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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

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

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

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.

26 Apr

Porsche Driver Made To Do Sit-Ups Amid Lockdown.

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A young 20-year-old driver had been seen in a yellow two-seater car on the open roads, which are free of traffic due to the lockdown, where some members of the city's security council spotted him.The city security council has retired personnel from the Army, paramilitary and the police as volunteers who are attached with police stations across Indore.The council members flagged down the car and asked the driver why he was out on the road amid the lockdown. The man is seen without a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

24 Apr

Intense Lockdown Declared By Tamil Nadu.

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Tamil Nadu has declared an intense lockdown in five cities from Sunday to break the chain of transmission of the highly contagious novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 1,600 people in the state so far and killed at least 20, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami said this afternoon. A four-day intense shutdown has been declared in Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore from Sunday 6 am, which will continue till 9 pm on Wednesday. In Tirupur and Salem, restrictions will be intensified for three days, starting 6 am on Sunday till 9 pm on Tuesday, Mr Palaniswami said.Most COVID-19 cases in…

24 Apr

Sources Says That Government’s Auditor Won’t Check PM CARES Fund.

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The PM CARES trust, formed by the cabinet on March 28, has Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its chairperson and senior cabinet members as trustees.The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations or PM CARES Fund, formed amid the coronavirus crisis to be a war chest for national crises, will not be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), sources told NDTV on Friday."Since the fund is based on donations of individuals and organisations, we have no right to audit the charitable organisation," sources in the CAG offices said.

23 Apr

Doctors Send An Open Letter to Mamata Banerjee.

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A group of non-resident medical professionals whose roots are from Bengal and claim themselves as Bengali physicians, health scientists, and healthcare providers have said that while they have concerns about inadequate testing across India, they find the situation in West Bengal particularly "most disturbing".They have written an open letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raising concerns over the "gross under-testing" and "misreporting of data" on the cause of death of COVID-19 patients.

23 Apr

Madhya Pradesh Witnesses Child Rape.

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In between the horrors of the Covid-19 pandemic, Madhya Pradesh witnesses yet another horror, a six-year-old girl gets raped and blinded by a man near her home in Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, says the Police. The kid has been admitted to hospital in a serious condition. She was playing with her friends close to her home last evening when she was drawn away by an unknown man, the police say. She had been missing since then. She was found this morning."She was raped and has severe injuries to her eyes," said senior police officer Hemant Singh Chauhan.