Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha is dead. His body&nbsp;was recovered from the Netravati&nbsp;river in Mangaluru on Wednesday morning. Siddhartha,&nbsp;who was missing since Monday night,&nbsp; was last seen on the bridge over the river and a massive manhunt was launched to find him. In his last email to CCD&nbsp;board and staff, the coffee tycoon has spoke of financial hardship and tax&nbsp;harassment by authorities. He had apologised to his staff for failing to create a good business model

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha is dead. His body was recovered from the Netravati river in Mangaluru on Wednesday morning. Siddhartha, who was missing since Monday night, was last seen on the bridge over the river and a massive manhunt was launched to find him. In his last email to CCD board and staff, the coffee tycoon has spoke of financial hardship and tax harassment by authorities. He had apologised to his staff for failing to create a good business model

A batch of 275 Indians evacuated from coronavirus-hit Iran arrived at the Jodhpur airport on Sunday morning.&nbsp;Authorities&nbsp;said a preliminary screening of the passengers was conducted at the airport and thereafter, they were shifted to the Army Wellness Facility at the Jodhpur Military Station. Of the 275 passengers, there were 133 women and 142 men, including two infants and four children.

Here are the latest numbers on Covid-19 in India as of March 29, 11 am.
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The United States has announced emergency humanitarian financial aid of $274 million to 64 countries who are at most risk to combat coronavirus. US Secretary Mike Pompeo said, India will receive $2.9 million, to help prepare laboratory systems, activate case finding and event-based surveillance, and support technical experts for response &amp; preparedness.

According to ICMR, nearly 11% of patients who have been tested so far due to severe acute respiratory illness or SARI, have been found positive for Covid-19. In what could be the first signal of community transmission of Covid-19 in the country, 110 such people were tested and of them 12 have tested positive. Those who were tested due to SARI hospitalisations are largely without any foreign travel history. Govt authorities however maintain, these cases were too 'sporadic' to infect others.

Any worker or employee infected with coronavirus and in isolation for treatment will get 28 days of paid leave from their employer across Noida and Greater Noida, the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration has ordered. In an order passed late on Saturday night, the administration also said that shops, industries and factories closed because of the lockdown will have to give daily wages along with leave to their workers during the closure period. The order comes amid reports of thousands of daily wage earners leaving for their homes, towns and villages due to a 21-day countrywide lockdown.

Practo, a leading digital healthcare start-up on Saturday announced that Covid-19 tests are now available on the platform. Bengaluru-based Practo has partnered with Thyrocare to conduct the detection tests, which has been authorised by the Government of India and the Indian Council of Medical Research. Practo is starting the test with Mumbai residents and will soon expand it to the rest of the country. A valid doctor's prescription, duly filled Test Requisition Form signed by the physician, and a photo ID card has to be presented at the time of testing. The test will be available at a cost of Rs 4,500 and can be booked online.

India saw the highest jump in coronavirus cases on Saturday with 194 patients testing positive.&nbsp;The Health Ministry&nbsp;confirmed 918 novel&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;cases,&nbsp;which&nbsp;include&nbsp;79 who have recovered and 19&nbsp;who have died. Kerala on Saturday reported its first Covid-19 death, while Gujarat recorded another death.&nbsp;As the cases&nbsp;continue to&nbsp;surge,&nbsp;the&nbsp;health ministry&nbsp;said it cannot conclude there has been community transmission despite there being sporadic cases where patients&nbsp;were&nbsp;without any foreign travel of contact history.&nbsp;In their evening press briefing, the Health Ministry said &lsquo;rigorous&rsquo; contact-tracing is underway and the&nbsp;focus is to set up Covid-19 dedicated hospitals.&nbsp;

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday donated his one month salary over and above Prime Minister Narendra Modi's directive to all BJP MPs to contribute Rs one crore from MPLAD funds in the country's fight against COVID-19 pandemic. "Let us contribute to make India healthier and more prosperous for our future generations. I've donated my one month salary," Rijiju wrote on his Facebook page.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation in his first Mann ki Baat today amid the 21-day lockdown announced by the government to stem the spread of coronavirus which has killed 20 people in the country and infected over 900. The latest episode of Mann ki Baat will focus on the coronavirus pandemic, the PM has said. On Saturday, he announced the Prime Minister&rsquo;s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES) for donations to "India's war against Covid-19".

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has released an amount of Rs 100 crore as a relief package to the state Disaster Management Department. Nitish said his govt will provide food and shelter for every Bihar resident, who is trapped in corona crisis, irrespective of his or her location. The Bihar government's package covers all those who are vulnerable and left without a livelihood. The funds will be utilised to provide food and shelter to migrant labourers who have returned from various states and also those who are stuck elsewhere.

