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A 21-year-old coronavirus positive patient triggered a scare after he escaped from a quarantine facility in Jhunjhunu district only to be brought back by authorities after he was found at his home.Health department officials have taken the samples of 10 other family members of Tayub (21) and kept...
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Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor, currently in judicial custody after arrest on money laundering charges, moved a bail application on Thursday claiming his prevailing medical condition puts him at the risk of contracting coronavirus in jail.In the plea filed through his lawyer Subash Jadhav, Kapoor...
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K S Hosalikar, deputy director general of meteorology, India Met Department, in Mumbai, has issued a thunderstorm warning for Maharashtra. He has tweeted: 'Next five days thunderstorm warnings in Maharashtra. The next five days, the weather likely to be active in state with TSRA, Lightning....
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The Central Reserve Police Force has contributed a Rs 33.81 crore fund, drawn from one-day salary of its troops, to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.A spokesperson for the 3.25 lakh personnel strong paramilitary force said the act was a unanimous...
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The death toll due to COVID-19 in India rose to 16 on Thursday and the number of positive cases increased by nearly 90 to 694, according to the health ministry.In its updated figures at 8 pm, the ministry stated that 16 COVID-19 deaths were reported so far in the country.According to the data,...
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The Centre on Thursday asked state governments to arrange food and shelter for migrant workers who are facing difficulties due to the 21-day lockdown announced to check the spread of coronavirus.Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Punya Salila Srivastava said students, who are in...
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Battling the coronavirus at home, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for an all-out global war against the pandemic which has created an unprecedented health crisis.Speaking at the emergency G20 Summit on COVID-19 via video link, Xi said the world needs to be resolute in fighting an...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the financial package announced by his government to deal with the impact of the coronavirus lockdown will go a long way in ensuring food and livelihood security of the poor.'It is our firm resolve that the poor and vulnerable get all possible help to...
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Shops selling essential commodities will be allowed to stay open 24 hours of the day in Maharashtra and Delhi.Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday that shops selling essential items such as groceries and vegetables will be allowed to...
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The Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd., (Times Group) has served a legal notice on ThePrint for a report that claimed transmission of Covid-19 through newspapers and currency notes was theoretically possible, although it was most unlikely.The report, titled ?Transmission of coronavirus through...
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Comedian Kapil Sharma has donated Rs 50 lakh to Prime Minister's Relief Fund to fight the novel coronavirus.Kapil took to Instagram and wrote, It's time to stand together with the ones who need us. Contributing Rs 50 lakh to the PM relief fund towards the #fightagainstcorona. Request everyone to...
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Soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to the nation on Wednesday on his government's coronavirus response and measures to be adopted to deal with the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to him on the phone. Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar has more on the India and Ruussian...
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People in the United Kingdom are preparing to thank National Health Service workers with a nationwide round of applause.It was the idea of Dutch yoga instructor Annemarie Plas who wanted to show doctors, nurses, GPs and carers some national gratitude.Her suggestion was picked up and supported by...
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The Dalai Lama today announced he will donate essential supplies like food and medicine for the poor and needy members of the community? as India locks down to contain the spread of the coronavirus. His office said in a statement that he had written to the chief minister of Himachal Pradesh,...
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Two days into the total lockdown ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus, videos of police punishing those who violate curfews and ignore restrictions on movements have begun to emerge from across the country.One such video -- from western Uttar Pradesh's...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday welcomed the Centre's Rs 1.70 lakh crore package, saying it was necessary in view of thecoronavirus outbreak and assured that the state government will ensure the benefits reach the poor and needy.Pawar who is the state finance minister, in...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that the financial package announced by the government was the first step in the right direction towards providing relief to those who are bearing the brunt of lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus.The govt announcement today of a financial...
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Former finance minister reacts to FM Nirmala Sitharaman's economic stimulus package in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is what he had to say: I am glad that the government has announced a Financial Action Plan today that reflects some elements of the 10-point plan that I had put forward...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday reviewed the Ministry of Defence's action plan to deal with COVID-19 and urged armed forces, Defence Public Sector Undertakings and other organisations to gear up preparedness and provide all required assistance to civilian authorities.Officials briefed...
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The Indian Air Force has created nine quarantine facilities of 200-300 personnel capacity each, at nodal IAF bases across the country. Command Hospital Air Force Bangalore has been designated as the 1st laboratory in the IAF to undertake COVID19 testing, the Indian Air Force said in a statement....
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People at a vegetable market follow social distancing
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare briefing on the COVID-19 situation. -- 42 fresh coronavirus cases and four deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. -- Total number of cases stands at 649. India geared for COVID-19 challenge.-- Work has started in around 17 states for COVID19...
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Air India pilots' unions, IPG an ICPA, have said their members will support the government and will operate any special flight irrespective of the extent of the coronavirus pandemic. In a joint letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian Pilots Guild and Indian Commercial Pilots...
