Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan bowled a “googly” to ensure Indian government’s presence at the groundbreaking ceremony of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor. Pakistan earlier invited Swaraj for the ceremony. India was represented at the events by Union ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri. Qureshi noted that it was the same Indian government that had said it will not engage with Pakistan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the nation on Friday morning, asked citizens to turn the electric lights off in their homes for 9 minutes at 9 p.m.&nbsp;on Sunday ie: April 5. While this 'show of unity', as Prime Minister Mod called it, may appear a small gesture from the citizenry, the national electricity grid - which meets India&rsquo;s power needs - has a lot of work to do maintain reliable power supply during and after this period. There is a fear that a sudden dip in demand, may lead to tripping of lines, surge in high voltage and cause damage to the National Electricity Grid, which may result in power outages.

India has a baseload power demand of roughly 160,000 megawatts&nbsp;and doesn&rsquo;t have adequate electricity storage mechanisms.&nbsp;
Power System Operation Corporation, which&nbsp;operates the national electricity grid, predicts daily demand of power and regulates supply from power generators.
In order to maintain the grid&rsquo;s stability within a certain frequency, the accuracy of these predictions&nbsp;are&nbsp;very important so that power demand can be matched with supply.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Shah Rukh Khan's&nbsp;heartwarming reply to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal&nbsp;who thanked him for his contribution to fight coronavirus&nbsp;is winning the Internet. Asking the CM to not thank him &amp; just order him, the actor wrote more strength, resilience and power to your teams on ground sir.
SRK declared that he will help State Governments of Delhi, West Bengal and Maharashtra through his businesses - Red Chillies Entertainment and Kolkata Knight Riders.

With two more persons dying due to&nbsp;Covid-19 in Madhya Pradesh, the death toll in the state&nbsp;reached 10 on Saturday.&nbsp;While one of the men, a&nbsp;36-year-old&nbsp;government employee, died in Chhindwara, another one&nbsp;succumbed to the infection in Indore.&nbsp;Earlier, five persons had died due to the infection in&nbsp;Indore, which has emerged as one of the hotspots for the&nbsp;Covid-19 spread in the state. Two others had died in Ujjain&nbsp;and one each in Khargone.&nbsp;

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed the people to switch off the lights of their homes and light a "diya" or candle on Sunday at 9 p.m. for nine minutes, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday said that the concerns of power grids be taken care of so that there was no obstruction in the power supply. Priyanka Gandhi, who is the party in charge of the eastern Uttar Pradesh, in a tweet said, while the country is expressing solidarity in the war against Corona, it is expected that the power grids and engineers' concerns are also being taken care of by the Central government. So that there is no obstruction in the power supply during the crisis and in times of need."

Railways on Saturday said no final decision has been taken yet on restoration of train services and that a call on it would be taken in a few days.&nbsp;The statement comes amidst railway zones preparing action plans to resume services from April 15 after passenger trains remained suspended for 21 days during the lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. An&nbsp;official had said that&nbsp;train services will have to be resumed only on specific approval of each train from Railway Board. Suggestions for phase wise planning should be given to Railway Board,&nbsp;he had&nbsp;said.&nbsp;

Maharashtra&nbsp;Police has decided to issue passes to people who need to travel within the state.&nbsp;Special Inspector General of Police&nbsp;Milind Bharambe&nbsp;has directed all police units to issue inter-district passes to citizens after veriying&nbsp;their reason for travel. He also instructed the police not to stop vehicles transporting essential commodities. People&nbsp;who wish to travel outside the state will have to contact the DGP's office in Mumbai.

A 51-year-old man&nbsp;died a hospital in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu&rsquo;s&nbsp;Villupuram due to Coronavirus infection&nbsp;on Saturday.&nbsp;He was one of the persons who had gone to Delhi to attend the Tablighi Jamaat conference last month, news agency IANS reported.&nbsp;This is the second Covid-19 death in Tamil Nadu. The first person, who died was from Madurai.&nbsp;He was in&nbsp;contact&nbsp;with a&nbsp;person who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat conference.&nbsp; About 1,200 persons from&nbsp;Tamil Nadu&nbsp;have returned after attending the Tablighi Jamaat and throat swabs and blood samples have been taken from them for tests.&nbsp;About 300 attendees of the conference have tested negative.&nbsp;

Four militants were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. The encounter ensued after the security forces launched a cordon and search operation based on intelligence inputs about the presence of militants in Hardmand Guri village.&nbsp;The operation was based on a credible police input and weapons and war-like stores were seized from the scene of the encounter

The government on Saturday put curbs on exports of diagnostic kits to discourage shipments amid the coronavirus outbreak, news agency PTI reported. The move would help in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis as these kits are required for testing of patients. Putting them under the restricted category would mean that an exporter will now require a licence from the DGFT for outbound shipments.

