Covid-19 Death Toll Rises to 2,293, Cases Climb to 70,756 in India: Union Health Ministry
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,293 and the number of cases climbed to 70,756 in the country on Tuesday, registering an increase of 87 fatalities and 3,604 cases in the last 24 hours since Monday 8am, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases in the country stood […]
Coronavirus: India targets small businesses in economic bailout
India has announced plans to spur small and medium businesses as part of a $264bn (£216bn) economic package. These include an emergency credit line of collateral-free loans worth $40bn to to “resume business activity and safeguard jobs” in the wake of India’s lockdown to curb coronavirus. Finance Minister Niramala Sitharamn said more measures will be […]
COVID-19: Indian Railways to cancel tickets for travel till June 30 on regular trains
The Indian Railways on Thursday cancelled all train tickets booked for travel on or before June 30, even as the country prepares itself for relaxation in restrictions at the end of the third phase of the lockdown, PTI reported. Train services for passengers have remained suspended since a nationwide lockdown was imposed to combat the coronavirus in […]
Kerala now confirms third case of coronavirus, patient had returned from China’s Wuhan
India on Monday confirmed its third coronavirus case, with another Kerala student being the target of the newly surfaced virus, who had a travel history from Wuhan, confirmed Indian authorities. The medical student is in an isolation ward at a district hospital, said the Kerala’s Health Minister K K Shaila, adding that the patient’s condition […]
Delayed survey data blurs India’s coronavirus picture
India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a national task force said, complicating a decision on opening up from a lockdown. The kits were for antibodies to the virus, meaning authorities could […]
India: Truck crash kills 23 workers going home amid lockdown
LUCKNOW: At least 23 people were killed and 35 injured when a truck crammed with migrant labourers trying to reach their distant homes amid a nationwide lockdown crashed in northern India on Saturday. The accident occurred before daybreak, when the truck collided with another truck that was parked by a roadside eatery in the Auraiya […]
Firing At Gate Of Jamia Millia Islamia University
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has registered an FIR in connection with the shooting incident that took place near Jamia Millia Islamia University on Sunday night. ACP Jagdish Yadav said, “Statements have been recorded. On their basis, FIR has been registered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 307/34 and Section 27 of the Arms […]
Mumbai hospitals: Near collapse as no beds, packed morgues
Packed morgues, bodies in wards, patients forced to share beds and medical workers run ragged: Mumbai’s war against coronavirus has pushed the Indian city’s hospitals to breaking point. Ravi, 26, had to change his mother’s diapers himself as she lay dying from the disease in the huge Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, better known as […]
Shabana Azmi returns home from hospital: Thank you all for your prayers
New Delhi: After being admitted to the hospital for almost 12 days, actor Shabana Azmi was discharged on Saturday. The actor was admitted to the hospital after she met with a road accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on January 18. After reaching home in good health and spirits, Azmi took to Twitter to share the information […]
Pandemic Dead Give New Delhi Gravedigger Sleepless Nights
Death had not fazed gravedigger Mohammed Shamim up to now, but since the grip of the coronavirus crisis has tightened in New Delhi, a shiver runs up even his spine each time he sees a hearse pull up at the cemetery he tends. “I’ve been burying the dead for the last two decades. But until […]
