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“We can also be the warriors sitting at home” Vijay Sharma on people following lockdown measures

“We can also be the warriors sitting at home” Vijay Sharma on people following lockdown measures

“For the ones who help, should never be tested for their patience and in the time of pandemic when all we see is suffering and deaths around, the social workers and the doctors are truly the ones who receive respect for fighting for us, rather than stones,” said Vijay Sharma, …

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Varanasi Smart City uses Drones to sanitize sensitive areas for controlling spread of COVID-19

Varanasi Smart City uses Drones to sanitize sensitive areas for controlling spread of COVID-19

Varanasi Smart City has engaged ‘Garuda Aerospace Private Limited, a Chennai Based company for spraying of sanitizer in the selected areas of Varanasi City under Smart Cities Mission. In view of limited options for transportation during lockdown period, these drones were specially airlifted from Chennai through Air-India Cargo flights with …

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Facts on the controversy around prices of Rapid Antibody tests

Facts on the controversy around prices of Rapid Antibody tests

First of all, it is important to understand the background in which procurement decisions are made by ICMR. Testing is one of the most crucial weapons to fight COVID-19 and ICMR is doing everything it can to ramp up testing. This requires procurement of kits and supplying them to states. …

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No reduction in retirement age of Central Government employees, PIB Fact Check busts fake news

No reduction in retirement age of Central Government employees, PIB Fact Check busts fake news

Fact Check Unit of Press Information Bureau has today clarified in a tweet that Central Government is not mulling a reduction in retirement age of Central Government employees. The tweet was a response to an article printed on a web portal which claimed that the Government of India is likely …

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Fake news on WhatsApp claims Government giving Rs 1000 under Corona Sahayata Yojana

Fake news on WhatsApp claims Government giving Rs 1000 under Corona Sahayata Yojana

Fact Check Unit of Press Information Bureau has today clarified in a tweet that Government of India is not giving Rs 1000 to anybody under the so called Corona Sahayata Yojana scheme. This tweet was in response to a widely circulating message on WhatsApp that claimed that Government had launched …

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Border Roads Organisation clears Rohtang Pass three weeks in advance despite Covid-19 lockdown

Border Roads Organisation clears Rohtang Pass three weeks in advance despite Covid-19 lockdown

Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has opened Rohtang Pass (13,500 feet above sea level) today, more than three weeks in advance amid Covid-19 lockdown after clearing snow. It is the arterial road connecting Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh from rest of the country. The pass was opened on May …

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MHA issues Order to States/UTs to allow Opening of Certain Categories of Shops, except those in Single and Multi-brand Malls

MHA issues Order to States/UTs to allow Opening of Certain Categories of Shops, except those in Single and Multi-brand Malls

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on 15.04.2020, had issued an order to exempt certain activities under the consolidated revised guidelines to fight COVID-19, in certain areas not included in hotspots/containment zones. (https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/MHA%20order%20dt%2015.04.2020%2C%20with%20Revised%20Consolidated%20Guidelines_compressed%20%283%29.pdf) Giving relaxation in the category of Commercial and private establishments, MHA has issued an order to all States/UTs, …

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Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh launches country’s First Mobile Testing Lab for COVID-19 detection; can process over 1000 samples per day

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh launches country's First Mobile Testing Lab for COVID-19 detection; can process over 1000 samples per day

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh today unveiled via video conference a Mobile Virology Research and Diagnostics Laboratory (MVRDL) developed by DRDO in association with ESIC Hospital, Hyderabad and Private industry. Speaking on this occasion, Raksha Mantri said the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken several timely …

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Promulgation of an Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 in the light of the pandemic situation of COVID-19

Promulgation of an Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 in the light of the pandemic situation of COVID-19

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there have been instances of the most critical service providers i.e. members of healthcare services being targeted and attacked by miscreants, thereby obstructing them from doing their duties. Members of the Medical community, even as they continue to perform relentlessly round the clock and save …

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Ensure adequate security to Healthcare Professionals, Medical Staff and Frontline Workers to prevent violence against them: Union Home Minister

Ensure adequate security to Healthcare Professionals, Medical Staff and Frontline Workers to prevent violence against them: Union Home Minister

Under the directions of Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah, Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has again directed all States/UTs today to ensure adequate security to healthcare professionals, medical staff & frontline workers to prevent violence against them. Strict action must be taken against those who obstruct performance …

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