The Centre has amended its two-day-old notification on Friday night and reserved all jobs in Jammu and Kashmir for the domiciles of the union territory. The move came after govt order on Wednesday reserving only upto group 4 posts for domiciles evoked strong reactions among locals. Domiciles are categorised as people who have stayed in the union territory for at least 15 years.

Air India has stopped bookings till April 30, 2020. It further added that it is awaiting a decision after April 14, when the nationwide lockdown is scheduled to end. For now, bookings have been stopped for both domestic and international routes. Domestic and international commercial flights in the country are suspended till April 14 amid the lockdown to curb the spreading of coronavirus infections. An airline spokesperson said bookings have now been closed till April 30

Maharashtra energy minister Nitin Raut has raised a red flag over PM Modi's Sunday's light challenge to the people. Raut has urged people not to switch off lights during the candle/diya lighting exercise that has been called by the prime minister. The minister has cautioned that switching off all lights might lead to failure of grid and it might take a week to restore power. He has urged people to observe the Sunday night lighting event without switching off lights.

Sixty-eight people have died in India after being infected with novel coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. The country recorded highest number of cases at 601 and 12 deaths in the last 24 hours. The fresh cases take the total to 2,902. The unprecedented spike in the number of cases across India over the last week has been linked to the controversial religious gathering held by Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat in south Delhi in March.

Ten personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force or CISF posted at the Mumbai airport have tested positive for coronavirus, NDTV has reported. The paramilitary force has decided to get all 152 jawans staying together in a camp tested. According to the CISF, those who test positive will be shifted to the Kasturba Hospital for treatment while those who test negative will be kept under observation at a quarantine centre for 14 days.

The centre has identified 14 hotspots across the country, where the maximum number of cases are detected. Dilshad Garden, Nizamuddin, Noida, Bhilwara, Kasargod, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jabalpur, Ahmedabad, Ladakh and Yavatmal are listed as the COVID-19 hotspots. Across the country the number of confirmed cases is now 2,547, with 478 new cases detected in the past 24 hours. 62 people have died so far.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut took a sharp jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his appeal to the nation to hold candles, lamps and mobile flashlights on Sunday in a show of solidarity amid the coronavirus crisis. The Sena leader said hope &lsquo;they&rsquo; don't burn down their own homes. Raut in a tweet recalled that when people were asked to clap, they crowded the roads and beat drums.&nbsp;

There are at least 647 confirmed cases of coronavirus found to have links with Tablighi Jamaat in the last two days, the health&nbsp;mimistry&nbsp;said on Friday. Speaking to the media at a press conference, Joint Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Lav Agarwal said 14 states have&nbsp;reported&nbsp;cases&nbsp;with&nbsp;link&nbsp;to&nbsp;Tablighi Jamaat congregation.&nbsp;The Joint Health Secretary said the cases had spiked recently due to a particular&nbsp;reason, indicating the Tablighi Jamaat episode.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Amid&nbsp;concerns&nbsp;over the number of Covid-19 tests India is conducting, the health ministry in its daily briefing said that so far&nbsp;66,000 tests&nbsp;have been conducted. The ministry said 8,000 tests&nbsp;were done in the last 24 hours, which is&nbsp;the highest in a single day.&nbsp;So far India's testing numbers is low compared to many other countries including South Korea, the US and United Kingdom. The government's efforts to scale it up by allowing 51 private labs to do the test hit a roadblock due to limited availability of kits for the RT-PCR tests.&nbsp;

In the highest single day toll so far, Maharashtra recorded six deaths due to Covid-19 on Friday and the number of positive cases shot up by 67 from 423 to 490.&nbsp;While two patients died in Mumbai, one each succumbed in Palghar, Thane, Pune and Jalgaon.&nbsp;In view of the increasing number of cases, the government has formed 2,332 teams to survey areas in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur where clusters of Covid-19 cases have been detected.&nbsp;

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