Most beneficiaries of private charity are without ration cards, bank accounts or even a fixed home address and fall outside the purview of government agencies. The reason given by the government for this ban order is that non-government agencies are not maintaining “social distancing” properly.
“You will soon have a new Foreign Secretary,” was Mr Gandhi’s “news break” ~ the term wasn’t in vogue then ~ in the presence of the incumbent, Mr AP Venkateswaran.
“It is advised that there should be no big gatherings for offering namaz on the terraces during Ramadhan,” said Moulana Shafique Qasmi, imam of Nakhoda Mosque.
The source said that according to the plan the force would be divided into nine divisions and would be deployed in the ‘highly sensitive areas’. The deputy commissioners (DCs) in each division would likely be the overall incharge to head the force.
The Executive Magistrates – Debdulal Patra, Faiyaz Ahmed, Biplob Mondal and Saikat Hazra were accompanied by IC, Burdwan PS, Pintu Saha. They raided places like Station market, Bajepratappur, Kalna Gate , Tentultalla market areas.
Till now, there are 12 Covid- 19 deaths and total active cases have risen to 178. Seven patients were discharged from hospital since yesterday, said Sinha after holding a video conference with principals of all medical colleges, CMOHs and health officials.
The statement risked widespread ridicule ~ and duly copped it too, in limited segments of the media. It feels faintly amusing now, so many weeks later, that he has resigned himself to the all-pervasive uncertainty in the wake of the outbreak, to the extent of saying that this is not the time when you prattle about sport.
So far, there was only anecdotal evidence available ~ such as the presence of thousands of urns ~ to suggest that China was feeding the world an incomplete factsheet. Now Beijing says it has corrected the figures because it wants to be “responsible to history, the people and the deceased”.
The duo travelled almost 1500 km and finally arrived in the Bakkhatuli area yesterday, where local people demonstrated against them today. The police and health workers were called to the spot and the crowd demanded that the family members of the duo also be quarantined.
The four, including a three-year- old girl, are family members of the first Covid-19 patient in north Bengal, who died on 30 March. Earlier, seven patients, including some family members of the 44-yearold Kalimpong woman, were discharged from Dr Chang’s Hospital at Matigara.
