Month: April 2021

Dr Kafeel Khan wrote a letter to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, requesting his reinstatement to serve the covid patients during the pandemic. Dr Khan was suspended from Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College after several children died there in 2017, apparently due to the lack of oxygen cylinders at the government hospital. A departmental inquiry later cleared Khan of most of the charges, but he found himself in trouble for an allegedly provocative speech in Aligarh during last December’s protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In his letter to CM Adityanath, Dr Khan said that “the second wave of Coronavirus has wreaked havoc in the whole of India. Despite the departmental action on the other doctors, their suspension has been terminated and service has been res...

Hours after Rahul Gandhi, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and asked all those who came in contact with him to get themselves screened. “I have today tested #COVID positive with symptoms. Please get yourself screened if you were in my contact recently and take care,” he tweeted. Singh, who holds multiple portfolios, including Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, is also the Lok Sabha member from Jammu Kashmir’s Udhampur constituency. Meanwhile, Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi has self-isolated himself after his wife was tested positive for the infection.

On Sunday, the ruling BJP and Congress lashed out at each other after a video of a Madhya Pradesh minister, Tulsiram Silawat and his supporters breaking coconuts and a priest chanting prayers in front of a tanker transporting oxygen from Gujarat went viral. In videos that were circulated widely on social media, MP PWD minister, Tulsiram Silawat and his supporters can be seen offering prayers in front of the tanker in Indore and posing in front of the vehicle for media photographs. MP Congress spokesperson Neelabh Shukla alleged that when the tanker, which started from Jamnagar in Gujarat reached Chandan Nagar Chowk on Saturday night, it was stopped for an hour by Silawat for puja Paath to quench their thirst for media coverage. They repeated the act when the vehicle reached a filling...

On Monday, the Uttar Pradesh government refused to follow Allahabad High Court orders to impose lockdown in five cities - Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur from tonight till April 26 in view of the surge in coronavirus cases. The state said it will not implement the order of the court because the pandemic had virtually incapacitated their medical infrastructure especially in cities like Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur and Gorakhpur and it has to protect both lives and livelihoods. The court issued a series of orders, including the suspension and closure of all religious activities and establishments, and the closure of all shopping malls. The court also ordered all educational institutions across the state to shut down as well. All offices, whether government...

After Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal announced a week-long lockdown in the capital, migrant workers started leaving for their hometowns. A massive crowd of migrant laborers gathered at the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal in Delhi to return to their hometowns. On Monday, Kejriwal announced a six-day lockdown from 10 pm on April 19 till 5 am on April 26, amid the rising Covid-19 cases in Delhi. Hours after the announcement, a huge crowd of people flooded the Anand Vihar Bus terminal in Delhi to leave for their native places. Covid protocol went for a toss as people rushed towards buses with their families. Even the police could not manage the crowd. The workers decided to leave Delhi even as Kejriwal while announcing the lockdown, assured them saying, “Main hoon na [I am there for y...