The interest rate for Senior Citizens Savings Scheme has been slashed to 7.4 per cent from 8.6 per cent, while that for National Savings Certificate has been cut to 6.8 per cent from 7.9 per cent.

The three trains from Hazrat Nizamuddin to Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu covered a distance of over around 2,000 km through multiple states.

Day 7: Alarm bells ring 20 states & UTs, 50 test positive in a single day in Tamil Nadu

Nizamuddin West continued to be under strict lockdown, with heavy police deployment on Tuesday, a day after 18 people from the area tested positive for COVID-19.

There is a sudden dearth of labour: be it for loading and unloading trucks to managing warehouses, taking supplies from distributors and moving goods to the retailer.

Meet Dr Rajveer Singh, the last line of defence against the coronavirus entering Rajasthan, and among the first responders if and when the infection slips through.

By late Tuesday night, two more coronavirus patients died - a 52-year-old man in Howrah and a 62-year-old man in Kolkata.

Says the family of Mahram Ali Shagasi, the lone Muslim killed in the Afghanistan terror attack, who was shot in the head when he tried to stop the gunman from entering the gurdwara

To stop the migrants, the state administration has already sealed all iner- and intra-state borders, but in vain.

An analysis by The Indian Express of the travel history of positive cases from 10 states shows that more than half (54.94%) of them with international travel history had come from or through the Gulf nations.

A couple, 93-year-old Thomas and Mariyamma, 88, suffering from age-related illnesses and underlying diseases, tested negative for coronavirus and are set to be discharged from hospital.

As the national lockdown entered its second week, The Indian Express travelled across four states to track this unprecedented exodus, examine what social distancing and isolation means in towns and villages off camera and off the highway — and what could await the first COVID-19 patients here.

Truck owners said almost half the number of drivers fled to their native towns and villages following a pile-up of vehicles at inter-state borders, with some even leaving behind vehicles loaded with goods worth crores of rupees unattended along the highway.

Of these, two — Dilshad Garden and Nizamuddin — are in Delhi, the others being Noida, Meerut, Bhilwara, Ahmedabad, Kasaragod, Pathanamthitta, Mumbai and Pune. In the last 24 hours, 227 cases and five deaths have been reported.

At one point during the meeting Monday, sources said, the Chief Minister is learnt to have told Singh, Chief Medical Officer Dr Anurag Bhargava and other officials: “Bakwaas band karo (Stop this nonsense)”. Video clips of the incident were also shared on social media.

As per the latest order, the milk parlours in the capital will be functional between 5 am and 8 am from Tuesday onward. At the same time, the grocery shops and vegetable shops will be closed from Tuesday.

Officially, while the government has strongly denied any indication of community transmission, experts said these cases are ringing alarm bells that the virus is silently making its way into the community.

Nizamuddin is also being linked to cases in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andaman Islands, Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh.

The move, however, was met with opposition from industry representatives and even the IMA. Both urged the state government to rethink its decision.

As Additional Chief Secy (Transport), Sharma was in-charge of the Delhi Transport Corporation, which pressed into service buses to help migrant workers reach borders and NCR towns.

Ranveer was one among the countless migrant workers walking home from big cities to their villages, where new rules of isolation and quarantine await. And his story is emblematic of their plight, and the trauma of waiting families.

Of the 202 cases that tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala until Sunday, 181 are still in hospital and only four of them needed critical care — admission in the Intensive Care Unit.

“All industries, shops or other commercial establishments shall pay wages to their workers on the due date without any deduction during the lockdown,” a state government order read.

Some state government officials The Indian Express spoke to said they were grappling with two issues: many unorganised sector workers are not registered with the state government, and most states did not have significant corpus of funds to meet such contingencies.