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Wuhan coronavirus: A pandemic that was started in China, covered up by China but China thinks calling it Chinese is ‘racism’

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Wuhan coronavirus: A pandemic that was started in China, covered up by China but China thinks calling it Chinese is ‘racism’

While the world battles the deadly pandemic of coronavirus that started from China’s Wuhan, a media campaign fanned by the Chinese government seems to be keen on peddling victimhood and shift the focus to vague claims of ‘racism’ and ‘bias’ instead, with active support from the so-called ‘liberals’ in the international media and political sphere.

While it is well known now that the coronavirus infection had started and was spreading as early as November 2019, till January 14, the Chinese authorities have claimed that the Covid-19 did not show human to human transmission. A tweet by WHO that has now gone viral on social media reveals how China has been misleading the world about the pandemic.

The WHO tweet cites the claim by the Chinese authorities that the novel coronavirus does not show human transmission, a claim that now lies shattered as thousands of deaths are reported from China and now in Italy, apart from other nations in the world, with large-scale human to human transmissions being one of the main causes of the spread.

The coronavirus is a family of viruses that are zoonotic, which spread from animals to humans and among people. Coronavirus is a highly contagious, deadly respiratory disease, the outbreak of which was first reported from Wuhan, China. The transmission of the virus takes place when someone who is infected comes in contact with another person. According to medical experts, coughing, sneezing or even shaking hands with an infected person can cause exposure.

In South Korea, 1 ‘super spreader’ who had defied quarantine and had attended services of the controversial Sinchionji Church is believed to have spread the disease to over 1160 people. Italy, which received a large number of Chinese travellers through business and tourism, is the second most affected nation.

Reports have now emerged on how the Chinese authorities actively tried to silence doctors and researchers who had tried to raise alarm about the disease and its potential dangers.

8 doctors were arrested by police in Wuhan on allegations of ‘spreading rumours’ about a SARS-like epidemic, Global Times headline on January 1.

Ai Fen, a doctor from Wuhan central hospital’s emergency department had reportedly shared diagnostic reports with colleagues on December 30, expressing concerns about a SARS-like epidemic, but was criticised by the hospital authorities over ‘spreading rumours’. The doctor was even forbidden from speaking about it to her family.

Dr Li Wenliang, the doctor who had tried to warn others about a SARS-like epidemic in Wuhan, had died on February 7, after days of treating coronavirus infected patients at a hospital in Wuhan. He was also one of the doctors who were warned by Wuhan authorities not to ‘spread rumours’.

China had also brought in travel restrictions and lockdown very late. Chinese officials even allegedly destroyed test samples of patients, threatened whistleblowers and even actively covered up concerns and reports of a potential epidemic spreading fast. Now it has even emerged that genomics samples being tested were destroyed by the order of Wuhan authorities. On January 3, China’s National Health Commissioner had reportedly ordered all the labs not to publish any information and took away all the test samples of the virus. A report by WION has summarised the developments.

After countries worldwide fell victim to the pandemic and started imposing travel restrictions, China even tried to cry racism and peddled wild conspiracy theories about the US Army being responsible for the pandemic.

As US President Donald Trump asserted the term ‘Chinese virus’ the Chinese media, international ‘liberals’ and many organisations across the world have been trying to peddle victimhood, claiming that calling the pandemic a Chinese disease and terms like Chinese virus and Wuhan virus is ‘racism’.

China’s hyperactive propaganda machinery is also working overtime to claim racism and guilt-trip the rest of the world about relating to them a global pandemic that was started on their soil and made worse by their efforts to cover up.

Despite India sending medical help to China, Chinese media is actively claiming that India is spreading ‘anti-Chinese’ conspiracy theories about the pandemic.

A study by the University of Southampton states that had the Chinese authorities started their taking active measures in preventing the spread of the disease at least 1 week, 2 weeks or 3 weeks earlier, they could have prevented the coronavirus spread globally by 66%, 86% and 95% respectively.

