coronavirus pandemic

Uttarakhand: Hemkund Sahib opens to devotees

8:02 pm September 4, 2020

Gopeshwar: Portals of the Hemkund Sahib, a famous Sikh shrine in the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand, were opened for devotees on Friday with the first batch of over 120 pilgrims attending the ceremony. The Guru Granth Sahib was brought into the diwan hall at 9 am and the gates of the temple were thrown open […]

NSUI’s hunger strike demanding postponement of JEE, NEET enters fourth day

11:59 pm August 29, 2020

New Delhi: The Congress-affiliated NSUI’s indefinite hunger strike to demand postponement of JEE, NEET and other examinations amid the coronavirus pandemic entered the fourth day. Senior Congress leaders like Pawan Khera, Qazi Nizamuddin, Pramod Kumar and Alka Lamba joined the strike to express solidarity with the students, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) said in a statement. NSUI national president Neeraj […]

Men have 30 pc higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women: Study

College students’ mental health worst-hit by COVID lockdown: Study

7:14 pm August 29, 2020

New Delhi: A mental health study done on over 8,000 individuals found that college students were the most affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown. Conducted by YourDost, an online mental health platform, the study found that the second worst-affected segment of people was working professionals. They were not affected at the beginning […]

UP: COVID-19 takes toll on mental health

3:31 pm August 29, 2020

Lucknow: At a village in Barabanki district, 37-year-old Vivek allegedly poisoned his wife and three children and then took his own life. And some 250 km away in Banda, migrant labourers Chutku and Rambabu killed themselves in their native villages. The three cases tell the stories of people unable to cope with the stress, often […]

13 die in Peru disco stampede after police lockdown raid

8:25 pm August 23, 2020

Lima: Thirteen people died in a stampede at a disco in Peru after a police raid to enforce the country’s lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday The stampede happened at the Thomas disco in Lima, where about 120 people had gathered for a party on Saturday night, the Interior Ministry said People tried to escape […]