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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…

27 Apr

A Coronavirus Patient Commits Suicide By Jumping From The Fifth Floor Of A Hospital.

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A 50-year old coronavirus patient allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a hospital building here on Monday, police said.The patient jumped from the trauma ward of the Victoria Hospital, a senior police official said.According to hospital sources, the man, who was admitted with acute respiratory problem on Friday, was also suffering from kidney problems.

27 Apr

Bill Gates Says That Vaccine Production For Covid-19 Will Probably Not Start In September.

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"If everything went perfectly, we'd be in scale manufacturing within a year, It could be as long as two years." Says Bill Gates on Covid-19 Vaccine. The Billionaire Man is funding production of the seven most promising ideas for a vaccine as he refocuses his philanthropic work on the deadly coronavirus. The world's second-richest man said vaccine production will probably not start in September, as some have said.

27 Apr

Garbage Found Lying Around Inside A Covid-19 Hospital In UP.

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A patient admitted at the state-run Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Etawah's Saifai village on Saturday shot a 2 minutes video where he shows garbage piled up in the hospital corridor and washrooms. The hospital is in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district.A man is heard asking in the clip as he records the video."Coronavirus patients should be kept separately, however, these norms (for social distancing) are not being followed here. How will the patients recover?"The hospital was inspected by a senior government official on Sunday after the video was widely shared on social media sparking criticism about poor hygiene…

27 Apr

Court Case Reveals That India Had Overpaid For Covid-19 Test Kits To China.

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On April 16, the Indian Ambassador to China, Vikram Misri, tweeted that 650,000 kits, including Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits had been despatched to India as The Government of India through the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had ordered five lakh rapid antibody test kits from Chinese firm Wondfo on March 27. The COVID-19 test kits were sold to the Indian Government at an inflated price by an Indian distributor named Real Metabolics, it has emerged from a legal dispute between the distributor and the importer that went to the Delhi High Court.