The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) relentless campaign against India’s 140 million Muslims, and a lack of transparency on the part of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-run Delhi government, is compromising India’s attempts at containing the novel coronavirus, members of the community say. On Friday, 3 April, surveyors from Delhi’s health department were chased out […]
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#Corona Shutdown Likely To Get Extended After April 14 Deadline In Telangana
Government sources indicate that the shutdown may not just end on April 14 itself, as initially planned. PM Narendra Modi is believed to have told Chief Ministers that it is a long drawn battle. In what can be seen as a confirmation of the same, Telangana CM KCR hints in his recent meetings with state […]
Why Govt Delays To Provide Doctors ‘Protective Gear’ And PPE In #Corona Hospitals?
The Modi government delayed framing proper guidelines and standards for the manufacture of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) — meant for health workers and first responders treating coronavirus patients — in India. The delay is one of the reasons that health workers in India are now facing a severe shortage in high quality protective suits, the […]
‘Sunday Blackout’ Call Will Keep India’s Power Industry In Deep Trouble
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to the nation to switch off all lights in homes and light candles, diyas, torch lights or phone flash lights for nine minutes on April 5 to ‘feel the collective battle that we are all fighting’. This unusual tactic might have created an additional battle for the national electricity […]
Have Tablighi Jamaat Members Misbehaved Or Stripped In Front Of Hospital Nurses?
News appeared in social media that hospital in charge in Ghaziabad hospital has complained to the police authorities of unruly and disgraceful behavior on the part of some Tableeghi jamat members from the Nizamuddin Markaz admitted for diagnosis. The news explained the disgraceful behavior as it said that the Tableeghi members indulged in undressing and […]
Why ‘Contact Tracing’ Tableeghi Jamaat Members In Telugu States Becoming A Big Challenge?
It has been a tumultuous month for Mirza (Name changed). A native of Tangellamudi at the outskirts of Eluru in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, he and three others had set off for Delhi on March 6. “We stayed there for a few days and made arrangements for others from the state who were […]
Amidst Scary Situation, A ‘Big Relief’ For Doctors Fighting With #Coronavirus In Hyderabad
Telangana Health department declared Nineteen doctors out of 25 who were placed on quarantine in Hyderabad after coming in contact with a three-year-old boy infected with novel coronavirus, tested negative for COVID-19. The test results of the remaining six are awaited. In one more pointer to the vulnerability of frontline medical professionals tackling the COVID-19 […]
Why Companies Are Giving ‘Too Much Work’ For ‘Working From Home’ In Hyderabad?
“Between the mountain of deliverables set by my company and the looming pile of dishes I need to wash at home, I don’t know which challenge is larger,” says 28-year-old Advaith, who works at an FMCG company in Hyderabad. From March 20, this young professional, like many others, has had to work from home. But […]
Tableeghi Jamaat Attendees ‘Fear Ostracisation’ As Thousands Quarantined Across South India
Over two days on March 30 and 31st, state police, intelligence officers and the health departments of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu raced to trace and quarantine thousands of people who attended a religious meeting in Delhi’s Nizamuddin neighbourhood, after a number of cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, […]
Tipplers Go ‘Mad’ As ‘Toddy And Wine Shops’ Are Closed In Telangana
The abrupt closure of liquor shops across the country following nation-wide lockdown to prevent spread of Coronavirus has led to psychological disorders in alcohol addicts, who have gone mad and are attempting suicides. According to Erragadda mental hospital doctors, there has been a spurt in the number of cases of liquor addicts coming to hospitals […]