Actor Sunny Deol in an appearance on 'Aap Ki Adalat' has revealed that he didn’t speak to Shah Rukh Khan for 16 years after clashing on the sets of their 1993 film 'Darr'. Deol also revealed that he was never told that SRK's character, an obsessive stalker would be glorified more than him in the film and that he felt he was betrayed by the film's director Yash Chopra in the film.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that she would attend the video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 11 regarding measures to tackle the Covid 19 pandemic. We will give our opinion," Banerjee said during a consultation at the state secretariat&nbsp;Nabanna&nbsp;with industry and trade representatives. On Wednesday, Banerjee had said she was yet to hear anything officially from the Centre about Modi's scheduled video conference with the chief ministers.

With an aim to strengthen national and state health systems amid&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;crisis, the Central government on Thursday approved a 100 per cent centrally funded package of Rs 15,000 crore for states and Union Territories.&nbsp;The project named &rsquo;India Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package' will be implemented in three phases from January 2020 to March 2024, according to media reports.&nbsp;The key activities to be implemented under Phase -1 includes support for the development of dedicated COVID-19 hospitals and isolation blocks, ICUs with ventilators, oxygen supply in hospitals and strengthening of laboratories in hospitals.&nbsp;

The Maharashtra government has passed a resolution asking Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to appoint Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray as an MLC, at a time when elections to the council have been postponed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.&nbsp;Uddhav Thackeray is currently not a member of the state assembly and needs to become one within six months of taking office, which he did in November. If that doesn't happen, he may have to resign.&nbsp;Maharashtra is governed by a coalition of three parties that came to power after a protracted and dramatic political battle late last year.&nbsp;

The Indian Railways has deployed more than 2,500 doctors and 35,000 paramedical staff to counter the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The union health&nbsp;ministry&nbsp;said on Thursday that&nbsp;Railways' chain of 586 health units, 45 sub-divisional hospitals, 56 divisional hospitals, eight production unit hospitals and 16 zonal hospitals are dedicating their significant facilities to fight Covid-19.&nbsp;In order to prepare 80,000 isolation beds, Indian Railways is converting 5,000 coaches into isolation units, of which 3,250 have been converted.&nbsp;

Govt data indicates the infection curve may be flattening in India just like in countries like Italy and Spain. Data shows that India is reporting a steady daily number of cases, indicating that the curve is relatively flat. ICMR says 13,143 samples were tested on April 8, of which 320 were positive.

Despite lockdown in Mumbai, the&nbsp;number of containment zones - where one or more coronavirus&nbsp;patients or suspected cases are found - increased from 146&nbsp;last week to 381 on Thursday.&nbsp;This shows a rapid rise in containment zones by 235 in&nbsp;just eight days.&nbsp;These containment zones include various buildings,&nbsp;housing societies, slum pockets and hospitals.&nbsp;Out of the total 1,297 Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra,&nbsp;over 800 have been reported from Mumbai. The metropolis has&nbsp;also reported 45 deaths.&nbsp;

A doctor is among three more employees of the Delhi State Cancer Institute to test positive for the deadly coronavirus. So far there have been 21 positive cases of the virus from the hospital. The hospital has shut the&nbsp;OPD and admission of new&nbsp;patients&nbsp;and&nbsp;is probing the source of infection.&nbsp;As a preventive measure, stable patients were discharged, while those who with serious health issues will be shifted to Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital.

The Supreme Court Thursday asked the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir administration to respond to&nbsp;a plea seeking the restoration of 4G internet in the Union Territory&nbsp;amidst the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;A bench of Justices N V Ramana, R Subhash Reddy, and B R Gavai issued notices to the Centre and the UT administration and sought their reply within a week. The plea was filed by &lsquo;Foundation for Media Professionals&rsquo;, which had&nbsp;criticised&nbsp;the March 26 order of the administration that restricted the internet speed to 2G in the UT.&nbsp;

According to the Rajasthan Health Ministry, 47 new cases&nbsp;of coronavirus have been reported in the state, taking the toll to 430 active cases. Out of these 47 new cases, Jaipur has the highest number of&nbsp;positive cases at 11, followed by Jhunjunu and Jhalawar with 7 cases each. Rajasthan&nbsp;officials maintain that till early Thursday morning there were 6 deaths, and they were&nbsp;mostly due to co-morbidity reasons.