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Government of India allows doorstep delivery of medicines/drugs to people in view of the COVID19 pandemic. Notification to be published soon in the Gazette of India.
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Extending its speedy recovery for the third straight session, equity benchmark Sensex surged by another 1,411 points on Thursday after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a stimulus package worth Rs 1.70 lakh crore to cushion the impact of the coronavirus lockdown in the country. The...
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A family in Vijaywada, AP, walks home
Is a Rs 100 crore relief package from the Bihar government generous? Consider this. Various employees associations in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday announced they would donate one day's salary of their workers, amounting to Rs 100 crore to Chief Minister's Relief Fund to fight a battle against...
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In a bid to help the poor and daily wage labourers who are facing the brunt of the lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Bihar government on Thursday announced a relief package of Rs 100 crore and has decided to convert schools into shelter homes.The Nitish Kumar-led government said...
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The Delhi Metro Rail Cooperation on Thursday announced that its services would be shut till April 14 due to the national lockdown imposed by the Centre to curb the spread of coronavirus.We have received a few queries regarding the tenure of the closure of the metro services. It is hereby informed...
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The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration on Thursday allowed home-delivery services, including those delivering food, medicines and groceries, and the hawkers selling fruits and vegetables to operate without any pass amid the ongoing lockdown, officials said. The online services included in the list...
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Bihar govt to bear expenses of migrant workers stranded in other states during lockdown: CM Nitish Kumar.
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M&M group chairman Anand Mahindra
Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday said it hopes to have a prototype of an automated version of bag valve mask ventilator, commonly known as Ambu bag, in three days for approval to assist in combating the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it is also working with two large PSUs along with an...
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Daily wagers despair over making ends meet
A recap on the economic stimulus that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced just now: The government will ensure distribution of 5 kilo of wheat or rice and one kilo of preferred pulses free-of-cost every month over the next three months to 80 crore poor across the country to deal with...
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FM: Govt of India will pay the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) contribution, both of employer and employee, put together it will be 24%, this will be for next 3 months. This is for those establishments which have up to 100 employees and 90% of them earn less that 15,000.Govt ready to amend the...
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FM Sitharaman: Welfare for building and construction workers: Registered 3.5 crore workers to be benefited. Central government has given orders to State governments to use fund (Rs 31,000 crore) to provide relief.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman: Self-help women groups (7 crore housesholds covered), collateral-free loans doubled to 20 lakh, to increase money in hand. Ujjawala scheme near 8.3 crore BPL families covered in this, so that no running short of cooking medium, for 3 months free cylinders.20...
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Wage increase in MGNREGA: 5 crore families benefited, an increase of Rs 2000 per worker on average as additional income, announces FM Sitharaman.Old age, Divyang, pensioners: 3 crore people covered, one-time amount of additional Rs 1000 in two installments through DBT (hence no middlemen) over 3...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman: 8.69 crore farmers to be immediately benefited through direct cash transfers. Installment of Rs 2000 in the first week of April will be transferred.
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Noor Jahan, a daily wager, is the kind of person the economic stimulus package is aimed at. Speaking to news agency ANI she said, Since yesterday, I am walking towards my home in Abakarpur area of Kanpur Dehat. I hope to reach my home in a day or two. I am hungry but can not do anything about it...
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FM: Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Ann Yojna (for next 3 months): Rs 80 cr poor people covered (2/3rd of India's population). In addition to already allotted 5 kilo of rice/wheat per person, an additional 5 kilo will be free. Additional 1 kilo pulse (according to regional preference) will be given.
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FM's economic stimulus finalised to deal with impact of corona lockdown. -- There will be Rs 50 lakh insurance per health care worker as a medical insurance cover for them for three months.These include doctors, nurses, paramedics, Asha workers. Hopefully, we would be able to contain the virus in...
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's economic package to tackle the crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. -- A package is ready for the poor who need immediate help like migrant workers and urban and rural poor. No one will go hungry. The package is worth Rs 1.7 lakh crore, the Finance Minister said.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced a Rs 100 crore relief package for the poor in wake of the Coronavirus lockdown.All India Institute of Medical Sciences has constituted a task force to develop management protocols for the Coronavirus pandemic.An audio clip is circulating on social...
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, voicing her support to the 21-day lockdown announced by the PM in view of the coronavirus outbreak, and suggested several measures such as protection of doctors, easing the supply chains and deferment of loans....
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to address media at 1 pm, may announce an economic relief package amid coronavirus outbreak.
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Health Minister Satyendar Jain.
As many as 800 people have been quarantined for 14 days after they came in contact with a mohalla clinic doctor in Delhi, who was tested positive for the lethal infection, said the state's Health Minister Satyendar Jain.The Minister informed that a mohalla clinic doctor and four others have...
