21 Day Lockdown Of India

Exactly a year after lockdown was imposed in the country to contain the Covid pandemic, India's seeing a second wave of infection steeper than the first. While there is no lockdown and streets are crowded, Mumbai preparing for 10,000 cases a day by ramping up the number of hospital beds across the city. The authorities said they are aiming to ha...

As India's COVID-19 caseload surpassed the one crore-mark, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the unplanned lockdown did not manage to "win the battle in 21 days as the PM claimed", but it "destroyed" millions of lives in the country.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi released a new video today targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government for "destroying the unorganized sector" - which he had earlier called the backbone of the Indian economy - with the "sudden" nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus.

About 10 lakh migrants expected to return to their hometowns in Bihar amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus will be quarantined for 21 days, instead of 14, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday at a video meeting with his cabinet ministers as he reviewed the preparations for their return.

India recorded the biggest single-day jump of 2,411 coronavirus cases, taking the total to 37,776, the Union Health Ministry said, adding that 1,223 deaths linked to the highly infectious COVID-19 have been reported so far. Seventy-one deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. The nationwide lockdown, which began on March 25 to check the spread of...

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown will be extended by two more weeks from May 4, the government said on Friday, noting significant gains from the six-week shutdown in India's fight to slow the spread of COVID-19. Extending the lockdown for the second time, the home ministry announced new guidelines based on the demarcation of the country into red...

The number of COVID-19 patients in India rose to 21,393 this morning, according to Health Ministry data. A total of 1,409 new cases and 41 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours; 681 have died due to the highly infectious disease in India since the pandemic reached the country. The number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 stands at 4,...

The lengthening of the mandatory stay-at-home period to 40 days from 21 days will result in a direct output loss of more than 8 per cent

Dijan Mondal, a migrant worker in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram managed to buy 5 kgs of rice and some crispies with the money he and some of his friends could manage to pool-in. In a multi-storey building in the heart of what used to be the district's busiest market in days before the lockdown, 80 of them from West Bengal's Malda live together in 21 ...

Nineteen Indians are stuck at the Dubai International Airport for the last 21 days after India announced its COVID-19 lockdown, leaving them tired, homesick and desperate to return home, according to a media report.

According to the teachers, parents often call them up with queries around possible fee waivers or concerns over video files sent online being too heavy.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said school students from classes 1 to 8 will be promoted to the next academic year without taking up annual examinations.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking advance payment of 21 days' wages to MGNREGA workers across the country to help them tide over the present crisis due to coronavirus lockdown.

In wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many foreign cultural centres and language training institutes here have shifted their events to the digital platform.

As the nine-day festival of Navratra started today in the shadow of a 21-day lockdown in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that people how have the 'capability", "take care" of nine families. The question of taking care came up amid people's anxiety over the availability of essential goods and services. There are concerns that the...

Exactly a year after lockdown was imposed in the country to contain the Covid pandemic, India's seeing a second wave of infection steeper than the first. While there is no lockdown and streets are crowded, Mumbai preparing for 10,000 cases a day by ramping up the number of hospital beds across the city. The authorities said they are aiming to ha...

As India's COVID-19 caseload surpassed the one crore-mark, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the unplanned lockdown did not manage to "win the battle in 21 days as the PM claimed", but it "destroyed" millions of lives in the country.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi released a new video today targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government for "destroying the unorganized sector" - which he had earlier called the backbone of the Indian economy - with the "sudden" nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus.

About 10 lakh migrants expected to return to their hometowns in Bihar amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus will be quarantined for 21 days, instead of 14, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday at a video meeting with his cabinet ministers as he reviewed the preparations for their return.

India recorded the biggest single-day jump of 2,411 coronavirus cases, taking the total to 37,776, the Union Health Ministry said, adding that 1,223 deaths linked to the highly infectious COVID-19 have been reported so far. Seventy-one deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. The nationwide lockdown, which began on March 25 to check the spread of...

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown will be extended by two more weeks from May 4, the government said on Friday, noting significant gains from the six-week shutdown in India's fight to slow the spread of COVID-19. Extending the lockdown for the second time, the home ministry announced new guidelines based on the demarcation of the country into red...

The number of COVID-19 patients in India rose to 21,393 this morning, according to Health Ministry data. A total of 1,409 new cases and 41 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours; 681 have died due to the highly infectious disease in India since the pandemic reached the country. The number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 stands at 4,...

The lengthening of the mandatory stay-at-home period to 40 days from 21 days will result in a direct output loss of more than 8 per cent

Dijan Mondal, a migrant worker in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram managed to buy 5 kgs of rice and some crispies with the money he and some of his friends could manage to pool-in. In a multi-storey building in the heart of what used to be the district's busiest market in days before the lockdown, 80 of them from West Bengal's Malda live together in 21 ...

Nineteen Indians are stuck at the Dubai International Airport for the last 21 days after India announced its COVID-19 lockdown, leaving them tired, homesick and desperate to return home, according to a media report.

According to the teachers, parents often call them up with queries around possible fee waivers or concerns over video files sent online being too heavy.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said school students from classes 1 to 8 will be promoted to the next academic year without taking up annual examinations.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking advance payment of 21 days' wages to MGNREGA workers across the country to help them tide over the present crisis due to coronavirus lockdown.

In wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many foreign cultural centres and language training institutes here have shifted their events to the digital platform.

As the nine-day festival of Navratra started today in the shadow of a 21-day lockdown in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that people how have the 'capability", "take care" of nine families. The question of taking care came up amid people's anxiety over the availability of essential goods and services. There are concerns that the...