Shortage of essential commodities in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir
By Mudasir Ahmad Khan Srinagar With hundreds of trucks loaded with essential items stranded on Srinagar-Jammu highway, problems of common people in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir have multiplied. On Sunday many residents in various localities of Srinagar city told this reporter that the government has failed to maintain supply chain and were not […]
Mann Ki Baat Live: I apologise to poor of the country for coronavirus hardships, says PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the country through his monthly ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio show at 11.00 am. This is third time PM Modi is speaking on the seriousness of coronavirus crisis. This is the first ‘Mann Ki Baat’ show since the nationwide lockdown began from 25th March. Modi discussed the issue with the […]
Coronavirus: Indian students stranded in UK urge Modi for rescue flight
LONDON : Hundreds of Indian students stranded in the UK have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to organise a rescue flight amid the ongoing travel ban enforced by India to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. A group of at least 380 students from India has started a data chain with their passport details to […]
57-year-old Wuhan market shrimp seller may be Covid-19 patient zero: Report
London: A shrimp seller at the wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan believed to be the centre of the coronavirus pandemic, may be the first person to have tested positive for the disease, a media report said on Saturday. The report by the London-based Metro newspaper said that 57-year-old woman, named by the Wall […]
Coronavirus update: Delhi eating joint employee walks 200 km to reach home, dies on the road
A 38-year-old man who had walked 200 km from the national capital to reach home died on the Delhi-Agra highway on Saturday morning. Ranveer Singh’s destination, his family in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, was still 100 km away. © Provided by Hindustan Times Migrant workers leave Delhi on foot amid the nationwide […]
A prescription for action: Nine steps after the next 21 days
India is closed for business. For the next 21 days, and perhaps longer if that isn’t enough. Everyone is to stay home. We have a hard time wrapping our heads around what this exactly means. How about migrant construction workers getting to stay on at the now closed site, their temporary home during the construction? Or do they need […]
Coronavirus: Kashmir records second death
Srinagar The Kashmir Valley recorded the second fatality due to the novel coronavirus as a 52-year-old man hailing from Tangmarg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died on Sunday wee hours. Reports said that a man died at Chest Disease hospital Dalgate, Srinagar at around 4:00 am. A doctor told news agency GNS that the […]
The history of pandemics
T The novel coronavirus pandemic, known as Covid-19, could not have been more predictable. From my own reporting, I knew this first-hand. In October 2019, I attended a simulation involving a fictional pandemic, caused by a novel coronavirus, that killed 65 million people, and in the spring of 2017 I wrote a feature story for TIME magazine on the subject. […]
Coronavirus: India defiant as millions struggle under lockdown
The Indian government has defended its handling of the coronavirus outbreak after a strict lockdown – introduced with little warning – left millions stranded and without food. The country’s response had been “pre-emptive, pro-active and graded”, it said in a statement. India’s population of 1.3 billion was given less than four hours’ notice of the […]
Testing in J&K highest in country-nearly 10 % of surveillance cases being tested
Govt appeals people to Self report travel history Admin monitoring situation proactively; 11 exclusively COVID hospitals earmarked, 35000 quarantine facility created across UT: Kansal JAMMU, MARCH 28: Principal Secretary, Planning, Development & Monitoring Department, Mr Rohit Kansal, who is also the J&K Govt Spokesperson, today said that the administration is closely monitoring and reviewing the situation and […]
