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The death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States crossed the 50,000 mark on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University.In the last 24 hours until Friday morning, as many as 3,176 people died from the coronavirus in the US, the university said.It is one of the highest...
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday extended greetings on the beginning of the holy month of Ramzan, saying may the people achieve a decisive victory in the ongoing battle against coronavirus and create a healthier planet.Clerics said the moon has been...
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The Delhi airport will ensure strict adherence to social-distancing norms once passenger flights resume, with deployment of additional queue-managers, extra check-in area seats and use of coloured-tape and markers to maintain queue-gap, its operator DIAL said on Friday.The GMR group-led DIAL said...
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357 new coronavirus patients were detected in Mumbai on Friday, taking the tally of cases in the city to 4,589, while the death toll rose to 179 with 11 more deaths.As per a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) release, the number of active cases in the city now stands at 3,815.It also...
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Ramzan, the Islamic month of prayers and fasting, will begin from Saturday in India amid a lockdown in force due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Ramzan moon was sighted on Friday, clerics said.Every year the sighting of the Ramzan moon brings great cheer for Muslims as they scamper to make...
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All 160 mediapersons, who underwent the COVID-19 test in New Delhi on April 22, tested negative for the disease, an official said on Friday. According to the Delhi government, the swab samples of 160 mediapersons, including journalists, photographers and cameramen from print and electronic media,...
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Police personal escort suspected COVID-19 patients from Telierganj area in Prayagraj, on Friday. Photograph: PTI Photo
A consumer research among urban Indians has found a near-allout support for the COVID-19 lockdown, with 98 per cent of those polled saying the shuttering has been effective in controlling the spread of the deadly virus.But a large number of those polled in the top 16 cities are worried about the...
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A police case has been registered against Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) last August, for not joining duty as directed by the government amid the coronavirus pandemic.A first information report under the Epidemic Diseases Act and Disaster Management...
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Medics wearing protective suits prepare to escort COVID-19 patients from Telierganj area to a hospital in Prayagraj, on Friday. Photograph: PTI Photo
The Centre on Friday said the COVID-19 situation is especially serious in major or emerging hotspot areas including Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad and Chennai.In a statement, the home ministry said that violations of lockdown measures reported in some parts of the country pose a serious health...
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Tightening restrictions further in select urban areas to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Friday announced a complete shutdown beginning Sunday in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai for four days, disallowing grocery shops as well and fully curtailing...
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A court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to actor and former Bigg Boss contestant Ajaz Khan, who was arrested for allegedly uploading an objectionable post on Facebook.Khan was arrested last week by Khar police in connection with the comment made during a Facebook live session.He has been...
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Authorities have rejected a plea seeking grant of three-week parole to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, jailed in Sunaria prison in Rohtak district for raping his two disciples, officials said on Friday.The 52-year-old Dera chief's ailing mother Naseeb Kaur had filed the plea for...
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Delhi Police on Friday said azaan may be carried out in accordance with the National Green Tribunal guidelines and urged people to follow the lockdown norms during the holy fasting month of Ramzan beginning April 25.The police's appeal comes soon after a video surfaced on social media where two...
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Congress MLC Bhai Jagtap on Friday filed a petition in the Bombay high court seeking a case to be registered against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and his channel for trying to disrupt communal harmony and defame Congress president Sonia Gandhi through his show on the channel.The...
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The Centre is disturbed with the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu. The the Inter-Ministerial Central Team headed by the Additional Secretary, Health, will visit hotspots in the state tomorrow after meeting Chief Minister Palaniswami. The Union Home Ministry...
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The number of COVID-19 patients in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat may grow to eight lakh by the end of May if the current four-day period of doubling of such cases continues, an official said on Friday. So far, Ahmedabad city has reported 1,638 coronavirus positive cases, the highest in Gujarat. Of...
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The carcass of a tigress, who died in Delhi Zoo on Wednesday due to kidney failure, has been sent for coronavirus testing. The 14-year-old big cat named Kalpana died around on Wednesday evening and the carcass was cremated on Thursday following direction to minimize human-animal interface, an...
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After visiting Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute and Bangur hospital in Kolkata, the Inter-Ministerial Central Team on Friday recommended West Bengal government to increase COVID-19 tests to 2500-5000 per day. In a letter to West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, Apurva Chandra,...
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A day after its shocking decision to close six debt schemes, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund on Friday said it had engaged with Sebi on the decision and the capital markets regulator saw reason in its move aimed at protecting value for investors. The fund manager said that investors...
