The teenager who shot at a Jamia Millia Islamia University student on Thursday has been sent to 14 days protective custody. The police have also put in an application at the RML hospital for a bone ossification test to determine his age. This after the&nbsp;Delhi Police registered an FIR against the accused for attempt to murder. NDTV&nbsp;quoted police sources as saying, that the 17-year-old wanted to create panic at Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of protests against the citizenship law. They went to add that he has shown no remorse so far and has been heavily influenced by social media, TV coverage and WhatsApp videos.

The teenager who shot at a Jamia Millia Islamia University student on Thursday has been sent to 14 days protective custody. The police have also put in an application at the RML hospital for a bone ossification test to determine his age. This after the Delhi Police registered an FIR against the accused for attempt to murder. NDTV quoted police sources as saying, that the 17-year-old wanted to create panic at Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of protests against the citizenship law. They went to add that he has shown no remorse so far and has been heavily influenced by social media, TV coverage and WhatsApp videos.

In its biggest spike till date, India over the past 24 hours recorded 386 new cases of coronavirus, with the total now standing at 1,637. The death toll currently stands at 38, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in its daily briefing. Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry added that one of the main reasons for the spike is the travel by members of Tablighi Jamaat.&nbsp;The govt has cautioned that congregations should be avoided during the lockdown.&nbsp;

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced a sum of ₹1 crore for families of those health workers who die while handling patients of the Covid-19 disease. He said it will be a mark of &lsquo;respect to their service&rsquo; for sanitation workers, doctors or nurses, and their family. The chief minister said&nbsp;it will not matter if the Covid-19 warriors are from&nbsp;private or government sector&nbsp;and all are eligible for it.&nbsp;His&nbsp;announcement comes&nbsp;after&nbsp;Centre announced&nbsp;special insurance cover of ₹50 lakh&nbsp;for&nbsp;doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians, and other health care professionals involved in the care of Covid-19 patients.&nbsp;

National conference leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday denounced the Centre&rsquo;s move to rework the domicile laws in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir at a time when the nation is pooling all resources to stave off the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;The former Chief Minister, who was until recently in detention, questioned the timing of the&nbsp;move&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;called the law &lsquo;hollow&rsquo; which does not offer the protections that it had promised.&nbsp;In a tweet Omar wrote &lsquo;insult is heaped on injury&rsquo;.&nbsp;According to the change in laws, anyone who has resided for 15 years in Jammu and Kashmir or has studied for seven years and appeared in Class 10 and Class 12 examinations in an educational institution in the union territory is a domicile.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As the Delhi Police was evacuating hundreds of people from Tablighi group's Nizamuddin Markaz, National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;visited the southwest Delhi area&nbsp;and took&nbsp;stock of the situation. According to multiple reports,&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;arrived around 2 am on March 28 and 29 night at the Markaz and interacted with police officials involved in evacuation.&nbsp;He also&nbsp;convinced Tablighi group leader Maulana Saad to get all stuck persons tested for coronavirus and quarantine, reports said.&nbsp;NSA chief knew about the situation building up since the security agencies had tracked down nine corona positive Indonesians in Telangana's Karimnagar with travel history to the Markaz on March 18.&nbsp;

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday took a dig at the government, saying there were two Indias with one at home doing yoga, watching&nbsp;Ramayan&nbsp;and playing&nbsp;antakshari, and the other trying to reach home and fighting for survival.&nbsp;A large number of migrants&nbsp;have been leaving their&nbsp;work places&nbsp;and walking down to their native places, hundreds of&nbsp;kilometres&nbsp;away, due to the lockdown.&nbsp;Sibal's attack was in reference to PM&nbsp;Modi sharing a video of a yoga&nbsp;asan, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar announcing the rerun of&nbsp;Ramayan&nbsp;and Mahabharat recently&nbsp;on DD&nbsp;and Union minister Smriti Irani playing 'Twitter&nbsp;Antakshari' during the 'Janata Curfew'.&nbsp;&nbsp;

With Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asking the State Police to locate all those who have visited the Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin in Delhi, around 300 of them have been identified from various parts of the state.&nbsp;But of the 300 who took part in the prayer sessions, only 80 are&nbsp;thought&nbsp;to have returned to Kerala.&nbsp;While over 200 took part in the first week, an estimated 80 are understood to have&nbsp;visited&nbsp;the Delhi Markaz&nbsp;in the third week&nbsp;of March.&nbsp;Around a dozen people who have been identified appear to be fine and have no symptoms of coronavirus, but the health authorities are leaving nothing to chance and have put them into isolation.&nbsp;

Lashing out at the Tablighi Jamaat over its Delhi meet that turned Nizamuddin into a coronavirus hotspot, union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has demanded strict action against the organisation. Calling the Delhi event in mid-March a Talibani crime by the Jamaat, Naqvi said that the organisers put lives in danger.

Cars and bikes have been banned in Karnataka&nbsp;for the next 14 days. In a tweet, the Karnataka&nbsp;police said that this is not an April Fools Prank, and vehicles&nbsp;will be seized if caught. India is currently in the midst of a 21 day nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;

A Delhi government hospital was shut down on Wednesday after a doctor tested positive for coronavirus. The Delhi State Cancer Institute's OPD, offices and labs have been shut and are being sanitized, NDTV reported. Those who came in contact with the doctor are also being quarantined. Report said that the doctor may have contracted COVID-19 from relatives who had returned from UK.

16 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in Mumbai and two more cases have been reported in Pune. The latest cases have taken the number of cases in Maharashtra to 320. Till now 12 people have died due to coronavirus in the state. Maharashtra, alongwith Kerala, has been the worst hit state in India.

Over a hundred people among those who attended the Nizamuddin mosque event have tested positive for coronavirus sor far. A nationwide manhunt is on for suspected cases after a jamaat gathering that has emerged as a virus hotspot. At least 7 have died so far of COVID-19 infection. Nearly 2100 people have been evacuated from "Markaz Nizamuddin", the Delhi headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat group, since Sunday. Over a 1,100 are now quarantined in different parts of the Capital.

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.

The central government employees due to retire on March 31, will superannuate on that day only, the Personnel Ministry said on Tuesday. In view of the unprecedented situation arising out of the countrywide lockdown declared by the government consequent to the outbreak of Covid-19, it is clarified that the central government employees who are attaining the age of superannuation on March 31, 2020, shall retire from central government services irrespective of whether they are working from home or office, it said.

Assam recorded it first coronavirus case on Tuesday. A 52-year-old cleric, who had recently visited Delhi, has tested positive. The cleric, who runs a madarsa in Karimganj district, had also visited the Nizamuddin area of the Capital. He, however, did not attend the religious gathering that has emerged as a virus hotspot, reports said. The cleric's two sons had also accompanied him to Delhi. All six members of their family have been quarantined.

Delhi government may soon start delivering dry ration to a section of beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act 2013 at their doorstep. Times of India has reported that the food and civil supplies department is working on a plan to send wheat, rice and sugar to senior citizens, widows, differently-abled and other vulnerable sections. Amid the coronavirus lockdown, there has been a sudden rush of people at city&rsquo;s fair price shops to collect their monthly entitlement of foodgrains.

The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi climbed to 120 on Tuesday after 23 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, the Health Department said. These 120 cases include 24 who took part in a religious congregation at Nizamuddin this month. At least two people have lost their lives to the deadly infection in the national capital

Rajasthan and Andhra&nbsp;Pradesh&nbsp;govts have decided to defer a portion of salary of the chief minister, deputy chief minister, MLAs and government employees as part of austerity measures amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The deferments will range from 10 to 100 per cent for different categories of employees. A total lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic has stalled economic activities and has affected states' revenue streams.

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;

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;

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;

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