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After Modi’s appeal, AYUSH ministry gets over 2,000 proposals to tackle Covid-19 pandemic
New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Naturopathy) practitioners to pitch in to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of AYUSH has received over 2,000 proposals in less than 15 days — all giving suggestions on how India could fight the highly infectious disease. On 28 March, PM […]
Tell media houses not to fire employees: Congress’ Manish Tewari urges I&B minister Javadekar
New Delhi: Congress MP and former Union minister Manish Tewari has written a letter to Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, requesting that the ministry issue an advisory to all media outlets “to not retrench their employees and to pay their salaries on time”. Tewari’s letter comes in the face of recent reports that journalists from […]
Sonia Gandhi welcomes Modi’s move to give free rations to food security act beneficiaries
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to provide five kilograms of free rations to beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and suggested more measures to counter the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown. In a fresh letter to Modi, she welcomed the provision of free rations in addition […]
Private Covid-19 tests free only for poor: Supreme Court amends its order
The Supreme Court has amended its verdict delivered last week that forced private laboratories to offer free Covid-19 testing to everyone. On Monday, the two-judge bench comprising justices Ashok Bhushan and S Ravindra Bhat ordered that only people who could not afford Rs 4,500 for the test should be tested free by private laboratories. In […]
‘Demonisation of Muslims’ over Tablighi Jamaat event: Can’t gag media, says SC
Responding to a plea that claimed that New Delhi’s Tablighi Jamaat event was being used by the media to “demonise” the entire Muslim community, the Supreme Court said Monday it cannot gag the media and asked petitioner Jamaat-Ulema-I-Hind to make the Press Council of India (PCI) a party in the plea. The apex court also said it […]
Coronavirus India LIVE Updates: No new cases in 25 districts in last two weeks; Mumbai death toll 100 now
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracker Live Updates: In its daily briefing, the Union Health Ministry said no new cases of the novel coronavirus were detected in 25 districts from 15 states of the country in the last 14 days. Health Secretary Luv Aggarwal said 905 new positive cases and 51 deaths due to the coronavirus were recorded in the last 24 […]
Palaniswami-led Tamil Nadu govt springs surprise with stellar Covid-19 crisis management
Tamil Nadu has discovered a ‘new’ chief minister, someone who was seen until recently as a bad legacy left behind by late J. Jayalalithaa. He has put up a fight against Covid-19 nobody thought he was capable of. The numbers speak for themselves. After Maharashtra and Delhi, Tamil Nadu has the third-highest tally of confirmed cases in […]
COVID-19 tracker: Cases breach 9,000 mark, death toll over 300
The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus rose to 9,152 on Monday, with 308 deaths reported so far. While the number of active cases stood at 7,987, around 856 people have recovered from the infection. Maharashtra has the highest number of cases at 1,985, followed by 1,154 in Delhi and 1,043 in Tamil […]
From Field Hospitals To Relief Packages, How States Are Combating Corona With Their Own Set of Rules
They were clapping, hooting, whistling, blowing into vuvuzelas—a crowd of 33,000 football fans rooting for a goal, expecting a cliffhanger ending. But the Chennaiyin goalie fisted out a full-booted volley, the best chance NorthEast United had that evening in 2016. They lost a home game. At Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati. Similar scenes—idyllic, except for the […]
