While speaking to reporters this Saturday, Gujarat DGP Shivanand Jha said once again that the administration will deal most strictly with those who attack police and Covid frontline warriors.

The doctor, who was on ventilator since the last 14 days, died on Saturday evening following heart attack.

Inter-State travel of migrant workers, pilgrims, tourist, students and other persons stranded in different states due to lockdown were recently permitted to travel through notified entry and exit points of Karnataka by the government.

The patient was found to have hanged himself with his pyjamas from a steel rod on the ninth-floor terrace of the hospital.

Nepal's Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement said the government "has learnt with regret" about the inauguration of the link road connecting to Lipulekh pass, which Nepal claims to be part of its territory.

Partha Chatterjee said the institutions have also received the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines in this regard and the issue came up in the meeting held during the day.

The cross-border shelling is going on but there is no report of any casualty on the Indian side so far, a spokesman said.

The area assistant commissioner of police and Khajuri Khas station house officer are taking precautions and have restricted themselves to self isolation.

A senior official said three trains from Karnataka, two each from Punjab and Tamil Nadu, and one from Telangana will take stranded people to West Bengal over the next few days.

Prakash Jarwal and Kapil Nagar were called for questioning on Saturday evening and later arrested, police said.

A special bench was hearing a writ petition filed by the All India Centre Council of Trade Unions(AICCTU) questioning the government's rationale to cancel trains that were meant to ferry migrant labourers back to their homes.

Another 98 trains with migrant workers will reach the state on Sunday and Monday, while talks are on to allow 15 to 20 more.

Sixteen migrant workers, walking home to Madhya Pradesh, were mowed down by a passing train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district early on Friday.

Even RIMS, the only state-run super-specialty medical institute in Jharkhand, does not have the required equipment to deal with the crisis. At present, there is one ventilator for every 70,000 people in the state.

Vijayan said while the national average for IMR was 32 per 1,000 births, the state has only seven.

Chairing a meeting to review the movement of migrants, Gehlot said the government has made arrangements for their travel through buses and trains. Therefore, no worker should go on foot, he said.

The two interacted with resident doctors of the hospital seeking their inputs about treatment of COVID-19 patients and provided expert guidance.

Railways Superintendent of Police Soumitra Yadav said in the first incident a 29-year-old migrant worker from Sitapur, identified as Kanhaiya Lal, died in a Shramik Special returning from Bhavnagar in Gujarat to Basti in Uttar Pradesh.

The Central government will bear the total cost of Rs 2,351 crore for supplying the free food grains to beneficiaries in Karnataka for the three months.

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Doctors at the government-run ESIC Hospital here committed a "mistake" by not testing samples of a 16-year-old girl, who later died of Covid-19, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.

Fire tenders were dispatched to the spot along with an NDRF team and rescue operations are underway.

The airport authorities, in a statement on Saturday, said that the arriving passengers with symptoms will be moved to isolation centres.

A call about the blaze was received around 7.25 am on Sunday, following which 15 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.

The SP said that since all the co-passengers had left the train when the police found the man, no details about his illness could be ascertained from them.

Indian Hindi and Urdu poetry has time and again narrated horror stories of how the society turns a blind eye towards the dying poor. News18 has compiled a collection of ten such pieces of literature to depict the present condition of migrant workers.

The NDMA guidelines said while restarting a unit, the first week should be considered as the trial or test run period after ensuring all safety protocols.

The arrival marks Indian Navy's first massive evacuation exercise from foreign soil during the Covid-19 lockdown.

As many as 567 foreign attendees of the congregation held in Delhi's Nizamuddin area in March, will be handed over to the police.

The troops disengaged after dialogue at the local level, sources said.

Justice S C Gupte in an order on Friday said the police administration must not obstruct or stop such vehicles.

The staff at the bakery claimed that the advertisement was 'not intended to communalise' and added that a rumour was doing the rounds on WhatsApp, urging people not to buy bakery products made by Muslims and therefore they posted the advertisement.

The accident took place near Patha village on Saturday night when nearly 20 migrant labourers were going in the truck to Jhansi and Etah from Hyderabad.

Sixteen migrant workers sleeping on the rail tracks were crushed to death by a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district on Friday morning.

'People are falling ill while walking. Some have died. Even then their walking hasn't stopped,' the Rajya Sabha member further said.

The labourers from Madhya Pradesh, who usually migrate to states like Maharashtra and Delhi have been hit hard due to the lockdown as the closure of commercial activities forced them to return empty-handed.

The party patriarch had gone to hospital on Wednesday for a routine check-up but the doctors admitted him for observation.

Congress said Parliament should assert itself and called upon the Centre and the states to jointly formulate an action plan to ensure safe return of migrants to their homes

The development led to the deferment of the cabinet meeting which was scheduled to be held on Saturday. Now, it will be held on Monday.

On March 28, the Centre set up the PM CARES Fund with the primary objective to deal with any kind of emergency situation like the one currently posed by the COVID-19.

Chief junior national coach Sanjay Mishra tells his wards to try and control the negative thoughts which would also help them deal with tough match situations.

Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Rudrankksh Patil claimed top spots in 10m air rifle and 10m air pistol event finals at the third International Online Shooting Championship.

Barcelona said that Samuel Umtiti picked up an injury to his right calf during Saturday's individual training session.

Registrations for Kaun Banega Crorepati begin tonight, Iulia Vangtur fields questions about rumours of marrying Salman Khan. More details in today's showbiz highlights.

Singers such as Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, James Brown, Otis Redding, David Bowie and Rod Stewart have cited Little Richard as an influence.

Actress Asha Negi, who has recently appeared on the second season of the web series 'Baarish', opened up about her first on-screen kiss with co-star Sharman Joshi.