Bhubaneswar, April 2 (IANS) In view of larger public interest, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday revealed the identity of the fifth COVID-19 patient from Odisha. It made it public the name and details of the patient urging people who have been in contact with him to remain in home[Read More…]
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157 Tablighi Jamaat attendees from Kerala identified: CM
Thiruvananthapuram, April 2 (IANS) 157 Keralites who attended the Tablighi Jamaat meeting at Delhi recently had been identified, said Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, here on Thursday. “All these people have been traced. They hail from all the 14 districts of the state. Two of them have tested Covid-19 positive[Read More…]
Covid-19 positive cases in Andhra rise to 143 (Lead)
Amaravati, April 2 (IANS) The number of Covid-19 positive cases in Andhra Pradesh rose to 143 on Thursday as 32 people tested positive since Wednesday night. As many as 99 of those tested positive had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi. According to a medical bulletin released by the[Read More…]
Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders donates to PM-CARES fund
The announcement was made in a joint statement released by co-owner and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s group of companies with the other entities also making a slew of other contributions.
Administration orders probe over abusing doctor in Assam
Silchar (Assam), April 2 (IANS) The district administration in southern Assam’s Cachar district ordered a probe of reported manhandled of a government doctor while on duty by a BJP MLA, officials said on Thursday. Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Kishore Nath strongly denied the incident. An official of National Health[Read More…]
Kristen Bell was told she wasn’t pretty enough at auditions
Los Angeles, April 2 (IANS) Hollywood star Kristen Bell says people told her she wasn’t “pretty enough” at the start of her career, which made her think if she would make it as an actress in the industry. “I remember early on, getting feedback, that I wasn’t enough in either[Read More…]
AI enters into charter flight agreements with 4 countries (Ld)
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Flag carrier Air India has entered into commercial charter flight agreements with four countries to repatriate their citizens. According to Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal, the airline has entered into agreements with France, Canada, Germany and Ireland to ferry their citizens back home. The airline[Read More…]
LNJP docs demand police protection from unruly Tablighi Jamaat patients
By Sfoorti Mishra New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The attendees of Markaz Nizamuddin’s Tablighi Jamaat are giving a tough time to the medical staff at Delhi’s Loknayak Jai Prakash Hospital with their unruly behaviour, to the extent that the Director of the hospital has demanded police protection. Speaking to IANS,[Read More…]
India to take call on allowing foreign flights post lockdown
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) India will take a call on a case-by-case basis to allow international flights ferrying stranded Indians post the lockdown period, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday. According to the minister, the current lockdown period is till the midnight of April 14 and[Read More…]
Enjoy batting with Dhoni, ABD the most: Virat Kohli
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) M.S. Dhoni and AB de Villiers are the two batters Virat Kohli loves batting with the most, the Indian captain said on Thursday during a social media interaction with former England batsman Kevin Pietersen. “I enjoy batting with those who can run fast with me. So[Read More…]
Taapsee Pannu recalls the time she secretly got her hair straightened
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Actress Taapsee Pannu has shared a throwback video of the time when she had coloured her beautiful curly hair with a mix of blue and purple hues thinking black is “overdone”. The actress has also revealed that she had secretly got her hair straightened thinking “no[Read More…]
IAF C-130 aircraft takes essential medicines to Maldives
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) India has sent essential medicines and hospital consumables to the Maldives to assist the counrty in their fight against COVID-19. Indian Air Force (IAF) C-130 aircraft airlifted 6.2 tonnes of essential medicines and hospital consumables to Male in Maldives under Operation Sanjeevani on Wednesday. “These[Read More…]
India blacklists 960 foreigners, cancels visas for Tablighi links
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) India on Thursday blacklisted 960 foreigners involved in Tablighi Jamaat activities and also cancelled their tourist visas for violating the lockdown measures imposed nationwide to break the chain of novel coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Home Affairs took the action amid its ongoing efforts to[Read More…]
MG Motor to incentivize ‘quick-to-produce’ ventilator design
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) In its efforts against Covid-19, automobile manufacturer MG Motor India on Thursday commenced a challenge to find a quick-to-produce ventilator design. Accordingly, post evaluation of ventilator design concept by medical experts, the company will give a grant of Rs 10 lakh under the MG Developer[Read More…]
91 Andhra attendees of Tablighi meet test positive
Amaravati, April 2 (IANS) As many as 91 people from Andhra Pradesh who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi have tested positive for Covid-19, officials said on Thursday. A total of 1085 people from the state went for the Nizamuddin Markaz event last month. Out of them 758 were[Read More…]
Mahesh Babu’s ‘Sarileru Neekevvaru’ sets new TV rating record
Hyderabad, April 2 (IANS) After raking in blockbuster collections at the box-office, Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu’s new film “Sarileru Neekevvaru” has now broken a record on television. The film was telecast on the occasion of Ugadi (the Telugu New Year), and has garnered viewership ratings that are unprecedented for any[Read More…]
PM asks to include Kerala NSS, NCC cadets as volunteers
Thiruvananthapuram, April 2 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked Kerala to induct present and former NSS and NCC cadets as Covid-19 volunteers. Modi had held a video conference and interacted with various Chief Ministers in the country. “He also asked[Read More…]
SWR zone to convert 312 coaches into Covid wards
Bengaluru, April 2 (IANS) The South Western Railway (SWR) zone will convert 312 coaches into isolation wards to provide Covid quarantine facilities, an official said on Wednesday. “In a bid to increase the country’s capacity for isolation facilities, the Railways is converting sleeper class coaches into Covid isolation wards by[Read More…]
Senior Oyo staff take 25-50% salary cut
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) To help hospitality unicorn Oyo tide over the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, its entire executive leadership team has taken a voluntary pay cut, starting at 25 per cent and going up to 50 per cent, the company said on Thursday. This is a[Read More…]
Maha corona death toll is 19, total positive cases 416 (Lead)
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) The Covid-19 death toll shot up from 16 to 19 even as the number of positive cases rose by 81 — from 335 to 416 — in Maharashtra on Thursday, officials said. Among the new cases registered are 57 from Mumbai, 9 from Pune and Ahmednagar,[Read More…]
COVID-19: VHP jumps into cremation row in Maharashtra
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad lashed out at the Maharashtra government on Thursday for backtracking on an order to compulsorily cremate all those who died of COVID-19. The VHP also accused the NCP-Cong-Shiv Sena government of practicing appeasement politics and playing with the health of citizens as[Read More…]
Swiggy launches new initiative to feed the needy
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Food delivery platform Swiggy on Thursday said it has partnered with various commercial kitchens, NGOs and state governments to provide daily meals to thousands of underprivileged, daily wagers and stranded migrant labourers during the 21-day lockdown period. Having served over 2,50,000 meals so far, Swiggy[Read More…]
COVID-19 treatment: Blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives
Convalescent plasma is the liquid part of blood that is collected from patients who have recovered from an infection. Antibodies present in it are proteins that might help fight the infection.
Cyient’s drone-based tech helping implement Hyderabad lockdown
Hyderabad, April 2 (IANS) Global engineering and technology solutions company Cyient is providing drone-based surveillance technology to Telangana Police to help it implement the Covid-19 related lockdown in Hyderabad.A The technology is enabling the police make lockdown-related announcements and organise their ground forces to monitor the situation in congested areas[Read More…]
India’s domestic air passenger traffic up 8.4% in Feb
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew by 8.4 per cent in February on a year-on-year basis, as per the data furnished by International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Thursday. Accordingly, the rise in India’s domestic air passenger volume — measured in revenue passenger kilometres —[Read More…]