Opposition parties turned the farmers protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi into a show of strength against the BJP govt. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was joined by Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury. Regional leaders like NCP chief Sharad Pawar, JDU's KC Tyagi also took on the govt's anti-farmer policies. The AIADMK, the DMK, and the BSP skipped the event.

The government has issued a health advisory for the elderly population during the Covid-19 pandemic which includes advising them not to go for routine checkups to hospital. Elderly people have been asked to make tele-consultation with your healthcare provider as far as possible. It has also advised the elderly to postpone elective surgeries like cataract surgery or total knee replacement.

A massive fire broke out at the furniture market in Delhi's&nbsp;Shaheen&nbsp;Bagh on Sunday evening. Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the blaze. Images showed police and fire officials on the site trying to douse the fire. The fire erupted about 500&nbsp;metres&nbsp;from the&nbsp;epicentre&nbsp;of the anti-CAA protests. The area&nbsp;had seen&nbsp;sit-in by thousands of protesters, mostly women, for over 100 days. The area was vacated after most of the protesters withdrew in wake of the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown announced across India.&nbsp;

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday wrote to Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi&nbsp;and urged him to consider the consequences of a &lsquo;complete economic shutdown&rsquo; as it may &lsquo;disastrously amplify the death toll&rsquo; due to&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;While backing the Centre in its fight against the outbreak, Gandhi said, it is critical to understand that India&rsquo;s conditions are unique.&nbsp;Suspecting that the government will further extend the 21-day lockdown, Rahul said it is time to immediately strengthen the social safety net and use every public resource to support and shelter the working poor to prevent them from migrating.&nbsp;&nbsp;

With 106 fresh cases and six deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in crossed the 1000-mark and stands at 1024. This includes&nbsp;27 deaths on Sunday, the health ministry said.&nbsp;Highlighting that co-morbidity has played a major role in most deaths the ministry said data is being monitored at state level.&nbsp;A death each has been reported from Bengal, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. Maharashtra has reported 6 deaths, Madhya Pradesh 2, Karnataka 3, Gujarat 4, and Delhi 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Here are the latest numbers on Covid-19 in India as of March 29, 11 am.
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The government has launched a toll-free helpline number for people who may face any mental health issue due to the ongoing countrywide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.&nbsp;In its daily briefing on the coronavirus situation in the country, the health ministry said on Sunday the National Institute of Mental Health and&nbsp;Neuro-Sciences&nbsp;has launched the number.&nbsp;Earlier, WHO had warned that the coronavirus crisis and the restrictive measures can have a negative impact on people's mental health and well-being.&nbsp;

Amid a nationwide 21-day lockdown, the Centre on Sunday said that all those who violate the restrictions will be sent to a minimum of 14-days in quarantine to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;During a video conference with chief secretaries and DGPs&nbsp;of the states, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla asked them to ensure that there is no movement of people across cities or on highways.&nbsp;States were directed to ensure that there is strict implementation of the lockdown&nbsp;and only the movement of goods should be allowed.&nbsp; &nbsp;

As hundreds of migrant workers&nbsp;are on the move to their native places, a video of a Madhya Pradesh&nbsp;police&nbsp;officer writing&nbsp;&lsquo;I have violated lockdown restrictions, keep away from me&rsquo;, on the forehead of a&nbsp;labourer&nbsp;has gone viral. The officer has been issued a show-cause notice.&nbsp;Three&nbsp;labourers&nbsp;were returning from Uttar Pradesh when they were directed to the primary health&nbsp;centre&nbsp;by the police for medical examination&nbsp;in Chhatarpur district.&nbsp;While they were waiting for a doctor, a senior inspector scolded them for violating the lockdown and wrote the inscription on one of the&nbsp;labourer&rsquo;s&nbsp;forehead.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Along with Covid-19, Kerala's health infrastructure is battling a sudden jump in alcohol related suicide cases. 5 people with alleged alcohol&nbsp;addiction have committed suicide in the state. With prohibition in place due to the national lockdown, there is a sudden jump in admissions in de-addiction centres and mental health units. Several people have withdrawal symptoms due to the unavailability&nbsp;of liquor. State Health Minister said that facilities for addiction treatments have been set up at family health centres and primary health centres. 20 beds have been set aside at district level hospitals for serious addiction cases.&nbsp;Tele-counselling&nbsp; and psychiatric&nbsp;help is also being provided.

