Govt directs airlines to refund tickets booked during lockdown
The Centre on Thursday issued an advisory for all domestic and foreign airline operators to issue full refund to passengers who had booked during the lockdown period up till May 3 for both domestic and international flights. To be clear, the order categorically states the advisory is only for those passengers who have booked flights […]
‘Zoom Not Safe’: Govt Bans Officias From Using Video Meet App
Deeming it unsafe, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked government officials not to use Zoom video meet app for holding meetings. The software of the app is said to be made in China and it is believed that some calls are routed through the country. The US-based Zoom app, according to the government, can […]
Azithromycin, paracetamol, other APIs see upto 190% price jump as China resumes production
New Delhi: With China, the world’s leading manufacturer of raw materials for drugs, resuming production after a four-month Covid-19 lockdown, the prices of active pharmaceutical ingredients or APIs of four top-selling drugs have shot up sharply. According to data ThePrint collated from Indian pharma companies, antibiotics azithromycin and ornidazole, anti-inflammatory drug nimesulide and antipyretic drug paracetamol […]
Luck Has Favoured PM Modi So Far In His Covid-19 Battle. But How Long Will His Luck Hold ?
Consider the situation facing government leaders in a score of major countries from China, Japan and South Korea through West Asia and Europe to the UK and the US. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, perhaps, the luckiest of them all. Relatively speaking, the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic and the pressures it has given […]
Coronavirus: How India’s Kerala state ‘flattened the curve’
On 12 March, a 33-year-old salesman disembarked from a flight from Dubai at an airport in southern India, feeling very sick. He was suffering from the chills, dry cough and breathlessness. Airport officials quickly moved him to hospital in the city of Trivandrum in Kerala state, where they tested him for coronavirus. Then they put […]
Covid-19 cases breach 12,000-mark in India, death toll at 414
The number of Covid-19 positive cases in India breached the 12,000-mark on Thursday morning, and the number of deaths reached 414. The figure of 12,380 includes 10,477 active cases, 1,488 cured/discharged/migrated and 414 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said in the figures released at 8 am on its website. Maharashtra continues to be the state […]
Coronavirus lockdown: 7 million jobs are on the line, losses piling up, restaurants stare into lockdown abyss
Coronavirus (COVID-19): An estimated 7.3 million jobs are on the line as the restaurant industry braces to be battered by the second phase of the national lockdown, set to now span at least 40 days. Counting its losses each hour, its challenges are sweeping: from supplies to labour, skilled and semi-skilled, real estate to credit, overheads and […]
IMF Lauds India’s ‘Very Wise’ Decision To Impose Lockdown Despite Economic Slowdown
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday lauded India’s “very wise” decision to impose a national lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic despite the resulting economic slowdown, organisation’s director of the Asia and Pacific Department, Changyong Rhee, said. In a press conference, Rhee said that India’s strict action against the COVID-19 pandemic “can cause a […]
FCS&CA Kashmir appeals public not to pay extra for rice, flour
Srinagar April 15, (KNS):The Department of Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Kashmir today appealed consumers not to pay anything extra for the items bought from Ration Ghats or Fair Price shops. According to FCS&CA, the price of Rice under NFSA is Rs 3/Kg for AAY and PHH categories and Rs 15/kg for NPHH […]
India uses Saarc Covid Fund for HCQ tablets to neighbours. Afghanistan next
India has decided to send 5 lakh tablets of hydroxychloroquine to Afghanistan from the Saarc Covid-19 Emergency Fund set up at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion last month. The fund was created with an initial corpus of $10 million from India; other Saarc members had also pitched in. A top government official told Hindustan Times that the […]
