Patna is underwater as heavy rains have brought the Bihar Capital to a standstill. Schools have been closed till Tuesday as weather department has warned of more rains in the state. Roads, offices and hospitals have been inundated. Residents in flooded areas were taken out in rescue boats.&nbsp;Bihar government has asked Indian Air Force for two helicopters for lifting and airdropping food packets and medicines, in the flood-affected areas of Patna. CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday said that even weather department is clueless making different predictions at different points of time. 27 people have been reported dead so far.

Patna is underwater as heavy rains have brought the Bihar Capital to a standstill. Schools have been closed till Tuesday as weather department has warned of more rains in the state. Roads, offices and hospitals have been inundated. Residents in flooded areas were taken out in rescue boats. Bihar government has asked Indian Air Force for two helicopters for lifting and airdropping food packets and medicines, in the flood-affected areas of Patna. CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday said that even weather department is clueless making different predictions at different points of time. 27 people have been reported dead so far.

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.

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;

Tamil Nadu on Friday reported 102 positive coronavirus cases, taking the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state to 411.&nbsp;The state now ranks at the top in the country in terms of positive Covid-19 count.&nbsp;A&nbsp;total of 411 persons have tested positive for the deadly&nbsp;virus in the state so far. 3,584 persons have been tested, of which 2,789 returned negative.&nbsp;A bulk of those who have tested positive for the virus are those who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat religious congregation held in Delhi's Nizamuddin area last month.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Addressing the media in his daily briefing, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, one more person evacuated from Markaz has died due to Covid-19, taking the total number of deaths to 5. Kejriwal added that 91 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Delhi in last 24 hours; taking total number of cases to 384. He added of these 384 cases, 58 patients have a history of foreign travel, while 259 are Markaz patients.

As India remains under lockdown and the government is reportedly preparing for &lsquo;limited lockdown&rsquo; at the end of 21 days&nbsp;on April 14, focus is slowly shifting to the economy. Vikram Chandra on Friday participated in a special discussion hosted by twitter, where he and other industry experts&nbsp;discusses the ways that could heal the economy that has taken a severe hit due to the 21-day lockdown imposed to contain the spread of&nbsp;the deadly novel coronavirus.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Amid the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the city, The Delhi government on Friday announced the shutting down of the&nbsp;out patient&nbsp;department services of its two premier hospitals -- Lok Nayak and G.B. Pant. In an order, the Medical Director, however, said the medical emergency services at both the hospitals will continue. The order will come into effect from April 4. The two hospitals were earmarked for dedicated treatment of coronavirus patients.&nbsp; &nbsp;

At least seven Delhi Police personnel who were involved in vacating the site of the 'markaz' meet at south Delhi's Nizamuddin area last month have been quarantined.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in&nbsp;Nizamuddin West, which is among the major&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;hotspots in the country, was been cleared after the evacuation of 2,361 people on Wednesday. Taking to Twitter, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia had said that out of the 2,361 people, 617 have been admitted to hospitals while the rest quarantined.&nbsp;

Days after a 55-year-old man died in a government hospital in Vijayawada, the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday confirmed that coronavirus was the cause of the death. The patient had gotten the disease from his son who returned from the Tablighi Jamaat congregation on 17th March, and also tested postive for the virus. This is the first coronavirus death reported in the state, where total number of positive cases rose to 161, out of which three have recovered.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath has ordered charges under the stringent National Security Act against those who allegedly assaulted nurses at a hospital in Ghaziabad. The Yogi govt has already slapped the National Security Act against six members of Tablighi Jamaat, who attended a religious gathering in Delhi last month. Yogi Adityanath said, those who won't follow the law and are enemies of humanity, what they have done with women healthcare providers is a heinous crime and his govt won't spare them.

An employee of the US embassy in Delhi has tested positive for Covid-19. The US Embassy Spokesperson in New Delhi said they are working with the health authorities to ensure the employee receives proper treatment.&nbsp;In a statement, the Embassy said&nbsp;that they are&nbsp;coordination with Indian&nbsp;authorities,&nbsp;and&nbsp;continues to implement all appropriate measures to help control the spread of Covid-19.&nbsp;Delhi has reported close to 300 Coronavirus cases so far.&nbsp;

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea seeking direction for using resorts and hotels for migrant workers walking back to their native places after being rendered jobless following 21-day lockdown. The plea had argued that&nbsp;shelter homes where migrants are kept allegedly lack adequate sanitation facilities.&nbsp;A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta, which heard the matter through&nbsp;video-conferencing, observed that the court cannot force the government to listen to all the ideas as people may come up with millions of ideas.&nbsp;Solicitor General Tushar Mehta&nbsp;told the court&nbsp;that state governments have already taken over buildings like schools and others to use them as shelter for migrants.&nbsp;

The World Bank on Thursday approved $ 1-billion emergency financing for India to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.&nbsp;The World Bank's first set of aid projects, amounting to $1.9 billion, will assist 25 countries, and new operations are moving forward in over 40 nations using the fast-track process, the bank said.&nbsp;The largest chunk of the emergency financial assistance, $1billion, has gone to India.

The coronavirus cases in India rose to 2301, Health Ministry announced on Friday morning. The country recorded 336 new cases in the last 24 hours. 56 people have died after being infected by the coronavirus, while 157 have been discharged from hospital after recovery.

Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi on Friday did a video call with top sports stars of the nation. Stars like PV Sindhu, Mirabai&nbsp;Chanu&nbsp;&amp; former cricketers Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar, Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly, Yuvraj&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;were in attendance&nbsp;as the group spoke about the challenges of fighting the Coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. A total of 40 sports tars attended the conference call as India battles the pandemic with a rising number of positive cases in the country. The Prime Minister&nbsp;gave a five-point mantra of &lsquo;Sankalp,&nbsp;Sanyam,&nbsp;Sakaratmakta,&nbsp;Samman &amp; Sahyog&rsquo; to tackle the lockdown. PM added that the&nbsp;sportspersons have brought glory to the nation &amp; now have an important role to play in boosting the morale &amp; spreading positivity.

India's Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat believes that India must break the Covid-19 virus chain by April 14, through the lockdown and social distancing, or be prepared to deal with the long-term consequences of the pandemic. In a phone interview with the Hindustan Times, General Rawat said, the military dictum is &lsquo;prepare or perish&rsquo;, but in these times he has refined it to &lsquo;prepare or suffer&rsquo;. Rawat said the military is totally prepared to stand up to the demands made by government and the people. The army, navy and air force have moved into action by dedicating 17-18 hospitals to care for the infected, and the total bed capacity in the forces has been ramped up to 15,000 so far.

Supreme Court on Friday took suo motu cognisance of the issue of the plight of migrant workers in the wake of the nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 outbreak. The top court took up the matter after TMC MP Mahua Moitra wrote a letter to the chief justice asking the top court to take up the issue and give appropriate guidelines to lessen the hardships of lakhs of migrant workers across the country.

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