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Saturday, October 5, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Railways to resume passenger trains on select routes from Tuesday, bookings begin tomorrow

Bookings to start at 4 pm Monday and will only be available on IRCTC website. Ticket booking counters at railway stations shall remain closed.

Trust govt decision-making on Covid, need to avoid overzealous PILs: Minister to law officers

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told law officers that while nobody can be stopped from filing cases, there should be an ‘effective response’ to them.

No food, living under asbestos roof with no work: Why Surat workers are angry, ‘desperate’

Migrants in Surat's Mora village, where they clashed with police Saturday, say they failed to get train tickets despite paying fare. Authorities said not possible to let 6-7 lakh travel at one go.

Haryana’s powerful Home Minister Anil Vij locks horns with CM Khattar again as lockdown eased

Home and Health Minister Anil Vij has been at loggerheads with CM Khattar since 2014. Now, he says he ‘fears’ CM’s decisions on relaxing the Covid-19 lockdown.

Modi govt could allow more relaxations after 17 May, but lockdown unlikely to be lifted

At a meeting with chief secretaries, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba said states and UTs will have to be careful in ensuring that people do not flout social distancing norms.

Walk, play, train — how dog parents are keeping pets happy, engaged and safe in lockdown

Lockdown is offering great bonding time but dog behaviourists caution that unhealthy attachments might be counter-productive later on.

Simple iftar, no community prayers: How Muslims are spending holy month of Ramzan in lockdown

Ramzan this year has spelt more individual introspection, simple rituals, digital charity and prayers.

Modi govt promised free pulses to 20 crore, only 18% have got them so far

There are many factors at play that are inhibiting the effective distribution of free pulses under the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana, meant to aid the poor.

India’s super rich ready to pay to return home on private jets, but govt not ready to allow it

The pending applications include those for relatives of Sahara’s Subrata Roy, Bharti Airtel’s Sunil Mittal, and Essel Group/Zee Media’s Subhash Chandra.

‘God was with us’ — Kolkata doctor behind recovery of Covid patient on ventilator for a month

Dr Saswati Sinha of AMRI in Kolkata has led the team that helped in ‘miraculous’ recovery of a 52-year-old diabetic Covid patient who was on ventilator for over a month.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?