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KCR faces flak over migrant labour crisis

30 Apr 2020 07:10 AM IST

Migrant labour attacked their employers and police near IIT Hyderabad which is on the north-western outskirts of the city on Wednesday. They damaged police vehicles with sticks and stones. Most attackers are construction labour and have even built the IIT buildings. The area is in Hyderabad’s Patancheru-Bollaram-Rudraram belt, which is the

Karnataka goes for zone specific relaxation

29 Apr 2020 15:34 PM IST

State divided into Red, Yellow and Green zones. The red zones include areas like—Bengaluru, Mysuru, Belgavi, Bidar, Daksin Kannada (Mangaluru), Kalaburgi, Vijaypura, Bagalkot. Yellow zones include Bellary, Mandya, Bengaluru Rural, Gadag, Tumkuru, Chikkaballapur, Uttar Kannada, Dharwad and areas under green zone include —Chamrajnagar, Koppal, Chikamagalur, Raichur, Chitradurga, Ramanagara, Hassan, Sivamogga,

IAF takes new ‘Udan’ to fight corona battle

29 Apr 2020 12:45 PM IST

The Indian Air Force (IAF), with maximum number of flights, is leading the Civil Aviation Ministry’s “Lifeline Udan” initiative to transport essential medical cargo in remote parts of the country in order to fight Covid-19. As per figures available till 26 April, the IAF has operated as many as 155

‘WHO’s future in present form is in peril’

29 Apr 2020 12:35 PM IST

The continuance of the World Health Organization (WHO), in its present form, is looking increasingly difficult with the United States of America (USA) makingit clear that the WHO acted “recklessly” while dealing with Covid-19 and calling it the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party. On 9 April, 14 Republican

Climate technology must be open source, available at affordable cost: Javadekar

29 Apr 2020 08:30 AM IST

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, while addressing Petersberg Climate Dialogue, calls for global co-operation in tackling the challenge of reinvigorating economies and societies post coronavirus pandemic.

CSIR begins drug trial for vaccine against Covid-19

29 Apr 2020 08:25 AM IST

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in an exclusive interaction with The Daily Guardian, has said that drug trial for the vaccine against Covid-19 has started. “As far as I know, the trials have begun at PGIMER, Chandigarh. AIIMS, Bhopal has also obtained the Institutional Ethics Committee’s approval

We have to strike a balance between life and livelihood: Shekhawat

29 Apr 2020 08:20 AM IST

In an exclusive chat with The Daily Guardian, Union Jal Shakti Minister, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat spoke on various issues—from the way India is fighting the coronavirus pandemic and is enhancing its medical capabilities to the politics being played in his home state Rajasthan and in West Bengal. Q: When the rest

Centre should amend law, allow mining in Goa: CM

29 Apr 2020 08:15 AM IST

Even as there is no clarity on how long the present lockdown in India could be extended to, its significant economic repercussions are now being felt by most states. The latest is Goa, which is now Covid free and has not had a single coronavirus case since April 3. It

Two sadhus killed in UP temple, Opposition targets CM Yogi

29 Apr 2020 08:06 AM IST

Days after the horrific lynching of two sadhus in Palghar, Maharashtra jolted the collective conscience of the entire nation, another shocker has come to light from Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh. The incident came to light after village locals discovered the blood-soaked bodies of two sadhus on Tuesday morning inside a

Telangana and Andhra ready with roadmap to lift lockdown

29 Apr 2020 08:00 AM IST

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao used to be very strict on the issue of lockdown. Even when the Centre gave some relaxations, the state government denied them to its people and implemented the lockdown in letter and spirit. But suddenly KCR seems to have changed his strategy as there

Covid-19 battle not over yet but number of hotspot districts coming down: MoS Health

29 Apr 2020 07:55 AM IST

The war against Covid-19 may not get over soon, but Minister of State for Health Ashwani Choubey believes that India has been able to contain the virus as the number of hotspot districts in the country has come down. He also reminded that the number of corona-positive patients which initially

Protests against Nitish over stranded students in Kota

29 Apr 2020 07:50 AM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s decision not to bring back more than 6,000 Bihari students stranded in Kota has now generated protests from students and the Opposition has started tearing apart the state government, accusing it of being callous. The Patna University Students’ Union on Tuesday staged a protest in