Odisha on Thursday became the first Indian state to officially extend the lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The&nbsp;Odisha govt has extended the lockdown till April 30. CM Naveen Patnaik has also requested the Centre not to start train and air services till April 30th. The state has announced&nbsp;that educational institutions in the state will remain closed till June 17.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has replied to Donald Trump after the US President thanked India for clearing the export of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug believed effective in the treatment of coronavirus. "India shall do everything possible to help humanity's fight against Covid-19. We shall win this together," PM Modi tweeted.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has&nbsp;told an all-party meet that&nbsp;that by all accounts, it will not be possible to end the lockdown on April 14.&nbsp;BJD's Pinaki Misra who attended the meet via video told news agency PTI that the Prime Minister made it clear&nbsp;that lockdown will not be lifted in one go on April 14. Mishra added that PM&nbsp;told&nbsp;the leaders&nbsp;that pre-corona and post-corona life won't be same.&nbsp;Massive&nbsp;behavioural, social and personal changes will have to take place,&nbsp;the&nbsp;PM reportedly told political leaders in the video conference.&nbsp;

US president Donald Trump has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for releasing anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, for the US. Trump said at the White House press briefing that he thank Prime Minister Modi of India for allowing us to have what we requested for the problem arose and he was terrific. US will remember it, TRump added. Earlier Trump had threatened India with retaliation if the medicine is not released as India had imposed a temporary ban on exports of medicines.

Around 30 healthcare workers including doctors, nurses and technicians at the Cardio-Neuro Centre in AIIMS have been advised to undergo quarantine after a 72-year-old man who visited the facility with neurological problem tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;The patient had reported to the emergency with brain stroke symptoms around two days back and was immediately shifted to the Neurology ward N-S5 for evaluation and treatment, PTI reported. Once admitted, the patient&nbsp;was subjected to radiological investigations like CT and MRI and was kept in a cubicle with other patients. He later complained of chest and respiratory distress.&nbsp;There was some suspicion over his respiratory problems and his sample was taken and sent for testing which came out positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;

At least 11 Indians have died of coronavirus infection in the United States with another 16 testing positive. Covid-19 infection has claimed more than 14,000 lives and afflicted more than four lakh people in the US. All Indian citizens who have died due to the deadly infection in the US are male. Ten of them are from New York and New Jersey area while four of them are said to be taxi drivers in New York City.

Missing your morning newspaper? Don't worry, we got you covered. Here are the latest updates from HT Epaper.
The govt is working to set up a fund with a corpus of about ₹50,000 crore to ₹75,000 crore to revive industries hit by the coronavirus lockdown. The fund will mainly focus on small and medium labour intensive industries. 
Authorities in Gurugram have announce a door-to-door survey to trace symptomatic coronavirus cases. The move came after 12 new cases emerged on Wednesday taking the total number of infections in Gurugram to 30.
((Page 4)) Experts blamed less testing and delayed screening for rising number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, which is India's worst hit state with over 1100 cases and 72 deaths so far. The state crossed the 1,000-case mark in just 30 days from March 9 to April 7.

Senior BJP leader Devendra&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;has called the Tablighi Jamaat members who had attended the religious congregation in Nizamuddin last month human bombs who can potentially spread infection among large population.&nbsp;The former chief minister also demanded that such attendees be tracked and screened.&nbsp;Fadnavis&nbsp;made the remarks in a video message&nbsp;message&nbsp;after meeting Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.&nbsp;

About 40 crore workers in India working in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The International Labour Organisation has said in a report on Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting 2.7 billion workers globally due to lockdowns, IANS has reported. In India almost 90% of people work in the informal economy. Without appropriate policy measures, workers face a high risk of falling into poverty, the report said.

The Centre is deliberating on keeping farmers and farming outside the purview of the lockdown amid demands for the shutdown extension,&nbsp;IANS reported quoting&nbsp;government&nbsp;sources. The&nbsp;news agency said&nbsp;Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will hold discussions with states' agriculture ministers through video conferencing on Wednesday.&nbsp;With 70 per cent of rural households dependent primarily on agriculture for their livelihood and about 83.3 crore people living in rural areas, Tomar's response is extremely crucial at a time when the farmers are confined to their homes even as their harvest is left unattended.

With Covid-19 cases showing no signs of abating in India, the Supreme Court Wednesday said tests relating to novel coronavirus whether in approved government laboratories or approved private laboratories shall be free of cost.&nbsp;While coronavirus tests are already free at government hospitals, private labs cannot be allowed to charge up to Rs 4,500 for the test, the top court ruled in response to a Public Interest Litigation or PIL.&nbsp;Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Ravindra Bhat said in a hearing conducted via video conferencing that whether the private labs should be reimbursed by the government, will be decided later.&nbsp;&nbsp;

In a fresh swing at the grand alliance, BJP president Amit Shah at a rally in Kanpur said the mahagathbandhan did not have a single PM face. Shah said the nation's PM will change every day if the grand alliance came to power and the nation will be on a holiday. He said, "If mahagathbandhan comes to power then Behenji will be PM on Monday, Akhilesh ji on Tuesday, Mamata didi on Wednesday, Sharad Pawar ji on Thursday, Deve Gowda ji on Friday, Stalin on Saturday, and the whole country will go on a holiday on Sunday."

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