharashtra alone. The second Bench may pick up five other cases out of 11 lis...

RS biennial polls deferred

NEW DELHI, Mar 24: The Election Commission on Tuesday deferred the Rajya Sabha biennial elections slated on Wednesday for 18 seats in seven states, including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Rajasthan, on account of coronavirus, saying fresh dates will be announc...

Centre shrugging responsibility: Cong

NEW DELHI, Mar 24: The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Modi-government for shrugging its prime responsibility to fight the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic and instead asking the state governments to deploy fiscal resources for establishing additional medical faci...

Priyanka hails Omar’s release

NEW DELHI, Mar 24: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday welcomed the release of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and called for the restoration of democratic rights of people in the region. "So happy to learn that Omar Abdullah's uncons...

Delhi Police evicts anti-CAA protesters from Shaheen Bagh after 101 days to curb coronavirus outbreak

NEW DELHI, Mar 24 (Agencies): Amid the rising coronavirus cases in Delhi and other parts of India, Delhi Police on Tuesday (March 24) evicted anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters from Shaheen Bagh area in the national capital to curb the outbreak of the deadly vir...

Locals protest against cremation of Coronavirus patient in W.Bengal amid fears of contamination

KOLKATA, Mar 24 (Agencies): The last rites of an elderly man, who became the first casualty of Coronavirus in Bengal, was considerably delayed as wary locals put up a road blockade in the city's Nimtala area to stop government officials from cremating him, saying it co...

65-yr old Coronavirus patient dies in Maharashtra; 3rd fatality in Mumbai

MUMBAI, Mar 24 (Agencies): A 65-year-old coronavirus patient has died in Mumbai, taking the death toll due to COVID-19 tothree in the metropolis, the city civic body said on Tuesday. The man recently returned from the United Arab Emirates to Ahmedabad. He later compla...

EC defers Rajya Sabha election 2020 in view of Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak

Fresh dates to be announced later
NEW DELHI, Mar 24 (Agencies): The Election Commission of India on Tuesday (March 24, 2020) announced to defer the Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for March 26 in view of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Elections to 55 Rajya Sabha seats were announced by the Election...

32 states, UTs under complete lockdown

NEW DELHI, Mar 24 (Agencies0: A total of 32 states and Union territories have declared complete lockdown so far covering 560 districts, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said on Tuesday. Three other states and UTs have imposed lockdowns in certain are...

India has tremendous capacity to fight against COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak: WHO

NEW DELHI, Mar 24 (Agencies): World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Director Michael J Ryan said on Tuesday (March 24) that India has played an important role in eradicating two pandemics, namely small-pox and polio and the country can use its past experience to de...

Shivraj Singh Chouhan wins confidence vote, Congress MLAs abstain

BHOPAL, Mar 24 (Agencies): Just a day after taking oath as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for the fourth time, senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday (March 24) won confidence motion unanimously in the state Assembly. No Congress MLA was present in the asse...
 

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