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Kolkata Airport said no flight operations will be allowed on September 7, 11 and 12 (file) Calcutta: With the lockdown in West Bengal extended until September 20, Kolkata airport has allowed inbound flights from six cities on a limited basis. It has also announced that no flight operations will be …

NEW DELHI: More than 87,000 healthcare workers have been infected with Covid-19, with only six states (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, West Bengal and Gujarat) accounting for three-quarters (about 74%) of the case burden and more than 86% of the 573 deaths due to infection, official data showed. Maharashtra alone, …

[ad_1] Written by Amitabh Sinha Edited by Explained in the Desktop of Pune | Updated: May 24, 2020 6:01:17 pm Migrant workers on the GT Road in Ghaziabad (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav) While India continues to add more and more the number of novel Coronavirus infections each day, with …

[ad_1] On Thursday, Tamil Nadu-based writer and social activist Nityanand Jayaraman posted on Twitter a short video of a batch of migrant workers from Bengal starting for their home on bicycles, embarking on a nearly 1,700 km journey. This was barely a few hours before Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee …

[ad_1] Passengers walk on a platform when arriving from New Delhi at New Jalpaiguri Train Station (AFP) NEW DELHI: Railways will begin issuing limited tickets on the waiting list starting May 15 for the AC special trains It is running between Delhi and 15 cities, even as the government is …

[ad_1] Representative image NEW DELHI: The Railways has operated 642 special Shramik trains since May 1, transporting eight Lakh migrant workers to their homes who were stranded in various parts of the country due to the blockade caused by the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday. Of these, Uttar Pradesh received the …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized the Union government on Wednesday, alleging that the special economic package announced by him is of no help to the states and is “a big zero”. Banerjee alleged that the central government was “deceiving the people” during the COVID-19 crisis. “The …

[ad_1] The government released Rs 6,195.08 crore to 14 states as the second equivalent monthly installment of the Revenue Deficit Grant after Repayment on Monday. “This would provide them with additional resources during the Corona crisis,” the finance ministry said in a statement Monday. The grant was recommended by the …

[ad_1] KOLKATA: A representative body of medical practitioners in government service of West Bengal has urged Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to reconsider the revised policy for discharge of COVID-19 patients prepared in consultation with the ICMR. Noting that different strains of ‘SARS-CoV-2’ are prevailing across the country with …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India recorded its biggest jump in a single day in Covid-19 cases with the number crossing 4,000 for the first time as the pandemic hit another high in Maharashtra, which added 1,943 cases on Sunday, including 665 from the past few days. This meant that 4,308 cases …