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Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil on Monday asked the BJP not to politicise the Palghar lynching incident in which three persons were beaten to death by a mob apparently on suspicion that they were thieves.Referring to a tweet of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, Patil, a Cabinet minister in...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will expand his Cabinet on Tuesday, sources said.Chouhan had taken oath as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh last month. He earlier served as the state's CM between 2003 and 2018. -- ANI
22:45
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that 'the worst is yet ahead of us' in the coronavirus outbreak, raising new alarm bells about the pandemic just as many countries are beginning to ease restrictive measures. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus didn't...
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I have been saying for a while that this is a crisis like no other. It is:More complex, with interlinked shocks to our health and our economies that have brought our way of life to an almost complete stop;More uncertain, as we are learning only gradually how to treat the novel virus,...
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Italy on Monday reported its first drop in the number of people currently suffering from the novel coronavirus since it recorded its first infection in February. The civil protection service said 1,08,237 people were either being treated in hospital or were recovering at home after...
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Lane 24-28 of Tughlaqabad Extension, Block - G of Jahangirpuri, Flat number 265 to 500 of Sanjay Enclave, Block 34 of Trilokpuri and Block AF of Shalimar Bagh have been added to the list of containment zones. Total number of containment zones in Delhi has now reached 84.
21:49
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday urged China to be as transparent as possible about the coronavirus outbreak, as debate swirls about how the deadly pandemic started. I believe the more transparent China is about the origin story of the virus, the better it is for everyone in...
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The government on Monday allowed use of surplus rice available with Food Corporation of India in making of hand-sanitiser, and blending with petrol at a meeting of the National Biofuel Coordination Committee chaired by Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.At the meeting of NBCC, it was approved...
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A further 429 people have died with coronavirus in hospitals in England, latest figures show.NHS England said that 348 of these deaths were reported over the weekend, while the others took place at earlier dates.The new figures take the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals in England to...
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A day after Goa became first zero COVID-19 state in India, Manipur CM N Biren Singh has informed on Twitter that both the patients in the state, who were earlier declared coronavirus infected, have fully recovered and tested negative for the infection.The 65-year-old second patient was found to...
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Dharavi slum sprawl in Mumbai on Monday reported 30 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of the affected people to 168, a BMC official said.Dharavi, one of the prominent coronavirus hotspot in the worst-hit Mumbai, reported 11 deaths so far.The new cases, including eight women, were...
19:43
Oscar-winning illustrator and animator, Gene Deitch, has passed away at the age of 95. Deitch, one the directors behind one of worlds most popular cartoons, Tom and Jerry, died in his apartment in Prague.Born on August 8 in 1924, in Chicago, Deitch, whose full name was Eugene Merrill Deitch,...
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With 283 new COVID-19 patients found in Maharashtra, their tally increased to 4,483 on Monday, said Health Minister Rajesh Tope.Most of the fresh infections, 187, were detected in Mumbai, the city worst affected by coronavirus in the state, which leads the nationwide tally.Tope shared the details...
19:05
Infosys on Monday said its few employees globally have tested positive for COVID-19, and the company has undertaken contact tracing measures to identify colleagues, if any, who interacted with them, in order to ensure they are appropriately quarantined. The company -- which announced...
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As a precautionary measure for doctors and nurses involved in COVID-19 treatment, the Telangana government is mulling keeping them in privatehotels at states expenses in case the situation so demands, a senior official said on Monday. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar has...
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The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,65,216 on Monday. More than 2,403,410 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December.Of these cases, at least 537,700 are now considered...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged the government to waive GST on all COVID-19-related equipment. He said it was wrong on the part of the government to charge Goods and Services Tax on sanitisers, soaps and masks.During this difficult time of COVID-19, we have been...
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President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday expressed gratitude to police forces for ensuring the ongoing lockdown to combat the coronavirus with sensitivity and professionalism. Kovind took to Twitter to thank fellow citizens, NGOs, social workers, religious and charitable organisations, Red Cross...
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At least 53 mediapersons from Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus, a city civic official said on Monday. During a special camp organised at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai on April 16 and 17 for COVID-19 testing of scribes, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation collected swab samples of 171...
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The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday sought the Maharashtra government's response to a plea challenging its circular prohibiting door- to-door distribution of newspapers in view of the coronavirus pandemic. Justice N W Sambre was hearing a petition filed by the Maharashtra Union...
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R Gangakhedkar, ICMR, give us this extremely worrying information at the presser. He says out of 100 coronavirus patients, 80 per cent are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms.ICMR also responded to the West Bengal government's claims that the COVID-19 testing kits were defective. We have...
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This is what the Congress had to say earlier on Goa's COVID-19-free status. The Congress said that the Goa government should not rush into declaring the state as coronavirus free as only 0.04 per cent of the population has been tested, state Congress chief Girish Chodankar said on...
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Union Health Ministry briefing on the Coronavirus pandemic. Since yesterday there have been 1553 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 17,265. There have been 36 more deaths in the last 24 hours, said Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary,...
