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Quarantine: Lodges fear losing their brand image




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3 test +ve for Covid-19, connected to First Neuro Hosp cluster




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Coast Guard ready to discharge duties in times of pandemic




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Tablighi Jamaat member recalls tests, treatment & biryani from friends




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Residents panic as migrant labourer returns from Bagalkot




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Dazzling freshwater fishes discovered from Western Ghats

Filament barbs are a group of small freshwater fishes found in the rivers of peninsular India and Sri Lanka from where around nine species are currently known under the genus Dawkinsia.




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First Patient to Receive Plasma Therapy in UP Dies of Heart Attack

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




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Migrant Workers, Pilgrims, Tourists, Students Can Hire Buses for Travel amid Lockdown, Says K'taka Govt

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.




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Coronavirus Patient Kills Self at Mumbai Hospital

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




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Nepal Raises Objection over India Inaugurating Crucial Link Road Passing Through Lipulekh Pass

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.




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44-Year-Old Woman Arrested for Selling e-Cigarettes to Minors in Delhi

The accused was identified as Pooja Sawhney, a resident of Rajouri Garden area of the city. She is from an affluent family, police said.




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State Varsities to Implement Academic Calendar Within Month After Lockdown is Lifted: Bengal Edu Minister

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.




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394 New Coronavirus Cases in Gujarat, 23 Deaths, Lowest in Last Seven Days

A total of 219 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the tally of those who recovered and were discharged in the state to 2,091.




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62 Fresh Coronavirus Infections Reported from Single CRPF Unit in Delhi, Active Cases Climb to 231

The 31st battalion of the force in Delhi has about 137 positive cases. All personnel are admitted at a quarantine facility in Mandoli area and undergoing treatment.




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Pakistan Violates Ceasefire, Shells Forward Areas Along LoC in J&K's Poonch

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




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Six Cops of Khajuri Khas Police Station in NE Delhi Test Corona-positive

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




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Mizoram Becomes Coronavirus-free With Recovery of Lone Patient

Mizoram Health Minister Dr R Lalthangliana said the state's lone COVID-19 patient, a pastor, was discharged from Zoram Medical College (ZMC) on Saturday afternoon after 45 days of intense treatment.




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Railways to Run 8 Special Trains from 4 States to Ferry Stranded People Back to West Bengal

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.




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Delhi Police Arrests AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal, Kapil Nagar in Doctor Suicide Case

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




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Not Anticipating 'Worst Situation' Due to Covid-19 in India, Says Harsh Vardhan

Vardhan said the doubling time of coronavirus infection cases in the country for the last three days has been about 11 days and 9.9 days for the last seven days.




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Finalise 'Rational Policy' To Help Migrants Travel to Native Places by May 12: Karnataka High Court to State

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.




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Over 1 Lakh Migrants to Return to Uttar Pradesh in 114 Trains by Saturday Night

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




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Chhattisgarh CM Baghel Writes to PM Modi, Requests for Rs 30,000 Crore Aid

The chief minister wrote to the prime minister, reiterating that a financial aid of Rs 10,000 crore should be given immediately from this package to get the state's economy back on track.




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Maharashtra Allows Free Intra-state Bus Travel from May 11

The State Transport (ST) bus service will be made available on the condition of fulfilling certain conditions to ensure that coronavirus does not spread to other parts of the state




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Survivor of Aurangabad Rail Accident Recalls Horror of Waking up to Bodies of His Deceased Colleagues

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




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Jamiat to Approach SC for Bail or Parole to Eligible Prisoners in View of Covid-19: Maulana Arshad Madani

The health department has directed that social distancing is the only effective way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but it is impossible to do so in prisons as they have more prisoners than their prescribed capacity, he said in a statement.




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3 Foreigners Held for Robbing Gas Cylinder Delivery Man in South Delhi

The incident took place near Chirag Delhi Metro station when the accused, who were in a car, approached the delivery person.




