Month: April 2021

RTI Activist Saket Gokhale moves Allahabad High Court against the state of Uttar Pradesh on the issue of coercive action taken against those who are appealing for oxygen on social media. The PIL filed in the Allahabad HC refers to news of an FIR filed against a man, who sought help on Twitter for oxygen for his grandfather.buy synthroid Canada buy synthroid generic It was on Monday evening that Shashank Yadav had tagged the actor Sonu Sood in the tweet, although there was no mention of Covid-19. The tweet was further shared by Smriti Irani, the MP from Amethi. On Tuesday, the Amethi Police tweeted that it had registered a criminal case against a youth who took to Twitter to appeal for oxygen. This comes after the UP Chief Minister Yogi's orders to the officials about taking actio...

A group of Muslim men has been performing the last rites of Covid-19 victims, both Hindus and Muslims while fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a report by The Times of India. It is said that Imdad Imam (33) and his team of 22 men have helped cremate seven Hindus and bury 30 Muslim Covid victims, till now. These men aged between 30-35 years, and have been doing selfless service despite the risk of getting infected and the discomfort caused by wearing PPE kits. Mehdi Raza, Kazim Abbas, Ashir Agha, Ahsan Nazir and Meraj Husain are the few others in the team. On April 21, the team received a call from Bharat Nagar, on Sitapur road that a woman who lived alone and had Covid had died and the body had been lying there for three days. The tenants who lived on the floor...

The vice president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Dr. Navjot Dahiya, held PM Modi responsible for the spread of the Coronavirus and called him a 'super spreader'. “While the medical fraternity is trying hard to make people understand mandatory Covid norms, PM Modi did not hesitate to address the big political rallies tossing all Covid norms in the air,” he told, The Tribune, while blaming him for organizing huge election rallies and allowing the Kumbh Mela during the deadly pandemic. Dr. Dahiya accused the PM of passing the buck of his failure to the state governments and the private medical sector and raised questions over Modi led Union government's seriousness to deal with the deadly virus. “The scarcity of medical oxygen has become the reason for the death of many pa...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 hit Assam this morning at 7:41 am. As per the National Center for Seismology, the depth of the earthquake was 10 km from the surface. The earthquake hits Assam amidst the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, when Assam has 10,571 active Covid cases, as per the Assam Covid-19 Dashboard. It has emerged that the epicenter of the earthquake was near Dhekiajuli town, which is located 140 km north of the capital Guwahati. There have been no reports of anyone being injured. Only the photographs showing damaged walls and windows have surfaced as of now. The health minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted a few pictures of the damage. The tremors were also felt in the neighboring areas of the Northeast and Bengal. Meanwhile, the PM has assured help to Assam via...