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SC issues notice to Centre on plea seeking free COVID-19 testing facility
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Central government on public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions for providing free of cost COVID-19 testing facility to citizens at private and government testing labs.
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Migrant labourers stuck in Mumbai plead with govt to send them home
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Apr 3 (ANI): The central government should help the migrant and daily wage labourers to reach their homes as the lockdown has hit these people the most, said one of the members of Rahul Tarun Mitra Mandal association in Mumbai on Friday.
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Combating COVID-19: UP govt to set up Rs 1,000 cr fund
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 3 (ANI): Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government will set up a Rs 1,000 crore fund for enhancing testing lab facilities and procurement of ventilators, masks, and sanitizers.
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'COVID-19 Waste' label must on coronavirus related biomedical waste
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has made it mandatory to put "COVID-19 Waste" label on all biomedical waste generated during the treatment of the infection.
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Pernod Ricard India Foundation and Akshay Patra, feeding the daily wage wo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI /BusinessWire India): In view of major economic activities shutting down in the country as part of the nationwide lockdown announced on March 23 to combat Covid-19, informal sector workforce including a large section of migrant labour workers and daily wagers
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DBT, CSIR, DST, DAE labs can conduct covid19 testing: ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 3 (ANI): In a significant development related to the COVID19 diagnosed testing, now laboratories under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Department of Atomic Energ
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World Bank extends USD 1 billion emergency funding to India amidst COVID-1
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 3 (ANI): The World Bank on Thursday (local time) approved USD 1 billion emergency financing to India which will support better screening of coronavirus patients, contact tracing, and laboratory diagnostics. The fund will also be used for procurement of personal
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Swiggy launches the 'Hope, Not Hunger' initiative to feed the needy
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): India's largest food delivery platform Swiggy said on Thursday it has partnered with various commercial kitchens, NGOs and state governments to provide daily meals to thousands of underprivileged, daily wagers and stranded migrant labourers who have limited
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Pristyn Care launches Tele-Medicine services; partners with over 50 labora
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): With the current lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak in India, the routine process of going to one's nearest doctor for a consultation has become impossible. Hence, while sitting at home, if one feels unwell, there is both a sense of helple
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Delhi Police help 40 women in labour reach hospital amid lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Till April 1, Delhi police assisted 40 women undergoing labour pain by transporting them safely to the hospital.
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Centre directs states, union territories to provide for redressal of migra
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Amid movement of migrant workers during the coronavirus pandemic, Preeti Sudan, Secretary at Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has written to Chief Secretaries of all states and Union territories asking them to assure redressal of migrant labourers grievan
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Instead of supporting labourers returning home, UP police and administrati
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 2 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said that Uttar Pradesh residents, who live and work in other parts of the country, have suffered the maximum at the hands of the state administration during the lockdown.
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