16:24
Roughly two-thirds of all Covid-19 cases in 10 major states comprise people who did not show any symptoms at the time of testing, according to state government data that reinforced growing evidence that silent spreaders were unknowingly infecting others, and underlined the need for extensive...
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A caring man offers brinjals to monkeys on the road in Pushkar. Animal activists have urged people to feed stray dogs amid the lockdown. Pic: ANI
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Prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has appealed to Muslims to adhere to all the guidelines of the lockdown and perform all religious rituals during Ramzan, starting later this week, staying inside their homes. Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind general secretary Mahmood Madani also appealed to the...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at Parliament House today, as the Lok Sabha Secretariat resumed work from today after they were shut on March 24 for the lockdown.
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With pictures of people giving essential goods to those in need during COVID-19 relief work flooding the media, the Central Reserve Police Force has directed its field units to avoid clicking close-up photographs of their personnel and distressed recipients to respect their privacy. The force...
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Embattled Liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Monday lost his High Court appeal against his extradition order to India in relation to charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an alleged Rs 9,000 crores. The 64-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss had appealed to the High Court against his...
15:35
Liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya loses his High Court appeal in UK against his extradition order to India
15:34
The over 100-day relay protest at Shaheen Bagh is over. The protesters have not been thwarted by the government but by a malevolent force of nature -- Covid-19. That was the only force that could have ended their resolve. But they and their millions of supporters, among whom, with pride, my...
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Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Sunday said it was too early to term the state as a green zone despite it having no active COVID-19 case at the moment. The state government, on Sunday, said all seven patients had recovered from the infection after treatment. It is too early to tag our...
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The lockdown has taught us many things. It has hit all of us hard, especially the poor. But it has prepared all of us for a long battle till the vaccine comes, Pratyay Amrit, the senior-most bureaucrat in charge of disaster management in Bihar, tells Archana Masih/Rediff.com, explaining how...
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With no significant dip in coronavirus positive cases, the Telangana government has issued orders to extend the ongoing lockdown till May 7 with stringent measures. Government of Telangana is of the view that strict lockdown measures that have been implemented in the state since March 22 have...
15:07
Human rights advocates fear that the Chinese authorities have been secretly terrorising lawyers and activists speaking up about the coronavirus outbreak and are being branded as enemies of the state in the process.Based on an investigation in the matter, The Daily Mail on Sunday uncovered a...
14:55
India's decision to place curbs on Chinese companies buying Indian corporate assets have come at the right time as China is seen moving aggressively to completely buyout iconic Swedish brands like Volvo and Hasselblad, in which China had been gradually building up stake over the years.Leading...
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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray says nobody should think that the lockdown has been lifted. We have just tried to revolve the wheel of the economy a bit. I've heard that some people are treating relaxations as lifting of lockdown. If they continue to behave like this we'll take strict...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said he will not take part in the last rites of his father on Tuesday to ensure enforcement of lockdown and to defeat COVID-19 pandemic in the state.Yogi Adityanath's father Anand Singh Bisht passed away at AIIMS in the national capital on Monday. The...
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Six Inter-Ministerial Central Teams have been constituted by the Centre to assess the situation regarding the violations of lockdown, social distancing norms and attack on doctors, and submit a report to the Central Government. The Government said that the reported violations of lockdown measures...
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And the immediate impact of grounded flights: AirAsia India has cut the April salary of its staff by up to 20 per cent to tackle the airline's finances amid the suspension of all commercial services till May 3 due to the lockdown, a source has said. Those drawing Rs 50,000 per month or less...
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Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday clarified that the flight restrictions that have been imposed as a result of COVID-19 outbreak will be lifted once the spread of the infection is controlled. The Minister in a series of tweets repeated the earlier directions for the...
13:12
State-run Food Corporation of India has supplied about 3.51 lakh tonne of foodgrains for distribution to the poor via ration shops in north eastern region during the ongoing lockdown notwithstanding the difficult hilly terrain, the food ministry said on Monday. Out of the 3.51 lakh tonne of...
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A newborn baby has tested positive for coronavirus in Rajasthan's Nagaur district, an official said Monday. The baby born on Saturday is coronavirus positive. Her mother, father and other family members too are COVID-19 patients, Nagaur chief medical and health officer Dr Sukumar Kashyap said....
12:50
Kerala Chief Secretary Tom Jose responds to the Centre's displeasure in the relaxation of lockdown guidelines in the state. Kerala has received a letter from the Centre (regarding dilution of lockdown guidelines). We are discussing what can be done. If needed, necessary modifications will be...
12:42
The travel business is different because few of us really have to travel. Yes, there may be unavoidable work travel. We may want to see our families if we live away from them and we do enjoy vacations. But basically, if we dont travel, we can still live relatively happy, contented lives.Vir...
12:25
Harvesting of wheat, deferred by the farmers in Varanasi, due to the national lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus, has now begun. While a few farmers said that they had panicked because of the COVID-19 threat, others mentioned that they had been facing problems caused by the lack of field...