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A COVID patient's body being buried. Representational image
The bodies of two suspected COVID-19 patients were left unattended for several hours, one of them for nearly 20 hours, in the isolation ward of a civic-run hospital in Andheri, where other patients were present, sources said on Friday. According to the sources, the hospital staff was not ready...
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Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said faulty antibody testing kits will be returned to the respective countries, whether it is China or any other nation. Dr Vardhan and MoS Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Choubey, held a meeting via video conferencing with state health...
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Saraswati Patra
India's World Cup-winning former opener Gautam Gambhir performed the last rites of his deceased domestic help after her mortal remains could not be sent to her home in Odisha due to the coronavirus-forced national lockdown. Gambhir, also a Lok Sabha MP from the BJP, posted a tribute on his...
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The Gujarat government has started using the rapid antibody testing kits for COVID-19 surveillance in the state, despite the apprehensions expressed in some quarters in the country over the use of these kits. The state health department said that the rapid testing kits will be used only for the...
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On Saturday, President Ram Nath Kovind, will administer the oath of secrecy to Sanjay Kothari who will be sworn in as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner at Rashtrapati Bhavan in a brief function at 10:30 am. This will be the first official function in Rashtrapati Bhavan amid the coronavirus...
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Nuns pray in Kochi during Easter
Kerala health Minister KK Shailaja on Friday said that her government is waiting for good kits from Indian Council of Medical Research to conduct antibody tests. We are waiting for good kits from ICMR. We have also ordered some test kits. Once we get the test kits, we will validate them. We will...
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At least 40 healthcare staff including doctors, nurses and paramedics posted at gastroenterology department of AIIMS are under self-quarantine after a 35-year-old male nurse detected positive for COVID19. AIIMS authoritiessaid it was done as a precautionary measure and after five days all 40...
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The confrontation between the West Bengal government and the Raj Bhavan escalated further on Friday with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of explicitly appeasing the minority community. Referring to Banerjee's Thursday letter to him where she accused him of...
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14 more COVID-19 deaths and 778 new coronavirus cases have been reported from Maharashtra on Friday. The total count of coronavirus cases in the state has climbed to 6,427, said the state Public Health Department. With 14 more deaths, the toll due to the infection has risen to 283. Country's...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said initial results of plasma therapy trial conducted on four COVID-19 patients is encouraging and gives hope to save people's lives from the dreaded disease. Addressing an online media briefing, the CM appealed to all people who have...
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The Supreme Court Friday granted protection against any coercive steps for three weeks to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in connection with some FIRs lodged against him in various states for alleged defamatory statements made during the news shows on recent Palghar mob-lynching of...
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More than 90 police cars, fire brigade engines and other city government vehicles saluted Dr Uma Rani Madhusudana for her non-stop, tirelessly devoted work in the care of COVID-19 patients at a hospital over 8 difficult and dangerous days. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel speaks to the warrior...
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Sanjay Raut, the Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha member, told a Marathi news television channel, 'There is a vacancy. Who is stopping Governor Koshyari from electing Uddhavji to become a council member?' Political observers say the BJP has not forgiven Thackeray for breaking the pre-poll alliance...
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Airlines in India are likely to suffer a revenue loss of 11.2 billion dollars this year leading to 2.9 million jobs at risk as passenger demand falls by 47 per cent due to COVID-19 crisis, the International Air Transport Association said on Friday. The latest estimates from IATA indicate a...
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The coronavirus related fatalities in the US have reached close to 50,000 as the country recorded 3,176 deaths in the last 24 hours. According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, the coronavirus related fatalities in the US stood at 49,954. The US, now the worst-hit country, has so...
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The Maharashtra government has amended its revised lockdown guidelines to allow carrying out of pre-monsoon-related works in Mumbai, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, badly hit by the coronavirus outbreak. In its revised guidelines issued on April 21 regarding relaxation of lockdown rules, the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the biggest lesson that the coronavirus crisis has taught the country is to become self-reliant. The corona crisis has given us its biggest message, that we have to become self-reliant. Villages, districts and states at their levels as well the...
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Excerpts from Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's press conference, Beijing, yesterday. Question by CCTV (a Russian channel): Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on April 22 that China and Russia have been coordinating closely on fighting the COVID-19, and the two...
