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All the three cases are found to have been infected by those who returned after attending the religious congregation in Delhi, an official press release said.

These COVID-19 dedicated facilities will have separate earmarked areas for suspected cases and confirmed cases, and ensure the available hospital bed capacity is used only for moderate to severe cases of the infection.

But all security agencies, including police, army and the Central Armed Police Forces are keeping the counter-insurgency grid and the border grid active and geared up to scuttle Pakistan's designs, he added.

Noble laureate Abhijit Banerjee joined Mamata Banerjee through video conferencing and advised her to follow Korea and Taiwan model of containing the virus in public places.

With preventive measures in place, the possibility of the infection can be reduced to an average of just two-and-a-half persons per patient in the same period, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal said.

The case came to light when the woman's father lodged a complaint accusing the elderly man of raping his daughter.

Making appeals on Twitter, Delhi Police has also urged Muslims to not to go mosques and graveyards on the eve of Shab-e-Barat, also known as the night of forgiveness.

In February, a video of Athawale, Chinese Consul General in Mumbai Tang Guocai and Buddhist monks chanting "Go corona, go corona" at a prayer meeting went viral on social media.

An estimated 35,000 British nationals are currently in India, out of whom over 20,000 have contacted the British High Commission to say they wish to return to the UK as soon as possible. A set of 113 of the "most vulnerable" Britons were flown out of Goa...

Health officials said the 42-year-old man from Banda was admitted to an isolation ward on Thursday after it was found that he had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin in mid-march.

Makhan Lal (40), posted with the 6th Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, was on sentry duty at Border Road camp when he fatally shot himself with his service rifle on Saturday, a police official said.

While the Gujarat Police has put him on a truck that would take him ahead on his journey, the CRPF has taken his critically ill father to hospital and making arrangements for his treatment.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to politician and freedom fighter from Bihar, Babu Jagjivan Ram.

The university administration's appeal for students to follow lockdown measures in the campus came after JNU student's union claimed that security guards are misbehaving with female students amid lockdown.

Six private labs in the city including Thyrocare, Metropolis, Suburban Diagnostic, Sir H N Reliance and SRL Labs have been approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct Covid-19 testing.

Air India covered thousands of miles running special evacuation flights for European and Canadian citizens from Mumbai and New Delhi.