The Wuhan coronavirus started in China’s wildlife and seafood markets. China’s demand and consumption of wildlife have contributed significantly to a number of species being driven to the brink of extinction. The negligence and cover-up of Chinese authorities have pushed the world to battle a pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives and impacted global economies heavily. But China is ‘offended’ at the disease being called ‘Chinese’, let that sink in.

Gayatri Mantra vs ‘Hum Dekhenge’: NDTV deletes video of Gurugram residents singing in balcony as ‘seculars’ mock the sacred chant

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Gayatri Mantra vs ‘Hum Dekhenge’: NDTV deletes video of Gurugram residents singing in balcony as ‘seculars’ mock the sacred chant

As the country is fighting the deadly pandemic of COVID-19, many citizens have quarantined themselves to be safe from being contracted from the virus. To battle out the self-isolation, the citizens are coming up with creative ideas to not only keep themselves busy but also cheer up others during these testing times.

In one such incident, drawing inspiration from Italians who have taken to singing in balconies while under self-quarantine, residents of a housing society in Gurugram were seen chanting ‘Gayatri Mantra’ and ‘Hum Honge Kamyab’. Sukriti Dwivedi, a ‘reporter’ at NDTV, shared videos showing residents of an apartment at Gurugram’s Sector 28 residents coming out on their balconies to sing prayer songs “Gayatri Mantra” and “Hum Honge Kamyaab”.

As the video went viral on social media, netizens praised the residents for indulging in activities that boost the morale of the residents, who have chosen to self-quarantine themselves in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.

Unsurprisingly, the chanting of Hindu hymns by the residents of the society did not go well with the “liberal-secular” ecosystem. The troll army comprising Islamic trolls, members of secular-liberal intelligentsia did not take this event lightly. The trolls took no time to teach secularism to the residents of the society.

They claimed that Gurugram was not locked-down and called the residents chanting Hindu hymns on loudspeakers as another stunt. Some trolls also complained that the residents were just disturbing the other members of the society by chanting Hindu hymns on loudspeakers.

A total of 17 people have tested positive in Haryana and a precautionary measure, the state government has ordered closure of schools, colleges and anganwadis to help contain the spread of the virus.

Another Islamic troll mocked the women of the society by claiming that this was a staged event. Resorting to sexist attack, the troll called the event was a promotional event setup by some ‘aunties’ of the society.

Another troll who goes by the name Anjali Mody took offence against residents singing Hindu hymns as she drew comparisons with a similar event in Italy, where people were singing songs to battle out the isolation. The troll claimed that people in Italy sang their hearts out and did not chant hymns with microphones, loudspeakers and the national flag.

Haters also wondered if any of these singing ‘Hum Honge Kamyab’ would have gone to Shaheen Bagh to do the same because clearly, you couldn’t do one thing if you haven’t done the either.

At a time when the entire world is facing one of the worst health crisis in recent times, there have been brave attempts by some section of the society to keep the hope alive to fight the deadly virus. The collective efforts of the society to boost the morale of the citizens is a must at these times and some residents of the society have done outstanding work to provide some sort of psychological support to the fellow residents who have self-quarantined themselves inside their residences.

However, NDTV pulled down the video as they received the wrath of Islamists and liberals for posting videos that were fundamentally against their secular standards.

NDTV’s deleted video

NDTV’s move to remove the video also irked the netizens who wondered if Gayatri Mantra wans’t up to the ‘secular’ credentials.

Perhaps, NDTV was hoping that the residents sang Islamic poems like “Hum Dekhenge” instead of the Gayatri Mantra to beat the Coronavirus blues, but they seem to have got disappointed and deleted the viral video which had caused severe heartburn to their followers.

If you had gathered courage when Babri was demolished, your mothers and sisters wouldn’t be here: Shaheen Bagh ‘protestor’ gives call to violence

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If you had gathered courage when Babri was demolished, your mothers and sisters wouldn’t be here: Shaheen Bagh ‘protestor’ gives call to violence

As the nation fights the coronavirus outbreak on war footing, the ‘protestors’ at Shaheen Bagh continue to lie, spew hatred and fear-monger with zero regard for public health and safety. in a video uploaded by Facebook page ‘Jamia World’, one of the ‘speakers’ at Shaheen Bagh continued to indulge in spreading lies about the NRC, fear-mongering and spewing hatred as the ‘protestors’ defied government advisory prohibiting gatherings in large numbers.

