Bhopal: A man was forced to carry his daughter’s body on a cot for post-mortem for 35 km, walking for almost seven hours to reach the hospital in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh. A video surfaced online which showed the man, along with a few villagers, mounting his 16-year-old daughter’sContinue Reading
Baghpat: Seven people have been arrested in Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh for stealing clothes of the dead from crematoria and burial grounds, said police on Sunday. The arrests come at a time when social media and the national dailies have been cataloguing an ever growing number of dead bodiesContinue Reading
After dipping into his savings to weather India’s snap pandemic lockdown last March, Manoj Kumar was just getting his head above water again earning 600 rupees ($8) a day as a construction worker in the tourist hotspot of Goa. He’d squirreled away enough for a trip last month to hisContinue Reading
Jaipur: Twenty-one people died in as many days at a village in Rajasthan’s Sikar district allegedly after a Covid-19-infected corpse was buried without following protocol. However, officials said that only four deaths have occurred due to the virus between April 15 and May 5. According to officials, a Covid-19-infected bodyContinue Reading
Ludhiana: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh made a video call to 10-year-old street vendor and asked him to rejoin school. The chief minister’s gesture came after a video showing Vansh Singh selling socks on roads in Ludhiana to support his family went viral. He promised assistance for the boy’s family.Continue Reading
New Delhi: A bishop in India has said that failure to put in place proper Covid-19 restrictions caused the current crisis – which has seen new cases exceeding 300,000 daily. Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that lax Covid-19 safety earlier this yearContinue Reading
Ahmedabad: Police have arrested 46 people for taking out a religious procession at a village in Gandhinagar district to “eradicate coronavirus”, an official said on May 6. This is the second such incident in Gujarat in the last few of days. All COVID-19 prevention norms were allegedly violated during theContinue Reading
Pope Francis said that he is praying for the people of India as they face a devastating coronavirus outbreak. In a message dated May 6 to Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, the pope expressed his “heartfelt solidarity” with the country’s 1.3 billionContinue Reading
New Delhi: Ajit Singh, federal minister in several governments and one of India’s seniormost politicians, died May 6. He was 82. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief had been battling Covid, his son Jayant Chaudhary tweeted. Ajit Singh was diagnosed with Covid on April 20, his son said in tweets.Continue Reading
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 05 May 2021: More than 100 Church of South India (CSI) priests were reportedly infected with Covid-19 after they attended the annual retreat at Munnar in the South Indian state of Kerala. Sadly, two of the priests have died and five others are said to be in a serious condition.Continue Reading
