India

BJP leader and city corporator Narayan Pawar presented a memorandum to the Chief Minister, in which he pointed out that while several categories of workers benefit from the government's schemes, autorickshaw drivers are left out.

With his death, the number of persons who have so far died due to COVID-19 in the state, has reached nine, the official said.

The security forces launched a cordon and search operation based on intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists in Hardmand Guri village in Kulgam, a police spokesperson said.

The cumulative cases stood at 229 in the state as of Friday, while 186 active cases are under treatment in designated hospitals in Hyderabad, Rajender said.

The government is also paying full attention to the manufacturing activities of essential items like pharmaceuticals and hospital devices. For this, over 200 units in SEZs are operational, Union Minister DV Sadanada Gowda

Seven police personnel of Nizamuddin police station have been sent on rest from Thursday for 10 days. A total of 24 staff are on rest from Nizamuddin.

Preparing PILs without any ground level information or knowledge while sitting in an air-conditioned office is not 'public service' entitling activists to argue public interest litigations particularly in the present global crisis, the government said.

The order said the absence of workers on April 2 had disrupted emergency services at the hospital, a COVID-19 institution and interrupted in the discharge of duty by other officials in the hospital.

The children were rescued when volunteers from an NGO alerted the police about the factory being operational despite the lockdown.

Earlier, state health officials had put the number of new cases in Mumbai at 57, but according to a civic official, 40 of these cases had already come to light through testing at private labs and were only confirmed by the government on Thursday.

With 41 cases, Jaipur is on the top in the state in coronavirus cases and 33 of them are from Ramganj area only.

"A person from markaz tried to commit suicide, but doctors foiled his suicide attempt," a doctor told Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

An SP-rank cop in Karnataka says that while some fear being ostracised by the community, others think that testing positive for Covid-19 will result in criminal action. Some others have placed the onus of surviving the pandemic on god.

Not just low-budget pujas, even organisers of the top draws may have to curtail their budget by 40 to 50 per cent, mostly on the decoration of marquees, said the Forum for Durgotsab, an association of community Durga Puja organisers.

The man was admitted to SSG Hospital in Vadodara on March 19 after he returned from Sri Lanka and tested positive for coronavirus.

The aged man had informed the village 'gramsevak' about seven persons who attended the Tablighi meet and also insisted that they be tested for coronavirus, police said.