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After health workers, Mumbai's police personnel are the most overworked lot, as they have been manning the city's streets round the clock ever since the COVID-19 lockdown was imposed last month. Taking into consideration the problems faced by police personnel due to irregular access to...
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Pak PM Imran Khan
About 79 per cent of the total coronavirus cases in Pakistan are now locally transmitted, health authorities said on Friday as the number of people affected by the deadly virus rose to over 11,000. According to the Ministry of National Health Services, 13 more patients died due to the novel...
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The Delhi High Court on Friday will hear an urgent application moved by BCD Chairman KC Mittal raising questions over buildings which are centrally air-conditioned, including the Delhi High court building and other subordinate court buildings, stating that there is very obvious possibility of...
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A four-month-old baby infected with coronavirus passed away in Kozhikode on Friday, an official said. The child was admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College and was tested positive for the deadly virus yesterday. The infant was undergoing treatment for heart-related problems for the past three...
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The abundance of produce that farmers have delivered comes in spite of the many 'coronas' faced by them in recent times -- from droughts in 2014 and 2015, growing stray cattle menace, an anti-producer inflation-targeting policy and the demonetisation-induced crash in crop realisations. Each time,...
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Militants have set free a policeman abducted by them from his home in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Friday. Constable Javaid Jabbar was set free by the militants, hours after his abduction late Thursday night, the officials said. The militants had abducted...
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The Revenue Police in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand has registered a case against 51 people, including a 6-month-old and a 2-year-old, for violation of home quarantine rules during the lockdown. FIR under Juveline Justice Act cannot be registered against those under 8 years of age. A...
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Sunlight, heat and humidity can create conditions that are less favourable for the spread of coronavirus, a public health official of the Trump Administration has said. The results of a just concluded scientific study conducted by the Science and Technology Directorate of the US Department of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Sarpanchs from across the nation on the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day, being observed amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. At 11 am today, PM Narendra Modi would be interacting with Sarpanchs from across the nation via video conferencing....
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Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled over 500 points in early trade on Friday dragged by losses in banking and IT stocks amid weak cues from global markets. After hitting a low of 31,278.27, the 30-share index was trading 534.23 points or 1.68 per cent down at 31,328.85. Similarly, the NSE...
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Farmers continue to suffer losses amid the lockdown despite government promises of procurement. Betel leaf farmers in Muzaffarpur say they are facing several problems due to the lockdown. Ram Parvesh, a farmer says, We are not getting enough labourers and selling our produce has become...
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A HCQ consignment from India reaches US
The Chairman of Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association, Gujarat chapter has asserted that there is no shortage of Hydroxychloroquine in India and the country's current production of HCQ is 35 to 40 crore tablets a month. Speaking to ANI, Viranchi Shah, Chairman, Indian Drug Manufacturers'...
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A badly planned lockdown means strawberry farmers in Sambhal are facing losses as mandis are closed due to the Corona lockdown. A farmer says, Mandis are closed, that is why we can not send our produce there. Although we are facing losses, we understand that lockdown is needed to combat coronavirus.
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Bengaluru City Crime Branch has arrested two persons for selling cigarettes online, amid the lockdown. The Crime Branch has seized cigarettes worth Rs 30,000 from their possession. A case has been booked against the two accused persons, Akhtar Mirza and Tabuddin Mohiddin who were selling the...
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A 34-year-old man was allegedly attacked on suspicion of being a COVID-19 patient and died after falling into a gutter during the assault in Kalyan town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Wednesday morning, when Ganesh Gupta had stepped out of his...
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A modified autorickshaw in Chennai to spread awareness
India's COVID-19 cases cross the 23,000 mark to settle at 23,077 over the last 24 hours. Of these there are 17610 active cases, 4749 cured/discharged/migrated and 718 deaths. The Union Health Ministry says 1684 are new cases. There have been 37 deaths in 24 hours. Amid the gloom, some hope...
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United States President Donald Trump on Thursday denied reports of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un's serious illness, saying the news is incorrect....I think the report was incorrect. I heard that the network which published the news, used old documents, Trump made the comments in the daily...
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Sun light, heat and humidity can create conditions that are less favourable for the spread of coronavirus, a public health official of the Trump administration has said. The results of a just concluded scientific study conducted by the Science and Technology Directorate of the US Department...
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A policeman was abducted by terrorists from his home in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday night, officials said here. The terrorists abducted Constable Javaid Jabbar from his residence at Wayil in Shopian around 9.40 pm, the officials said.Jabbar is posted in the escort...
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