In the above video, the ‘speaker’ at Shaheen Bagh at around 3 minute 30 seconds hails the jihadist tyrant Tipu Sultan. “Listen Narendra Modi, our mothers and sisters gave birth to Tipu Sultan,” he says. “After 70 years of independence, today Modiji is saying Muslims will have to undergo NRC, Amit Shah says will do the NRC. What NRC? Is the Red Fort of your ancestors? Is this Qutub Minar of your ancestors? Is the Taj Mahal where you took Trump of your ancestors? It is of our ancestors. Listen, those who ask for document in NRC, this Red Fort is our proof. The Taj Mahal is our proof and the Qutub Minar is our proof. Why are you unfurling the tricolour on the Red Fort? I say you should do it at the toilets you built,” he says.

Further laying ‘claims’ on the monument, he says, “Why are you unfurling the tricolour on the Red Fort? It is ours. You built the toilets, you fly your flags there. That will show you are real Hindustani.”

Read: From dead infants to circumventing Delhi govt directions on coronavirus, Shaheen Bagh ‘protestors’ have zero respect for public safety

“Our time is now. The time when we used to walk behind you is gone,” he says while urging the ‘protestors’ to develop the courage within themselves. “If you had developed courage when the Babri Mosque was demolished, then you wouldn’t have to see this day. Your mothers and sisters would not have to sit on the roads. Your conscience was dead. I don’t care if you feel bad. Because today our brothers and sisters are insulted and killed. If you don’t come out of the house today, next will be you,” he says while giving call to violence.

“We are scared only of Allah. We are not not afraid of anyone else,” he said.

In another video, the another ‘speaker’ called for economic boycott of products of Reliance Group and Adani Group as ‘economic loss to them will hit Modi and Shah’.

In the video, he can be heard saying “Modi and Shah will be hurt if the business of ones who are supporting him, Adani and Ambani, are hurt. The fight should be planned, not an emotional one. It is being repeated here often and I will say it again. Stop using Jio phones. Till the time you continue using Jio phone we cannot win this fight. Ultimately, it should hurt them. Their business should incur losses. They are poisoning our community. Hence, we must make sure that the products we use are not from them. We will have to boycott their products.”

Speaking on coronavirus, he says he is not afraid. “They pray to Lakshmi, they are afraid of coronavirus. We do not pray to Lakshmi so we are not afraid. Firstly take the Jio sim and break and throw it away. It will be painful but we have to win this fight,” he says. The speaker further dismisses coronavirus outbreak as a conspiracy. “There is no such thing as corona-vorona. They want to shut down on international level. They don’t want us to leave our homes. This is their planning. They are sitting there and spreading this propaganda,” he adds.

Read: Deoband: 43-day old infant dead in anti-CAA protests, mother says she carried her to protest site every day to ‘make her strong’

This is not the first time provocative speeches have been given at the Shaheen Bagh ‘protests’ where the ‘protestors’ are continuing to sit on the dharna despite the government advisory banning public gatherings in a bid to contain the coronavirus outbreak which has claimed thousands of lives worldwide. They have referred to their ‘protests’ as ‘call from Allah’ and have said they do not fear coronavirus.

Recently, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 and declared a new set of restrictions to limit the spread of the highly contagious disease. In order to flout the diktat, the Muslim protestors gathered there in smaller groups and have now decided that they would not end the protest, but spilt themselves into groups of 50 and take precautions by sitting at a certain distance. The ‘protestors’ have apparently been praying and reading the Quran at the protest site, believing that praying to Allah would safeguard them from the coronavirus crisis.

Rajya Sabha MPs demand to curtail budget session due to coronavirus scare, chairman Naidu says members can take preventive arrangements

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Rajya Sabha MPs demand to curtail budget session due to coronavirus scare, chairman Naidu says members can take preventive arrangements

Rajya Sabha MPs of opposition on Wednesday demanded adjournment of ongoing budget session in view of the outbreak of coronavirus epidemic. Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said a decision on it will be taken by the government in consultation with stakeholders.

