ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021
UPDATED: May 7, 2021 21:47 IST
Bodies are lined up for the final rites before being consigned to the flames at the Hari Nagar crematorium in Delhi on May 2; Photo by Yasir Iqbal
Massed pyres and serpentine queues of shrouded bodies. Gasping, terrified men and women pleading to be accepted as patients. The broken and bereaved mourning their dead. In New Delhi today, as in any Indian metro, the roads are silent, the bazaars are shuttered. But approach any hospital and you’ll rediscover the familiar clamour of the Indian street, rising to a crescendo in the once hushed ICUs now rent with the shouts and moans of the desperate and the dying. Of course most of us are hunkered in our homes, carpeing our diems and visiting such scenes through our screens when we’re not fielding calls and text messages from family and friends, or friends of friends, pleading for a hospital bed, an oxygen cylinder, Remdesivir, more oxygen. Expressing our sympathies on Facebook a
Kamal Haasan on DMK s B-team of BJP charge: They deserve a full night s sleep
Kamal Haasan on DMK s B-team of BJP charge: They deserve a full night s sleep
Dismissing the DMK s charge that his party was the B team of BJP , actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Saturday said that they deserve a full night s sleep and were deliberately making the accusation.
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UPDATED: March 13, 2021 21:35 IST
Kamal Haasan at the India Today Conclave South 2021 in Chennai on Saturday (Photo by Chandradeep Kumar)
Dismissing the
DMK s charge that his party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) was the B team of BJP , actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Saturday said that they deserve a full night s sleep and were deliberately making the accusation.
District level Thangtha Câship concludes
District level Thangtha Câship concludes
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 2: Two-days District level Thangtha Championship, organized by J&K Thangtha Association, concluded here today at Paloura.
Hari Singh Chib, president DCC Rural was the chief guest while Uday Bhanu Chib, president JKPYC was the guest of honour.
Perfect Foundation Public School clinched the 1st runner-up trophy, while Jai Gulta Club and Academy of Tanisha- Do bagged 2nd runner up and 3rd runner-up trophies respectively.
In below 48 kg category, Sunil won Gold medal, whereas Nakul secured Silver medal and Deepak and Vishal Kumar clinched Bronze medals, whereas in below 52 kg, Gold and Silver medals were won by Sushant Singh and Mohd. Hafeez while Tayuv Hussain and Shivam Bhagat clinched Bronze medals besides in above 65 kg, Aryan Singh bagged Gold medal.
UPDATED: January 8, 2021 15:56 IST
War zone: The medical staff at the Covid care centre in Delhi’s Commonwealth Games Village checks the temperature of Covid patients. (Photo: AP)
On January 30, India reported its first case of Covid - an Indian student studying in Wuhan, ground zero of the novel coronavirus, who had returned home to Kerala. Over the next few weeks, three more cases were recorded in the state and Kerala s health department went on high alert, shutting down state borders to contain the virus. There remained a relative sense of calm through the rest of India. Initially, nobody in the world expected the pandemic to spread so quickly. That is why borders remained open till almost March, says Dr N.N. Mathur, director, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital (LHMC), Delhi. A situation like this had not happened in recent memory and nobody guessed that within a few months the entire world would be under a lockdown. LHMC had initially been directed to set up beds
A dissident who claims he was tortured by Iran demanded the release of imprisoned British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as he was convicted of trying to torch a diplomatic car outside the Iranian Embassy.
IT professional Sam Parsa, 60, was accused of planting a bottle of petrol along with a scarf into the exhaust pipe of a BMW parked outside the offices in Knightsbridge, central London.
The Iranian said he was tortured for nearly eight years during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, before being released and fleeing the country by secretly crossing the Turkish border. Parsa then sought asylum in the UK.