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 […]
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 […]
TV Today Network, also known as the India Today group, said it decided to shut down Dilli AajTak, its Delhi-specific news channel, and move some of the staff to the main channel. The decision comes in the wake of a sharp decline in advertising revenues across channels due to the Coronavirus lock-down. The group said […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kerala has published new rules under lockdown 4.0, bringing the overall regulations more in line with the new regulations published by the central government. However, the state continues to prohibit certain activities that are allowed by the center in its guidelines yesterday. Most notably, these include restrictions on travel. While the center had allowed by-road […]
Karnataka has announced rules for Lockdown 4 under which public transport will be allowed to ply. There will be restrictions on the entry of people from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Almost all the relaxations allowed by the central government will be implemented in Karnataka. Parks will be opened twice a day. Trains running within […]
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 […]
States ruled by BJP-led National Democratic Alliance have taken back nearly four times as many migrant workers compared to states ruled by opposition parties, according to the data given by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today. A total of 806 trains have so far been run by the Indian railways for migrant workers. Out of these, […]
The central government has started giving out the details of its 20 lakh crore ($250 bln) stimulus-cum-rehabilitation package announced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the program yesterday, and said that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce the details in coming days. Sitharaman said she would announce plans […]
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 […]
States seem to be scrambling to put in place a policy to deal with incoming travelers from COVID-19 affected red zone states after the Indian Railways unexpectedly announced that it was restarting some long distance trains from tomorrow. Most states currently limit interstate travel by issuing special passes, so that the number of incoming travelers […]