The Trinamool Congress members entered the parliament wearing face masks, but Venkaiah Naidu ordered them to remove those immediately. He said rules do not allow members to sport masks in the House because it will be difficult to conduct proceedings if the chair was defied and asked the TMC members to remove them.

Congress leader P Chidambaram urged the Chairman to allow MPs to decide using protective gear according to their perception of vulnerability. The Chair agreed and said, “if members feel vulnerable they can make preventive arrangements, I leave it to the members”.

The opposition MPs suggested that the budget session should be adjourned to practice a basic preventive measure of social distancing that is already being advocated by the government to limit the spread of coronavirus. The Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took to Twitter and wrote “today Parliament security started conducting fever checks on occupants of all entering the premises, causing long lines of 25-30 cars outside the gate at the time. The problem is fever only starts on Day 3 of #COVID19. Carriers may still be coming in. We really need to adjourn.

M V Rajeev Gowda of the Congress urged the government to adjourn the budget session saying that Rajya Sabha had many senior citizens as MPs who are extremely vulnerable to infection of the novel coronavirus. His senior party colleague Anand Sharma accused the government that it is preaching social distancing but it is not following it in parliament.

However, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Parliament should not show panic by adjourning early and instead show the fighting spirit.

Naidu clarified that Parliament house complex has been sanitized and temperature checking is being done at the gates before allowing anyone inside. Also, hand sanitizers have been kept at various points. Two sanitizers were also placed inside the house as well. He assured that MPs can make strengthening measures in the parliament house complex to check the spread of COVID-19.

Congress MP from Rajya Sabha Ripun Bora highlighted the repercussions faced by people due to the high price of sanitizers and masks amid the coronavirus scare. he urged the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to monitor the supply, and ensure their availability and proper prices so that there is no panic among the public.

BJP leader Kapil Mishra raises more than Rs 1 crore through his fundraising campaign for the victims of Delhi riots

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BJP leader Kapil Mishra raises more than Rs 1 crore through his fundraising campaign for the victims of Delhi riots

BJP leader Kapil Mishra, who kickstarted a fundraising campaign to collect funds for the families who were impacted in the recent anti-Hindu Delhi riots, has managed to collect Rs 1,11,08,060, according to the figures updated on the official website of the fundraising portal Milaap.

Kapil Mishra has taken to Twitter today to reveal that the target of his fundraising campaign, which was to collect Rs 1 crore, has been achieved and that no more donations after 6 pm today would be accepted.

On March 1, the BJP leader had taken to social media to kick-start a fundraising campaign to help families who lost their loved ones in the Delhi riots. Mishra has set a target of collecting one crore while hashtag over the same #1Crore4DelhiHindu was seen trending on social media with many sharing the screenshots of the donations made.

A total of 15,483 persons made donations for the campaign with various amounts. While most donations range from few Rupees to few hundred Rupees, film producer Manish Mundra made the highest donation of Rs 10 lakhs.

As mentioned on the fundraising portal’s website, initially the goal of the campaign was to disburse Rs 15 lakh per affected family. An updated note dated March 16 on the website states that it was revised and now the initial Rs 50 lakhs collected would be transferred to the families of the deceased victims, and the amount collected beyond the Rs 50 lakhs will be distributed among the victims whose homes or businesses were damaged in the riots.

On this note, the leader stated that the campaign and the respective account will be managed by Dharma Kosh, a group of Dharmic volunteers and Kapil Mishra’s team.

Violence and anarchy had broken out in Delhi over the riots against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The violence was of communal nature and Hindus had been murdered and their property had been set on fire amidst chants of ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ and ‘Nara e Taqbeer’.

Furthermore, a gun-wielding man who fired shots at the Police was later identified as one local named Shahrukh. He had since then been arrested. However, despite all evidence to the contrary, the usual suspects on Twitter had tried hard to blame ‘Bhagwa terror’ for the ruckus. One person in particular who had come under fire from assorted liberals, political hacks and Islamists was BJP leader Kapil Mishra. They had claimed that Mishra’s speech instigated the riots at the national capital. And now again the leftist propaganda media outlets like The Print, The Quint and The Wire have advanced to target the BJP leader by insinuating that his efforts to help the victims of the Delhi riots are divisive and religion-specific.

