Left leader Kanhaiya&nbsp;Kumar&nbsp;on Friday thanked Delhi govt for giving nod to try him in 2016 JNU sedition case. Thanking the Kejriwal&nbsp;govt, Kanhaiya&nbsp;tweeted that&nbsp;there should be speedy trial by a fast-track court. He added that a decision should come from the courts and not from a trial in a TV studio. Speaking to NDTV&nbsp;Kanhaiya&nbsp;also questioned the timing of the move linking it to the response to his&nbsp;Bihar rallies ahead of the state&nbsp;elections&nbsp;later this year.

Left leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday thanked Delhi govt for giving nod to try him in 2016 JNU sedition case. Thanking the Kejriwal govt, Kanhaiya tweeted that there should be speedy trial by a fast-track court. He added that a decision should come from the courts and not from a trial in a TV studio. Speaking to NDTV Kanhaiya also questioned the timing of the move linking it to the response to his Bihar rallies ahead of the state elections later this year.

A nine-minute lights-out call by PM Modi on Sunday went very smoothly, without any disruption in the electricity grid, according to Power Minister RK Singh.&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;said the government had utilities put in place elaborate plans to deal with the sudden drop and then a quick spurt in demand.&nbsp;He added that he was personally monitoring the situation from National Monitoring Centre inside the ministry.&nbsp;The power consumption went down from 117GW to 85.30GW within about four minutes leading up to 9PM. The minister said, this was much more than anticipated fall of 12GW.&nbsp;There was no incident of any power failure reported.
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PM Modi&nbsp;joined a billion Indians as&nbsp;they stood together in fight against Covi-19, doing their part to light candles, diyas&nbsp;at 9pm for 9 minutes.
Along with the PM, several senior ministers, including Home Minister&nbsp;Amit&nbsp;Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP chief JP Nadda, along with Ravi&nbsp;Shankar&nbsp;Prasad were seen lighting diyas&nbsp;at their residences.
In Gujarat,&nbsp;PM Modi's&nbsp;mother, Heeraben&nbsp;also lit an earthen lamp after turning off all lights at her residence.
In Chhattisgarh, CRPF&nbsp;jawans&nbsp;lit candles in Raipur outside ex-CM Raman Singh's house.

People all across India lit diyas and candles in their colonies and switched off the lights in their homes at 9 pm on Sunday, eleven days into a total lockdown, to show solidarity with fellow Indians as well as for several healthcare workers, who are all in their own way fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. PM Modi had urged citizens to turn off lights at 9 pm for 9 minutes and stand on their doors or balconies with a diya, a candle or mobile flashlight to fight the Covid-19 darkness with light. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was also seen lighting earthen diyas at his residence.

India reported a total of 83 deaths due to the novel coronavirus, as updated by the Health Ministry at 8:30pm on Sunday.
In its daily briefing earlier in the day, Joint Secretary in the Health&nbsp;Ministry&nbsp;Lav&nbsp;Agarwal said, 472 fresh cases were reported nationwide in the past 24 hours.
He added that India's doubling rate of Covid-19 cases is currently 4.1 days. But if additional cases reported due to the Tablighi Jamaat event, had not taken place, then the doubling rate would have been 7.4 days.

The govt has issued a new advisory to citizens as the nation prepares for PM Modi's&nbsp;'9 pm, 9 minute' appeal to light candles and diyas, in show of solidarity for India's fight against Covid-19.
The Power Ministry has said, electrical appliances such as AC, fans, TVs, refrigerators are not supposed to be switched off and only household lights are to be switched off. The advisory&nbsp;adds that lights in all essential services, including hospitals, police stations and manufacturing facilities as well as street lights are not to be switched off.
The health ministry has cautioned people against the use of alcohol-based hand sanitisers before lighting candles or diyas as they are inflammable.

As many as 10 Malaysian attendees of a recent Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Delhi were offloaded from a special chartered flight to Malaysia from Chennai on Sunday. Of the 167 Malaysian Tamils who boarded the flight, 10 people, were offloaded after it was ascertained that they had participated in the recent meeting in Delhi. After participating in the religious congregation, they had reportedly visited Tenkasi district in southern Tamil Nadu and had stayed there.

As India inches towards April 14, the government has started deliberating on the way forward at the end of the national coronavirus lockdown. A phase-wise restoration of services may be the way forward with special surveillance of identified Covid-19 hotspots, according to health ministry's plans.
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The Indian Council for Medical Research said there is no proof as of now that establishes that Coronavirus is airborne. An ICMR official said, if Covid-19 was an air-borne infection, then the entire family of whoever came in contact with a patient would test positive, because they are living in the same surroundings and is breathing the same air. He also said when someone is admitted in the hospital, other patients would have got exposure if the infection was airborne, but that is not the case. ICMR authorities said, scientific experiments may lead to different opinions, but we need to take a balanced and evidence-based approach for the prevention.

