One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case - Pawan Kumar Gupta has moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President. His lawyer AP Singh&nbsp;told the court that the Gupta didn't&nbsp;know about the seven-day deadline&nbsp;to avail his legal options and therefore he&nbsp;didn't&nbsp;file either a curative petition or a mercy petition so far.

One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case - Pawan Kumar Gupta has moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. He is the lone convict among the four who has not exhausted his legal remedies of filing a curative petition and subsequent mercy plea with the President. His lawyer AP Singh told the court that the Gupta didn't know about the seven-day deadline to avail his legal options and therefore he didn't file either a curative petition or a mercy petition so far.

A doctor posted at a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi's Babarpur has tested positive for coronavirus, with authorities asking patients who visited the clinic at the Janta Mazdoor Colony between March 12 and 20 to self-quarantine at home for 15 days. Earlier, a doctor had tested corona&nbsp;postive&nbsp;in the same area.&nbsp;A notice to this effect from&nbsp;Shahadara&nbsp;District Magistrate has been put at the clinic, saying the doctor has tested positive. People have been asked to report if they develop any corona symptoms.

As&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic affects the economy, the Maharashtra government has said that there would be a 60 cut in this month's salaries of public representatives in the state, including the chief minister. The salaries of Class I and II employees will be cut by 50% while that of Class III employees will be cut by 25%. There will be no cut in the salaries of remaining classes in the state bureaucracy.&nbsp;Telangana&nbsp;government has also decided to impose big salary cuts. State chief minister KCR is taking a 75% salary cut, along with his cabinet, MLCs, MLAs, state corporation chairpersons and local bodies representatives.&nbsp;

Stating that panic will destroy more lives than coronavirus, the Supreme Court on Tuesday&nbsp;favoured&nbsp;criminal action against those spreading misinformation and fake news on the pandemic.&nbsp;A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justice L Nageswara Rao, in the hearing conducted through&nbsp;video-conferencing,&nbsp;emphasised&nbsp;that fake news creates panic among people, thus requiring the Centre to have an official channel of directly communicating with the people.&nbsp;The court pointed out that the government&rsquo;s affidavit about the steps being taken to ameliorate the situation has nothing on the aspect of counselling to people, including the migrant workers who are lodged in shelter homes and other temporary accommodations.

As&nbsp;the authorities locate the persons from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat conference at Nizamuddin in Delhi, the AP government has managed to&nbsp;find&nbsp;369 people from the state.&nbsp;With most of the Covid-19 affected persons in Andhra turning out to be the participants or a&nbsp;contacts of a participant&nbsp;of the congregation held between March 15-17, the government has intensified efforts to quarantine them on a war footing.&nbsp;As per the district-wise break up of people who attended the meet, the highest number was from Kurnool with 107, followed by Krishna with 40, Guntur with 37, Nellore 33, and&nbsp;Prakasam&nbsp;30.

The Centre told the Supreme Court that as of 11 am on Tuesday, there were no migrant workers seen on roads. Solicitor General Tushar&nbsp;Mehta&nbsp;told the top court that over 22 lakh&nbsp;daily wagers&nbsp;are being provided food. Mehta&nbsp;added that those who are still on the road were stopped and and moved to shelters and quarantine facilities. The Supreme Court also asked the government on the functionality of the Whatsapp chatbox. The government said it was in its initial stages but work was being done to enhance it. ​Chief Justice said that fear-mongering over the novel coronavirus disease could take more lives than Covid-19 itself. The Court has asked the government to rope in as many people as possible to disseminate correct news about the pandemic.
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On the eve of All Fools' Day, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh&nbsp;has appealed to the people not to fool around with Covid-19 rumours or messages. On April 1, people send jokes, pranks or messages to fool each other and enjoy but, the as the country is grappling with coronavirus&nbsp;this year, the minister said&nbsp;if anybody tries to send wrong or misleading messages or spread rumour&nbsp;the government will act against him. Maharashtra&nbsp;has the second highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
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The religious gathering at Delhi's Nizamuddin is turning out to be a massive cluster crisis for the spread of Covid-19. Apart from 24 people in Delhi, 10 in Andaman and Nicobar islands and 6 men in Telangana have tested positive for the novel coronavirus after participating in the event. The Andhra Pradesh government has confirmed that at least 369 people from Andhra Pradesh had also attended the gathering. Some reports suggest massive surveillance and testing will take place at the Nizamuddin coronavirus cluster. The maximum number of foreign nationals who were part of the event that took place between March 15 and March 17 are from Indonesia. Apart from that, there were 19 Nepalese nationals, 20 people from Malaysia, 33 from Myanmar, 28 people from Kyrgystan, 71 from Thailand, 34 from Sri Lanka and 19 Bangladeshi nationals among others.

