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Lockdown: Teachers roped in to trace migrant workers in Guj

April 2, 2020 strong

The Gujarat government has roped in primary school teachers to trace migrant workers and provide them free ration during the unprecedented lockdown in view of the coronavirus outbreak. Teachers from government-run schools were called-in on Wednesday for door-to-door survey of villages to find the migrant workers there and inform about their whereabouts to the authorities concerned. Lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus has turned into a humanitarian crisis as it resulted in exodus of migrant workers, who have lost their jobs and have been walking to their native places…

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Buttler auctions World Cup-winning shirt to raise funds for hospitals battling pandemic

April 1, 2020 strong

England’s flamboyant batsman Jos Buttler is auctioning the shirt he wore during their World Cup-winning final last year, to raise funds for hospitals battling the COVID-19 pandemic. In a video message posted on Twitter late Tuesday night, Buttler said the shirt would be auctioned to raise funds for the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals charity. “As we all know, hospitals, doctors, nurses and the NHS are all doing quite an incredible job at the moment. And in the weeks and months to come they are going to need our support…

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‘The Witches’ actor Vincent Marzello dies at 68

April 1, 2020 strong

Actor Vincent Marzello, best known for playing the father of the young protagonist in the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book “The Witches” has died, his wife, actor Lorelei King, announced. He was 68. King shared the news on her Twitter account on Tuesday. “The love of my life, my darling husband Vincent Marzello, died this morning. “To those who knew him, I am sorry to post the news rather than contact you personally, but I am overwhelmed. My heart is broken,” the “Notting Hill” actor wrote alongside a picture…

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Coronavirus: SC asks Centre to prevent migration, set up portal within 24 hrs for real time info

April 1, 2020 strong

The Supreme Court asked the Centre on Tuesday to prevent migration of people due to coronavirus and set up within 24 hours a portal for disseminating real time information on the pandemic to counter the panic being spread through fake news. “Panic will destroy more lives than the virus”, the top court said and asked the Centre to get trained counsellors and community leaders of all faiths to calm down the migrants, who are kept in shelter homes across the country. It said these shelters should be run by volunteers…

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Sensex plunges over 700 pts; Nifty drops below 8,400

April 1, 2020 strong

Equity benchmark Sensex slumped over 700 points in early trade on Wednesday tracking losses in index heavyweights Reliance Industries, Kotak Bank, HDFC Bank and Infosys amid weak cues from global markets. Starting the new financial year on a negative note, the 30-share BSE barometer was trading 714.74 points or 2.43 per cent lower at 28,753.75. Similarly, the NSE Nifty fell 199 points, or 2.31 per cent, to 8,398.75. Kotak Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack, cracking up to 8 per cent, followed by SBI, Infosys, HDFC Bank,…

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CNN’s Cuomo, with coronavirus, completes show from basement

April 1, 2020 strong

A bleary-eyed Chris Cuomo, saying he wanted to be a cautionary tale for his audience, anchored his CNN show from his basement Tuesday after testing positive for the coronavirus. Via remote link, he interviewed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, an emergency room nurse and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who expressed worry about one of Cuomo’s symptoms. Brace yourself, Cuomo told viewers, not for a hoax. But for the next few weeks of scary and painful realities. This is a fight. It’s going to get worse. We’re going to suffer. Cuomo…

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India’s 10 COVID-19 hotspots: an overview

April 1, 2020 strong

The government is focusing its attention on 10 hotspots’ across the country in its effort to control the spread of COVID-19, which has infected more than 1,200 people and claimed at least 35 lives. There are two hotspots each in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala and Maharashtra and one each in Gujarat and Rajasthan: DELHI Nizamuddin West: Famed for the shrine of the 14h century Sufi mystic Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya, the south Delhi locality has emerged as an epicentre for spread of the coronavirus in different parts of the country after…

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Sensex rallies 1,028 pts; logs off FY20 with 23.80 pc loss

March 31, 2020 strong

Equity indices notched up smart gains on the last day of 2019-20 on Tuesday, but ended deep in the red for the fiscal as the global coronavirus pandemic triggered record-shattering selloffs in March. The 30-share BSE Sensex traded in the positive zone throughout the session, ending 1,028.17 points or 3.62 per cent higher at 29,468.49 on across-the-board buying. Similarly, the NSE Nifty rose 316.65 points, or 3.82 per cent, to close at 8,597.75. During the financial year 2019-20, the Sensex plunged 9,204.42 points or 23.80 per cent, while the Nifty…

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Coronavirus: SC asks Centre to prevent migration, set up portal within 24 hrs for real time info

March 31, 2020 strong

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Not worried about stereotypes, just want to work in Bollywood: Sajjad Delafrooz

March 31, 2020 strong

Iranian actor Sajjad Delafrooz says his love for Bollywood precedes his love for acting, which is why he is not bothered about being stereotyped as long as he gets good work. Sajjad was first noticed in Akshay Kumar starrer “Baby” with his role of a doctor. His next two outings featured him as a baddie — a terrorist in “Tiger Zinda Hai” and a criminal mastermind for Neeraj Pandey’s latest webseries “Special Ops”. Co-directed by Shivam Nair, the series revolves around a manhunt for a fictitious terrorist mastermind responsible for…