Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of “abject failure” in handling the COVID-19 situation and therefore the migrant workers’ crisis, BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday said the Trinamool should be able to “pay an important price” for it within the next assembly election in West Bengal . He also dismissed the Congress’s criticism that the coronavirus lockdown was “poorly planned”, alleging the party was “politically bankrupt” and searching up to “corrupt regional parties just like the TMC” to run its show. On the difficulty of tweaking of labour laws within the BJP-ruled states like Madhya Pradesh and Uttar…
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Amid charges by the ruling Trinamool Congress that he’s instigating violence in Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts, BJP MP Arjun Singh on Saturday claimed that he was “forcibly” stopped on thanks to Amdanga to satisfy the family of two party supporters who were “killed in firing”. In a tweet on Saturday, the MP from Barrackpore said, “The West Bengal police and govt has again stopped my car while on thanks to amdanga….Two brothers Arup Mondal Swarup Mondal of amdanga are shot and killed by service revolver of Santosh Patra constable. i used to be on thanks to meet the…
Beijing has done away with the rule that residents should wear masks while on outdoors, the primary city in China and maybe within the world to try to to so within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, signalling that the coronavirus is in check within the Chinese capital. After months of wearing masks to stop viral infection risks, people can now breathe freely outside without a mask in Beijing, state-run China Daily reported, citing the new guidelines announced by the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Sunday. The centre said people don’t got to wear masks outside, but…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on the formation of his coalition government after months of political uncertainty. “Mazel Tov (congratulations) my friend @netanyahu for forming your fifth government in Israel,” Modi wrote on Twitter in Hebrew and English. “I wish you and @gantzbe (Benny Gantz) success and appearance forward to continue working closely together with your government to further strengthen India-Israel strategic partnership,” the prime minister said. Netanyahu, 70, and his rival-turned-partner Benny Gantz joined hands to make a coalition government, ending months of political uncertainty in Israel.
India has joined 62 other countries for a probe into Coronavirus pandemic. This is a step proposed by 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) including The draft calls for “impartial, independent and comprehensive” probe into the coronavirus crisis, besides an inquiry into the actions of the World Health Organization (WHO) and “their timelines pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.” “Initiate, at the earliest appropriate moment, and in consultation with the Member States a stepwise process of impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation, including using existing Mechanisms, as appropriate, to review experience gained and lessons learned from the WHO-coordinated international health response to COVID-19,”…
With the announcement of new export controls at limiting Chinese tech giant Huawei by US, China hit back calling it Americas “unreasonable suppression” of Huawei. Describing the move as the destruction of “global manufacturing, supply and value chains”, the Chinese foreign ministry said that Beijing would “firmly uphold Chinese firms” legitimate and legal rights and interests”. “We urge the US side to immediately stop its unreasonable suppression of Huawei and Chinese enterprises,” said the foreign ministry after the new rule barred semiconductor-makers that use US technology and software in chip design from shipping to Huawei without the US government’s permission.…
US President Donald Trump made it clear that US will reopen as its time for Americans to live a normal life. He likened the vaccine project as “Operation Warp Speed” to the World War-two effort to produce the world’s first nuclear weapons. Many experts doubt that a coronavirus vaccine can be developed within a year. Speaking at a White House Rose Garden news conference on Friday, Trump said the project would begin with studies on 14 promising vaccine candidates for accelerated research and approval. “That means big and it means fast,” he said of Operation Warp Speed. “A massive scientific,…
The Sikh Group, a UK-based global organisation identifies people serving mankind in different ways. 25-year old Manmeet Kaur from Pakistan nominated as the first Sikh female journalist for a prestigious award in the UK. Kaur has been selected as one of the 100 most influential Sikh personalities under 30 years of age around the world, The Express Tribune reported on Saturday. Manmeet, who is a resident of Peshawar and also a social activist, had also received awards at the local level for highlighting issues faced by minorities and women. She will receive her award next year at a ceremony in…
Steve Smith’s accomplishments pale as compared to Virat Kohli’s “unreal numbers” and therefore the Indian captain has outstripped even the good Sachin Tendulkar together with his mastery of chases, feels former England star Kevin Pietersen. Smith and Kohli are among the leading batsmen within the world now except for Pietersen, the Australia doesn’t even compared to the Indian superstar. “Kohli, handily . Freakshow. His record chasing, winning games for India with the quantity of pressure he consistently lives under, Smith doesn’t even compared ,” Pietersen told former Zimbabwe cricketer Pommie Mbangwa during an Instalive. When Mbangway asked Pietersen to settle…
As hundreds of migrants continue to travel a long distance in this COVID-19 crisis, Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday appealed to state governments to immediately lift food grains and pulses from the godowns and distribute them for free within a fortnight to 8 crore migrants who neither have centre nor state ration card. According to the Food Ministry, about 142 lakh migrants will benefit in Uttar Pradesh and in Bihar (86.45 lakh), Maharasthra (70 lakh), West Bengal (60.1 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (54.64 lakh), Rajasthan (44.66 lakh), Karnataka (40.19 lakh), Gujarat (38.25 lakh), Tamil Nadu (35.73 lakh), Jharkhand…