As many as 72 per cent of deaths from the disease have occurred in just 20 districts, state chief secretaries were told in a meeting chaired by the Cabinet Secretary on Sunday.

Funded by the developer, the WII study concluded that the project would not affect tigers since none was camera-trapped in the project area during the four-month fieldwork.

The Railways is charging non-AC sleeper fare as per distance along with a superfast charge of Rs 30 and a reserved-berth charge of Rs 20 levied on each ticket.

12 due to coronavirus but 580 deaths in April is double the number last year, govt to randomly test next of kin.

Police sources said the accused, an MD who had completed his medical education at a Navi Mumbai medical college, had been recruited by the hospital on April 30, the same day when the patient was admitted.

Out of the 331 cases reported Sunday, 270 have links to Nanded, including 12 cotton factory workers who came back on the same buses as the pilgrims. The 12 belong to Nawanshahr, Punjab’s first hotspot, which has reported 85 cases till now.

The cautious approach in restarting the city’s economy was announced by CM Arvind Kejriwal in a webcast Sunday, during which he asserted that Delhi was ready to reopen as his government had made good use of the lockdown to beef up medical infrastructure.

The Indian Express will host its second online Express Adda with Dr Randeep Guleria, also internationally renowned pulmonologist, on Monday, May 4.

At the epicentre of the coronavirus infections in India, Maharashtra has so far reported 12,296 cases and 521 deaths, with the financial capital alone accounting for 8,359 cases. Maharashtra has also ruled that paan and tobacco shops will remain shut across the state.

The Railways estimates that around 500 such trains will eventually be run to take stranded people home and is aiming to get the job done in 15 days

At stake are not only these jobs but the future of what makes up 45 per cent of the country’s total manufacturing output, 40 per cent of exports — and almost 30 per cent of the national GDP.

The gunfight started around 3.30 pm on Saturday in Chanjumullah area of Handwara, falling in Kupwara district of North Kashmir.

While Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said that only containment zones, and not entire districts, should be declared red zones, Karnataka said it wanted clarity on the zones and West Bengal differed on the number of red zones listed in the state.

Many of those walking are from industrial areas like the MIDC in Panvel and Taloja, as well as smaller manufacturing units in Bhiwandi, where due to the large number of migrant population, access to food has not been swift and information regarding ease of restrictions has not reached well.

The government’s flagship Covid-19 mobile application is designed to trace all the people a positive case would have come in contact with 14 days before case detection.

Sushant Dalai, a 30-year-old from Odisha’s Ganjam, who was working in a powerloom unit in Surat, managed to get a seat on the special train that is taking stranded migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists and students home.

In July last year, the ICJ, in its verdict, directed Pakistan to allow consular access and effectively review the death sentence. The court observed that Pakistan had breached international law by not granting consular access.

The 18 men had begun their journey on Friday, and appeared to have travelled through the night, possibly with stops on the way, during which the labourers likely came out of the mixer.

While rebutting the World Health Organisation’s “test, test, test” prescription with its “isolation, isolation, isolation” formula, as articulated by Secretary, Health Research, Dr Balram Bhargava on March 22, India has quietly upped its testing game manifold.

While Indore continues to be a hotspot with over half the cases in the state, data released by the administration has shown a downward trend in percentage of cases testing positive over the past week.

However, owing to delay in arrival of RNA extraction machines and a dearth of automatic RNA extraction kits, the doctors are forced to do the extraction manually.

However, “movement of individuals for all non-essential activities shall remain strictly prohibited between 7 pm to 7 am” across all zones. The local authorities have been asked to issue orders under Section 144 of the CrPC to ensure this.

Named Shramik Special, the six trains are from Lingampalli (Telangana) to Hatia (Jharkhand), Aluva (Kerala) to Bhubaneswar, Nashik to Lucknow, Nashik to Bhopal, Jaipur to Patna, and Kota to Hatia.

In some states, private hospitals, especially in Tier II or Tier III cities, bank on business from non-Covid patients and are wary of the ‘mahamari aspatal’ tag.