Shankersinh Vaghela: BJP, as a party, has achieved excellence in hiding facts and figures—a trait that runs deep into the saffron party’s hierarchy. This trait is particularly visible in cases when it senses that any data or figure can be detrimental to its image and will expose its governance failure. Hiding or manipulating data has been...

Ramnish Geer: COVID-19 and the resultant lockdown has had a positive impact on the environment and now it is upto us to ensure that we take this forward and continue to take care of our environment. Every person needs to understand that a clean environment is the only way to survive on the planet. Environmental changes...

 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has informed that India has reported its biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on Sunday. The ministry said 8,380 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in the past 24 hours and 193 people have succumbed to COVID-19. Following...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said poor and labourers have been hit the hardest by the coronavirus crisis and that their pain cannot be explained in words. In his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast, Modi said all classes of people have suffered during the pandemic but it is the poor who have suffered the...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has informed that India has recorded the biggest single-day spike of 6,088 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on Friday. The death toll due to the deadly virus has increased by 148 during this period and touched 3,583. The total number of confirmed...

Since May 1, 759 migrant workers have been found infected with Covid-19 in Rajasthan. Officials have said that most of them have returned from Mumbai. Excluding Jaipur, Kota, Bundi and Ganganagar, migrant laborers have been found positive in the remaining 29 districts of Rajasthan, including Bhilwara, where there was no reported infection for about 20...

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who is at the forefront of India’s battle against COVID-19, is set to take charge as the chairman of the WHO Executive Board on May 22, officials said on Tuesday. Harsh Vardhan would succeed Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan, currently the chairman of the 34-member WHO Executive Board. The proposal...

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday approved the new guidelines for the state during lockdown 4.0 in the state after meeting with the core group. Late in the evening, the Medical and Health Department released the list of Green, Orange and Red Zone at the cities and panchayat committee level in terms of...

Every state is giving concessions in lockdown 4.0. The Rajasthan government has announced several concessions for the fourth phase of lockdown. In this sequence, permission has been given to open salons in Rajasthan. But for this, the condition to sanitize has been kept. According to the state government guidelines, 50 percent of the staff can...

One of the twins born to a Covid19 positive mother in Vadnagar has tested positive for the disease. The one-day old baby has thus become the youngest in the state to have tested positive for coronavirus. Earlier Dr HD Palekar, Superintendent of Vadnagar Medical College, where the twins were delivered, had told local media that...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has informed that the total number of coronavirus cases in India climbed to 1.01 lakh till 8 am on Tuesday, while the death toll due to COVID-19 reached 3,163—a jump of 4,970 cases and 134 fatalities. According to the ministry’s official data, India’s coronavirus case count ‘officially’ breached...

The death toll due to coronavirus in India rose to 3,029 and the number of total positive cases climbed to 96,169 on Monday morning, registering an increase of 157 fatalities and a record jump of over 5,200 new cases in 24 hours. According to the Union Health Ministry’s updated data on Monday, India saw 5,242...