Maruti Suzuki has come out with a range of health-related products and car accessories keeping in mind the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The most interesting of these is the ‘car cabin separator’, a PVC shield that can be kept behind the front seats to seal off the front and back sections of the car. “The car […]
Prasar Bharti, India’s public broadcaster which operates DD Free Dish satellite TV service, has given five slots on the DTH platform to major private sector broadcasters such as Star India, Sony Pictures Networks, TV18 Broadcast and Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Two slots have been allocated to Zee Entertainment Enterprises, while one each has been allocated to […]
Maharashtra, one of the states worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has decided not to pass on most of the relaxations allowed by the central government as far as the Coronavirus lockdown 5.0 is concerned. Key among the relaxations that WILL NOT not be allowed in Maharashtra are the opening of religious places of worship, […]
Railway minister Piyush Goyal said 200 mail and express trains will start running the ‘length and breadth’ of the country from Monday, and their number will be gradually ramped to ‘near normal levels’ in coming days. These are not the first regular long-distance trains to be restarted since the lock-down. Indian Railways had, about three […]
Kerala Fiber Optic Network, a high-speed broadband service from Kerala government, will start operations by the end of the year, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said today. The Rs 1,000 crore project was announced around two years ago with a December 2020 deadline. Vijayan said he has spoken with the consortium of companies that are putting […]
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet said it has received regulatory approval to test drones to deliver e-commerce parcels, medical, pharma and other essential supplies. “Post trials and approvals, SpiceXpress, the dedicated cargo arm of SpiceJet, plans to use drones to provide for a quicker, faster and a cost-effective delivery,” low-cost carrier said. A SpiceXpress-led consortium had submitted […]
Kerala today reported 84 new COVID-19 cases, including 31 each from Maharashtra and an equal number from outside the country. Out of the 84 people detected with COVID-19 today, 48 came from other states. Only 5 people from Kerala tested positive. It is not clear how many of these five caught the virus from the […]
Kerala Government has made all institutional quarantine facilities chargeable for anyone admitted from today, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said today. In addition, heavy fines will be imposed on those who enter the state without a pass — in case of road travelers — and without pre-registration, incase of train and air travelers. Since people […]
SpiceJet today made a formal announcement of the restarting of its domestic flying operations and reassured its customers about their safety inside the aircraft in view of the Coronavirus pandemic. The company resumed operations after a gap of exactly two months due to the Coronavirus lockdown. Flights are being operated on sectors such as Delhi-Bengaluru, […]
A Facebook page claiming to represent Praveen Togadia’s AntarRashtreeya Hindu Parishad — which positions itself as an ‘alternative Hindu organization’ to the Sangh Parivar in Kerala — has claimed responsibility for the destruction of a Church built as part of a movie set on the Periyar riverbed in Kerala. The page posted pictures of some […]
Kerala reported 62 new Coronavirus cases on Saturday, marking a record for daily additions since it started reporting COVID-19 from January. Out of the 62 new cases, 6 are cases of local transmission, 7 are local health workers, 31 are among people who returned from other states and the remaining are among people who came […]
Kerala will impose a 14-day quarantine on all air travelers except those who are coming for “one or two days” for “business requirements”, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The statement brings some clarity on the question of what happens to quarantine rules when domestic air travel is restarted on Monday. “The same rules that apply […]
Uttar Pradesh, the state with the highest number of returning migrant workers in India, has reported the sharpest increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases yet. A total of 360 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Thursday. The earlier record was set on Tuesday, when 315 new cases were reported. The number of COVID-19 […]
A new study report by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) finds that almost 70 per cent of India’s coal-fired power plants will not meet revised emission standards that come into effect in two years. The norms were set in December 2015 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). “Even after seven […]
Avnish Awasthi, additional secretary with department of home affairs in Uttar Pradesh government, today said that no migrant workers are walking on Uttar Pradesh’s roads as of today. His comments come in the wake of widespread outrage over media reports showing families, including small children, walking on the highways of Uttar Pradesh and adjacent states […]
The number of new COVID-19 cases in India crossed the 6,000 mark for the first time, as four states — Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Karnataka –reported their highest number of new cases in a single day. The breaching of the 6,000/day mark comes two days after India crossed the 5,000 mark for the first […]
17 migrant laborers tried to cycle to their hometowns in Odisha, Kerala Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, but were sent back to their camps by state police. “They have been assured that as soon as trains start running again [to Odisha], they will be sent back,” said the Chief Minister. Odisha has so far taken […]
With more than 83,000 cases, India has today overtaken China, the source of Coronavirus, in the total number of COVID-19 cases, and become the 11th country to do so. As the daily addition of new patients hovers around the 4,000 mark, India has also emerged as home to the fifth fastest growing COVID-19 patient population […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to railway minister Piyush Goyal requesting the Indian Railways not to bypass the state’s COVID-19 containment and control plan. The state, one of the few places in the world to nearly eliminate Coronavirus through social distancing, has an elaborate system to monitor, control and contain the influx of […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vjayan today said that the state was not in favor of restarting regular services of inter-state trains yet, and warned that any railway passenger who arrives without pre-registering on the state COVID portal will be put in institutional quarantine for 14 days. At the same time, Vijayan said he was not […]