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Social distancing at a grocery shop in Ahmedabad
A 70-year-old COVID-19 patient died in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district early Thursday morning, a health department officials said. With this, the total number of deaths due to coronavirus inthe state has gone up to three, they said. -- PTI
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Two new positive cases of Coronavirus in Mumbai and Thane; till now, the total number of positive cases in the state is 124, says the Health Department, Maharashtra. A 65-year-old woman from Mumbai who tested positive for Coronavirus, passes away; cause of death yet to be ascertained.In Mumbai,...
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China's ruling Communist Party poses a substantial threat to Americans' health and their way of life, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, blasting Beijing for the intentional disinformation campaign and trying to deflect from its handling of the coronavirus crisis. Pompeo, a...
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In an urgent move towards expanding the coronavirus diagnostics in India, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited quotations from manufacturers for supply of kits for the testing of COVID-19. The move comes in the wake of the number of coronavirus cases crossing the 600 mark in...
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SpiceJet said on Thursday that it will conduct a special flight on Sunday to take 142 Iran-returned Indians from Delhi to Jodhpur so that they can be taken to a government quarantine facility there.The special flight will be operated as per Government of India's request and the airline will...
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Extending school and workplace closures till April, rather than March in the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese city of Wuhan, can likely delay a second wave of cases until later in the year, relieving pressure on health services, according to a new study. The research, published in...
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain
The total number of COVID-19 positive cases rise to 649 in India (including 593 active cases, 42 cured/discharged people and 13 deaths: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare says. In Delhi the cases have risen to 36. A mohalla clinic doctor and four others have tested positive after they came in...
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Shoppers without the mandated 3-ft distance queue up at store in Mumbai
The test report of a woman who died on March 24 turned out positive for coronavirus on Thursday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in Maharashtra to four, a health official said. The woman, who hailed from Navi Mumbai, had symptoms similar to the coronavirus infection. Thus, as a precautionary...
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On Tuesday, March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi called for a 21-day lockdown of the country in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus. Will this lockdown help in the battle against the virus is a question that many are asking.From a scientific perspective a 28-day lockdown is...
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Nimmi, the doe-eyed star of 1950s and '60s Hindi movies such as Aan, Barsaat and Deedar, died yesterday after a prolonged illness. She was 88. The actor was brought to a suburban Juhu hospital on Wednesday after she complained of breathlessness. She died in the evening, family sources told PTI....
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As India continues its fight against coronavirus, the Board of Control for Cricket in India President Sourav Ganguly pledged to donate rice worth Rs 50 Lakhs to the needy people.The Cricket Association of Bengal in its statement, said Ganguly along with Lal Baba Rice will provide rice to people...
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The US has over 68,000 COVID-19 cases
Indian-American hoteliers have come forward to rescue the stranded Indian students in the US following implementation of lockdown measures in the country in response to the rapidly-spreading coronavirus pandemic, offering them free accommodation and free meals. With the students scrambling for a...
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China has reported no new local coronavirus infections for the second consecutive day, but the number of imported COVID-19 cases sharply rose to 67 in a day after the deadly virus was brought under control in its epicentre Wuhan, health officials said on Thursday. China's National Health...
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Senior US diplomat Alice Wells on Thursday echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to keep fighting spirits high against the coronavirus pandemic, saying that United States will work alongside India to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.We stand united with India and echo Narendra Modi's call to...
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In other news, Australian citizen Brenton Harrison Tarrant has pleaded guilty to the killing 51 people during last year's attacks on mosques in the city of Christchurch, Sputnik reported citing local media on Thursday.Tarrant has admitted his guilt in a televised address to the court's hearing,...
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With five more people testing positive for coronavirus in Indore, the total number of cases in the city have risen to 10, health officials said on Thursday. The five patients -- two women and three men -- were admitted in different hospitals of the city and tested positive on late Wednesday...
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Three persons, all with travel history abroad, tested positive for coronavirus in Goa on Wednesday, health department officials said, as the tourist haven joined the states which have reported COVID-19 cases.This is the first time the tourist state has reported coronavirus positive cases.The...
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The Washington DC administration has ordered closure of all non-essential businesses until April 24, as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.In an advisory on Wednesday night, the city administration also asked the residents to stay in their homes. The capital city...
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Leaders of the Group of 20 nations will hold a summit today via video conference to discuss measures to protect the global economy, amid coronavirus pandemic which has claimed over 18,000 lives globally.The summit, which will be chaired by Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, aims to...
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The government on Wednesday temporarily suspended toll collection on National Highways to ease emergency services in view of the coronavirus outbreak.In view of COVID-19, it has been ordered to temporarily suspend the collection of toll at all toll plazas across India, Road Transport and Highways...
