The peers in the Upper House of the UK Parliament held a debate over the impact of India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The House of Lords sought representations by the UK government to counterparts in India over arising concerns around minority rights. The debate in London on Tuesday evening called on the UK government to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a review of the CAA and its effects on Indian society. The UK government, in response, said it has been closely monitoring the situation as the act has "clearly been divisive in India" and there are some concerns over its full impact.

The peers in the Upper House of the UK Parliament held a debate over the impact of India's Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The House of Lords sought representations by the UK government to counterparts in India over arising concerns around minority rights. The debate in London on Tuesday evening called on the UK government to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct a review of the CAA and its effects on Indian society. The UK government, in response, said it has been closely monitoring the situation as the act has "clearly been divisive in India" and there are some concerns over its full impact.

Officials across India on Tuesday began searching for hundreds of Tablighi Jamaat activists who attended a religious event in Delhi&rsquo;s West Nizamuddin that has set off several Covid-19 clusters. At least 10 deaths and several positive coronavirus cases from six states are being directly traced to the days-long congregation at a mosque. Infections are believed to be caused by Indonesian preachers who attended the event. The congregation - part of a 20th Century Islamic movement called Tablighi Jamaat - began at the end of February, but some of the main events were held in early March. While politicians indulged in finger pointing throughout the day, in its late evening press briefing the union health ministry said this is not the time to do fault finding and it is important to take action as per the government&rsquo;s containment process.

Compounding its woes, Tamil Nadu on Tuesday reported a near doubling of its coronavirus positive cases with 57 fresh cases, including those who attended the Islamic congregation in Delhi and even a doctor, taking the state's total number to 124. Out of the new cases, 50 of them have a travel history to Delhi to attend the conference held by the Tablighi Jamaat. Meanwhile, the state officials were busy tracing other persons who had attended the event at Tablighi Jamaat's Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi, pointing out that around 1,500 persons from the southern state had gone there.&nbsp;

As the number of Covid-19 cases surge in India, the government has reportedly identified 10 &lsquo;hotspots&rsquo; where higher viral transmission has been detected. The hotspots that have emerged across the country are Dilshad Garden and Nizamuddin in Delhi, Noida and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, Bhilwara in Rajasthan, Ahmedabad, Kasargod and&nbsp;Pathanamthitta&nbsp;in Kerala, Mumbai and Pune. The identification of these places will help ramp up the testing process, an IANS report said.

Delhi Police Tuesday registered an FIR against Tablighi Jamaat preacher Maulana Saad and others of members of the&nbsp;outfit under the 1897&nbsp;Epidemic Diseases Act&nbsp;for&nbsp;organising&nbsp;a congregation at Nizamuddin West Markaz amid the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak.&nbsp;A number of&nbsp;coronavirus cases in Delhi as well as Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kashmir has been traced to the gathering&nbsp;organised&nbsp;in mid-March.&nbsp;Delhi Chief Minister&nbsp;Arvind Kejriwal&nbsp;on Tuesday said 1,548 people were evacuated from the Markaz Tablighi Jamaat over the past three days.&nbsp;Meanwhile the union home ministry said that&nbsp;1339 Tablighi activists have been quarantined at Narela, Sultanpuri, Bakkarwala facilities and also at some hospitals including AllMS in Jhajjar.&nbsp;

The Delhi government is getting ready to serve lunch and dinner to about 12 lakh people from Wednesday with additional 2,000 food distribution&nbsp;centres&nbsp;across the city.&nbsp;Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in about 2,500 schools and&nbsp;250 night&nbsp;shelters, food will be distributed&nbsp;from Wednesday.&nbsp;Till now,&nbsp;Delhi govt said it was&nbsp;serving about four&nbsp;lakh daily from 800 locations.

The Kerala government has come out with guidelines that they will supply three&nbsp;litres&nbsp;of liquor every week to those showing withdrawal symptoms, to their homes.&nbsp;The move&nbsp;comes&nbsp;after several people approached the Excise department with a letter from doctors. Reports said but the&nbsp;Excise department rejected most of the letters as&nbsp;they were&nbsp;signed by retired doctors&nbsp;or&nbsp;doctors from the private sector.&nbsp;Amid a 21-day lockdown, Kerala has seen a surge in suicides among people who are addicted to liquor.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

The Health Ministry warned on Tuesday that far from giving relief, using tobacco and alcohol during the lockdown period may make things worse and even reduce your immunity. The ministry said in a document, titled 'Minding our minds during the Covid -19 pandemic', if one had old hobbies like painting, gardening or stitching, go back to them.&nbsp;Sharing tips about how to beat anxiety and stress which may arise due to social distancing measures put in place to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, the ministry urged people not to judge those who get infected by coronavirus.

A doctor posted at a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi's Babarpur has tested positive for coronavirus, with authorities asking patients who visited the clinic at the Janta Mazdoor Colony between March 12 and 20 to self-quarantine at home for 15 days. Earlier, a doctor had tested corona&nbsp;postive&nbsp;in the same area.&nbsp;A notice to this effect from&nbsp;Shahadara&nbsp;District Magistrate has been put at the clinic, saying the doctor has tested positive. People have been asked to report if they develop any corona symptoms.

Stating that panic will destroy more lives than coronavirus, the Supreme Court on Tuesday&nbsp;favoured&nbsp;criminal action against those spreading misinformation and fake news on the pandemic.&nbsp;A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justice L Nageswara Rao, in the hearing conducted through&nbsp;video-conferencing,&nbsp;emphasised&nbsp;that fake news creates panic among people, thus requiring the Centre to have an official channel of directly communicating with the people.&nbsp;The court pointed out that the government&rsquo;s affidavit about the steps being taken to ameliorate the situation has nothing on the aspect of counselling to people, including the migrant workers who are lodged in shelter homes and other temporary accommodations.