In a blog post, former RBI governor and economist Raghuram Rajan has laid out the possible ways to face the huge economic crisis that India may be facing due to the lockdown. He wrote, economically speaking, India is faced with perhaps its greatest emergency since Independence. He added, it will be hard to lock down the country entirely for longer periods, so the govt should also be thinking of how it can restart activities in certain low-infection regions with precautions. Stressing on the need to pay immediate attention to the poor and non-salaried, Rajan said, direct transfers to households may reach most but not all, and India have already seen one such consequence&nbsp;the movement of migrant labour. Rajan said, people will defy the lockdown to get back to work if they cannot survive otherwise.

According to a Hindustan Times report, the Union health ministry plan has outlined a roadmap to keep the coronavirus outbreak in check by focussing curbs and surveillance on hot spots while other areas return to some degree of normalcy, once the nationwide lockdown ends.The govt has reportedly identified 21 clusters in 9 regions to be kept on a close watch for outbreaks. Among them are Delhi&rsquo;s Nizamuddin neighbourhood, Rajasthan&rsquo;s Bhilwara and Kerala&rsquo;s Kasargod. According to govt's plan, a hot spot will be divided into zones: the quarantine zone and a buffer zone around it. The quarantine zone will be where most of the cases are focused, while the buffer will include certain blocks or districts around it, as decided by authorities. For both zones, outbound travel will be cut off and all movement of vehicles and public transport will be halted, with exceptions only for those with special passes meant for essential services. Schools and colleges will be closed, mass gatherings will be banned and people will be encouraged to stay indoors for the first 28 days in both zones.

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reached out to the opposition to seek support and suggestions on fight against coronavirus. The PM dialled former PM Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former Presidents Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha. The PM also reportedly spoke to a string of state leaders, including Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav, Naveen Patnaik and K Chandrasekhara Rao.

Authorities on Sunday decided to extend Section 144 in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar till April 30. The order was issued by Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police and restricts organisation of any demonstrations or other gatherings. Varanasi&nbsp;on Sunday reported its first coronavirus-related death. In a statement, the district magistrate said that the test reports of a patient from Gangapur who died have come back positive for the infection. &nbsp; &nbsp;

Air India, which has operated numerous relief and evacuation flights worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic, has got praise from unexpected quarters. The Pakistan Air Traffic Control not only welcomed Air India flights into its airspace but also appreciated the work the airline is doing in these uncertain times. NDTV has reported that a Mumbai-Frankfurt Air India flight carrying relief material was welcomed in the Pakistan airspace by the ATC with this message: ""We are proud of you that in a pandemic situation you are operating flights, Good Luck!".

Amid rising scare about Covid-19, the health ministry on Saturday issued an advisory on the use of homemade protective cover for the face and mouth. The govt has asked people to wear such homemade masks particularly when they step out of their houses. The advisory has come after reports that the deadly pathogen might also spread through air via breathing and talking

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine tablets that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients. Trump's request to the prime minister came during his telephonic conversation on Saturday. He asked PM Modi to lift a hold on the US order of the medicine. The Indian government has put on hold the export of the anti-malarial drug and its formulations.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country has risen to 3,374. Seventy-seven people have died across India after being infected with coronavirus, according to the latest data from the Health Ministry. 472 new&nbsp; cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours. The maximum percentage of coronavirus positive cases at 42% in the country have been reported among people in the age group between 21 and 40 years, the government&rsquo;s data showed on Saturday.

Eleven days into a total lockdown to control spread of novel coronavirus, India will turn off lights for nine minutes at 9 pm tonight. Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a call for unity to "fight the darkness of coronavirus pandemic" in his address on Friday. H eurged citizens to turn off lights at 9 pm for 9 minutes and stand on their doors or balconies with a diya/candle or mobile flashlight to fight the Covid-19 darkness with light. After several state boards expressed concerns over a sudden mass power fluctuations, govt clarified that There is no call to switch off street lights, computers or appliances such as TV sets, fans, refrigerators and air-conditioners in the homes, only lights should be switched off.

Lyricist and poet&nbsp;Javed Akhtar&nbsp;has hailed the efforts of Uddhav Thackeray lead Maharashtra&nbsp;government in handling coronavirus pandemic swiftly. Congratulating&nbsp;the&nbsp;government, Javed&nbsp;Akhtar&nbsp;took to Twitter &amp; wrote that its commendable how&nbsp;CM Uddhav Thackray has handled the Covid 19 with clear directives.

Wholesale traders in Delhi have warned of a shortage of essential items in the coming days during the ongoing nationwide lockdown. Hindustan Times has reported that traders said that they are still to get the required number of curfew passes for the movement of goods even after 12 days of lockdown announced to contain the spread of coronavirus. Essential items include milk, vegetables, foodgrains, cooking oil, consumer durables and medicines, among others. The capital&rsquo;s apex traders&rsquo; body on Saturday said they had written to the Union and Delhi governments to streamline the issuance of passes so that supplies are not affected.

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.

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