In the wake of oxygen crisis in India in the backdrop of surging unprecedentedly, Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra (SRJBTK) trust plans to build an oxygen plant in Ayodhya. The trust is in charge of the construction and administration of the Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. According to SRJBTK trustee Dr. Anil Mishra, the entire country is fighting the Covid-19 virus; the trust has decided to help in this fight by installing an oxygen plant at a cost of Rs 55 lakhs. This plant will be installed at Ayodhya’s Dasrath Medical College. The work to lay the foundation for Ram…
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PM Modi has cancels his April 23rd rallies in West Bengal. Instead, he will preside over high-level meetings to aid in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to speak at four rallies on Friday. Mamata Banerjee has not actually attended meeting between Chief Ministers and the Prime Minister in the last three months. She chose to skip both meetings, one in March and one in April, but rather focused on election campaigning. At 10 a.m., Prime Minister Modi will address a meeting of Chief Ministers from high-burden states. Mamata Banerjee is…
According to security sources, three rockets dropped into a base at the Iraqi capital’s airport housing US troops on Friday, in the recent attack timed to coincide with conflicts between Baghdad’s allies Tehran and Washington. The projectiles struck an area of the airbase occupied by Iraqi troops, who share it with troops deployed by Washington as part of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition. According to the source, one Iraqi soldier was injured. It is the second attack in less than a week on US interests in Iraq. On Sunday, five rockets were launched at another airbase north of Baghdad, injuring three…
Despite surge in coronavirus cases in West Bengal, the voter turnout was up to 79.09 percent on Thursday, as per data displayed by the Election Commission of India. The sixth phase of polls was held in the midst of an unprecedented Covid-19 surge. West Bengal registered its highest-ever single-day spike, with 9,819 people testing positive. A total of 2.95 lakh Covid cases 2,023 deaths were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours. Elections for 43 Assembly seats began at 7 a.m., with 17 in the North 24 Parganas district, nine in Nadia and Uttar Dinajpur, and eight in…
India recorded 332,503 new coronavirus infections on Friday, bringing the total caseload to 16,257,309 as of this morning. This is the first time any country has recorded over 300,000 cases in a single 24-hour period. India saw the highest single-day increase in deaths, with 2,256 people dying due to a lack of oxygen and a failing health system. The infection has claimed the lives of 186,928 people. There are now over 2.4 million active cases in the country. In the midst of the country’s unprecedented Covid crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a series of meetings on Friday, including…
Assam experienced an militant attack by its rebel group ULFA. On early Wednesday morning, notorious rebels from the militarized separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) (ULFA-I) abducted three employees of the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) from a rig location at the Lakwa field in Assam’s Charaideo district. At around 1:30 a.m., five armed individuals escorted the concerned employees in the company’s ambulance towards the Assam-Nagaland border. ULFA have not yet claimed responsibility for the incident, but Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the state’s chief secretary and director-general of police (DGP) to take the…
Militants belonging to terror group Taliban were attacked in Afghanistan’s Kandahar. The Defence Ministry said that fighter aircraft struck Taliban positions and hideouts in southern Kandahar province, killing up to 15 militants. five militants of the terror group were the casualities during the operation, which covered parts of the troubled Panjwayi district. The ground forces, in tie-up with combat aircraft, will continue to strike enemy hideouts throughout Kandahar and its environs, according to the statement. According to the statement, 310 anti-vehicle and anti-personnel mines were recovered and defused from Panjwayi and the neighbouring Arghandab district. Taliban militants operating in Kandahar…
https://twitter.com/SitaramYechury/status/1385058250597408769?s=20 On Thursday morning, the elder son of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, died of Covid-19. Sitaram Yechury tweeted . “It is with great sadness that I must inform you that my elder son, Ashish Yechury, died this morning as a result of Covid-19. I’d like to thank everyone who gave us hope and treated him, including doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers, and countless others who stood by us “He tweeted about it. According to family members, Ashish Yechury, 35, tested positive for Covid-19 two weeks ago and was admitted to Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. He had recently been…
Terrorism of the worst kind was witnessed when a bomb that exploded proved fatal in Pakistan yesterday. This deadly incident occurred at a top hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in southwestern Pakistan that left at least four people dead and injuring a several others. The explosion occurred in the parking lot of the Serena, a luxury hotel chain in Pakistan, in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, where the military has been fighting a decade-long low-level insurgency. “At least four people have been killed, and 12 others have been injured,” Pakistan’s interior minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, told AFP, calling it…
With an alarming count of more than two lakh COVID-19 cases, UP becomes second most affected. With this alarming rate, UP government announced that they will provide the Covid vaccine free of charge beginning on May 1, expanding India’s vaccine net to include all people over the age of 18. The decision was made on 20 April night virtually cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who tested positive for the virus last week. UP’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath tweeted : “During the cabinet meeting, it was decided that all people over the age of 18 in Uttar…