Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said 75 per cent of COVID-19 cases in the city are asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. The chief minister said the government has also issued an order for requisition of ambulances of private hospitals, adding that the decision has been taken in the wake of shortage of state-run...
Yemen is one of the Arab world’s poorest country which has been battered by a devastating civil war over the last five years. Yemen internal unrest has its roots of 2011 Arab spring wave of popular uprising which ousted the decades long authoritative president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The so called Arab spring also known as...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for concerted global action to quash the “tsunami” of hate speech that has risen alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. He further said the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering. The UN chief said anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets, anti-Semitic...
Anthony Fauci is fast transforming from an independent doctor into a political football, with the latest proof of his metamorphosis being the White House’s refusal to let him testify before the Democrat-controlled House’s Appropriations Committee that’s investigating the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. Prior to that, the nation’s top infectious disease expert drew attention for...
“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...
A Muslim man has been strolling up and down his garden to raise funds for victims of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the world, especially those in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Hundred-year-old Dabirul Choudhury, who was born in Bangladesh, was inspired by the phenomenal record-breaking efforts of Tom Moore, a British veteran who raised...
All of us are trying to adjust to the unforeseen changes brought about by the onset of COVID-19. The transition to the virtual world has not been a cakewalk for everyone. Several people, particularly of my parents’ generation, are not technology friendly but are now having to adapt to talking with friends and family via...
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...