An FIR has been registered against Kapil Wadhawan of DHFL group and 22 others, including his family members and servants, at Mahabaleshwar Police Station for violating lockdown orders, Satara Police said. Members of Wadhawan family were placed under institutional quarantine by the local police in Mahabaleshwar after they visited the town. The 23 people had travelled to their farmhouse in Mahabaleshwar from Khandala amid the nationwide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19. Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) have contacted Maharashtra Police regarding the Wadhawan family and their ongoing cases in connection with Yes Bank…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembered Jesus Christ on Good Friday, saying he devoted his life to serve others. “Lord Christ devoted his life to serving others. His courage and righteousness stand out and so does his sense of justice,” PM Narendra Modi wrote on Twitter. PM Narendra Modi said we should remember Lord Christ and his commitment to truth, service and justice on this day. Good Friday is a solemn day commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
To help the needy amid the Covid-19 lockdown, the Navy provided ration packets, comprising basic food items, to Maharashtra government for distribution among stranded migrant labourers in Mumbai. The Mumbai city District Collector had requested the Navy to provide relief to the large number of migrant labourers, stranded due to the lockdown. Acting on the request, the Western Naval Command arranged around 250 ration packets on April 4. The packets contained adequate quantities of food items. The packets were handed over to the local authorities near Musaafir Khana and at the Collector Office near the Asiatic Library. Distribution points were…
A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, for the treatment of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 has begun in the United States, according to a release of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday. The first participants have enrolled in the trial at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee, reported Xinhua news agency. The blinded, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial aims to enroll more than 500 adults who are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 or in an emergency department with anticipated hospitalization. All participants in the study will continue to receive clinical care as indicated for…
A professor of the Allahabad University (AU), who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi but did not inform police about this, has now been quarantined with his family at a guest house in Kareli area since Thursday. A FIR has also been registered against him at Shivkuti police station for concealing his travel history from police. He has been booked under sections 269 (acting negligently and likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease) and 271 (disobedience to quarantine rule) of the Indian Penal Code and section…
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar held a meeting with the States through Video Conferencing here last evening. The MOS Shri Parshottam Rupala and Shri Kailash Choudhary, Secretary (AC&FW), Shri Sanjay Agarwal, Special Secretaries, Additional Secretary (Agriculture) and senior officers of the Ministry participated in the interaction held through VC. The crucial issues related to farming operations and harvesting, agriculture marketing and Mandi operations, procurement at MSP, provision of inputs (seeds and fertilizers) and issues related to logistics and movement of agriculture/horticulture produce were discussed with Agriculture Ministers of the States, APCs, Secretaries and other senior officers of…
Prime Minister Modi warmly recalled his visit to the Republic of Korea last year, and expressed satisfaction at the increasingly close ties between both countries. The two leaders discussed COVID-19 global pandemic and the challenges it posed to the global health systems and economic situation. They shared information about the steps taken in their countries to tackle the pandemic. Prime Minister expressed appreciation for the technology-based response deployed by the Republic of Korea for managing the crisis. President Moon Jai-In appreciated the way Indian authorities have motivated the vast Indian population for fighting the pandemic with unity of purpose. The…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed those doing “communal politics” over the Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhis Nizamuddin and asked them to eschew it at a time of national crisis. Thousands of people across the country and abroad had attended the religious event between March 13 and 15 after the Delhi government had promulgated orders prohibiting gatherings of more than 200 people. Many of the attendees later tested positive for COVID-19 and several of them died. Questioning why the event was not stopped when it happened last month, Banerjee said her government took steps to send…
Despite “positive signs” from some countries, it is too early to scale back measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s European office said Wednesday. “Now is not the time to relax measures,” WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told a news conference. “It is the time to once again double and triple our collective efforts to drive towards suppression with the whole support of society.” Kluge called on “all countries” to strengthen their efforts in three main areas. Firstly, protecting health service workers, including training and making sure they have the necessary support…
India on Thursday assured Uganda that it would extend all possible support to Kampala in its efforts to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. The assurance was given when Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The two leaders discussed the health and economic challenges arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, an official statement said. “The prime minister assured President Museveni that India stands in solidarity with its friends in Africa during the present health crisis, and would extend all possible support to the Ugandan government’s efforts to control the spread of the virus in…