An official of the Border Security Force who was posted as a supervisory officer at a&nbsp;quarantine&nbsp;facility in Madhya Pradesh&rsquo;s Tenkapur&nbsp;has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. News agency ANI reported that the officer&rsquo;s wife had returned from the UK about a fortnight ago and he had met officers of the rank of Additional Director General&nbsp;and Inspector General from March 15 to 19. The BSF said the officer&rsquo;s wife and the officers he met have been&nbsp;put under quarantine.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Claiming that the government had no contingency plan,&nbsp;Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted a video showing the continuing exodus of migrant workers.&nbsp;The video highlights a crisis the government is currently dealing with as massive crowds of migrant workers gathered at Delhi-UP border search for a transport home, and in the process, are effectively negating the measures of social distancing and defeating the purpose of the nationwide lockdown.&nbsp;In a tweet, Rahul said&nbsp;it is shameful that we&rsquo;ve allowed any Indian citizen to be treated this way.&nbsp;Both Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments have attempted to control the situation by announcing special buses to carry migrants to their destinations.&nbsp;

These scenes at the Anand&nbsp;Vihar&nbsp;Bus Stand in the national capital New Delhi. With India locked down over the coronavirus and no way to earn money,&nbsp;migrants&nbsp;face a grim choice: either walk home or die hungry.&nbsp;The govt has now offered them buses to leave the capital. The 21-day lockdown&nbsp;has sparked an exodus from major cities.&nbsp;Thousands are walking long distances back to their home villages after all transport was stopped except for essential services as authorities struggle to contain the&nbsp;outbreak. There are usually around 100 million unskilled or semi-skilled migrant workers in India, according to a government survey for 2016-17 -- around a fifth of the country's workforce.&nbsp;These&nbsp;congregations&nbsp;like the one at&nbsp;Anand&nbsp;Vihar&nbsp;are a setback for the government which is focusing on social distancing as a major&nbsp;deterrent&nbsp;against the deadly virus.&nbsp;

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the launch of a new fund to combat the coronavirus crisis and similar situations arising in the future.&nbsp;Called the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund or PM CARES, the fund will see the Prime Minister as the chairman of the trust and its members will include the Defence Minister, Home Minister and Finance Minister. Bollywood&nbsp;actor, Akshay&nbsp;Kumar, announced to donate Rs 25 crore, soon after PM's announcement.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday asked NHAI Chairman and toll operators across national highways to provide food, water and other necessary support to migrant workers. The directions came amid reports that migrant workers are facing severe hardships while stranded at various parts in the country on account of the coronavirus nationwide lockdown. The minister expressed hope that toll operators will respond to his call positively.

Kerala&nbsp;has reported its first Coronavirus&nbsp;fatality, a 69-year-old who died at&nbsp;Kochi Medical College on Saturday. The patient had recently returned from Dubai and was admitted for coronavirus treatment on March 22. According to&nbsp;Kerala minister VS&nbsp;Sunil Kumar, the patient was of high-risk category as he was a cardiac patient. The patient's family members are under surveillance.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Police opened fire in the air&nbsp;in Assam's&nbsp;Bongaigaon&nbsp;district on Saturday to&nbsp;disperse&nbsp;an unruly mob at a market that attacked the security personnel&nbsp;when asked to abide by the lockdown order.&nbsp;None was injured in the melee.&nbsp;People had gathered in large numbers at meat and&nbsp;poultry shops of&nbsp;Bhawlaguri&nbsp;market in the district without&nbsp;maintaining social distancing norms.&nbsp;As police intervened, most of them dispersed only to&nbsp;return with machetes and stones to attack the officers on&nbsp;duty.&nbsp;The police personnel, when pelted with stones,&nbsp;resorted to&nbsp;lathicharge&nbsp;and opened fired in the air to quell&nbsp;the unrest.&nbsp;

Amid criticism by Opposition leaders over the plight of migrant workers, the Centre on Saturday said that India's response to Covid-19 has been &lsquo;pre-emptive, pro-active and graded&rsquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Brushing aside the&nbsp;charge&nbsp;that the 21-day lockdown was announced without any planning, triggering a major crisis for migrant workers and people who live on daily incomes, the&nbsp;Information and Broadcasting Ministry&nbsp;said&nbsp;in a statement,&nbsp;that&nbsp;the government had already put in place a&nbsp;&lsquo;comprehensive response system&rsquo;&nbsp;at the borders of the country, much before the World Health&nbsp;Organisation&nbsp;declared the coronavirus as a public health emergency on January 30.&nbsp;

Stating that there is a need to counter unsubstantiated claims that AYUSH has the cure for the deadly Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that traditional medicine producers could&nbsp;utilise&nbsp;their resources to produce essential items such as&nbsp;sanitisers.&nbsp;A&nbsp;statement from&nbsp;his&nbsp;office said that the&nbsp;PM&nbsp;told&nbsp;AYUSH practitioners via video&nbsp;that&nbsp;fact-checking unsubstantiated claims of AYUSH having cure for the&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;was must&nbsp;and&nbsp;AYUSH scientists, ICMR, CSIR and other research&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;must come together for evidence-based research.&nbsp;Ayurved, Unani, Siddhi and Homeopathy come under the AYUSH system of medicines for which there is a separate Union ministry.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Noida's District Manager has issued an order directing landlords in Gautam Buddh Nagar&nbsp;to collect rent from their worker tenants only after a month. The order comes in the wake of the mass exodus of migrant workers trying to reach their respective homes in other cities and states. District Manage BN Singh tweeted that no exodus of workers will be allowed on the grounds of rent. Any landlord found in violation of the order can be prosecuted and sent to imprisonment for up to 1 year, imposed with a penalty or both.

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