After Maharashtra govt's decision to allow 16% for Marathas, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said he will move demanding quota for Muslims in govt jobs and education. The AIMIM said Muslims, deserve benefits of reservation as they have lived in poverty for generations. Patidar leader Hardik Patel is not far behind, he hit out at the centre, asking why the BJP government in Gujarat can't take the same step for his community.

Two resident doctors of the govt-run Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi have tested positive for coronavirus infection. One of them, who is part of the team treating COVID-19 patients at the hospital, is believed to have contracted the disease during the course of duty. Another female resident doctor, a third-year post-graduate student of the biochemistry department, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus had recently travelled abroad. Both of them showed symptoms of COVID-19 and their test results came out positive two days ago. They are now undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of the Safdarjung hospital.

A 6-day-old&nbsp;infant,&nbsp;and&nbsp;his 26-year old mother, are among the 33 new Covid-19 positive cases recorded in Maharashtra on Wednesday. The boy is perhaps the youngest coronavirus patient in India.&nbsp;The infant was born late at night on March 26 at a Chembur private hospital where a patient undergoing treatment was later found Covid-19 positive, IANS&nbsp;reported.&nbsp; &nbsp;

As many as 110 people who returned&nbsp;to Tamil Nadu from Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi tested&nbsp;positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the total cases in the state to 234.&nbsp;This is a quantum jump as the state recorded the highest&nbsp;number of new cases in a single day so far.&nbsp;Tamil Nadu Health Secretary said all those who had participated in the religious&nbsp;congregation tested positive.&nbsp;Around 1,500 people from Tamil Nadu had attended the&nbsp;event last month

An activist of Tablighi Jamaat who was admitted at a hospital in Delhi tried to commit suicide but was saved in the nick of time. A video released by news agency ANI shows a person trying to jump off a video at the&nbsp;Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital.&nbsp;The report said man was associated with the&nbsp;Tabligh&nbsp;and had been&nbsp;evcuated&nbsp;from the Delhi Markaz. Earlier in the day Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said that a Covid-19 patient tried to commit suicide at the hospital but doctors had rushed and saved him.&nbsp;

A&nbsp;positive case of novel coronavirus has been reported from Dharavi, which is one of the largest slumps in the country.&nbsp;A&nbsp;56-year-old man is undergoing treatment at Sion hospital&nbsp;after he tested positive for the deadly virus.&nbsp;Around&nbsp;10 members of his family have been put in quarantine&nbsp;and&nbsp;authorities have sealed the building where he resides.&nbsp;His contact history is being traced.&nbsp;spread over 613 hectares,&nbsp;Dharavi is a densely populated area in Mumbai with over 15 lakh people.&nbsp;&nbsp;

In its biggest spike till date, India over the past 24 hours recorded 583 new cases of coronavirus, with the total now standing at 1,834. The death toll currently stands at 41. While 143 virus cases have been cured and discharged one among them has migrated.&nbsp;A top official in the Health Ministry said that one of the main reasons for the spike is the travel by members of Tablighi Jamaat.&nbsp;

Taking note of the&nbsp;lockdown situation, the&nbsp;Central Board of Secondary Education&nbsp;has decided to promote all students of classes 1 to 8 to the next grade. The students of classes 9 and 11 will be promoted to the next class&nbsp;on the basis of&nbsp;internal assessments of schools.&nbsp;HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank made the announcement on Twitter.&nbsp;The board class 10, 12 examinations will be conducted in only 29&nbsp;subjects&nbsp;that are crucial for admissions in Higher Educational Institutes.&nbsp;&nbsp;

On the pattern of Singapore, the Delhi police has been asked&nbsp;to track mobile phones of people in&nbsp;home-quarantine&nbsp;to find out if they stepped out or&nbsp;came in contact with&nbsp;others.&nbsp;Chief Minister&nbsp;Arvind Kejriwal&nbsp;said on Wednesday that the&nbsp;government had already handed over 25,000 phone numbers to the police to trace.&nbsp;The chief minister, who insisted that there had been no instance yet to indicate that coronavirus disease was in a&nbsp;community transmission&nbsp;stage in the national government, said the mobile phone tracing would establish quarantine violation but also identify their possible contacts.&nbsp;

Delhi Chief Minister has ordered&nbsp;for stricter security deployment after doctors informed him about Covid-19 patients behaving in an aggressive manner. At a media briefing the&nbsp;Chief Minister said&nbsp;that&nbsp;doctors have informed him about the lack of personal protective&nbsp;equipment,&nbsp;and he has requested the Centre and all medical suppliers to&nbsp;ensure there is no death.&nbsp;The CM said on Tuesday a Covid-19&nbsp;patent attempted suicide at a city hospital&nbsp;and&nbsp;doctors had to run to save the patient&nbsp;as no one else is ready to touch a coronavirus patient.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Padma Shri awardee Nirmal Singh has tested positive for coronavirus.&nbsp;The report of the samples of the 62-year-old 'Gurbani' exponent came positive on Wednesday.&nbsp;The former 'Hazoori&nbsp;Raagi' at the Golden Temple had&nbsp;recently returned from&nbsp;abroad,&nbsp;and&nbsp;was admitted to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital after he complained of breathlessness and dizziness on March 30. Meanwhile, police have sealed the area around Singh's residence to check the spread of the infection.&nbsp;According to the officials, Singh held a large religious gathering in Delhi and some other places after he returned from abroad.&nbsp;