Quarantine or not, mishti is must for Bengalis. Chief minister Mamata&nbsp;Banerjee&nbsp;also thinks so. Keeping in mind the sweet-tooth of the people of state, Didi&nbsp;has decided to relax the lockdown rules for the sweets industry.&nbsp;Sweet shops in Bengal will remain open between 12 pm to 4 pm to cater to those sweet cravings, since Didi&nbsp;feels they come under essential items.&nbsp;Mamata Banerjee&nbsp;says the move will help&nbsp;milkmen and people involved in dairy businesses in the state. She said cottage cheese was going to waste after the lockdown and that milkmen were throwing away milk in drains.

Delhi Chief Minister held a high-level meeting over people gathering at the Markaz building in Nizamuddin on Monday. Hundreds reportedly attended a religious congregation in the locality had shown symptoms for the new coronavirus, after which a major part of the area was cordoned off by authorities. A 68-year-old Philippines national who passed away last Sunday in Mumbai&rsquo;s Hiranandani Hospital had also visited the Nizamuddin congregation between March 3-10. Reports quoting Home Ministry sources say, Indonesians who visited the Nizamuddin markaz came to India on tourist visa but attended religious congregation without informing the authorities. They could be blacklisted for violation of visa rules.

Delhi's health minister Satyendar Jain has said that 24 people who were present at the Markaz building in Nizamuddin have tested positive for coronavirus. He added that around 1,500 to 1,700 people have been estimated by the government to have assembled at the site. Over 334 people have been sent to hospitals and over 700 others have been sent to a quarantine centre. Meanwhile, amid multiple reports claiming that the establishment had violated lockdown, the Markaz issued a detailed clarification, saying that with a hastily carried out lockdown, people were stranded and were forced to seek accommodation at the premises, on the orders of Prime Minister Modi for people to stay put at where they were.

There has been a steep rise in patients with mental illness since the coronavirus outbreak in the country. A recent survey conducted by the Indian Psychiatry Society, says there has been about a 20% jump in the number of patients, adding that at least one out of every five Indians is suffering from mental health-related issues. Adding to this, is the 21-day nationwide lockdown, that has triggered anxiety among people who are scared of losing their businesses, jobs, earnings, savings or even basic resources. Experts say the new cases are mostly anxiety, panic attacks, and alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

Five more people tested positive&nbsp;for coronavirus in Maharashtra on Tuesday, taking the total&nbsp;number of cases in the state to 225. Among the new cases, two each were reported from Pune&nbsp;and Buldhana and one from Mumbai.
Seven&nbsp;people, who were evacuated from Iran, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Rajasthan. The total number of positive cases in the state has now&nbsp;risen to 83.
West Bengal reported another death in&nbsp;Howrah&nbsp;district, taking the death toll in the state to three.
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday withdrew an earlier circular stating that the bodies of all those who die of coronavirus infection in Mumbai will be cremated irrespective of the religion of the deceased. The circular was quashed on the intervention of Maharashtra Minority Development Minister Nawab Malik. Amending the order, the BMC said bodies will be allowed for funeral keeping in mind certain guidelines, that cemetaries should be big enough for funerals and precautionary measures be taken to avoid the spread of the virus.

