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  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed setting up a ‘SAARC Covid-19 Emergency Fund’ and pledged to contribute $10 million toward it, during a teleconference this Sunday with the leaders of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed setting up a ‘SAARC Covid-19 Emergency Fund’ and pledged to contribute $10 million toward it, during a teleconference this Sunday with the leaders of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed setting up a ‘SAARC Covid-19 Emergency Fund’ and pledged to contribute $10 million toward it, during a teleconference this Sunday with the leaders of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

    The initiative is the brainchild of Modi himself, and suggests that India is serious about coping with the contagion at a time when some Western media outlets have insinuated that it may fail to contain the deadly virus. It is worth bearing in mind that India has an open border with Nepal and a porous one with Bangladesh, which may explain Modi’s eagerness to help out the neighbors.

  • Novel coronavirus cases in India climbed to 250 on Friday after over 40 people were infected with the fast-spreading virus in various parts of the country

    Novel coronavirus cases in India climbed to 250 on Friday after over 40 people were infected with the fast-spreading virus in various parts of the country. The new cases in India were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

    In fact, India reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a day on Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed with chief ministers ways and preparedness of the states to check and prevent the spread of coronavirus, which has claimed more than 10,000 lives globally.

    PM Modi, in a conference call, told the chief ministers of all the states to not believe that higher temperature will be of any help to contain Covid-19 cases from spreading. As per the information, the testing capacity of the country will be increased up to 20,000 tests per day by March 23.

    During the conference call, many states also pushed the prime minister to enforce a complete shutdown in the country.

    A spike in confirmed coronavirus cases prompted the states and UTs to reinforce its efforts to contain the spread.
    While the Maharashtra government said all workplaces in major cities, including in country’s commercial hub Mumbai and Pune, will remain closed till March 31, the Delhi chief minister announced shutting down of all malls in the city, but exempted grocery stores and pharmacies in them.

    MEGHALAYA ANNOUNCES 24-HOUR SHUTDOWN ON SATURDAY

    Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma announced a 24-hour statewide shutdown from Saturday midnight and said it will be observed as ‘coronavirus awareness day’. It is not to be taken as a “lockdown”, he urged.

    Speaking to reporters after chairing a Cabinet meeting on Friday, he said all public transport, commercial establishments and markets will remain shut to create awareness about the pandemic among the people of the state.

    JANATA CURFEW: NO PASSENGER TRAIN TO RUN FROM MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY

    No passenger train will originate from any railway station in the country from midnight to 10 pm on Sunday in view of the “Janata curfew” announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a railway order issued on Friday.

    “All passenger trains originating between midnight of March 21/March 22 to 22:00 hours of March 22 (approximately 2,400 services) shall not be run. However, the passenger train services already on run at 0700 hours on the day will be allowed to run to the destinations. Divisions should keep a watch and trains which are empty could be short terminated, if required,” the railway order said.

  • The four men convicted for the grisly 2012 gang rape and murder of a young student in India have been executed by hanging

    The four men convicted for the grisly 2012 gang rape and murder of a young student in India have been executed by hanging, finally bringing the seven-year ‘Nirbhaya’ case to an end after a lengthy ordeal of appeals and delays.
    The assailants were hanged at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail 5:30am local time on Friday, following marathon legal proceedings the night prior which saw last-ditch attempts to appeal their sentence shot down.

    “Now I will get peace,” said Asha Devi, the mother of the victim who has come to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ or ‘the fearless one’ in Hindi. She was speaking to PTI after the men’s final hanging date was set in stone early on Friday morning.

    The ghastly crime saw a group of attackers descend upon a 23-year-old student and her male companion on a bus in India’s capital on the evening of December 16, 2012, savagely beating both and taking turns raping the young student. Though the woman lived through the initial onslaught, she later died of severe internal injuries, while her friend was critically injured but survived the encounter.

    Justice delayed
    Six men were arrested for the horrific assault, but one of them – a juvenile at the time of the incident – was tried as a minor and released in 2015 after a three-year sentence. An adult suspect, Ram Singh, was found dead in his jail cell in March 2013, a suspected suicide, but police never ruled out murder.

    The remaining four men – Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh – were convicted of rape, murder, unnatural offenses and destruction of evidence in 2013, with all sentenced to execution by hanging within days of the verdict.

    So began a years-long process of delays, which saw each convict exhaust a seemingly endless series of appeals that repeatedly pushed back their date of execution. At various points throughout the ordeal, the courts accused the men of “delaying tactics,” but nonetheless recognized their right to appeal.

    A Delhi high court upheld the death sentence in 2014, prompting the men to bring the case to India’s Supreme Court, the country’s highest judicial body. After years of stop-start proceedings, the court struck down their final remaining appeal last December – some seven years after the attack.