The government has decided to get the country going once again by allowing 15 various industries to commence operations and also allowing trucks, repair services, and street vendors to start work as the exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown starts to take shape. A number of large and small scale sectors have been allowed where they are mandated to ensure social distancing norms. The proposal comes two days before the lockdown is to end. An important point made is that all employers whose entities is allowed to operate, may be allowed to ask the labourers to report for duty. If…
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All liquor shops, wholesale warehouses, bottling plants, distilleries and breweries across Assam will open from Monday for seven hours daily, an excise department order said on Sunday. A letter from Additional Commissioner of Excise S K Medhi to all the deputy commissioners (DCs) said the state government has approved opening of liquor shops with effect from April 13, subject to compliance of various guidelines issued by the health department. Along with the liquor shops, wholesale warehouses, bottling plants, distilleries and breweries have also been allowed to operate from Monday. “IMFL OFF/CS OFF shop shall remain open from 10 am to…
The Delhi Police Crime Branch is all set to nab Maulana Muhammad Saad as sources said that team of Crime Branch might question the Tablighi leader and other people named in the FIR on Monday or Tuesday. It is also been said that the Crime Branch might include doctors in the team so that Maulana Saad doesn’t gets an escape route. Sources said Maulana Saad might make excuses to avoid questioning like he might say that he has just come back from home quarantine, therefore, he won’t be able to support the inquiry immediately. He might also say that since…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he owes his life to the staff of Britain’s state-run National Health Service, in his first comments since being released from intensive care for treatment for COVID-19. Johnson, 55, was taken to St Thomas’s Hospital in central London a week ago, suffering from persistent symptoms of the disease caused by the new coronavirus. On April 6 he was moved into intensive care, where he remained until April 9. “I can’t thank them enough. I owe them my life,” Johnson said of the staff at the hospital, which is just across the River Thames from the…
In view of the rising number of coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad, the city civic body has made it compulsory for people to wear masks from Monday, failing which they would be fined Rs 5,000 or sentenced to three years in jail, an official said. The order has been issued under the Epidemic Diseases Act in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly disease, Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra said on Sunday. “From 6 am on Monday, everybody in Ahmedabad city municipal limits will have to wear mask mandatorily when going out in public places. Those found without masks…
Turning ‘crisis into opportunity’, India needs renewed focus on infrastructure in the wake of the damage caused by COVID-19 and talks are on with state governments to re-start highway construction projects where migrant labourers can be gainfully employed, union minister Nitin Gadkari said. In a video-conference with PTI, the road transport, highways and MSME minister said talks are on with state governments for facilitating safe return of migrant labourers, an estimated 20 lakh of whom are in shelters pan-India. “I had a meeting with road sector officials. Work can be re-started at projects with condition that adequate measures are taken…
An officer’s hand was chopped off with a sword and two other Punjab policemen injured Monday when a group of Nihangs attacked them after being asked them to show curfew passes. Assistant Sub Inspector’s hand was chopped off and two other police officials were injured in Punjab’s Patiala district on Sunday, police said. A group of four-five ‘Nihangs’ (Sikhs armed with traditional weapons and dressed in loose blue top) were travelling in a vehicle and they were asked to stop at a vegetable market by the Mandi board officials at around 6.15 am, they said. “They were asked to show…
In its fight against COVID-19, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has come out with a product called ‘Enclosure for Intubation Procedure – Aerosol Containment Box’ . Its premier labs — Research Centre Imarat (RCI) in Hyderabad and Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory in Chandigarh — have designed the product using Acrylic and Perspex materials, respectively. It consists of a transparent cube which covers patient’s head up to the chest and acts as a safety barrier against transmitting droplets from patients to the healthcare workers while giving treatment. The two circular ports allow the health worker’s hands to pass and…
The sarpanch of Devariya Gram Panchayat in Bhilwara, Kismat Gurjar, on Saturday hit out at the Congress party for crediting Rahul Gandhi for the success of the experiment without giving credit to the people of the district. The sarpanch took to Twitter and said that it was wrong for Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to give entire credit to Rahul Gandhi as it was the result of combined efforts of people of the town, including farmers and women. She said they had sincerely followed the appeal made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to follow social distancing and other hygiene measures meticulously.…
Four persons, including the Imam of a mosque, have been arrested in Meerut for attacking a team of officials who had gone there to seal a mosque in Jali Kothi area, after Corona positive persons were found there. Circle Officer Dinesh Shukla said the accused pelted stones at the team, injuring a police official and the city magistrate. “On February 24, three people attended a programme of a local Jamaat and came from Maharashtra (Malegaon) to Meerut. They were staying at Dariwaali Masjid. On Friday, their samples tested positive for coronavirus,” the circle officer said. On Saturday, the in-charge of…