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  Opinion | Tablighi Jamaat chief must own up responsibility for sending hundreds of people to death

  April 29, 2020 10:48 IST

  Out of nearly 30,000 corona cases presently in India, nearly two-thirds (roughly 20,000) cases are from five states, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh. 

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  Opinion | Danger is far from over, let us not fritter away our gains by allowing all-out relaxations

  April 28, 2020 10:16 IST

  The Centre has allowed lifting of all restrictions on farming activity. Nearly 80 per cent of the wheat crops have been harvested and shops selling agricultural implements, seeds and fertilizers have been allowed to reopen. Mandis (farm product markets) are operating normally.

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  Opinion | How India brought the Coronavirus pandemic under control

  April 25, 2020 10:02 IST

  I want to specifically mention here, this could not have happened without the full cooperation of millions of Indians who rose as one to heed the Prime Minister's appeal. This could not have happened if the police had not strictly enforced lockdown norms. 

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  Opinion | Beware of the super spreaders of Coronavirus, they are behind the spike in numbers

  April 24, 2020 12:50 IST

  The Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad is still in hiding and he has not yet issued any appeal to his workers to come out and cooperate with the authorities. This has become a bigger challenge as time passes and the activists in hiding do their work as super-spreaders of the deadly virus. 

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  Opinion | Ordinance to punish offenders who attack health workers is a timely and welcome step

  April 23, 2020 12:20 IST

  The ordinance has been welcomed as timely by all sections of people. We should also have words of appreciation for our police personnel who are toiling day and night to enforce lockdown and to provide security to health workers in hospitals and quarantine centers. 

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  Opinion | How Tablighi Jamaat workers manhandled a lady health worker in Delhi's LNJP hospital

  April 23, 2020 8:54 IST

  If Nizamuddin Markaz was the origin from where the virus travelled through carriers from Delhi to UP, to MP, to Telangana and Tamil Nadu, why should we refrain from saying so? If Tablighi Jamaat workers manhandle doctors and nurses in hospitals, create ugly scenes inside quarantine centers, why shouldn't we name them?

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  Opinion | Lynching of sadhus must be condemned, arrest those who spread rumours

  April 21, 2020 9:53 IST

  Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has promised action against the culprits. Already 110 people have been arrested for taking part in the lynching incident, but the police must find out those who spread baseless rumours on WhatsApp about child lifters and robbers moving in the garb of sadhus. 

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  Opinion | Karnataka govt must take action against Devegowda's family for violating norms

  April 18, 2020 11:38 IST

  When the Devegowda family was asked why they did not follow norms, Kumaraswamy released an aerial footage to claim that only 40 people attended the wedding. 

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  Opinion | Carry on, brave doctors and nurses, the nation stands with you in this hour of crisis

  April 17, 2020 14:45 IST

  Already 17 accused of stone-pelting have been arrested, and police are using drones and other video footage to trace nearly 180 persons, who took part in the shameful attack on doctors and medical team.

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  Opinion | Those attacking doctors must be behind bars

  April 16, 2020 8:31 IST

  The Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath immediately swung into action and ordered that the attackers in Moradabad be booked under National Security Act. 

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  Opinion | Sending back migrant workers by trains will defeat the purpose of lockdown

  April 15, 2020 12:16 IST

  The most surprising part was that none of the workers had baggage with them. India TV reporters, who rushed to the spot, revealed that most of the workers hailed from Malda, West Bengal.

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  Opinion | Tracing underground Jamaat members has become a huge challenge

  April 14, 2020 13:39 IST

  In Delhi alone, police nabbed nearly 900 workers from mosques and other places. Police officials say, underground workers of the Jamaat may now be hiding with families, and it will be a very difficult task to trace them, as they have switched off their cellphones. 

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  Opinion | Lockdown, social distancing are the only weapons to fight Coronavirus

  April 11, 2020 11:12 IST

  There are at present more than 5 lakh Coronavirus cases in the US, out of which more than 1.6 lakh cases are in New York City alone. Out of more than 18,000 deaths in the US, New York alone accounts for nearly 8,000.

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  Opinion | Time to make appeals to follow lockdown is over, now take action against violators

  April 10, 2020 10:19 IST

  India recorded over 500 new Coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours, taking the number of COVID-19 cases to 5,865 with the death toll at 169. Despite the three-week lockdown in force across the country, the figures are spiralling mainly because people are still not following lockdown and social distancing norms.

