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28 Apr

India Will Be Able To Produce Indigenous Coronavirus-Testing Kits By May Says Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.

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Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that the country will be able to produce indigenous coronavirus-testing kits by May."We will be able to produce RT-PCR and antibody test kits in India by May. All processes are in advanced stage and production will start after getting approval from ICMR. It will help us in meeting our target of one lakh tests per day by May 31," the Union Health Minister said.Earlier, Dr Harsh Vardhan held a review meeting via video conference with the Delhi LG, Delhi Health Minister, MCD Commissioners, DMs and DCPs of all districts of Delhi…

28 Apr

NITI Aayog Has Identified 15 Places In India As “High Case Load”

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15 places including Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad has been identified as "high case load" by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.India's success in battling COVID-19 is dependent on them.Out of these 15, seven districts show particularly high case volumes, like Hyderabad (Telangana), Pune (Maharashtra), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Delhi.Other high case load places that are "critical" in the battle against COVID-19 include -- Vadodara (Gujarat), Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Thane (Maharashtra), Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Surat (Gujarat).

28 Apr

After Losing Online Ludo Game A Man Injures His Wife’s Spine.

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A woman in Gujrat had asked her husband to play an online Ludo game with her on a mobile phone amid this lockdown so as to keep him indoors.But the man beat up his wife after he lost while playing the game with her in Gujarat's Vadodara amid the nationwide lockdown, the police said.The woman got a spinal injury due to the beating, they said.

28 Apr

ICMR Asked States And Union Territories To Stop Using Test Kits From Two Chinese Firms.

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The Indian Government said on Monday that it shall not let a single rupee be lost to Chinese firms who provided faulty COVID-19 test kits to India as the orders have been cancelled and the payments not made."We are deeply concerned with the evaluation results and the decision made by the Indian Council of Medical Research. China attaches great importance to the quality of exported medical products," Chinese embassy spokeperson Ji Rong said.China is "deeply concerned" over India's decision to stop using the COVID-19 rapid antibody test kits made by two Chinese companies, the country said today, adding that it…

28 Apr

BJP MLA Warns People Against Buying Vegetables From Muslim Sellers.

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A 74-year-old BJP leader has been recently caught on camera where he was asking people to not buy any vegetables from Muslim vendors. He was heard speaking in Hindi while saying the following lines: "Keep one thing in mind. I am telling everyone openly. There is no need to buy vegetables from 'Miyas' (Muslims)." He is making a reference to the vegetable vendors from the Muslim community.The BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh, caught on camera amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, has come under severe criticism. A defiant Suresh Tiwari, an MLA from Deoria, has defended his outrageous comment, saying: "Did…

27 Apr

BCCI Has Not Made Any Concrete Back-Up Plan For 2020-21 Domestic Season.

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The BCCI has not yet made any concrete back-up plan for the 2020-21 domestic season, which is due to start in August, but the man in charge, Saba Karim, says the priority will be to organise as many games as possible amid the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The England and Wales Cricket Board has already announced suspension of all its activities till July, including the domestic season, in the wake of the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. All sporting activities around the world have come to a grinding halt. "There are no concrete back up plans as such. There is…

27 Apr

Ravichandran Ashwin Recalled How He Was Dropped By Chennai Super Kings.

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Two bad games in the IPL was all that it took for premier Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin to realise that bowling in T20s was not as easy as he assumed it to be, the reality hitting him like a "hard slap" a decade back. During a podcast with cricketer-turned-commentator Sanjay Manjrekar for ESPNCricinfo, Ashwin spoke about how the 2010 IPL with the Chennai Super Kings affected him, the challenges of bowling in hostile conditions of Australia and England, and why spin twin Ravindra Jadeja is a "natural athlete".Ashwin recalled the 2010 IPL when he was dropped from the CSK squad…

27 Apr

Reliance Has Started Testing It’s Online Shopping Portal.

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Reliance has started testing its online shopping portal days after Facebook said it would invest $5.7 billion (Rs. 43,574 crores) in digital assets controlled by the company's billionaire Chairman Mukesh Ambani. JioMart, an e-commerce venture of Reliance Retail, is serving users in three neighborhoods surrounding Mumbai, according to the JioMartLite website. The shopping app is available via Facebook's WhatsApp in India, which is under the world's most expansive lockdown. The messaging app has about 400 million users in the country.The starting of the portal takes Ambani, Asia's richest man, a step closer to his goal of setting up a digital…

27 Apr

Kerala’s CM, Pinarayi Vijayan Did Not Attend The Meeting Held By The Prime Minister Today.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with various Chief Ministers via video-link on whether and how to exit the coronavirus lockdown, Bengal and Kerala were the bumps in the show of centre-state coordination.Kerala was the only state not represented by its Chief Minister in the video-conference. Pinarayi Vijayan did not attend the meeting because he was not among Chief Ministers listed to speak at the meeting, said his office.The Kerala Chief Minister's office also said he had raised the state's primary concerns in the previous meeting with the PM. This time, the Chief Secretary Tome Jose sat in, though Mr Vijayan…

27 Apr

Rahul Gandhi Raising Concerns Over Highly Priced Covid-19 Test Kits.

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Rahul Gandhi has been stressing repeatedly on increased testing in the fight against coronavirus, today attacked those trying to earn huge profits from the sale of rapid testing kits and tweeted an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to act against them.The 49-year-old Congress MP was reacting to reports about India paying double for Chinese Rapid Antibody Tests that have been put on hold in many states because of faulty results. "When the entire country is fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, some people are still trying to earn profits using unscrupulous ways. Such a corrupt mindset makes me cringe. The…