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Trump Administration Tightens Visa Guidelines for Chinese Journalists Amid Tensions

The Department of Homeland Security has issued new regulations, set to take effect Monday, that will limit visas for Chinese reporters to 90 days. There is a potential to extend the visa.




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35 Indians Repatriated From Singapore Quarantined at 4-star Hotel in Greater Noida

The administration said it has appointed officers to inspect the facilities being provided to the repatriated Indians, who were stuck abroad due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, and address their concerns, if any.




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Maharashtra Covid-19 Cases Up by 1,165 to 20,228; Death Toll 779

A total of 330 patients were discharged after recovery from hospitals, taking their total number to 3,800. Of the 48 deaths, 27 were reported from Mumbai, nine from Pune city.




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Jharkhand Grapples with Ill-equipped Infrastructure as Covid-19 Cases Among Returning Migrants Rise

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.




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More Central Teams for 10 States That Have Witnessed or are Witnessing High Covid-19 Cases: Health Min

According to the health ministry statement, the central teams comprises a senior official from the health ministry, a joint secretary-level nodal officer and a public health expert.




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Kerala CM Extends Mother's Day Wishes, Says State Has Brought Down Infant Mortality Rate

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




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Don't Go Home on Foot, Govt Has Made Travel Arrangements: CM Gehlot to Workers

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.




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Discrepancies Found in Covid-19 Figures of West Bengal and Union Governments

As per the latest bulletin by the health department on Saturday, the state has reported 1,786 COVID-19 cases and 171 deaths of people infected with the virus.




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Two UP Migrant Workers Returning from Gujarat in Shramik Special Trains Die on Way, Say Police

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.




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Covid-19: Mumbai Police ASI Who Died on Friday Tests Positive

He died in the early hours of Friday after being admitted in a civic hospital on Wednesday with Covid-19-like symptoms, an official said.




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40 Muslim Families Embrace Hinduism, Cremate 80-year-old Woman in Haryana's Hisar District

On Friday, when the woman died a natural death, the family members thought of giving in to her last wish and cremate her, thus, declaring themselves as Hindus completely.




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Centre Allots 2.1 Lakh Tonnes Free Food Grain to Karnataka Under PM Garib Kalyan Yojana Package

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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Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: Don't Walk Back Home, Kejriwal Appeals to Migrant Workers; 5 Air India Pilots Who Operated Cargo Flights to China Test Positive

Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 62,000-mark today as the country recorded 62,939 cases with the death toll rising to 2,109.




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Delhi School Teacher Involved in Distributing Ration Tests Covid-19 Positive

The teacher had last come to school on April 28 and started showing COVID-19 symptoms from May 2. His test report came on Friday, an official of North Delhi Municipal Corporation said.




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As States Race to Woo MNCs Shifting Out of China, Will Beaureacuracy Rise to Occasion?

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government is of the opinion that the negative image of China in the international community may help in getting investment worth Rs 25 lakh crore, if the cards are played well.




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Not Testing Samples of Girl Who Died of Covid-19 a Mistake: Minister

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.




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JNU Exam 2020: Varsity Announces Academic Calendar, Exams to be Over by July 31

Even if the examination results are not ready by July 31, JNU students will have the opportunity to provisionally register and move on to the next semester.




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14 Rescued, Some Feared Trapped After Part of Chawl Collapses in Mumbai’s Kandivali

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




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Vande Bharat Mission: First Batch of 326 Indians Stranded in UK Arrives in Mumbai

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




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Scientific Consensus Shows Covid-19 'Not Genetically Engineered', India Funding Vaccine Development: DBT Secretary

Ministry of Science and Technology's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Dr Renu Swarup says that based on the latest WHO consensus, Covid-19 as a 'lab release' theory is likely to be false.




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Fire Breaks Out at Cardboard Factory in Outer Delhi's Bawana, No Injuries Reported

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




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30-year-old Man Found Dead in Shramik Special Train on Route Lucknow from Gujarat

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.




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From Dushyant to Om Prakash Valmiki, Poetry Depicts the Never-ending Struggle of 'Invisible' Poor

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.