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The Uttar Pradesh government had launched a Coronavirus Command Centre to ensure the treatment of coronavirus patients as well as timely delivery of medicines. But serious doubts have been raised whether the centre would really prove to be public-friendly after a recorded conversation between the command centre operator and a patient surfaced on various social media platforms. Santosh Singh and his wife got themselves tested for COVID-19 on April 10. The couple decided to isolate themselves after experiencing coronavirus symptoms. However, on April 12 , the reports confirmed that the couple were Covid-19 positive. In the phone call, the command centre operator can be heard calling Santosh Kumar Singh. He received a call at 8:14 am on April 15. At the beginning of the call, the ope...

New cases of coronavirus infection in India were recorded above 2 lakh for the second day, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,42,91,917 according to the Union Health Ministry data. A total of 2,17,353 new infections were registered in a day, while the death count increased to 1,74,308 with 1,185 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.buy cymbalta online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/cymbalta.html no prescription Meanwhile, one hundred new hospitals will get their own oxygen plants with funds from the PM-CARES fund, the government said on Thursday, amid a surge in coronavirus cases that has battered healthcare services across the country and left several states scrambling for treatment essentials.

In Hoogly, West Bengal, a 54-year-old muezzin namely Mohammed Sufiuddin was allegedly slapped by an unidentified youth for refusing to chant Jai Shri Ram. Sufiuddin said that he was approached by three motorcycle-borne youths and asked to chant the slogan when he was riding a bicycle from his home to the mosque on Wednesday around 3.45 am. ”I told them about my religious identity and requested them not to force me to chant the slogan. At this, one of the youths slapped me and I fell down with my cycle. As I cried in pain, the youths escaped from the scene. There was no one around as it was too early in the morning,” Sufiuddin was quoted by The Telegraph as saying. Sufiuddin filed a complaint at Chinsurah police station against three unidentified persons. Gaurav Sharma, the poli...

Strains of the Covid virus in India with "double mutations" have been found in patients in 10 states and this could be responsible for rising infections and a faster spread in these states, top sources in the Union Health Ministry told NDTV. Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are among the states where double mutant strains were found, sources said, adding that these mutants are playing a role in the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases. However, it cannot be said that double mutants are 100 per cent responsible for the rise in cases, sources in the ministry said. A "double mutation" is when two mutated strains of a virus come together to form a third strain. The one reported in India is the result of the E484Q and L452R strains combining. The L452R str...

  Authorities of the Uttarakhand government on Wednesday precluded the chance of stopping the Kumbh Mela even as in excess of 2,000 individuals have tested positive for the Covid over the most recent five days in Haridwar. Haridwar District Magistrate, Deepak Rawat said that the Kumbh Mela was initially planned to start in January, yet the Uttarakhand government chose to start the festivities in April, even after being wary of the Covid circumstance, NDTV detailed "I have no data of it being shortened," Rawat said. Rawat's remark came after writes about Wednesday evening proposed that the authorities were mulling over to stop the Mela, which is seeing the footfall of lakhs of travelers consistently in the midst of the huge second influx of Covid in the country. On Wednesda...

The Gauhati High Court upheld the bail order of activist Akhil Gogoi by a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in relation to his alleged role in violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Assam in 2019.buy silvitra online https://pavg.net/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/fonts/new/silvitra.html no prescription Dismissing an appeal by NIA, a High Court Bench comprising Justices Suman Shyam and Mir Alfaz Ali said a person may be booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) only if his crime is an act of terrorism and reflects the intent to threaten India’s sovereignty, integrity and unity sufficiently. Unlawful act of any other nature, including acts [of] arson and violence aimed at creating civil disturbance and law and order problems, w...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been tested corona positive on Wednesday. He himself informed about this by taking to the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Yogi Adityanath has isolated himself at home after he was found to be Corona positive. He said that even though the second wave of corona virus infection in Uttar Pradesh is a little faster than before, but we are not going towards a lockdown in Uttar Pradesh.

A Muslim man namely Mohammad Umar along with other persons performed the last rites of an elderly man who succumbed due to the deadly coronavirus at a hospital in Bihar’s Darbhanga town. They took the step after the deceased’s son Abhishek Mishra refused to take his body. Umar said that after his son refused to perform his duty, we came out to perform the last rites of the deceased. With the help of some Hindu persons, we performed his last rites as per Hindu traditions, he added. Umar and others who participated in the last rites have gone into home quarantine until their test reports arrive. Similarly, two Muslim men known as Mukhtar and Babloo performed the last rites of six bodies at a Hindu crematorium in the Malegaon area of Maharashtra.

On Monday, Supreme Court dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition which sought removal of certain verses from the Holy Quran alleging that they violate the law of the land and promote extremism. A Bench of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman, BR Gavai and Hrishikesh Roy imposed costs of Rs. 50,000 on the petitioner Syed Waseem Rizvi. Rizvi, in a plea, alleged that certain verses in the Quran are a threat to the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of the country. He sought a declaration from the court to hold those verses unconstitutional, non-effective and non-functional. The plea also sought directions to appoint a committee of religious experts to get an opinion on the subject matter of the petition. Rizvi, former Chairman Uttar Pradesh Central Waqf Board and President,...

Amid growing covid 19 cases in India, Massive crowds flouting Covid-19 rules gathered on the banks of river Ganges on Monday in Uttarakhand's Haridwar for Kumbh Mela. The crowds assembled at Har ki Pauri Ghat on the river banks to take a holy dip on the occasion violating all the COVID-19 SOPs issued by the Police and the Government including that of 'Social distancing.' However, on the account of increasing COVID cases, a negative RT-PCR test report not older than 72 hours before arrival has been made mandatory for the devotees. The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage held every 12 years at river ford sites along the Ganga river in India.