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Agra corona cluster plan: For 1 case, over 930,000 people surveyed

Agra, the Taj Mahal city, as emerged as the finest example in best practices in cluster management, where a smart city control room was converted into a war room to fight the outbreak of coronavirus from a person who had returned from Italy on February 25

Kolkata taxi driver offers hospital built in sister's memory for COVID-19

Two years back, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi was moved by the way taxi driver Saidul Lashkar single-handedly turned his grief for a sister - who died as he failed to hospitalise her because of financial difficulties - into a hospital in Kolkata to memorialse her name

India says HCQ stock available thrice the country's needs

The Indian government on Friday said it has stock of 3.28 crore (32.8 million) hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets, three times the projected domestic requirement. It also approved the first list of countries for the HCQ export

Pakistan pledges $3m in SAARC COVID-19 Emergency Fund

Pakistan has pledged to contribute $3 million in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) COVID-19 Emergency Fund to support regional efforts in the fight against the global pandemic, it was reorted

War against virus: The new nightingales of India

As thousands of nurses across the country light the lamps of hope in the hospitals, several leading women play a vital role in India's war room to contain the spread of the dreaded pandemic

Sri Lanka police beat coronavirus fear with music

Police in Sri Lanka were using music to help people in coronavirus-hit areas to stay calm and beat the health scare amid the rising number of cases in the island-nation

Unsung civil servants in COVID-19 fight

As India passes through an unprecedented crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic, a number of civil servants have been tirelessly managing the country's administrative and delivery system round-the-clock and sacrificing personal time and comforts to keep the battle going

Pakistan stays away from pandemic meeting hosted by India

The Foreign Office said that Pakistan stayed away from the regional trade officials’ video conference on Covid-19 hosted by India because it had not been managed by the secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc)

300 Pakistani students stranded in Bangladesh cry out for help

For over 300 Pakistani students studying in Bangladesh under the SAARC quota scholarship programme, life these days seems to be a never-ending nightmare

Pakistan allows cargo trucks to cross over into Afghanistan

Pakistan has decided to allow movement of cargo trucks and containers to cross-over into Afghanistan thrice a week starting from Friday onwards on the neighbouring countrys request amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Thursday

Lockdown hard on kids with special needs

With schools, hospitals and therapy centres closed during the 21-day nationwide lockdown in India, everyone is facing challenges but children with special and additional needs are the hardest hit

Tableeghi Jamaat in hot water in Pakistan too for Covid-19 spread

After taking the heat in Malaysia and India for accelerating the spread of the coronavirus, the Tableeghi Jamaat is in the limelight in Pakistan also for organising its annual mass assembly at Raiwind Markaz in March despite strong opposition by the Punjab government

Corona crisis: Mumbai's congested Dharavi is a big cause for worry

As the 13th person reported Covid-19 positive in the past five days from Dharavi in central Mumbai on Wednesday, state and civic health authorities were worried over the implications in the most congested locality on the planet which is also Asia's biggest slum

No charter flights between Maldives and India

The Indian High Commission in the Maldives has reiterated that no charter flights between Maldives and India have been scheduled

India gifts Sri Lanka a 10-tonne consignment of medicines

India has gifted a 10-tonne consignment of medicines to Sri Lanka, in view of the COVID–19 crisis