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Migrant workers set out for their villages during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

By ignorantly accusing the Markaz, we may be unwittingly blaming the Centre

'Markaz' is a word that means 'Centre', and is often used as short form for markazi hakumat

13 Apr 2020 12:27 AM

Firefighters spray disinfectants at a locality near Nizamuddin mosque during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi. PTI photo

Tablighi jamaat attendee from Jaisalmer who hid travel history is corona+

He was taken for the medical examination and was confirmed for COVID-19

12 Apr 2020 3:45 PM

This is Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath following social distancing while holding a meeting with his staff but before that he was all set to disregard national directives on avoiding mass meetings. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay: Divisiveness, impunity hurts anti-Covid battle

Instead of uniting in the face of peril, we have bowed to pseudo religion and its accomplice pseudo-science

10 Apr 2020 11:50 PM

Forensic officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz to conduct an investigation into the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus at a congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat in mid-March. (PTI)

Covid’s TJ factor: Shun prejudice, stick to facts

The vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat is nothing but transparent majoritarian prejudice in full display

09 Apr 2020 3:40 PM

A municipal worker sprays a disinfectant to prevent the spread of virus amid national lockdown in Jammu. PTI photo

2 attendees of Tablighi Jamaat booked for concealing travel history

The duo had recently returned to Ramanagar with a travel history of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, before attending the event at Nizammudin

09 Apr 2020 1:27 PM

A door-door survey is being undertaken in Malavalli town in Mandya distrit. (Photo: Sunil Kumar)

Health emergency declared in Karnataka town after 3 Covid-19 positives detected

Three men from Malavalli town infected through contact with Tableeghi Jamaat returnees

07 Apr 2020 10:25 PM

Health workers sanitize the area near the Nizamuddin mosque after people who attended a religious congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat where Covid-19 positive persons spread the virus to other participants. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Waqyanavis: So cops looked the other way because Tablighi Jamaat sends over a lot of food?

Maulana Saad reportedly went ahead with the conclave to be one up on his rivals

05 Apr 2020 6:40 PM

Forensics and crime branch officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz to conduct investigation, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi. PTI photo

8 Malaysian Tablighi men, trying to flee India, nabbed

The eight Malaysian Tablighi activists were hiding in the Delhi-NCR region

05 Apr 2020 6:16 PM

A team of doctors come out of Nizamuddin police station after conducting a routine health check-up, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Tablighi Jamaat members shifted to quarantine facility in Muzaffarnagar

District authorities have screened 410 members of the organisation across 32 mosques in the district

05 Apr 2020 4:34 PM

Govt undertaking massive efforts to trace Tablighi Jamaat members: MHA

With 601 new cases, India's COVID-19 tally rose to 2,902

04 Apr 2020 5:32 PM

UP reports seven more Covid19 cases from Maharajgunj, Banda

All of them had gone to Delhi to attend the religious programme organised by the Tablighi Jamaat and returned to Maharajganj on March 21

04 Apr 2020 12:02 PM

Health workers sanitizing an area near the Nizamuddin mosque after Covid-19 positive people who attended a religious congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat spread the deadly virus to different parts of the country. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Home Ministry orders action against foreigners involved in Tablighi Jamaat meeting

960 foreigners blacklisted and their visas cancelled for violating laws of assembly

02 Apr 2020 8:11 PM

Religious gathering organised in Markaz Nizamuddin area. (Photo- PTI)

Quarantine not against Islam or Shariyat: Tablighi Jamaat's Maulana Saad

Saad further said that he has quarantined himself in Delhi acting upon the advice of doctors

02 Apr 2020 2:23 PM

A man waves from inside a bus after he is discharged from a makeshift coronavirus quarantine facility set up at a hotel requisitioned for the purpose by the authorities in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. Hundreds of local residents who were on their return from outside Kashmir were quarantined in such facilities. The authorities say that most of the 49 persons tested positive a have history of travel to various parts of India and abroad. (DC Photo: H U Naqash)

J&K takes up 'robust' contact tracing in Valley

About 2000 contacts of Covid-19 positive persons have been identified

02 Apr 2020 8:23 AM

Health workers sanitizing an area near the Nizamuddin mosque in New Delhi on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 after people who attended a religious congregation organised by the Tablighi Jamaat tested positive for the corona virus. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

2,361 people evacuated from Nizamuddin Markaz after 36-hour operation

Coronavirus positive cases jump to 152 in Delhi with 53 linked to Tablighi Jamaat congregation

02 Apr 2020 7:42 AM

A woman gestures as she walks through a disinfection tunnel set up at the entrance of the Thennampalayam market in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu on April 1, 2020. (AFP)

80 per cent of Tamil Nadu Covid-19 cases traced to Old Delhi meeting

The state now has 234 positive cases, of which 190 are Tablighi returnees

01 Apr 2020 11:32 PM

Nationwide, people who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Old Delhi from March 10-13, such as these people from Nalgonda and Miryalaguda in Telangana, have come forward to be tested for the Covid-19 virus after reports emerged that the coronavirus spread that meeting. (PTI)

Media declared 18 Tablighi Jamaat congregants Covid+; Their tests never took place

The 18 men from Tamil Nadu had voluntarily come forward to be tested

01 Apr 2020 9:05 PM

People who came for ‘Jamat’, a religious gathering at Nizamuddin Mosque, being taken to LNJP hospital for COVID-19 test, after several people showed symptoms of coronavirus, during a nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Vigilance needs to be stepped up to keep Covid19 at bay

While the Talbighi incident is a wake-up call on the consequences of slackness in the face of a health emergency

01 Apr 2020 9:36 AM

People who attended a religious congregation at a mosque in Delhi's Nizamuddin area are brought to hospital for COVID-19 testing on March 31, 2020. Some 700 people who attended the congregation have been quarantined while around 335 people have been admitted to hospital after 24 people were tested Covid-19 positive. (PTI)

Telangana ignored central intel on Markaz Covid-19 cluster for 10 days

Death of six people from that cluster brings hundreds to the portals of Gandhi Hospital to submit to tests

01 Apr 2020 2:35 AM

A preventive lockdown continued in Srinagar for the seventh straight day on Wednesday to arrest the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 in Jammu & Kashmir. (Photo: H U Naqash)

Panicky Kashmiris rush to hospitals after COVID-19 cases swell in J&K

With 4 more testing positive for the deadly virus, authorities decide to get tough with lockdown violators

25 Mar 2020 10:37 PM

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