In a heart-wrenching tragedy, a 24-year-old migrant worker died here after his fellow travelers, except his friend, left him behind on their way to Uttar Pradesh. ‘A friend in need is the friend indeed’ goes a saying. This has been proved once again by a heartwarming story of Yakub and Amrit, both migrant workers struggling...
President Donald Trump has announced that the US will donate a lot of ventilators to India to help it fight the “invisible enemy”, moments after he underlined the close partnership between the two countries and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “good friend”. Trump also said the US and India were cooperating to develop a...
At least 24 migrant labourers were killed and 36 people sustained injuries when a trailer truck carrying them collided with another truck in the early hours of Saturday in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Both the trucks were carrying the labourers. The accident took place between 3 am and 3.30 am, they said. “The accident took...
When the world is facing a historically unprecedented and catastrophic situation, everything from healthcare, economy to social life have been turned upside down due to the COVID-19 lockdown, there are so many people who are working tirelessly, leaving no stone unturned to fight coronavirus. Proving ration to needy person, showing compassion to corona warriors, helping...
“My mother has been asking me about detention centers,” my friend recently told me on the phone. “She has been very worried.” My first reaction was shame. She is Muslim and I am Hindu. That never meant anything to us when we first met, studied together and hung out in New York. When her mother...
Prominent Muslim leaders have demanded withdrawal of FIR registered against Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission Zafarul Islam Khan who has been booked on sedition charge for his social media posts. Condemning the police action and terming it “biased”, the clerics and Muslim leaders from different parts of the country alleged that the case against...
At least 14 exhausted migrant workers going home due to virus curbs run over by train while they were sleeping on the tracks on Friday morning in Maharashtra state’s Aurangabad district, the railway ministry and media said. Tens of thousands of people have been walking home from India’s key cities after losing their jobs because...
These figures are as of end of week of 3rd May. The unemployment even before Covid19 hit India was already rising and we were at around 8.7%. Amid suspended economic activity to counter the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s unemployment rate surged to 27.11 per cent for the week ended May 3 from the...
At this time, the whole country and the whole is locked down to overcome the Corona pandemic. Even all educational activities have been stopped. Judicial activities have also been restricted. This was stated by Muhammad Sanaullah, General Secretary, Popular Front, Bihar. He said that the people are fully supporting the government in this war without...
Eleven people, including two children, have died while about 300 are hospitalised after a gas leakage from LG Polymers chemical plant in RR Venkatapuram village, Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh today. The Vizag factory was trying to open post lockdown when the incident occurred, DG NDRF told CNN-News18. Several people were taken to hospital after they...