Month: April 2020

The economic slowdown presents a serious challenge to the Modi government as it sets a target of making India a $5 trillion economy in five years. Lets start from the worst hit Auto sector to the real estate sector, number of unsold homes have increased. Whereas, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it stands ready to safeguard the country’s banking system from financial and market risks stemming from the spread of Covid-19, citing expectations of “coordinated policy action” by central banks around the world amid threats to global demand and currency…

What comes as a shocker is while the whole world is struggling to fight against COVID-19, there are still a few who are causing disturbance in it.   Some Talibaghi Jamaat members were creating nuisance in the hospital they were kept in.  After their shameless act, of misbehaving with female nursing staff and resorted to obscene behaviour at a hospital in Ghaziabad where they are being quarantined, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to book several members of the Tablighi Jamaat under the stringent National Security Act (NSA).   It…

WASHINGTON : With More than Three Lakh confirmed cases of Coronavirus Infection and over 8,000 fatalities, The US has emerged as the worst sufferers of the deadly coronavirus diseases to which there fas been no cure. In the next several weeks, health experts in the US has projected between 100,000 to 200,000 deaths due to coronavirus, which due to human-to-human transmission is spreading like a wildfire in the US. President Trump has said that he has requested PM Modi to release the amount of Hydroxychloroquine ordered by the United States…

To a specific question on the need to share information by China to understand the origin and full impact of the pandemic, Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin said that in a globalised world it was necessary for the “public good” by India Today.   While the world is trying to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic in their own countries, international organisations are also working towards coordinating efforts to come up with a response against the spread of Covid-19 which is predicted to have a devastating impact on the global economy.   India…

World Health Organization expert Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove has said, ‘More and more’ young people experiencing severe disease, WHO warns and there are still many unknowns at this time,’ says expert  Maria said in a  press conference in Geneva. “Overwhelmingly we do see a trend across countries that people who are older, people who have underlying conditions…have a higher risk of death,” added Dr Maria . Officials said they were trying to “better understand” why apparently healthy patients aged under 60 ended up in intensive care units (ICU) with the…

COVID-19 death toll in India exceeded 100 on Saturday, with the country reporting 104 deaths, including three in Tamil Nadu. In India 3,500 confirmed cases have been reported across the country, as per the Health Ministry and State government data. Secondly, over 1,000 positive cases traced to Rablughi Jamat event in Delhi. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that there is a shortage of PPE kits for health workers in Delhi amid the coronavirus pandemic. He added, “We have written to the Centre to supply the kits, essential for…