NCPCR writes to Delhi Police asking to investigate complaints against Barkha Dutt for revealing identity of infant victim in Delhi riots

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NCPCR writes to Delhi Police asking to investigate complaints against Barkha Dutt for revealing identity of infant victim in Delhi riots

Trouble mounts for controversial journalist Barkha Dutt as the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights have asked the Delhi Police to investigate the matter of her revealing the identity of an infant, a victim of the Delhi riots. NCPCR wrote to Delhi police after complaints were filed against her, accusing her of violating Section 74 of the Juvenile Act which makes disclosing identities of minor criminals and victims a criminal offence.

A complaint was filed with NCPCR against Barkha Dutt by Forum for Indigenous Rights-North East, while another complaint was filed by Delhi Legal Forum. The complaints mentioned that by revealing the name of the infant, Barkha had jeopardised the safety of the victim and the victim’s family. Delhi Legal Forum also sent the complaint to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The forum urged the authorities to take exemplary action against Dutt and asked Twitter India to suspend her Twitter account.

The complaint was then forwarded by the National Commission for Protection of Children Rights (NCPCR) to the Deputy Commissioner of the Delhi Police, asking to enquire into the matter and to send an action taken report along with relevant documents within 10 working days of receiving the letter.

The complaint mentions that Barkha Dutt posted a tweet on March 16, 2020, revealing the identity of the infant victim, including photograph. In her post, Barkha says how a 10-months-old infant, who was carried by her parents in their car, was eaten by sticks and hurled on the road on February 24 during the Delhi riots. She also added that the victim’s collar bone was broken along with sharing the heart-rending pictures of the infant.

When one of the Twitter users highlighted that it might be a gross violation of the infant’s privacy according to law, Dutt brazened it out, citing parent’s consent in publishing the photographs of the infant and claiming that some of the most iconic photos of Bhopal Gas Tragedy were of child victims.

It may be noted that section 74 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 makes it clear that the identity of a minor, be it an accused in a crime or a victim, the identity can’t be revealed. The law does not say that the identity can be revealed with the consent with parents, there is no such provision in the Act. A case in this regard is Nirbhaya, whose mother had revealed the real name of her daughter, and had wished that the real name is used, but still, media was not allowed the use the name and forced to continue with other names like Nirbhaya. The Bhopal gas tragedy happened before the provisions prohibiting identity of minors were inserted into the law. Therefore Barkha Dutt’s defence that no action was taken after the photos of child victims of the tragedy were published may not hold ground.

Read- Barkha Dutt violates Twitter rules, the social media platform bans rightwing account who had quote tweeted it instead

In addition to the complaint against Barkha Dutt, taking cognisance of a complaint filed by the Legal Rights Observatory group, the National Commission for Protection of Children Rights also wrote a letter addressed to the District Magistrate, South East Delhi, to raise the matter of the assembly of people including children and infants in Shaheen Bagh protests while the threat from the spread of coronavirus looms across the country.

In the letter, the NCPCR ordered the District Magistrate to take necessary action and implement advisories issued by the central government and the Arvind Kejriwal government regarding the coronavirus at Shaheen Bagh protests where children and infant are exposed to the threat of the lethal virus.

Filthy, unhygienic, crowded Quarantine Camps in Pakistan raises concern about increase in Coronavirus cases

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Filthy, unhygienic, crowded Quarantine Camps in Pakistan raises concern about increase in Coronavirus cases

Shocking videos have emerged which shows the filthy condition of quarantine camps in Pakistan meant to keep people with suspected exposure to coronavirus in isolation. Thousands of Pakistanis who returned home from Iran are stuck in filthy, unhygienic quarantine camps with no medical care or sanitation facilities.

A series of videos posted by Pakistani citizens who are quarantined at Taftan camp on the border with Iran has gone viral which show filthy, overcrowded camps. The videos have now created a deep concern that the coronavirus which some citizens may have carried could spread across Pakistan.

