Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people, who are stranded in different parts of the country, were on Wednesday allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions. In an order, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said buses shall be used for transport of such groups of stranded people and these vehicles will be sanitised and will have to follow safe social distancing norms in seating. “Due to lockdown, migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other persons are stranded at different places. They would be allowed to move,” he said in an order issued to all states and union…
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Opener Tom Latham has won the Redpath Cup as New Zealand’s best batsman, breaking a seven-year streak in which the trophy was won by either Kane Williamson or Ross Taylor. Latham won the annual award for the first time after scoring 608 runs in nine tests at an average of 40.53. His best innings was his 154 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in August which helped New Zealand win the second test and level the two-match series. Latham was selected as an opener in the International Cricket Council’s world test team of 2019. “This season we faced some of the…
The All India Institute Of Medical Sciences is planning to conduct a clinical trial of the convalescent plasma therapy in the treatment of COVID-19 and modalities of taking approvals from the Drug Controller General of India are being worked out. AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria said the mode of treatment in COVID-19 is still at an “experimental stage” and there is a need for good and well conducted research trials before its benefit and this mode of therapy can be recommended for routine use in coronavirus patients. “AIIMS is working with the ICMR to conduct a clinical trial on the…
The portals of the Kedarnath temple were opened on Wednesday with the first puja performed on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and only members of the shrine’s committee and administrative officials attending it amid the COVID-19-induced lockdown. The doors of the eleventh jyotirlinga at Kedarnath in the Garhwal Himalayas were opened at 6.10 am. The temple was decorated in a grand way with 10 quintals of flowers, temple committee officials said. The portals of the four famous Himalayan shrines — Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri — are opened every year between April and May after a six-month closure during…
The HRD Ministry is prepared to conduct the pending board examinations for classes 10 and 12 for 29 crucial subjects at the first possibility, officials said. The ministry has also directed states to start the evaluation process for the exams already conducted and facilitate the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in evaluation of answer sheets. “We are prepared to conduct board exams for class 10 and 12 pending due to lockdown in wake of the COVID-19 situation in the country. The exams will be conducted for 29 subjects crucial for promotion and admissions to undergraduate courses, at the first…
BJP leader Kapil Mishra has demanded ouster of Zafarul-Islam Khan from the post of chairman of Delhi Commission for Minorities for his controversial statements on Hindutva and the country. Mishra said: “Khan is a supporter of terrorist Zakir Naik and has threatened the Hindus. We demand his ouster from the post.” Khan had threatened Hindus of complaining to “Arab countries and the Muslim world” about the “hate campaigns and lynchings and riots in India”, saying “bigots will face an avalanche”. A vocal supporter of Tablighi Jamaat, in the last several days he had made several communal statements. He termed quarantining…
The National Commission for Minorities Chairman Shri Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi on called out Delhi’s Minority Commission Chairman Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan on Wednesday for making “uncalled for and threatening statements” on Hindutva and Islamophobia which will hurt communal harmony in the country. He has called upon the government to take stringent action against the communal statements made by Khan. Condemning the statement by Khan, Rizvi said people of India has defeated all external aggression united. He reminded Khan that despite opposition from Pakistan, Islamic countries had bestowed their highest civilian awards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rizvi said Khan’s statement…
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, through a video message called upon Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries to stop attacks on Muslims in India. He said: “The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and others cannot stand by and let another Gujarat happen.” QURESHI SAID HE HAS WRITTEN A LETTER TO SECRETARY GENERAL OF OIC, POINTING TO INDIA’S “CAMPAIGN OF ISLAMOPHOBIA” AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC OUTBREAK, REPORTS DAWN. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s ISI along with some Indian Islamic radicals have stepped up a fraudulent campaign of ‘Islamophobia’ in the Gulf countries. Many of the anti-India messages were posted from fake handles based…
BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain has hit back at Delhi Minority Commission Chairman Zafarul-Islam Khan, demanding an investigation against him after he created a row by “thanking” Kuwait for its “support” to Indian Muslims against what he called “Hindutva bigots”. Stressing on Khan’s alleged political affiliation to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP leader and former Union minister said, “I condemn the language used by the Aam Aadmi Party leader; there should be a probe against him.” Calling it a “big crime”, Hussain alleged, “‘Aaj kal kuchh log theka le rakhha hai ke unhone Bharat ko badnam hi karna…
Uttar Pradesh has become the new destination for many US companies. The US companies are reportedly impressed with the Yogi Adityanath government’s success stories in containing the new coronavirus infection in the state. Uttar Pradesh’s MSME Minister Siddharth Nath Singh, who held an hour-long webinar with the US-based industries under banner of the United States-India Strategic Partnership Forum on Tuesday evening, said, “The US investors took a keen interest in setting up academic campuses in UP after they were told about the Private Universities Act of the state and the impressive growth of the private universities during the Yogi regime.”…