Government of India has issued a clarification on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement yesterday that no one ‘came inside India’s border’. While the Indian media took this sentence to mean that the Chinese never crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into Indian territory, Government of India today clarified that that was not the intended […]
After showing signs of slowing down for three days, the number of new Coronavirus cases in India has shown a sharp jump on Wednesday, even as 30% of those tested in Delhi returned positive on that day. Delhi reported an all time record of 2,414 new cases on Wednesday, with experts pointing out that the […]
Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane has confirmed for the first time that Indian and Chinese troops have begun the process of “disengagement” at the Galwan Valley in the northern areas of Ladakh after a series of local military consultations between the two forces. In an interaction with reporters after delivering the keynote address at […]
Delhi Government has promised to increase the number of COVID-19 tests to around 18,000 per day from the current level of around 5,000 per day at the all-party meeting held under the leadership of central home minister Amit Shah. Amit Shah was forced to call the all party meet after the healthcare situation in Delhi […]
The Dharma Sastha Temple at Sabarimala will not open to the public this month as was announced earlier, Kerala Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran said. The move comes as a setback to opposition parties Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, which had been trying to portray the Left Front government has ‘anti-Hindu’ for its decision […]
India’s daily COVID-19 additions crossed the 11,000 mark on Wednesday, even as daily deaths set a new record at 357. The total detected cases of Coronavirus 2019 in India has now risen to 2.87 lakh, up by 11,156 in 24 hours, while the number of deaths has now reached 8,107. The above numbers, taken from […]
Three people, allegedly part of a gang of poachers supplying game meat to customers during the COVID-19 lockdown, have been arrested in Kerala today. They were arrested from their homes at Pathanapuram in Kollam, following an inquiry into the death of an elephant. It was in early April that locals in the area alerted forest […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the state still has 4,200 free COVID-19 beds, but admitted that dozens of people have faced difficulty in getting access to these beds in the last few days. “I have seen that there are people who are coming on TV channels and saying that we could not find a […]
N Vasu, president of Kerala’s largest temple board, today rejected claims by Sangh Parivar allied organizations that temple boards were reopening Hindu places of worship with an eye on money. Hindu Aikya Vedi, which shares many of its leaders with other Sangh Parivar organizations, had yesterday strongly opposed the decision to reopen temples amid the […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he has been forced to reserve COVID-19 beds in all private and Delhi government hospitals in the city exclusively for the use of Delhi-based patients. This, he said, followed the deliberations and recommendations of a committee set up to look into the matter. The decision comes a day before […]
Kerala Police has arrested a farm worker named P Wilson as part of investigations into the death of a pregnant elephant in Ambalappara in Kerala last week. Wilson, reportedly from Odakkali village, works at a plantation not far from where the elephant was found. In addition, two others have been detained and are being questioned, […]
With 9,889 new cases reported on Thursday, India has emerged as home to the third fastest growing Coronavirus patient population in the world. India broke the 6,000 new case per day mark on May 19, the 7000 cases/day mark on May 24, the 8,000/day mark on May 29 and the 9,000/day mark on June 3 […]
Even as the rest of the country is seeing an accelerated increase in the number of new Coronavirus cases reported every day, the western Indian state of Gujarat has is reporting a surprising decline in the number of active cases every day. It has also shown a remarkable stability in the number of new COVID-19 […]
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 […]
92% of the COVID-19 cases in Kerala are among those who have come to the state from outside, with Maharashtra accounting for the highest share. Out of the 557 active COVID-19 cases in Kerala as of Friday, 512 are found in those who have arrived in the state as part of the inter-state and international […]
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 […]
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 […]
