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Home Top medical body issues red alert for doctors on Covid-19 duty
Citing the mortality rate due to Covid-19, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country's top medical body, declared a red alert for doctors and medical administrators on Wednesday. The IMA took into note the exposure of doctors to the virus during the initial stages of the pandemic due to lack of personal protection equipment (PPEs). To lessen these problems and the burden...
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Home Another record jump of 29k Covid cases in India
India registered a record single-day jump of 29,429 Covid-19 cases, pushing its tally to 9,36,181, while the death toll climbed to 24,309 with 582 new fatalities. In the last 24 hours, 20,572 patients were declared cured, taking the total number of recoveries to 592,031. This is also the highest ever number of patients cured in a single day. There are 3,19,840 active cases of the coronavirus...
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Home Punjab CM tests Covid-negative
A day after his cabinet colleague Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa tested positive for Covid-19, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh too underwent the tests, which came out to be negative. He also urged all ministers, MLAs and senior government officials to get themselves tested for coronavirus. During the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Captain Amarinder urged all the ministers and officials in various...
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Home Tejashwi targets BJP on Covid-19, says it's spreading virus
The Opposition has found a way to attack the Bihar government on the Covid-19 issue. Sniffing a political opportunity, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav attacked BJP leaders and accused them of "spreading coronavirus" by not getting tested. He tweeted, "Of the 100 BJP leaders tested, 75 were Covid-19 positive. Who knows how many people are not letting themselves get tested?"...
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Home Andhra to reorganise districts for ease of governance
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Wednesday decided to reorganise its 13 districts into 26 districts by 31 March in such a way that each of the 26 parliamentary constituencies will represent a new district. Each Lok Sabha segment is going to be a new district and the panel has been given time till 31 March, 2021 to complete the process of its study. The committee will be headed by the Chief...
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Home SC to virtually hear Maratha reservation case from 27 July
From 27 July onwards, the Supreme Court will begin day-to-day hearing on batch of petitions against 12% Maratha reservation by the Maharashtra government in jobs and educational admissions. The apex court has refused to stay reservation allowed by the High Court. The petitioners had challenged the Bombay High Court order which allowed Maratha community to secure reservation jobs and...
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Home India falters on Covid after a good start
Coronavirus took nearly three months to affect 400,000 humans worldwide, but in just one week the world reported more than 400,000 cases. In India too, the situation was well under control till six weeks back, thanks to strict lockdown measures initiated by the Central and state governments. Today, it is sadly getting "out of hand" with over 9.36 lakh cases reported in India as on Wednesday and...
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Home Nearly a million corona cases: What now?
At a time when India is on the threshold of crossing the one-million mark in Covid-19 cases, the third highest in the world, the numbers involved appear mind-boggling. But a country of 1.3 billion people should not be scared of numbers. The actual number of active cases in India is in the range of three lakh, while the number of cured/ discharged cases is nearing 6 lakh. The recovery rate is currently...
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Home Why India should not worry if Biden becomes US President
Before US President Donald Trump visited India in February 2020, there were a number of unsuccessful efforts to invite him. In December 2019, I got some indications from my contacts that he might like to visit India. In December 2019, I requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to invite Trump before March-April as after that the US presidential campaign would heat up. At that time, there was...
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Home Nepotism has no place in Bollywood: Filmmaker
Actor Sushant Singh Rajput's sudden death has shocked the collective conscience of the nation, sparking an important debate about nepotism and treatment of the "outsiders" in the film industry. We spoke to filmmaker, composer and director Dushyant Pratap Singh about various issues related to nepotism and the outsider versus insider debate in Bollywood. "Nepotism has no place in...
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