Rahul Gandhi: Aarogya Setu is a ‘sophisticated surveillance’ app

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has termed the government’s coronavirus-tracking app, Aarogya Setu, is a “sophisticated surveillance system” and raised concerns over its security credentials on data and privacy-related issues. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Arvind Subramanian: India facing calamity, IMF GDP outlook ‘bizarre’

Former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian said India must plan for substantially negative growth this year and be ready to spend an additional Rs 10 lakh crore since its economy is facing a calamity following the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Anil Vij: Haryana residents working in Delhi are ‘corona carriers’

The Haryana health minister, Anil Vij, has asked the Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, to arrange accommodation for the people from his state who travel to the national capital every day for work as the daily commuters. Vij said they have become “corona carriers”. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Vijay Rupani says relaxing lockdown isn’t for aiding Muslims

Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani said his state government’s move to allow some business to operate during the lockdown, after Centre’s nod for the same, wasn’t to facilitate Muslims during their holy month of Ramzan, as some “elements” are suggesting. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Gadkari: World’s disenchantment with China is blessing for India

Union minister Nitin Gadkari said the coronavirus crisis has made the world look at possibilities away from China and that could be a blessing for India. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Manmohan: Lockdown success will be judged by how we tackle Covid

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said success of the countrywide lockdown to stop the transmission of the new coronavirus, Covid-19, will be judged by how we tackled the virus outbreak in the country. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says ‘India is heaven for Muslims’

In a reaction to a statement by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and criticism by some eminent people in the Gulf on “Islamophobia” in India, the Union minority affairs minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, said India is “heaven for Muslims”. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Mamata to PM: Centre must explain Covid-19 teams in Bengal

The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, wrote a letter to the prime minister, Narendra Modi, in which she asked to explain why the Centre wants to send teams to her state to examine alleged violations of the coronavirus lockdown. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Modi calls for unity, says ‘virus knows no religion, caste’

PM Narendra Modi called for unity and brotherhood in the country’s fight against coronavirus and said the virus doesn’t see religion and caste before infecting a victim. Read More
0 0 0
 
 

Rahul: ‘Lockdown not enough, need to ramp up COVID-19 testing’

Rahul Gandhi said the current lockdown imposed on the country to stop the coronavirus pandemic is neither a solution nor a treatment. He said the country needs to ramp us COVID-19 testing and make a strategy to lift the lockdown. Read More
0 0 0