After the Prime Minister on Sunday offered his apology for the inconvenience caused to people following a countrywide lockdown, the Congress attacked the government for what it called &lsquo;inept handling&rsquo; of the situation.&nbsp;Stating that the lockdown was announced with the same haste with which&nbsp;demonetisation&nbsp;was done, Singhvi asked the Prime Minister not to&nbsp;mock&nbsp;the&nbsp;poor as anybody who is not financially sound cannot afford&nbsp;a Covid-19 testing kit which is priced at ₹4,500 apiece in India.

After chaotic scenes were witnessed in various parts of the country, particularly the national capital where thousands of workers breached the lockdown&nbsp;on Saturday, the Centre has directed all states to seal borders and not allow movement of people. In a notification released by the Press Information Bureau, the govt said, states have been told to ensure timely payment of wages to workers at their&nbsp;place of work during the period of lockdown, without any cuts. The directive added that house rent should not be demanded from the labourers for this period and action should be taken against those who ask labourers or students to vacate.

The number of Covid-19 cases climbed to 979 in India on Sunday with the death toll rising to 25, according to the Union Health Ministry.&nbsp;The ministry reported six fresh deaths -- one each from Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Telangana. In its updated data at 10 am, the ministry stated that the number of active Covid-19 cases in the country was 867, while 86 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated.&nbsp;The total number of 979 cases in the country included 48 foreigners, the data stated.

An&nbsp;Aam&nbsp;Aadmi Party MLA has been booked by the police in Noida for allegedly defaming Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi&nbsp;Adityanath. The police booked&nbsp;the&nbsp;Rajinder Nagar&nbsp;lawmaker, Raghav Chadha,&nbsp;after he&nbsp;put up a controversial tweet on the exodus of daily wagers and&nbsp;labourers&nbsp;from&nbsp;the national capital region.&nbsp;While Chadha had removed the post after backlash,&nbsp;a Supreme Court advocate, Prashant Patel,&nbsp;had&nbsp;filed a complaint against&nbsp;him with the police in Sector 20.&nbsp;

An employee at a Delhi restaurant started walking almost 200 kms to reach his home in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, but he didn't reach home. The 39-year-old man, collapsed and died on the Delhi-Agra highway on Saturday. Ranveer Singh, decided to walk home after the centre imposed a lockdown, ordering shops, restaurants to shut down. Police officials say Ranveer's house was still about 100 kms away when when he complained of chest pain and soon collapsed. He worked as a home delivery boy for a private restaurant in the capital.

SpiceJet said on Sunday that one of its pilots who did not fly any international flight in March has tested positive for the coronavirus. The airline added, that the last domestic flight he operated was on March 21 from Chennai to Delhi and since then he had quarantined himself at home. As a precautionary measure, all crew and staff who had been in direct contact with him have been asked to self-quarantine by staying at home for the next 14 days.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his mann-ki-baat&nbsp;address with an apology to the people of the country for 'imposing a 21-day lockdown. PM Modi said he had no choice but to take the tough decision. He especially mentioned the poor, saying they must be angry with him.&nbsp;Prime Minister added, that citizens should unite and fight the illness before it takes its toll on us.&nbsp;

Indian Oil Corporation chairman said, India has enough petrol, diesel and cooking gas in stock to last way beyond the 3-week nationwide lockdown. He added, that all plants and supply locations are fully operational and the IOC has mapped demand for all fuel for the entire month of April and beyond. India is the world's third largest energy consumer, and with most cars and two-wheelers going off the road, petrol demand has fallen by 8% in March while diesel demand has been down 16% per cent. With airlines grounding flights, ATF demand has fallen by 20%. But with people at home in quarantine, LPG demand saw more than 200% jump since the lockdown was announced.

The Kerala government is planning to supply minimum liquor to heavy alcoholics as per a doctor's prescription during the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown. The development came after five people in Kerala committed suicide and more than 25 were admitted in de-addiction centres after they could not source liquor during the lockdown. While briefing the media, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the government move is to avoid suicides. He added that the excise department has been asked to suggest modalities. Kerala has around 1.6 million alcoholics who consume liquor on a regular basis, of them, 45% are heavy drinkers with withdrawal symptoms.

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.

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.

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