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On his official Twitter handle, Modi said the 15-day lockdown will remain in force at all municipal, district, sub divisional and block headquarters level and that guidelines were being prepared.

The citizens, including activists, teachers, journalists, students and advocates, urged that Rao be immediately released on bail so that he can receive appropriate medical care and recover from his current illness.

According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been taking review meetings on various aspects of the economy, hit hard by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic..

Barring essential services, markets will remain closed and all commercial activities will be suspended during the period.

The consulting agency PricewaterHouseCoopers and Vision Technologies, responsible for verifying the documents submitted by her, were the second and third accused in the case, police said.

With these, the total number of people dead in this year's flood and landslide has gone up to 76 across the state, of whom, 50 persons were killed by flood and 26 died due to landslides.

The clarification seeks to put at rest speculations that lockdown may be extended beyond July 22. The rumours gained momentum as some Ministers had also indicated such a course.

At present Siddha treatment is being provided as 'add-on' therapy to the allopathy treatment at Stanley government medical college hospital and other state-run institutions in the metro and various districts in Tamil Nadu.

The Uttar Pradesh government had, in January 2014, granted permission to Ram Vriksha Yadav's organisation Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik to hold a demonstration at the ground for two days.

The Uttar Pradesh government decided to implement strict restrictions across the state on weekends to check the spread of coronavirus, joining Karnataka and Tamil Nadu which have been imposing Sunday lockdown.

A decision on any further lockdown in the district will be taken only after a video conference to be held with the Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday, state minister Kota Srinivas Poojary said.

With the rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic manifesting into an economic and healthcare crisis globally, the latest forecast marks a sharp downward revision from the growth estimate of 5.5 per cent reported in the January 2020 survey, it said.

A person died in Kokrajhar district and another in Dhubri district, taking the death toll due to the deluge to 66, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority said in a bulletin.

Danish Ali, who is an MP from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, said people of western UP will be happier and more comfortable with this division.

The legislators -- Om Prakash Hudla, Suresh Tak and Khushveer Singh -- were allegedly involved in offering money to some other MLAs on behalf of the BJP for toppling the government, according to the ACB sources.

The chief minister directed that the testing capacity in the state be increased. He said 30,000 tests should be conducted per day using RTPCR.