The Indian state machinery already has a herculean task on its hands — it must locate the nearly 2000 attendees from the Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi who’ve now moved to different parts of the country. It must also locate the people who came into contact wit the attendees when they […]
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Fired Infosys Employee Who Asked People To Spread Covid Followed Zakir Naik, Often Shared His Posts
Information is slowly begin to stream in about Mujeeb Mohammad, the Infosys employee who had asked people to spread the coronavirus. Last week, Infosys had fired Mujeeb Mohammad, who was a Technical Architect with the company, for a social media post in which he had urged people to sneeze and […]
J&K Woman Donates Hajj Savings To RSS-Affiliate Seva Bharti After Being Impressed With Their Work
Even as India is battling the coronavirus crisis, some heartening stories of solidarity are beginning to emerge. A Muslim woman from J&K has donated Rs. 5 lakh, the savings for her Hajj pilgrimage, to the RSS-affiliated group Sewa Bharti, reports Financial Express. Khalida Begum, 87, had saved up to perform […]
Here’s How RSS Is Helping India Fight The Coronavirus Outbreak
India has been hit hard by the coronavirus epidemic — the entire country is in lockdown, businesses and establishments are shut, and people are quarantined in their homes. But millions of Indians still need essential supplies and help with treatments, and with central and state government resources stretched to their […]
Alleged Infosys Employee Who Asked People To Sneeze And Spread Coronavirus Arrested By Police
One can fully appreciate how grave India’s coronavirus crisis might be when educated people are not only not following the lockdown, but also actively asking people to break it. An Bangalore-based techie, who is allegedly an Infosys employee, has been arrested after urging people on social media to spread the […]
Doctor Retweeted By Rahul Gandhi Apologizes, Says There Are Enough Masks
Even as the Indian government is fighting the coronavirus, it’s also having to fight the misinformation that’s been spread about its efforts. Earlier today, a doctor had claimed that there was a shortage of masks in India. “Please don’t send me to war without weapons @PMOIndia. Please arrange #PersonalProtectiveEquipment for […]
Fake Twitter Account Pretending To Be A Doctor Claims That India Is Running Out Of Masks
Even as India is pulling together to fight a global epidemic, motivated agents are going to extraordinary lengths to spread rumours and panic. Earlier today, a Twitter account with a named Vasundhara Sangwan claimed that India doesn’t have enough N95 masks. “Wearing this mask for more than a week, as […]
Pune-based Mylab Has Just Made India’s First Covid-19 Test Kit
India is now among the handful of nations that have developed their own Coronavirus test kits. Pune-based molecular diagnostics company Mylab Discovery Solutions Pvt Ltd, which specialises in molecular diagnostic kits has developed first made-in-India test kit for COVID-19 in a record time of six weeks. The kit — Mylab […]
Man Claims He Wasn’t Thermal Scanned At Ahmedabad Airport, Airport Shares CCTV Footage To Prove Him Wrong
For years, India’s government machinery has been thought to be staid and slow, and as the levers of the bureaucracy moved, it could take years for a simple query to be answered. The coronavirus outbreak is showing how things have changed quite a bit since. Last afternoon, a Twitter user […]
Doctor Responds After Kunal Kamra Hints He’ll Show Middle Finger At 5 PM During Janta Curfew
Even as people have responded with shock at horror at Kunal Kamra’s tweet in which he’d implied that he’d show the middle finger while the rest of India honours its health workers at 5 pm tomorrow, a doctor — true to form — has responded in the classiest way possible. […]