SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea seeking free tests of COVID-19 suspects
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre and other authorities on a PIL seeking a direction to them to provide free of cost testing facility for COVID-19 to all citizens in the country. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta, in a hearing conducted […]
The lessons coronavirus has taught us
Humanity needs ventilators not your bombs Mushtaq Hurra The whole world has come to a standstill. Every heart is wrenched, every soul is grief stricken and every mind is obsessed with the fear of death and destruction. People are frightened of the tragic disaster which has almost assumed the shape of a monster, and is […]
I stand with Tableegi Jammat…
Media, some select activists tried hard to give Tableegis a bad name (Dr. Sheikh Arshid) Tablighi Jamaat is an Islamic preacher’s group doing Dawah throughout the world and is mostly active in Asia like in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka Bangladesh and others. The movement was started in 1927-28 by a well known Islamic preacher, Hazrat […]
489 persons in quarantine test negative, walk home
Srinagar, Apr 3: At least 489 persons who were quarantined here in different hotels and other Government Buildings have tested negative. All these persons have been sent back to their homes with the suggestion that they should quarantine themselves in homes for next 14 days. District Development Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal Chowdary said that […]
Two patients recovered from Covid-19 to be discharged: Doctors
Srinagar, Apr 3: The second consecutive test report of first patient admitted in Chest Disease Hospital Srinagar for Covid-19 has been turned out negative. Yesterday also the first test of this patient was found negative and today for re-confirmation, once more the samples of this patients admitted at CD Hospital were collected and the report […]
COVID-19: Pak struggles to stop congregational prayers, cases surge past 2,400
Islamabad, Apr 3 (PTI) Pakistan’s coronavirus cases crossed 2,400 on Friday as the authorities struggled to stop big congregational gatherings despite government’s notification limiting upto five the number of people attending such prayers to curb the spread of the deadly disease. Ministry of Health Services said that Pakistan’s coronavirus cases jumped to 2,450 on Friday. […]
Global virus cases top a million, deaths surpass 50,000
Washington, Apr 3 (AFP) The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and fatalities have topped 50,000 as the United States reported the highest daily death toll of any country so far. Despite more than half the planet living in some form of lockdown, the virus is continuing to […]
No democracy is fighting pandemic by gagging its media: Editors Guild
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) The Editors Guild of India has said it is “deeply perturbed” over the government blaming the media in the Supreme Court for causing panic among migrant workers, leading to their exodus in the wake of the lockdown, and asserted that such actions could obstruct the process of dissemination of news. […]