As&nbsp;the authorities locate the persons from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat conference at Nizamuddin in Delhi, the AP government has managed to&nbsp;find&nbsp;369 people from the state.&nbsp;With most of the Covid-19 affected persons in Andhra turning out to be the participants or a&nbsp;contacts of a participant&nbsp;of the congregation held between March 15-17, the government has intensified efforts to quarantine them on a war footing.&nbsp;As per the district-wise break up of people who attended the meet, the highest number was from Kurnool with 107, followed by Krishna with 40, Guntur with 37, Nellore 33, and&nbsp;Prakasam&nbsp;30.

Eight Indonesian Islamic preachers, who attended a religious congregation early this month at Nizamuddin, were on Tuesday found staying at a mosque in Bijnor&nbsp;and were picked up by the police. All eight have been sent to an isolation centre in the district. According to the SP of Bijnor, it appears&nbsp;that after attending the religious congregation, they first visited Odisha after which they returned to Bijnor. District Health officials are also now taking steps to sanitise the Bijnor mosque and other places they visited.

Delhi Chief Minister&nbsp;Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday called the event organised in Nizamuddin as a "highly irresponsible act". He said that&nbsp;the world over people are dying and at this time when all religious places are deserted, they organised such an event. His comments come as 441 people have been taken to hospital with possible coronavirus&nbsp;symptoms after attending a&nbsp;religious gathering in Delhi's Nizamuddin&nbsp;mosque.
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A Mumbai court on Tuesday rejected the temporary bail pleas of two activists arrested in the Elgar Parishad case.&nbsp;The accused &ndash; 80-year-old Varavara Rao and 60-year-old Shoma Sen &ndash; had sought bail, saying they were suffering from multiple ailments and were vulnerable to coronavirus due to their age.&nbsp;The activists in their pleas said it has been found that older people and those with underlying medical conditions like cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems, among others, are more likely to get&nbsp;Covid-19. The govt lawyer&nbsp;submitted that the grounds raised by the accused cannot be considered when they are charged under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the National Investigation Agency NIA Act.&nbsp;

Nearly&nbsp;half of the people who participated in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi&rsquo;s Nizamuddin came from two states - Tamil Nadu and Assam.&nbsp;Giving&nbsp;statewise&nbsp;break-up of the number of people present at the congregation held earlier this month, officials said that 510 people came from Tamil Nadu while 281 were from Assam.&nbsp;Officials said about 1,800 people attended the annual congregation.&nbsp;The Jamaat&rsquo;s headquarters in Nizamuddin area has emerged as one of the biggest&nbsp;coronavirus disease hotspots&nbsp;in India with 24 people testing positive and nearly 200 others showing symptoms of Covid-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic affects the economy, the Maharashtra government has said that there would be a 60 cut in this month's salaries of public representatives in the state, including the chief minister. The salaries of Class I and II employees will be cut by 50% while that of Class III employees will be cut by 25%. There will be no cut in the salaries of remaining classes in the state bureaucracy.&nbsp;Telangana&nbsp;government has also decided to impose big salary cuts. State chief minister KCR is taking a 75% salary cut, along with his cabinet, MLCs, MLAs, state corporation chairpersons and local bodies representatives.&nbsp;

The Centre told the Supreme Court that as of 11 am on Tuesday, there were no migrant workers seen on roads. Solicitor General Tushar&nbsp;Mehta&nbsp;told the top court that over 22 lakh&nbsp;daily wagers&nbsp;are being provided food. Mehta&nbsp;added that those who are still on the road were stopped and and moved to shelters and quarantine facilities. The Supreme Court also asked the government on the functionality of the Whatsapp chatbox. The government said it was in its initial stages but work was being done to enhance it. ​Chief Justice said that fear-mongering over the novel coronavirus disease could take more lives than Covid-19 itself. The Court has asked the government to rope in as many people as possible to disseminate correct news about the pandemic.
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On the eve of All Fools' Day, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh&nbsp;has appealed to the people not to fool around with Covid-19 rumours or messages. On April 1, people send jokes, pranks or messages to fool each other and enjoy but, the as the country is grappling with coronavirus&nbsp;this year, the minister said&nbsp;if anybody tries to send wrong or misleading messages or spread rumour&nbsp;the government will act against him. Maharashtra&nbsp;has the second highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
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The religious gathering at Delhi's Nizamuddin is turning out to be a massive cluster crisis for the spread of Covid-19. Apart from 24 people in Delhi, 10 in Andaman and Nicobar islands and 6 men in Telangana have tested positive for the novel coronavirus after participating in the event. The Andhra Pradesh government has confirmed that at least 369 people from Andhra Pradesh had also attended the gathering. Some reports suggest massive surveillance and testing will take place at the Nizamuddin coronavirus cluster. The maximum number of foreign nationals who were part of the event that took place between March 15 and March 17 are from Indonesia. Apart from that, there were 19 Nepalese nationals, 20 people from Malaysia, 33 from Myanmar, 28 people from Kyrgystan, 71 from Thailand, 34 from Sri Lanka and 19 Bangladeshi nationals among others.

Quarantine or not, mishti is must for Bengalis. Chief minister Mamata&nbsp;Banerjee&nbsp;also thinks so. Keeping in mind the sweet-tooth of the people of state, Didi&nbsp;has decided to relax the lockdown rules for the sweets industry.&nbsp;Sweet shops in Bengal will remain open between 12 pm to 4 pm to cater to those sweet cravings, since Didi&nbsp;feels they come under essential items.&nbsp;Mamata Banerjee&nbsp;says the move will help&nbsp;milkmen and people involved in dairy businesses in the state. She said cottage cheese was going to waste after the lockdown and that milkmen were throwing away milk in drains.

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