State Health Department officials said the third patient, a 22-year-old man, took the same route to return home — via Kunming in China, Kolkata and Kochi — as the first two patients who were also students in Wuhan.

On Monday, Modi said that the anti-CAA protests were causing inconvenience to people travelling between Delhi and Noida.

In a first for the party, the Trinamool Congress has moved amendments to the President’s address delivered Friday, raising questions on its “silence” on a range of issues from the CAA and the Kashmir clampdown to the economic slowdown.

The apprehension regarding “creeping socialism” is based mainly on the tax proposals in recent Union Budgets, starting with that of Arun Jaitley in 2015-16 down to the latest one, for 2020-21, by Nirmala Sitharaman.

The government has also proposed to reduce the number of days for individuals to be considered as Indian residents for tax purposes to 120 or more, from 182 or more at present.

New Income Tax slabs: In absolute terms, out of 5.78 crore tax filers, about 5.3 crore (91.7 per cent) claimed deductions of less than Rs 2 lakh, including those under section 80C, Section 80D, section 80CCD(1B) (additional deduction of NPS), deduction for housing loan interest and standard deduction in 2018-19.

The action followed a meeting of police officials with the EC on January 31, where the police officials are learnt to have been pulled up over handling of the law and order situation, especially in Shaheen Bagh, said sources.

 “They have common travel history from Wuhan to Kochi via Kolkata. After reaching Alappuzha, the 22-year-old was under home quarantine and was later shifted to the medical college after he developed minor symptoms, such as sore throat and fever. The symptoms are not serious although he has tested positive,” an official said.

DST officials said there are exhaustive narrations in works of Sangam Tamil literature to infer that the city, located 30 km from the existing Poompuhar town in southern TN, was submerged due to “kadalkol” or rising sea levels.

The man, who identified himself as Kapil Gujjar while being taken away by police, was nabbed by volunteers and passers-by. “He has identified himself as Kapil, a 25-year-old resident of Dallupura (East Delhi).

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also proposed to sell the government’s equity in the stressed IDBI Bank to private, retail and institutional investors through the stock exchange.

Union Budget 2020-21, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday, carried a visible imprint of the Prime Minister’s fiscal conservatism, inasmuch as it kept a tight leash on expenditure, tacitly admitting there was little headroom for higher spending.

This scheme will co-exist with the existing tax structure and will be optional. While the existing tax system has four tax slabs, the new one has seven tax slabs and offers lower tax rates.

The benchmark Sensex fell 1092 points intra-day and closed 988 points down at 39,735.53. The broader Nifty at the National Stock Exchange fell 2.5 per cent to close at 11,661.

In the case of state-owned banks, while the Survey does not advocate privatisation, it suggests granting stock options to bank employees, on the lines of private banks, to motivate them, as well as better use of data analytics and fintech platforms to improve bank productivity.

Ahead of Budget today, Subramanian recommends rationalisation of subsidies to create fiscal headroom

Batham also shot and injured a local resident, who tried to negotiate with him. Another policemen was injured in firing. The condition of the injured is stable, police said.

The evacuees will be kept in isolation at facilities of the Army in Manesar and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) near Chhawla.

Vistara and AirAsia India stood out among half a dozen national airlines and refraining from acting hastily on the Kamra incident while IndiGo, Air India, SpiceJet and GoAir banned him from taking their flights.

Coronavirus in Kerala: On Friday, while no fresh positive case was reported, the number of those under observation rose to 1,471 — 1,421 are under home quarantine. The number of those isolated in hospitals rose from 15 to 50.

A little before Kovind finished his address, over a dozen Trinamool Congress members displayed banners which read ‘No CAA’, ‘No NPR’ and ‘No NRC’. 

The militants, police said, owed allegiance to Jaish-e-Mohammad and were being transported to the Valley in a truck by driver Sameer Dar, a cousin of Jaish-e-Mohammad bomber Adil Ahmad Dar of Kakapora who had rammed his explosives-laden car into a bus, killing 40 CRPF personnel at Lethpora in Pulwama district on February 14, 2019.

In his e-mail, Rohit Mateti, the pilot-in-command, describes the incident in detail and points out that while Kamra’s behaviour was “unacceptable and verbally abusive”, he complied with the crew’s instructions — and the offence “cannot be classified” even in the Level 1 category.

The government’s efforts in “resettlement and rehabilitation” of around 750 migrants, who were taken on as teachers and given other junior government jobs in the Valley, and accommodated in portacabins, do not inspire hope.