The district magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar was removed on Monday after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Noida to take stock of preparations to fight the novel coronavirus. A video clip showed an unhappy Adityanath scolding BN Singh over lapses related to containing the pandemic. In a briefing, the state chief secretary said Singh has been removed and a departmental inquiry ordered against him. Suhas LY has been posted as the new district magistrate. Yogi Adityanath also issued directives to the Health Department to constitute teams for Gautam Buddh Nagar, Meerut and Ghaziabad to combat coronavirus outbreak in these areas.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday ordered the registration of&nbsp;an&nbsp;FIR against a cleric for leading a congregation in West Nizamuddin in South Delhi. This after the&nbsp;Delhi Police on Monday cordoned off the area where several people showed symptoms of coronavirus after taking part in the congregation.&nbsp;Over 2,000 delegates, including from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended the&nbsp;Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West from March 1-15.&nbsp;The Delhi government will launch a house-to-house mapping exercise in two nearby colonies on Tuesday to check for coronavirus cases.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Even as the number of coronavirus cases in India touched 1250, the Health Ministry on Monday reiterated that Covid-19 infection is still in the local transmission stage in India and that there has been &lsquo;no community transmission as of now&rsquo;.&nbsp;The health ministry in a&nbsp;late night&nbsp;release said that 32 people have died due to the infection across the country so far.&nbsp;The ministry attributed&nbsp;the slow pace of rise in cases to people&rsquo;s participation in strictly following the&nbsp;social distancing&nbsp;guidelines and the nationwide lockdown.&nbsp;

The Telangana government on Monday announced drastic pay cuts for all its employees, bureaucrats and public representatives in the wake of a crippling financial position due to coronavirus.&nbsp;The pay cuts range from a minimum of 10 per cent to a maximum of 75 per cent. A statement from the chief minister&rsquo;s office said there would be 75 per cent cut in the salaries of the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues, MLAs, MLCs, chairpersons of various state-level corporations and representatives of urban and rural local bodies.&nbsp;Salaries of all India service officers including those in the IAS, IPS and IFS will be slashed by 60 per cent.&nbsp;But there was no clarity on how long pay cuts would be in force except that the March salaries to be paid&nbsp;on&nbsp;April will come under the order.&nbsp;

The Karnataka government has asked&nbsp;those in home-quarantine to send a selfie every hour, failing which they&nbsp;may&nbsp;be housed in mass quarantine&nbsp;facility.&nbsp;A press release, signed by Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar,&nbsp;says Covid-19 suspects will not have to send selfies&nbsp;during sleeping hours from 10 pm to 7 am.&nbsp;It mentions that the selfie will include location coordinates&nbsp;and&nbsp;selfies&nbsp;sent by a home-quarantined person&nbsp;will be checked by the&nbsp;government&rsquo;s photo verification team.&nbsp;

Army personnel concealing symptoms for Covid-19 and failing to disclose contact with infected persons and travel details to areas having cases of the infection will face punitive action under the Army Act.&nbsp;The Army headquarters&nbsp;has&nbsp;sent an advisory to all the Army bases, formations and wings prescribing specific measures to insulate the 1.3 million force from the coronavirus and warning about punitive action if the norms are breached.&nbsp;The advisory said it has been made "obligatory" to immediately disclose any symptoms like cough, throat pain, fever, breathing difficulty to concerned authorities.&nbsp;

&nbsp; (PLAY PART OF THE CLIP WHERE THE MAN SAYS HUME CHUDWADIJIYE SIR AND CRIES)&nbsp; Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who till months ago, was part of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar&rsquo;s Janata Dal United, posted this&nbsp;vido&nbsp;of migrant workers, and&nbsp;sought the resignation of&nbsp;his former party boss.&nbsp;&nbsp; (PLAY OTHER PORTIONS)&nbsp; Describing the video,&nbsp;Kishor wrote this is another frightening picture of the government&rsquo;s efforts to save people from the coronavirus infection. He said for the poor people who have reached Bihar from various parts of the country after facing hardship and trouble, Nitish Kumar&rsquo;s arrangement for social distancing and quarantine is heart-wrenching.&nbsp;

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