12:20
Official sources tell ANI that some 'field' reporters in Mumbai have tested positive for COVID19. More details awaited.
12:19
A man attempted suicide by trying to jump off the third floor of Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi on Sunday saying he was COVID positive. He was rescued.
12:17
The Centre has asked states and union territories to strictly comply with the lockdown measures announced to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic and not to dilute them at any level. In a communication to chief secretaries of state governments and Union Territory administrations, Union Home...
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Rajya Sabha staff wait for elevators at the secretariat, while standing in marked circles, in a bid to maintain social distancing. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariat resume work from today after they were shut on March 24 in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
12:09
A police inspector in Odisha has been suspended for allegedly entering Shree Jagannath temple in Puri, in violation of the ongoing lockdown imposed to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, a senior officer said on Monday. A case has been registered against the inspector for his misconduct,...
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15 districts across nine states account for half the cases -- data that will come in useful as India opens up its unaffected (and relatively less affected) areas for business and other activities, albeit with social distancing and other norms, starting Monday. The data also shows that five...
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The spot where the trio was lynched by a mob in Palghar, Maharashtra
'Sushil Giri, Chikne Maharaj, and Nilesh Tilghate had Rs 6 lakh cash on them when they were lynched on Thursday, but the money is missing, alleged the family and close associates of the deceased. A mob of 450 people from the tribal community in Palghar district had beaten the trio to death...
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The Centre on Monday said the COVID-19 situation is especially serious in Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata and a few other places in West Bengal, and violation of lockdown measures risk the spread of the novel coronavirus. In a communication to state governments and union territories,...
10:47
Indian-origin British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's aunt has died due to coronavirus complications. The director said her aunt passed away on Sunday in a hospital in the UK. Today we said goodbye to my dearest bhuaji /aunt from #covid19 complications. She was my dad's little sister, Gurinder...
10:41
Update on the COVID-19 tally and death toll in the country: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 543 and the number of cases climbed to 17,265 in the country on Monday, according to the Union health ministry. -- A total of 24 deaths were reported since Sunday evening. -- Twelve deaths...
10:22
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the lockdown is being extended to May 3, spa owner Leo Tharmi Raikhan's phone has been ringing incessantly. The calls are from friends who hail from the North Eastern states of Mizoram and Manipur and, like him, came to Mumbai to make a living....
10:17
The Health Department of West Bengal has alleged defective test kits supplied by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) being the reason behind the delay in COVID-19 testing in the state. In a series of tweets, the state Department of Health and Family Welfare said: Apropos a mischievous...
10:07
The Punjab government has ruled out any relaxation in the curfew till May 3 barring wheat procurement. The move came after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh reviewed the current situation arising out of the coronavirus outbreak with senior officers from the administration and police...
10:00
The Home Ministry red flags the Kerala government's additional relaxation measures during the lockdown and shot off a letter to CM Pinarayi Vijayan. Government of India wrote to the Government of Kerala over the dilution of guidelines issued by the MHA and the violation of the MHA Order...
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The Madhya Pradesh government has planned to procure 50 lakh low cost cotton masks and facilitate their availability at fair price shops for public to contain the spread of coronavirus. The government will get these masks stitched by women from urban areas in the state, a public relations...
09:25
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announces the COVID-19 tally for the last 24 hours. There are 1553 new cases and 36 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. India's total number of #Coronavirus positive cases rises to 17,265 (including 14,175 active cases, 2546 cured/discharged/migrated...
09:06
Workers have gathered outside closed jute mills here even as the state government has allowed 15 per cent of the workforce for the resumption of operations in mills during lockdown from today. One of the workers said, Mills have not opened. We were called here by our contractor. We have not...
08:52
China's new confirmed coronavirus cases dropped to 12 with eight of them reported from Chinese nationals coming from abroad, taking the total tally to 82,747, health officials said on Monday. The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 82,747 by Sunday, including 4,632 people died...
08:48
What would the Mahatma have done now, with Covid-19 upon us? Gopalkrishna Gandhi finds answers in a column for the Telegraph. Do read
08:45
Ten Indonesian nationals, who were caught hiding in a mosque in Dhanbad on return from Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat congregation last month, have been sent to jail after they completed the mandatory 14 days of quarantine, the police said on Sunday. The police produced them in the court after they...
08:43
The United States has carried out more tests for the novel coronavirus pandemic than 10 other countries, including India, taken together, President Donald Trump has said. Trump asserted on Sunday that the US continued to make steady progress in its war against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
08:36
Palgarh Police have arrested 110 people including nine juveniles, in connection with the lynching of three persons by the villagers, suspecting them as thieves on Sunday.While 101 people have been remanded in police custody till April 30, nine others have been sent to a juvenile home.110 people...
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At least 16 people were killed in a shooting rampage in Canada's Nova Scotia on Sunday, police said.Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead. Brian Sauve, President of National Police Federation Union, said a police officer was among those killed in a shooting and another was...
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