India has reported 2374 new Covid cases today taking the total number of active Covid cases to 81687, 0.19 per cent higher. 13 new deaths have been reported today taking the death toll 1.2 per cent higher at 524903. Official figures from Delhi on Monday stood at 1,060 new Covid cases in a day and […]
The Covid- 19 pandemic has proven one thing: that in the hard-nosed world of vaccine politics and big business pharmaceuticals, ‘charity’ and ‘goodwill’ take a back-seat. This week, the WHO announced the global milestone of having produced vaccines for 10 billion people worldwide against the covid virus. When French President Emmanuel Macron took the Covid-19 […]
As Bihar, India’s third largest state, reels under the twin misfortunes of post covid-19 instability and the onslaught of floods caused by heavy monsoons, the Christian communities and the laity, religious congregations and social action centres in Patna Archdiocese are on a relentless mission of relief to the affected. According to conservative estimates, 53 persons […]
The Central government is to dispatch special medical teams to Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur as these three North-eastern States have been registering a high number of COVID-19 positive cases. The special medical teams are to evaluate the possible reasons the increase in the number of of COVID-19 cases in these states. The development has […]
As Covid 19 stalks the Northeast, Nagaland extends lockdown till June 30, Meghalaya works out a plan to have the Iewduh market open partially, and Assam is set to disallow home isolation for those who do not have proper space at their homes. Meghalaya registered 8 more Covid19 deaths and 495 new positive cases in […]
It never ceases to amaze, how a tiny community works like yeast in the dough to give rise to nutritious and flavoursome bread! The Salesians of Don Bosco and their collaborators have managed to reach out with relief to thousands of people in Southern India and elsewhere during the Covid-19 pandemic. The tribal communities in […]
North Bengal’s only Catholic run community radio broadcaster joins nine other non-government organisations in the Darjeeling Hills in a 15 week Wellbeing campaign to combat Covid-19. A group of ten Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in the hills have come together to fight COVID-19 with a 15-week Wellbeing Campaign. Their slogans include: ‘Bring Back the Smiles,’ and […]
It’s not only the folks of Bengal who have has to suffer because of the election rallies during covid. So far 171 policemen from Mizoram, dispatched for election duty to West Bengal have been diagnosed with COVIDid-19. On May 5, local news sources revealed that 62 policemen, who recently returned from West Bengal after poll […]
Even as India continues to report a daily covid-19 infection rate of over 350,000 and the media is replete with distress stories from all over the country, the Good News is that several Catholic dioceses and institutions have come forward to help the affected in whatever way they can. Only yesterday, somebody sent us the […]
Lucknow: In the midst of the covid-19 controversies, a Press trust of India report from Uttar Pradesh mentioned a lightning strike by the state’s ambulance drivers. The association of ambulance employees in Uttar Pradesh has called off their strike following negotiations with the administration over their demands for timely wages and protective gear to guard […]
The government of Sikkim, in an effort to help the many migrant workers, mainly from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal , has directed their employers to pay them wages for the duration of the lockdown and has directed daily wagers’ landlords not to charge house rents for the same period. The order was issued on […]
While West Bengal is on the eve of shutdown to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus, Darjeeling’s iconic Glenary’s Bakery and Restaurant today handed out free bread and bakery items to kids before the lockdown, and has promised to continue to supply food to charitable organisations in the shutdown weeks ahead. Located at Nehru […]