On the eighth day of the 21-day lockdown, officials across the country continued to search the Tablighi Jamaat activists who attended the annual congregation of in Delhi&rsquo;s Nizamuddin. Multiple report said that the government has identified at least 10 infection hotspots across the country and health and other agencies where putting up special focus for areas where a number of disease clusters have been found. With the Centre overruling the extension of the biggest lockdown in the human history, questions are also being raised on the government&rsquo;s post-lockdown strategy. There is a possibility that the government will lift the lockdown in areas where there is no or limited spread of the disease. A more stringent lockdown could be enforced in the areas that are hotspots and a special strategy could be formed to limit the virus to these red zones.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday said salaries of its employees will neither be deferred nor cut amid the coronavirus lockdown and its impact on revenues.&nbsp;Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath&nbsp;said that the condition of the state's economy is strong and it would deal with the challenge posed by the pandemic.The chief minister said when private agencies can pay full salaries to their employees in this hour of crisis, it is the responsibility of the state government to pay its employees as well. Several states including Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana have announced deferment of payment of full salaries to the chief minister, officers and employees, saying their revenue streams have dried up due to the ongoing lockdown.

According to virologists an area where there are over 10 virus infection cases at a given time is called a diseases cluster and if several such viral diseases&nbsp;clusters&nbsp;spring up&nbsp;in the vicinity, the entire region is identified as a hotspot. But the Union Health Ministry has maintained that the process to identify&nbsp;the Covid-19 hotspots in India is not uniform. The&nbsp;concept&nbsp;of a hotspot changes according to the data and inputs on the virus, senior health ministry officials have said.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Once the health agencies identify a disease hotspot, the area is put under effective monitoring and all the residents are asked to remain in home quarantine. The lockdown and social distancing measures are imposed without breach and those found violating are sent to govt&rsquo;s quarantine facilities away from the hotspot. Residents with Covid-19 symptoms are asked to report to the&nbsp;health authorities which does contact tracing and rigorous testing. Suspects who test positive and have co-morbidity are quickly moved to special hospitals.&nbsp;

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced a sum of ₹1 crore for families of those health workers who die while handling patients of the Covid-19 disease. He said it will be a mark of &lsquo;respect to their service&rsquo; for sanitation workers, doctors or nurses, and their family. The chief minister said&nbsp;it will not matter if the Covid-19 warriors are from&nbsp;private or government sector&nbsp;and all are eligible for it.&nbsp;His&nbsp;announcement comes&nbsp;after&nbsp;Centre announced&nbsp;special insurance cover of ₹50 lakh&nbsp;for&nbsp;doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians, and other health care professionals involved in the care of Covid-19 patients.&nbsp;

National conference leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday denounced the Centre&rsquo;s move to rework the domicile laws in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir at a time when the nation is pooling all resources to stave off the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;The former Chief Minister, who was until recently in detention, questioned the timing of the&nbsp;move&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;called the law &lsquo;hollow&rsquo; which does not offer the protections that it had promised.&nbsp;In a tweet Omar wrote &lsquo;insult is heaped on injury&rsquo;.&nbsp;According to the change in laws, anyone who has resided for 15 years in Jammu and Kashmir or has studied for seven years and appeared in Class 10 and Class 12 examinations in an educational institution in the union territory is a domicile.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As the Delhi Police was evacuating hundreds of people from Tablighi group's Nizamuddin Markaz, National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;visited the southwest Delhi area&nbsp;and took&nbsp;stock of the situation. According to multiple reports,&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;arrived around 2 am on March 28 and 29 night at the Markaz and interacted with police officials involved in evacuation.&nbsp;He also&nbsp;convinced Tablighi group leader Maulana Saad to get all stuck persons tested for coronavirus and quarantine, reports said.&nbsp;NSA chief knew about the situation building up since the security agencies had tracked down nine corona positive Indonesians in Telangana's Karimnagar with travel history to the Markaz on March 18.&nbsp;

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday took a dig at the government, saying there were two Indias with one at home doing yoga, watching&nbsp;Ramayan&nbsp;and playing&nbsp;antakshari, and the other trying to reach home and fighting for survival.&nbsp;A large number of migrants&nbsp;have been leaving their&nbsp;work places&nbsp;and walking down to their native places, hundreds of&nbsp;kilometres&nbsp;away, due to the lockdown.&nbsp;Sibal's attack was in reference to PM&nbsp;Modi sharing a video of a yoga&nbsp;asan, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar announcing the rerun of&nbsp;Ramayan&nbsp;and Mahabharat recently&nbsp;on DD&nbsp;and Union minister Smriti Irani playing 'Twitter&nbsp;Antakshari' during the 'Janata Curfew'.&nbsp;&nbsp;

With Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asking the State Police to locate all those who have visited the Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin in Delhi, around 300 of them have been identified from various parts of the state.&nbsp;But of the 300 who took part in the prayer sessions, only 80 are&nbsp;thought&nbsp;to have returned to Kerala.&nbsp;While over 200 took part in the first week, an estimated 80 are understood to have&nbsp;visited&nbsp;the Delhi Markaz&nbsp;in the third week&nbsp;of March.&nbsp;Around a dozen people who have been identified appear to be fine and have no symptoms of coronavirus, but the health authorities are leaving nothing to chance and have put them into isolation.&nbsp;

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