However, the apex court will not interfere in the work done by various High Courts across the country to monitor and manage life-saving COVID-19 management amid a second wave of the pandemic, a Special Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud made it clear.
The decision comes a day after the ECI faced flak from the Madras High Court over the violations of COVID-19 protocols during campaigning for the five Assembly elections. The court blamed the ECI for the second wave of the pandemic in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
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Located at a height of over 15,000 feet, Hemkunt Sahib welcomes devotees from across the country and abroad.
Daily cases have been surging in Uttarakhand with Dehradun accounting for the maximum number of COVID-19 infections.
Uttarakhand on Sunday imposed a curfew in Dehradun district s Rishikesh, Dehradun, Garhi Cantt and Clement Town s municipal areas
New Delhi: Amid grim COVID-19 crisis looming over the country, Shri Hemkunt Sahib Yatra in Uttarakhand was postponed on Sunday (April 25).
The Yatra for Sri Hemkunt Sahib Gurudwara, situated in the hilly district of Chamoli, was slated to commence from May 10. It has now been deferred in view of the rising coronavirus cases, ANI reported.
Rishikesh: Sixty-five healthcare personnel, including doctors, deployed on Kumbh duty have tested positive for COVID-19.
All of the affected healthcare workers have been kept in isolation, news agency PTI quoted officials saying.
A total of 751 healthcare personnel - 336 doctors and 415 nurses and paramedics - had been deployed in the Kumbh Mela area after being vaccinated. The Kumbh Mela area is spread over 641 hectares.
Apart from Delhi, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and other states, Telangana also has issued guidelines for the people returning from Kumbh. The Director of Public Health said all those who attended Kumbh Mela held from April 1 to April 17 should quarantine and maintain physical distance from family members for 14 days.
Leaders Listened to Astrologers, so Haridwar Mela Happened After 11 Years, Not 12 23/04/2021
Huge crowds gathered at Haridwar for the 2021 Kumbh Mela. Photo: Reuters
Kumbh Melas are held every 12 years. The last Haridwar Kumbh Mela was held in 2010. The actual due date for the ‘current’ Kumbh at Haridwar was 2022, not 2021. So how did it get advanced by one whole lethal year at a time India’s second Covid wave was expected? And when epidemiological studies indicate that second waves of infection are always worse than the first. Let me tell you the reason.
It was ‘advanced’ by a year, to 2021, because the ‘astrological configurations’ of the “Sun entering Aries” and “Jupiter entering Aquarius” were available for 2021 this time. This happens once every 83 years, and it happens because of the need to reconcile astrological configuration charts to calendrical years. The calculative arcana of this ‘adjustment’ is beyond my capacity. I suggest none
PIL on Covid ‘double standards’ The plea questions the alleged discrimination by officials while dealing with people violating protocols on roads and those flouting it at the Kumbh or poll rallies
A PIL has urged the Supreme Court to direct the Centre, the Election Commission of India and others to strictly implement the guidelines of the Disaster Management Act restricting people from congregating at the Kumbh Mela and election rallies in view of the massive surge in Covid cases.
The PIL filed by advocate Sanjai Kumar Pathak has questioned the alleged double standards being adopted by the authorities while dealing with the common man for violating Covid protocols on the streets and those flouting the norms at the Kumbh and poll rallies.