According to a report in The Indian Express, the additional troop infusion in J&amp;K is provide security to a move to hoist tricolour in every panchayat in the state. The report quoted govt sources as saying that the deployment is being done to ensure no disruption to the process and avoid any untoward&nbsp;incident. The deployment of more troops in the Valley had raised speculation that Centre may be planning to scrap Article 35A that gives special privileges to state subjects in J&amp;K

According to a report in The Indian Express, the additional troop infusion in J&K is provide security to a move to hoist tricolour in every panchayat in the state. The report quoted govt sources as saying that the deployment is being done to ensure no disruption to the process and avoid any untoward incident. The deployment of more troops in the Valley had raised speculation that Centre may be planning to scrap Article 35A that gives special privileges to state subjects in J&K

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.

The National Health Authority said on Saturday that testing and treatment for Covid-19 will be free of cost for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries at private laboratories and&nbsp;empanelled&nbsp;hospitals.&nbsp;The NHA, which implements the national health insurance scheme, said this will strengthen the country's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. More than 50 crore citizens are eligible under the health assurance scheme which has also been dubbed as Modicare.&nbsp;The tests will be carried out as per protocols of the Indian Council for Medical Research and by private labs approved or registered by it.&nbsp;

As the number of cases of coronavirus spiked beyond 500 in Maharashtra, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday cautioned people against &lsquo;wrong messages&rsquo; about Covid-19 on social media platforms.&nbsp; On Facebook Live, Uddhav Thackeray&nbsp;warned of strict action against those spreading communally divisive messages amid reports that several such videos have been doing the rounds on WhatsApp,&nbsp;TikTok&nbsp;and Twitter.&nbsp;Like Covid-19 virus, there is a communal virus too, this Covid-19 virus sees no religion.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Centre on Saturday said 1,023 Covid-19 positive cases with links to Tablighi Jamaat have been reported from 17 states till now and nearly 22,000 members of the Jamaat and their contacts have been quarantined so far. Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry, said there have been 601 positive coronavirus cases and 12 deaths reported since Friday. He said the condition of 58 coronavirus patients is critical, and they&nbsp;are located in&nbsp;Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Kerala.&nbsp;

Comparing the number of people being tested in India for Covid-19 with other countries, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his appeal to the people to light torches on Sunday, saying shining torches in the sky would not solve the problem.&nbsp;In a tweet, Rahul said India is simply not testing enough to fight Covid-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;He also attached to his tweet a chart, released by the Congress, that showed India was testing only 29 people per million. According to his tweet,&nbsp;Pakistan is testing 67 people per million, Sri Lanka 97, the United Kingdom 1,891, Germany 5,812, Italy 7,122 and South Korea 7,622 per million.&nbsp;Making people clap and shining torches in the sky aren't going to solve the problem, the former Congress chief said.&nbsp;
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The&nbsp;union&nbsp;health ministry on&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;said&nbsp;that most cases of coronavirus in India have been found in the age groups of 21-40&nbsp;which is&nbsp;42 per cent of&nbsp;the total number of patients.&nbsp;The next most-hit age group is those between ages 41 and 50, which compromises of 33 per cent of positive cases.&nbsp;People above the age group of 60,&nbsp;who are the most high-risk group for the viral infection, form 17 per cent of the&nbsp;over 3000 patients.&nbsp;Only 9 per cent of those infected have been found&nbsp;below&nbsp;the age of&nbsp;20.&nbsp;

As coronavirus continued to wreak havoc in the US, prime minister Narendra Modi spoke to President Donald Trump&nbsp;and discussed the issues related to the pandemic. Prime Minister Modi said he had an&nbsp;extensive telephone conversation with Trump&nbsp;and&nbsp;had a good discussion. He said the two leaders&nbsp;agreed to deploy the full strength of the India-US partnership to fight&nbsp;Coivd-19.&nbsp;

In order to avoid a sharp crash of the power grid, Uttar Pradesh's State Load Despatch Centre is prepping for a load-shedding&nbsp;ahead Sunday's 9 pm symbolic light-out. According to a letter issued by the body, Prime Minister's call to turn off lights at 9pm on 5th April for 9 minutes will lead to about 3,000 MW load reduction which may cause a high voltage surge in the state's&nbsp;power grid when the lights are switched back on. State Load Despatch Centre has proposed a load shedding in a staggered manner from 8-9 pm in the state to avoid damage to the power grid because of the sudden increase in power demands&nbsp;at 9.09 pm when the event ends.&nbsp;

Amid a row over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for show of unity, asking Indians to switch off power and light candles and diyas for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday, the power minister has come up with a clarification. The ministry said that the citizens don't need to&nbsp;shut all the appliances that work on electricity. The directive came after power grid managers across the country raised an alarm, saying the abrupt shutting of lights across the country will lead to an instant dip in the demand of electricity and may cause damage to the national power grid due to the surge when all lights are switched on together after 9 minutes. The opposition had attacked the government after the grid managers raised the alarm.

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.

During this 9-minute lights out initiative, about 10,000-12,000 MW of power demand is expected to vanish, according to estimates by power industry experts.&nbsp; &nbsp; So&nbsp;Power System Operation Corporation&nbsp;needs to ramp down electricity supply accordingly during this time block and ramp up again once this 9-minute period is over&nbsp;and the baseload demand returns in full strength.&nbsp;&nbsp; Any missteps in handling this could possibly lead to a high voltage surge, tripping the lines, causing damage to the national grid and an extended power outage.&nbsp;

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;

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.

J&K: More troops to ensure tricolour in all panchayats on I-Day

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