Here is a hypothetical scenario: we divide areas in to zones. We test people from zone A, which has 3 areas (a population of 100 people in total). We test 100 people, quarantine the susceptible, and isolate the infected. This way, zone A becomes the least vulnerable zone. So its people can move inside the...
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday allowed the use of trains for ferrying people stranded due to the nationwide lockdown to their respective states, an official said Addressing a press conference, Joint Secretary in the MHA Punya Salila Srivastava said stranded people such as migrant workers, tourists, pilgrims and students can now...
Under the auspices of Sanvidhan Suraksha Aandolan (Joint platform for the protection of constitutional rights), a group of 26 leaders today send an appeal to Hon’ble Chief Justice of India seeking suo moto intervention of the Supreme Court to stop assaults of Delhi Police on citizenship rights activists. Full text of the Appeal Appeal before...
In 2019, religious freedom conditions in India experienced a drastic turn downward, with religious minorities under increasing assault. Following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) re-election in May, the national government used its strengthened parliamentary majority to institute national level policies violating religious freedom across India, especially for Muslims. The national government allowed violence against minorities...
The number of coronavirus cases in India surged to 29,974 on Tuesday evening after 1594 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. Addressing a press conference here, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary MoHFW, said that no new COVID-19 cases have been reported from 17 districts of...
When your masjids are virtually closed and you have chosen to pray at homes even in this virtuous month of Ramadhan; when your academic institutions, businesses and all sources of income are completely shutdown; and when you have already locked yourselves inside homes and even the stagnated labourers and poor are not able to reach...
Our country has witnessed in recent times a well-planned anti-Muslim hate campaign by the Hindutva fascist forces. The objective of this hate campaign was to demonize the Muslim community. Social media was flooded with hate posts alleging that the Corona virus was a planned conspiracy of Muslims. Unfortunately, the mainstream which was supposed to expose...
he death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 779 and the number of cases climbed to 24,942 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 56 deaths and 1,490 cases since Friday evening, according to the Union health ministry The 56 deaths were the maximum reported in the country in a span of 24...
In late December 2019, a cluster of cases with pneumonia of unidentified aetiology was reported in Wuhan city, Hubei province of People’s Republic of China. This was soon identified to be caused by a novel strain of coronavirus which was named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease caused by it...
As we know that the world is in the grip of a raging coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty and fear are gripping everywhere. Amidst the widespread of Covid 19 when every country is taking steps to contain and trying to find a way to tackle one of the worst disease of recent times, TV anchors and...