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  Opinion | Why people in cities of UP defied lockdown, went into panic buying mode

  April 09, 2020 11:01 IST

  Fifteen days of patience during lockdown went up in smoke on Wednesday when rumours circulated on social media in several cities of Uttar Pradesh that the government has "sealed" 15 districts. Thousands of people flocked to shops and markets in Noida, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Rampur, Saharanpur, Kanpur, Unnao, Kannauj and other cities and went into panic buying mode, stocking up on vegetables and essential grocery items.

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  Opinion | Do not expect lockdown to end after April 14, situation demands it should continue

  April 08, 2020 9:24 IST

  In the national capital, the Coronavirus figures would have been under control but for the Tablighi Jamaat. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is doing his best and is fully cooperating with the Centre to contain the spread of the virus. 

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  Opinion | Bring strong law to punish those defying lockdown and hiding from quarantine

  April 07, 2020 8:35 IST

  The Jamaat leaders must understand that spitting in public places in Saudi Arabia invites death punishment and hiding travel history details in that country invite a fine upto Rs 1 crore. This is not the case in India. 

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  Opinion | Posting objectionable videos on social platform must be firmly nipped in the bud

  April 04, 2020 10:34 IST

  Anti-social elements are posting objectionable videos on TikTok and WhatsApp asking people to flout all Coronavirus precautions. They are asking people to defy social distancing rules by hugging and shaking hands. Some of them are inciting people in the name of Islam by claiming that wearing of masks is un-Islamic. Some others are trying to link the pandemic with the NRC issue. 

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  Opinion | Those who attacked doctors, nurses, must be punished, they are enemies of society

  April 03, 2020 9:55 IST

  I want to ask the people of Indore who spat and pelted stones at doctors a question. Tell me, were these lady doctors committing a crime? They were only doing their duty in this hour of national crisis, trying to find out persons who came in contact with Coronavirus victims.

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  Opinion | Maulana Saad must come out of hiding, he needs treatment

  April 02, 2020 11:30 IST

  The Maulana and his followers must realize that they have deliberately foiled the well-laid-out government plan of 21 days' lockdown by spreading the virus. The sooner the Maulana comes out of hiding and cooperates with the government, the better it will be. 

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  Opinion | Tablighi Jamaat chief committed crime by asking followers not to listen to doctors' advice

  April 01, 2020 13:49 IST

  More than 450 people now have virus symptoms, 24 persons staying at the Markaz were found positive, so far 10 people have died of virus after coming into contact with the followers, and right now, a nationwide hunt is on to track the thousands of followers who dispersed from the congregation. 

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  Opinion | Concealing fact about foreigners in Nizamuddin is an anti-national crime

  March 31, 2020 17:06 IST

  Late at night, the Centre directed that the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium to be converted into a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients in view of the Nizamuddin incident. The UP police directed its SPs in 19 districts to trace all those people who had attended the Tableeghi Jamaat Markaz (centre) gathering.

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  Opinion | How rumours triggered movement of thousands of migrant workers from Delhi

  March 28, 2020 10:10 IST

  What can be done with thousands of workers cramming inside buses? Is social distancing possible? Will it not multiply the spread of the virus to unimaginable proportions, with people carrying this virus to their villages and infecting others?

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  Opinion | Relief package for the poor was prepared much before lockdown was enforced

  March 27, 2020 8:10 IST

  There is no way out for India from this pandemic without enforcing a nationwide lockdown. If we have to save ourselves and our children, lockdown is a must. 

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  Opinion | Why Modi chose March 25 for enforcing nationwide 21-day lock

  March 26, 2020 8:46 IST

  I have been in the field of journalism for 37 years. I have seen from close range,  many Prime Ministers working in times of crisis. The manner in which Prime Minister Modi has handled this global pandemic is praiseworthy. He deserves our fullest support in this hour of national crisis.

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  Opinion | Stay in homes for 21 days, let us defeat this Coronavirus monster

  March 25, 2020 15:00 IST

  If we make mistakes and defy lockdowns, the consequences will be terrible. The death toll will mount rapidly and there will be hardly anybody left to collect the bodies from the roadside. 

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  Opinion | For God's sake, please do not defy lockdowns

  March 24, 2020 10:03 IST

  While speaking to news broadcasters on Monday, the Prime Minister spoke about a lady doctor who told AIIMS director “I am treating patients of  Coronavirus fearlessly, but I have old parents at home, if something happens to me please taken care of them” The Prime Minister had tears in his eyes when he narrated this.  

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  Opinion | Tell everybody that 'curfew' also means 'care for you'

  March 21, 2020 10:12 IST

  On Friday night in my show Aaj Ki Baat, I showed the video of a Coronavirus female patient speaking from her ICU bed and imploring all not to take this deadly virus lightly.