Tag: Lockdown
Prashant Bhushan found guilty of contempt of court
The Supreme Court went after lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan for two tweets that reportedly spoke Prashant Bhushanof the judiciary. In a culmination of the show cause notice the apex court had issued on July 22 against Prashant Bhushan, it pronounced him guilty of criminal contempt of court for two of his tweets against the ...6 point mantras: Center urges surge states to follow Covid-19 lessons
In a high profile virtual meeting on Friday that went on for three hours, Center has relayed six main pointers to the nine states with highest number of positive Covid-19 cases and are still experiencing daily spikes. The included states are Bihar, Telangana, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Assam and Uttar Pradesh. Center ...Priyanka Chopra To Encash Boom In Home Entertainment Industry
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is one of the few Indian actors that has given the Indian film industry a international flavor to its existence. She has invested herself well in the West to be able to find herself a place and mention amongst the best in fashion and acting. Bringing the Indian flavor back to the ...Bengaluru is paying price of ineffective infection source tracing
In June first week as Unlock 1.0 was implemented nationwide, Bengaluru recorded a daily number of 9-28 positive cases being detected. This number rose to 138 by June 19 and by the end of June the city was recording over 700 positive cases of coronavirus every day. July 4 recorded this number as 1,235. Bengaluru ...How many companies registered to do business during the lockdown?
An analysis by How India Lives reveals that the number of company registrations started falling just before the pandemic hit. One good indicator of the health of an economy is the number of new companies that have come up. Entrepreneurship thrives when there are positive projections about the economy and people are ready to invest ...How the economy can recover by the End of 2020
According to Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the Indian economy will take almost the second half of this year to recover from the lockdown hit slowing down of the economy. India is one of the fifth worst hit countries in the world with the COVID-19 disease. Mr. Subramanian has also indicated that it might take ...Migrants’ ire might come back to bite Modi
The Prime Minister’s popularity may be slipping among the country’s large migrant force which has been suffering greatly during the lockdown. News reports indicate that Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s standing among workers may be slipping. Not even a year into his second term, which he was elected into by a thumping majority, PM Modi was ...Nihal Sarin, India’s teen who took on world chess champion Magnus Carlsen
Nihal Sarin has played against the reigning champion Magnus Carlsen on various occasions however on 5 June Nihal took on Carlsen in a series of one-minute chess shootouts. Toward the end of these “quick games”, the score read: Sarin 13, Carlsen 19. A few days earlier, India’s teen Sarin had defeated Norwegian Carlsen in a ...Supreme Court ruling comes to rescue migrant Indian population
The Supreme Court has stepped in to help with the state of migrant workers in India. They have been considered the worst hit by the pandemic. According to the Supreme Court ruling, the Centre has to now ensure it registers all the migrant workers, and give them the facility to board any train or bus ...Government releases guidelines for Unlock 1.0
As the country prepares to emerge from a two-month lockdown, the government announces a standard operating procedure for restaurants, malls and religious spaces. The government has mandated certain general measures like compulsory face cover or masks, a physical distancing of at least six feet and restricted use of closed spaces like elevators in order to ...
