The customary hugs will not be there after the Id prayers this year. The warmth will be there but the muted celebration will have a constant reminder of the unfolding human tragedy caused by a raging virus.
Muhammad Faizal, 34, a Beniapukur resident, came to New Market on the eve of Id on Thursday to buy new clothes. He returned with only one bag, containing a set of kurta pyjama for his 8-year-old nephew. In previous years, he had to bring along a friend as there would be too many bags.
“This is no time for grandeur because disease and death are all around. Normally, I have colleagues and friends coming over to our place for lunch. But this time, it is going to be just a family affair,” said Faizal, who works for an IT company in Sector V.
Relatives of patients wait anxiously outside the Garia nursing home
KOLKATA: A late-night joint effort by police, health officials and NGOs prevented a repeat of the tragedies due to oxygen shortage that have rocked hospitals in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat with cylinders being rushed to a hospital from all parts of the city in the nick of time to save 73 Covid patients.
With oxygen fast getting exhausted, doctors at Garia’s Remedy Hospital sent out desperate SOS messages to everyone they knew. The hospital’s oxygen supply that runs on cylinders had not arrived on time due to a snag at the refill station in Domjur. A health official who received the call said the doctor at the other end of the line was begging for help and was literally in tears.
A US-based immunologist, with family in Salt Lake, has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious institution established under a charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
“Only the top scientists get elected here. Nobel winners in the US are all members of this academy. It is a great honour,” Sankar Ghosh tells
The Telegraph Salt Lake from New York. “The academy inducts individuals from all fields of science so very few are elected from every department.”
Sankar, whose parental home is in EC Block, is a professor and head of the microbiology and immunology department of Columbia University. His research is on the immune system and has been critical in the understanding of and treatment of inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, colitis and dermatitis.
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West Bengal Assembly polls | State gears up for counting across 108 centres
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Fate of 2,116 candidates for 292 seats to be decided today
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Fate of 2,116 candidates for 292 seats to be decided today
The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements for counting of votes for West Bengal Assembly election on Sunday. There are 108 counting centres across the State where counting will start at 8 a.m. Across these centres, counting will be carried out in over 700 halls.
The Election Commission has specified seven tables for smaller counting halls, and up to only 14 tables in bigger halls for counting of the votes polled in the EVMs.