Maharashtra reported its first two coronavirus cases on March 9 — a couple from Pune who were part of a 40-member group that returned from a Dubai tour on March 1.

Justice Gogoi said he had given it ample time and thought before taking the decision. He said his presence in Parliament “will be an opportunity to project the views of the judiciary before the legislature and vice-versa”.

The UK has reported 1,950 confirmed cases till now and 71 deaths. According to the UK government’s statement to the House of Commons’s Health Committee Tuesday, as many as 55,000 people are estimated to be infected.

COAI to DoT Secy: Local units asking for CDRs in several states including Delhi with ‘numerous VVIP zones’

Three months ago, Najma Akhtar, Jamia’s first woman V-C, had criticised the Delhi Police for barging into the Jamia campus following violence during anti-CAA protests in south Delhi.

63-yr-old dies in Mumbai; ICMR says in talks with 51 private labs

Urging people to not panic, the Chief Minister said that decision to invoke Epidemic Diseases Act was taken as people who have shown symptoms of coronavirus are refusing to be kept in isolation.

Following a review meeting on measures taken to tackle coronavirus in the state, CM Uddhav Thackeray said that the decision to mark those who have been advised home quarantine in this manner had been taken to install a sense of responsibility in them.

Seven people have tested positive for coronavirus in Delhi so far — while two have been discharged, a 68-year-old woman has died, and the rest are under observation.

In January 2018, Justices Gogoi, Lokur, J Chelameswar, and Kurian Joseph, the most senior judges then in the Supreme Court, in an unprecedented step, called a press conference to question the conduct of then CJI Dipak Misra, especially on the allocation of important cases.

ICMR on coronavirus testing: India has conducted roughly 6,000 tests so far, lower than the US (8,000), Japan (9,600), France (12,000), the UK (13,000), and Italy (23,000). South Korea has conducted as many as 2 lakh, which experts see as the reason for their significantly declining numbers.

Government says put off exams, advises closure of gyms, theatres, pools

ED has summoned promoters of at least 6 leading corporates — Anil Ambani (ADA Reliance Group), Subhash Chandra (Essel Group), Kapil Wadhawan (DHFL/Wadhawan Group), Naresh Goyal (Jet Airways), Gautam Thapar (Avantha Group) and Peter Kerkar (Cox & Kings Group) — for questioning over the next 5 days.

Kamal Nath, who did not speak in the House, has been saying he has no problems with a floor test but that it was the Speaker’s prerogative to call one.

In its plea before the SC, the DoT has also suggested that the interest on the past unpaid amount, penalty and the interest on penalty with respect to past dues, may be frozen as of October 24, 2019.

The nomination comes four months after his retirement on November 17, 2019. His tenure as CJI was marred by allegations of sexual harassment levelled by a Supreme Court woman employee — he was cleared of the charge by an in-house panel before he demitted office.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Speaker Rajendra Trivedi confirmed that he had accepted the resignations of four MLAs of the Opposition party. Trivedi, however, refused to share their names, saying he would do so only in the House.

The ordinance was promulgated a day before the High Court’s March 16 deadline for the state to take down the hoardings.

Speaker N P Prajapati on Sunday, however, dubbed as “hypothetical” a question on whether the trust vote would take place on Monday, and added he would reveal only on Monday if the Governor has the power to order a floor test.

With the WHO declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, over 4,000 people who had come in contact with the positive cases have been identified through contact tracing and are being tracked, while 42,000 people across the country are under community surveillance.

Coronavirus treatment: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had earlier obtained permission for “restricted use” of the drug combination in the event of a COVID-related “public health emergency” in the country.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Zafar Mirza took the opportunity to score political points, as he raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in his final remarks.

While the UK national and his wife have been admitted to an isolation facility at a government hospital, the 17 others from his group have been sent to a hotel for quarantine.

A committee set up by the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur has also found the role of five teachers and six students, who participated in the protest, “to be less than desirable” and recommended that the institute should “counsel” them.