Videos circulating on social media show people sleeping on floors and in corridors of permanent structures, and packed into tents erected in a dirty courtyard. Moreover, the Pakistan government has made no attempts to separate sick pilgrims from the healthy.

A Pakistani citizen posting the video on Twitter exposed how reckless Pakistan government was in tackling the global epidemic. In the video, it can be seen that pilgrims at a camp are not following guidelines of social distancing at a crowded camp and are relaxing without even comprehending the seriousness of the Coronavirus threat.

In another video, an aggrieved citizen, who has been locked up in the Taftan camp shows how filthy, squalid the conditions are in the quarantine camp. There are no medicines and the patients are not being given sufficient food. The person in the video can be heard talking about the unhygienic conditions of the bathrooms, which are stinking.

The residents of Taftan camp said the facility lacks running water or flushable toilets, with detainees only able to wash every few days. The heavy gust of wind was also visible, which could cause further more damage to the already ravaged camps.

Another old man who is currently locked up in the filthy tents said that there was no breakfast served in the camps and the food which is being served in the camps was not consumable and also insufficient.

Pakistan shares a 960km border with Iran, with the main crossing point at Taftan in Balochistan province. The Taftan border has been closed since March 16, but thousands of Pakistani Shite pilgrims who were visiting religious sites in Iran have been allowed to return subject to two weeks’ quarantine.

Read- Latest updates and important links about COVID-19 coronavirus

Since last month, more than 4,600 people have been held at the quarantine camp. Of those, 1,822 had been released to their home districts after their 14-day isolation period was over, while several hundred people remain at the camp.

The most worrying news is that the government figures show that at least 134 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Pakistan are the people who went on pilgrimages to Iran and stayed in the camps near Taftan border. With patients carrying coronavirus being present in the Taftan camps, coupled with such filthy, unhygienic camps, Pakistan may face one of the worst outbreaks in days to come.

Four Germany-returned passengers deboarded from Garib Rath train after co-passengers & Railway officials found “Home Quarantine” stamps on their hands

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Four Germany-returned passengers deboarded from Garib Rath train after co-passengers & Railway officials found “Home Quarantine” stamps on their hands

Four passengers with a travel history to Germany and who had “Home Quarantine” stamp inscribed on their hands were disembarked at the Palghar station after alert co-passengers and TTEs onboard Bandra Terminus-Delhi Garib Rath express flagged a red alert, the Western Railway said on Wednesday.

All the four passengers belonged to the same family and were deboarded from coaches G4 and G5 of 12216 Garib Rath when the Ticket Checker along with the co-passengers alerted the authorities at Palghar after seeing the Home Quarantine stamp inscribed on the passengers’ hands. The 4 passengers were earlier screened at the Mumbai Airport where they were found negative for the novel coronavirus but were advised 14 days of home quarantine.

The passengers defied the protocol and were travelling by train to Surat, possibly endangering the lives of fellow passengers. “Four persons suspected to have COVID19 who had flown down from Germany and were heading to Surat were deboarded from Garib Rath train in Palghar today,” Chief Public Relation Officer of Western Railway said. The official Twitter handle of the Western Railway posted details of the incident, exhorting people to stop imperilling lives of others by disregarding the prescribed measures.

The Garib Rath does not have a stop at Palghar but the train was stopped to deboard the passengers suspected of carrying the novel coronavirus. They were taken to a government hospital in Palghar where doctors and local authorities checked them and were subsequently permitted to go forward by road.

Even as the menace of coronavirus has swept the country, authorities administered with the responsibility of stemming its spread have ordered strict measures to be diligently followed by the citizens. Individuals suspected of contracting coronavirus and those who are advised home quarantine are expected to stay indoor and assist the authorities in their efforts to stamp out the virus rather than venture out in public places such as trains and risk transmitting the virus to others.

As a part of the efforts to contain the virus, the Maharashtra government has decided that all people undergoing ‘home quarantine’ for suspected exposure to the coronavirus will be stamped on the left hand. The stamp will contain the date till when they are asked to remain in quarantine, so that they can be easily identified in case they violate the advisory and mingle with the general public.

