The Jammu and Kashmir administration has imposed a six-day complete lockdown across Kashmir Valley, apart from Bandipora district, following a spike within the number of COVID-19 cases within the last three weeks, officials said on Wednesday The decision comes into effect on Wednesday evening and can be reviewed after six days, they said because the Valley recorded 502 fresh cases Agriculture, horticulture and construction activities will continue in accordance with disaster management guidelines. The movement of products carriers, LPG and oil tankers also will continue unhindered “Complete lockdown altogether Red districts (excluding Bandipora) of Kmr (Kashmir)? Div (Division) from today…
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Home Minister Amit Shah today called on veteran BJP leader LK Advani, who will record his statement in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case on Friday. The 92-year-old, named among the accused in the case related to the razing of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, is expected to appear before a special CBI court via video link. Amit Shah and LK Advani spoke for around 30 minutes. The court, through daily hearings, has to complete the trial and deliver its verdict by August 31. The Babri case hearing will take places just days before a grand groundbreaking event planned on…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is delivered a keynote address at the ‘India Ideas Summit 2020’ today. The summit is being organised by the US-India Business Council. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the formation of the US-India Business Council. The theme for this year’s India Ideas Summit is ‘Building a Better Future’. The virtual Summit is featuring high-level presence from Indian and US government policymakers, state-level officials, and thought leaders from business and society. Beside PM Modi, other key speakers at the Summit include India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others. The…
Afghan girl shot dead two Taliban terrorists and wounded several more after they dragged her parents from their home and killed them, news agency AFP reported. The fighters had stormed the family home in the village of Griwa last week because the teenager’s father was a government supporter. The girl, identified as Qamar Gul, took the family’s AK-47 assault rifle and shot dead the two. Gul, believed to be aged between 14 and 16, and her younger brother had been taken to a safer place, the report said. The Taliban were looking for her father, who was the village chief, local police…
In a letter to the Principal Secretaries of health and medical education of states, Rajiv Garg, the Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) recently pointed out the “inappropriate use” of N-95 masks with valved respirators by the public. “It is to bring to your knowledge that the use of valved respirator N-95 masks is detrimental to the measures adopted for preventing the spread of coronavirus as it does not prevent the virus from escaping out of the mask,” Garg wrote in the letter. Why you should avoid wearing N-95 masks with valves As per the letter, N-95 masks with valves are…
Over three lakh people in eight districts of north Bihar have been affected by flood as heavy rainfall continued in catchment areas of neighbouring Nepal. The State government on Tuesday put the district authorities on high alert and requested people to shift to higher and safer places as the water level in flooded rivers could rise in the next 24 hours. Flood water has gushed into many low-lying areas of East Champaran, Gopalganj, Supaul, Darbhanga, Kishanganj, Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi and Sheohar districts, affecting over three lakh population in 37 blocks of 156 panchayats. Flood threat has also been issued in Madhubani,…
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued a warning that a huge asteroid “Asteroid 2020 ND” will move past Earth on July 24. There is also information of two asteroids that are expected to whiz past our planet on Sunday. The two asteroids named by NASA are 2016 DY30 and 2020 ME3. “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid’s potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs,” NASA said in a statement. According…
The C/2020 F3 comet aka NEOWISE has caught the attention of the stargazers in India as they have been and will be able to get a glimpse of the celestial event from July 14 onwards. The comet will be visible to the naked eye for 20 minutes every day for 20 days. On July 14, the comet was visible an hour before the dawn sky. This will continue in mid-July. However, the comet will be visible in the evening later this month before it starts to fade away in August. It will be visible only through binoculars and telescopes before…
The Consumer Protection Act 2019 came into force from Monday with Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan saying the new law will empower consumers. It will protect their rights through its various notified rules and provisions like consumer protection councils, consumer disputes redressal commissions, mediation, product liability and punishment for manufacture or sale of products containing adulterant or spurious goods. He said that the Act includes the establishment of a Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to promote, protect and enforce the rights of consumers. The CCPA will be empowered to conduct investigations into violations…
After Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine showed positive results in the human trials, another Covid-19 vaccine being developed in China was also found to be safe after Phase II clinical trials, said a Lancet report. The Chinese coronavirus vaccine trial has shown that it is safe and induces an immune response among those that were given the dosage. Coronavirus cases in the world have crossed 1.48 crore while the death toll has crossed the 6-lakh mark. India’s coronavirus cases is now nearly 12 lakh with over 28,732 people dead. Another Maharashtra government minister has tested positive for coronavirus while the state’s Covid…