Around 3 pm on March 23, the day Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal implemented the lockdown in Delhi, around 50 porters from Sadar Bazaar, Azad Market, and Bhagirath Palace decided to cycle back to their villages in Bihar.

“Khalid allegedly gave provocative speeches at two different places and appealed to the citizens to come out on streets and block the roads during the visit of US President Donald Trump to spread propaganda at the international level about how minorities in India are being persecuted,” the FIR states.

Ahead of the gradual lifting of the lockdown, the serological tests were to be used in hotspots, to test the population-level exposure. On April 4, the ICMR had issued an advisory to start rapid tests in high density settings.

“De-escalation of lockdown is potentially an opportunity for the virus to resurface and spread, and this is bound to happen to an extent,” Dr VK Paul told The Indian Express in an interview.

Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil-field-services company, wrote to the IITs on April 6 that it had decided to “reduce and withdraw some internship and graduate job opportunities” in a bid to adjust to the “sudden reduction” in “customers spend”.

Citing frequent lockdown violations in certain states, the Home Ministry had on Sunday said teams would be sent to the Opposition-ruled states of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, besides Madhya Pradesh.

South Block sources told The Indian Express that it remains to be seen what category of visas will be suspended, and what will be the cut-off date. India is monitoring the developments in Washington related to this decision, sources said.

Owners of small businesses are also concerned over the instruction to offer residential facilities to workers, so as to ensure they are not exposed to the virus, saying this might not be possible for them unlike larger units.

If that happens, it won’t be unique to India — the IMF expects the Covid pandemic to severely impact growth across regions in its latest World Economic Outlook. It expects the US economy to shrink 5.9 per cent and the global economy to decelerate 3 per cent.

Shiyal Bet, a tiny island off Pipavav coast in Amreli district, recently started getting piped drinking water, after it was connected to the state electricity grid.

Lockdown relaxations withdrawn in Mumbai & Pune metropolitan areas

While Delhi has started transfusing blood plasma of people who have recovered from COVID-19 into patients, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently allowed Kerala to use the therapy.

The man, who had also been quarantined, had had the infection and became a carrier, before he was cured, a source privy to said. “Since he had travel history to Nizamuddin, he was under observation.

About 7,000 labourers have been engaged for Purvanchal and Bundelkhand expressways on the condition that they maintain social distancing after proper medical check-up, according to the government.

Officials said the tribal girl died on April 18 due to electrolyte imbalance and exhaustion, having walked for over three days with 13 others, covering over 100 km and dying barely 11 km short of her home in Aded in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.

In the case against the photographer, police claimed that the Cyber Police Station in Srinagar received information on April 18 “through reliable sources that one Facebook user namely Masrat Zahra is frequently uploading anti-national posts with criminal intention”.

The Union Health Ministry’s district-wise data for COVID-19 released over the weekend shows that the seven districts have 224 cases, as compared to the four non-West Bengal districts selected, which together account for a quarter of the cases in the country, at 3,732.

On Monday, the Chennai police arrested 20 people for the attacks. The AIADMK government said it was forming a team to handle the last rites of COVID-19 patients. “The team will hereafter monitor arrangements for this in the state,” Health Minister C Vijayabaskar said.

According to the amendments to India’s consolidated FDI Policy, 2017, while non-resident entities can continue to invest in India, except in prohibited sectors or activities, firms in neighbouring countries will have to seek approval.

Mob lynched three right under police nose, probe ordered this time as little more than eyewitnesses as the mob pulled the three men out of the police van and lynched them at Gadchinchle village.

On Monday, the Health Ministry said the doubling time — an epidemiological metric of how long an infectious disease takes for the number of cases to double — is 7.5 days, up from the 3.4 days before the lockdown.

This is the first instance of the Centre objecting to a state’s containment measures since the lockdown was first announced on March 24. But Pinarayi Vijayan said “there is no confrontation” between the state and the Centre.

While trucks could be seen idling in yards alongside the Delhi-Jaipur highway, an executive with an automobile manufacturer said the drivers are refusing to take the trucks with cars and other goods, and goods worth crores are stuck on roads.

Sources in the industry department said that of the 3,000 registrations made on the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) portal, 1,355 industrial units — 750 within MIDC areas and the rest outside — have applied with details of how they plan to accommodate and transport labourers.