Masaan Producer Manish Mundra donates Rs 10 lakh to Delhi anti-Hindu riots victims’ help initiative by Kapil Mishra

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Masaan Producer Manish Mundra donates Rs 10 lakh to Delhi anti-Hindu riots victims’ help initiative by Kapil Mishra

Manish Mundra, producer of the movie Masaan, today donated Rs 10 lacs towards the cause of the rehabilitation of the victims in the wake of the disastrous anti-Hindu riots in Delhi. Mundra made the contribution and shared the screenshot of it with BJP leader Kapil Mishra who launched the initiative to provide financial assistance to the victims of targeted violence, their families and those who had lost their homes and businesses in the gruesome riots.

In the aftermath of the ravaging anti-Hindu riots in the northeast Delhi, BJP leader Kapil Mishra floated a crowdsourcing initiative through Milaap.org to raise funds for the victims of the targeted violence. With this initiative, Mishra aimed to collect Rs 1 crore to be passed on to the riots victims and their family members. Mishra had recently posted a tweet, informing that their target of raising Rs 1 crore for the victims of Delhi riots has been achieved.

The devastating anti-Hindu riots in northeast Delhi wreaked havoc for scores of Hindus, with many of them being brutally murdered by the fanatic Muslim mob. It has been reported that the Muslims of the riot-hit areas have been preparing for the riots for weeks in advance and have hoarded stones, acid bottles, petrol bombs on rooftops. They had even made improvised catapults to hurl stones and petrol bombs from rooftops and handcarts.

The mob is also accused of torturing and murdering IB sleuth Ankit Sharma whose badly battered body was later recovered from a ditch in Chand Bagh. Another Hindu man Dilbar Negi was subjected to the most horrific tortures before his murder. Dilbar Singh Negi was burnt alive by a Muslim mob of rioters after his limbs being cut off. The rioters, after cutting his hands and feet, threw the rest of his body into the burning fire.

Uttar Pradesh: All students up to class 8 to be promoted to next class without appearing in examinations

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Uttar Pradesh: All students up to class 8 to be promoted to next class without appearing in examinations

After shutting down all the educational institutions and suspending all the ongoing examinations due to the coronavirus epidemic scare, the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh has now decided that all the students up to class 8 will be promoted to the next classes without examinations. The decision was taken after the state government cancelled all examinations in the state on Tuesday.

Deputy Chief Minister of UP, Dinesh Sharma, who handles the education portfolio said that the decision has been taken in view of the closure of schools in the state. “The students will be promoted on the basis of the performance all year round.”

The additional chief secretary Renuka Kumar issued the directive on Tuesday. The state’s government has also postponed the evaluation of answer sheets for 2020 high school and intermediate examinations till 2 April.

The decision came after a group of teachers was reported maintaining distance from the evaluation centres due to coronavirus scare. The results of high school and intermediate will be postponed due to the late evaluation process this year.

Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government banned all forms of protest and demonstrations in the state in order to avoid the general public from being infected by the novel coronavirus. The govt directed for the closure of all schools, colleges, and educational institutions till April 2, while also suspending all competitive and academic board examinations. Earlier, the schools and colleges were closed till March 22 even as the ongoing exams were not disturbed.

Meanwhile, the UP government also announced to compensate daily wage earners with state support whose livelihoods will be affected due to lockdown. Taking to Twitter, UP CM Yogi Adityanath informed that the loss of wages will be deposited in their bank accounts for which a committee has been set up.

The Yogi government has also announced that the state government will bear the medical expenses of those infected with the deadly virus and there will be no deduction of salary for those patients who take leave for coronavirus treatment.

UP’s Power minister Shrikant Sharma clarified that the three-member committee, headed by the UP finance minister and comprising the state agriculture and labour ministers, has been asked by chief minister Yogi Adityanath to submit a report within three days.

Uttar Pradesh has so far reported 16 positive cases of coronavirus till now, 5 of whom have been cured. CM Yogi Adityanath had suggested people to avoid gatherings and not to panic on the issue. All the cinema halls and multiplexes have also been ordered to close down till April 2 in UP.

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