Stop acting like money lender, give cash rather than credit: Rahul Gandhi to govt
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the Centre should stop acting like a ‘sahukar’ (money lender) for its children, and demanded that cash assistance be given to the poor and vulnerable sections, who are in dire need of money now, than credit. Interacting with journalists of regional media via video conferencing, Gandhi […]
30 municipal areas contribute 80 pc of COVID cases, officials told to focus on timely tracing
New Delhi: With coronavirus cases continuing to rise, top health ministry officials on Saturday held a meeting with senior officers and district magistrates from 30 municipal areas which are contributing almost 80 per cent of the country’s COVID-19 cases during which monitoring of old city areas, urban slums, migrant labourer camps and other high density […]
Vice Prez, PM condole death of 24 migrant workers in UP road accident
New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condoled the death of migrant workers in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh, saying the government is carrying out relief work in full swing. At least 24 migrant labourers lost their lives and 36 people sustained injuries when two trucks collided […]
COVID-19: AIIMS Bhopal claims good results in drug trial
Bhopal: Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal has been conducting drug trials for the treatment of COVID-19, which have yielded some good results, a senior official claimed on Saturday. The trials of the drug Mycobacterium W (Mw) were conducted on COVID-19 patients at AIIMS Bhopal for the last few days, the official said. “So […]
30 municipal areas account for 79 pc of India’s COVID caseload; cases near 82,000-mark
New Delhi: Thirty municipal areas account for 79 per cent of India’s coronavirus infection caseload, the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was informed on Friday, as the death toll in the country due to the disease rose to 2,649 and the total tally of cases climbed to 81,970. An increase of 100 deaths and […]
1,640 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members were in India, only 66 contracted COVID-19: Jamiat
New Delhi: As many as 1,640 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members from 47 countries were in India at the time of Nizamuddin Markaz gathering, of whom only 64 tested positive for COVID-19 and two more died of the virus, prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind said on Friday. Jamiat president Maulana Arshad Madani said the “highlighting” of […]
COVID-19: Rahul takes dig at govt’s preparedness
New Delhi, May 15 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at the Centre over its preparedness to fight the coronavirus on Friday, saying the “geniuses” at the Niti Aayog had predicted that the nationwide lockdown would ensure no fresh COVID-19 cases from May 16. “The geniuses at Niti Aayog have done it again. […]
AAI asks air passengers to mandatorily download Aarogya Setu app, carry hand sanitiser
New Delhi: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Friday asked travellers to mandatorily download the Aarogya Setu app, do a web-check in and carry a print out of their boarding pass before heading to the airport to catch a flight. The government run-AAI, which manages more than 100 airports across the country, said air […]
Mobile phones potential carrier of coronavirus, hospitals should restrict their use: Docs
New Delhi: A group of doctors from the AIIMS, Raipur has recommended restrictions on use of mobile phones in healthcare institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that such devices can be a potential carrier of the virus and lead to infection among healthcare workers. In a commentary published in the BMJ Global Health journal, the […]
Nepal objected to India’s road to Lipulekh at someone else’s behest: Army Chief
New Delhi: In an apparent indication to a Chinese role, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane on Friday said there were reasons to believe that Nepal objected to India laying a road connecting the Lipulekh pass in Uttarakhand at the behest of someone else even as he asserted that the Army is dealing with incidents […]
