Tag: Corona pandemic

‘People transformed Covid-19 challenges into opportunities’

Bhardwaj said that in 1918, a similar pandemic spread in the country which killed about two crore people and it took many years to prepare medicine for the treatment of pandemic at that time.

January 7, 2021

HP Guv unveils cut-out for Covid awareness

The Governor appreciated the initiative and said that during the Corona pandemic, the police personnel have done an excellent job in fighting COVID-19 as frontline warriors

October 22, 2020

Holy ice lingam melting amidst uncertainty over the Amarnath pilgrimage

The Lieutenant Governor, GC Murmu, along with his family members performed the “Pratham Arti” at the shrine on 5 July.

July 16, 2020

Only BJP and JD-U want elections in Bihar at time of Corona pandemic

Both are so desperate that they have continued launching stinging attacks on the parties, especially the main Opposition RJD, seeking postponement of elections citing corona pandemic.

July 12, 2020

Youths ask EC to allow Nitish continue as CM for another term on basis of his past performance

“Nitish Kumar has conceded defeat even before elections and hence is placing such demands before the Election Commission through his men,” RJD spokesman Mritunjay Tiwari said.

June 29, 2020

Covid Dictionary~II

The impact of the corona pandemic in the linguistic field is far from over. As new waves of the disease affect mankind, more and more new scenarios will develop and with them will emerge new usage or coinage of terms and expressions relating to different fields and sectors ~ all invariably impacted by the dreaded virus.

June 22, 2020

Kanwar Yatra suspended leaving devotees and organisers disappointed

The Kanwar Yatra, which commences with the onset of the Hindu month of monsoon (Sawan) in July every year draws a crowd of millions of Kanwarias (devotees) who after collecting holy Ganges water from Hardwar in Uttarakhand walk on foot towards their home carrying the Kanwar on their shoulders and offer it to Lord Shiva on the occasion of Shiv Ratri.

June 21, 2020

Amit Shah interacts with district-level officials of UP and Haryana, stresses on increased Corona testing in NCR

Union Home Minister (HM) Amit Shah on Thursday held an online meeting with the district level officials of UP and Haryana in which the Chief Secretaries of the two states were also present along with Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, Union Home Secretary and ICMR director.

June 18, 2020

HP to give additional financial aid to 1.37 lakh construction workers

The Chief Minister said that the state government has already provided Rs 2000 each to the beneficiaries for the month of April and May, 2020. With this amount, the beneficiaries would get an additional amount of Rs 27.42 crore.

June 17, 2020

Kerala shows the way

Kerala has underlined the importance of two aspects about the role of leadership in tackling the crisis. One, the effectiveness of bottom-up involving people at the grassroots with preparedness, planning and implementation rather than top down, talk down oneperson centric approach. Second, the inspirational role played by a woman in a crucial area like healthcare has demonstrated that effective disease containment is possible not only in a democracy, but in a poor one. Similar successes have been reported in countries that have women heads of government/state Bangladesh, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway and Taiwan.

May 29, 2020

Alarm in Gorakhpur after bats drop dead

By the time the forest team arrived, more bats dropped dead from the trees and the tally had gone up to 52.

May 27, 2020