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Citizens across India come together to propose an urgent solution, ‘COVIDCitizens’

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Citizens across India come together to propose an urgent solution, ‘COVIDCitizens’

Citizens across India come together to propose an urgent solution, ‘COVIDCitizens’, to help Indians fight COVID-19

The platform provides quick and easy access to relevant Covid-related resources from more than 25,000 providers in 200 cities in India and is verified by more than 500 civilian volunteers, as well as verified by thousands of people searching for potential clients through the platform itself.

New Delhi, May 10, 2021 – With endless clues circulating on WhatsApp and Twitter, it has become a stressful situation for citizens who need to find what they are looking for, on time. If we can save time wasted in the frantic search for validated information and verified leads, we can save lives.

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It is with this goal that COVIDCitizens, a community initiative, has collaborated to provide relevant and reliable information, which can be accessed in a minute. You can easily search “by location” directly on the website with GPS. We also have a friendly bot, Introbot, that you can chat with, which will fetch resources from our database and bring you information at your fingertips. You can also log in to our live audio platform, Fireside, where more than 250 volunteers support you in local languages, making it easy for those who are tech-savvy but need help.

The initiative which has already helped over 5,00,000 covid-affected families, is led by Jasminder Singh Gulati, Co-Founder & CEO, NowFloats (acquired by Reliance Jio) as well as Avinash Raghava, Founding Volunteer at SaaSBOOMI, who have brought together Introbot and Fireside, along with a tribe of 500+ dedicated volunteers to deliver this full-stack solution.  

Speaking about the initiative – Aditya Kothari, Co-Founder, Fireside comments, “There’s strength in unity, and we need to be united in our efforts now more than ever. We at #fireside are proud to collaborate and join efforts to form the @covidcitzens platform to offer 24×7 assistance to distressed citizens. Voicing out your distress and seeking help is very important.  With trained volunteers and counseling experts in every city helpline room, citizens can step into these virtual rooms, ask their query – related to the hospital bed, oxygen, plasma, and everything covid-related, and also access free mental health support/therapy with a real human on the other side of the mic.”  

Sharing about their full-stack solution Utkarsh Roy and Divyaansh Anuj, Co-Founders of Introbot said, “It’s an honour to be able to directly impact so many lives in such a time of crisis. We have already helped over 5,00,000 covid-affected families and our mission is #SavingAMillionLives. Through Introbot, our Whatsapp bot we provide instant, real-time information on medical resources, by accessing 25,000 suppliers and resources, spanning 200+ cities in the country. We believe it’s not just information that we provide, but also hope to the affected families in these times of distress” 

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Garima Gupta, Head of Data Science at Aon in San Francisco, California, while looking for leads for her family in India mentioned in a post on LinkedIn, “Salute to the Introbot team for building a unified database of verified vendors providing Oxygen, Hospital Beds, and other scarce resources across India in this crisis! Have personally tried the WhatsApp-based bot a few times and it is just brilliant at providing real-time verified leads!” 

About COVIDCitizens: We are a group of committed Indians who have come together to help alleviate the current critical situation in India. We are working to create, select and provide quick and easy access to one of India’s largest databases of verified Covid related resources. We are not affiliated with the government and we can do our best with the resources we have.

We can be reached at covidcitizensindia@gmail.com and https://covidcitizens.org/ 

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Stock market in red amid India’s diplomatic action against Pakistan

The stock market opened in red on Thursday, with the Sensex trading below 187.91 points and the Nifty below 46.45 points. The 30-share Sensex rose by 520.90 points or 0.65% to settle at 80,116.49, the highest closing level since December 18. Eight of the 13 major sectors declined at the open, while the broader, more domestically focused small-caps and mid-caps traded flat.

Ajay Bagga, market expert, said that the overhang remains for the next 10 to 15 days, the time it took in the previous two instances from the terrorist strike to the retaliatory Uri and Balakot strikes. On Wednesday, stock markets extended their surge to the seventh day, with Sensex share jumping 520 points to close above 80,000 level for the first time in four months.

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The stock market closed in green for the 7th day on Wednesday, with the 30-share Sensex rising by 520.90 points or 0.65% to settle at 80,116.49, the highest closing level since December 18. During the day, it surged by 658.96 points or 0.82 per cent to 80,254.55. The NSE Nifty rallied 161.70 points or 0.67 per cent to 24,328.95. HCL Tech surged the most by 7.72 per.

Cent after posting an 8.1% increase in consolidated net profit at ₹4,307 crore for March quarter 2024-25, mainly on account of large deals with a total contract value of about ₹25,500 crore. Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, Axis Bank, ITC, and UltraTech Cement were also among the laggards, according to PTI Both the Sensex and Nifty reversed their seven-day.

Uptrend and settled lower on Thursday, amid profit-taking and disappointing Q4 earnings of Hindustan Unilever. Selling in blue-chips ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, and a largely muted trend in Asian and European equities also dragged the markets down, PTI reported. In the past seven trading days, the BSE benchmark gauge zoomed 6,269.34 points or 8.48 per cent, and the Nifty.

jumped 1,929.8 points or 8.61 per cent ​Indian stock markets experienced significant declines on April 25, 2025, amid escalating geopolitical tensions with Pakistan following a deadly militant attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, which resulted in 26 civilian deaths. The BSE Sensex fell by 1,195 points during intraday trading, closing 570.8 points lower at 79,227, while the NSE.

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The market downturn was driven by widespread losses across sectors, with 12 out of 13 major indices ending in the red. Broader markets were also affected, as mid-cap and small-cap Nifty50 dropped 207.3 points to settle at 24,039 indices declined over 2%. Investor sentiment was further dampened by India’s strong diplomatic response to the attack, which included.

suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, closing the Attari border crossing, and revoking visa privileges for Pakistani nationals The Indian rupee weakened, closing 0.2% lower at 85.45 against the U.S. dollar, influenced by month-end dollar demand and increased geopolitical uncertainty. Bond yields also rose, reflecting heightened risk aversion among investors

Analysts caution that the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan could continue to impact market stability. While a full-scale conflict is considered unlikely, the situation remains fluid, and investors are advised to monitor developments closely In Pakistan, the Karachi Stock Exchange’s KSE-100 index fell by 2.12%, or 2,485.85 points, as investors reacted to India’s.

The United Nations has urged both nations to exercise restraint and resolve their differences through peaceful dialogue diplomatic measures and the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty Indian stock markets slipped into the red on April 25, 2025, following India’s strong diplomatic actions against Pakistan after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir. The BSE Sensex.

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