After taking charge of office, PM Narendra Modi's first decision was to approve a major change in the ‘PM’s Scholarship Scheme’ under the National Defence Fund. Before chairing his 1st Cabinet meet, the PM tweeted that the 1st decision of his govt is dedicated to those who protect the country. The scheme, introduced to encourage higher education for dependent wards of Ex Servicemen, has been extended to the wards of State Police officials who are/were martyred during terror/naxal attacks. 

France has reported 833 new coronavirus deaths in the past day, the highest daily toll since its outbreak began.&nbsp;The total number of people who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 now stands at 8,911, while the number of infections is 98,010.&nbsp;Health Minister Olivier&nbsp;V&eacute;ran&nbsp;warned that his country has not reached the end of the ascent of this epidemic.&nbsp;Italy's daily death toll also rose on Monday after several days of slowing, but Spain's fell for a fourth day.&nbsp;

After news of a New York tiger catching Covid-19 came out, BJP&nbsp;leader Maneka&nbsp;Gandhi took to twitter&nbsp;and made this appeal to cat owners.

The number of&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;cases in Maharashtra has increased to 1018 after the state reported 150 new cases on Tuesday. With this, Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to report more than 1000 novel&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;cases. Of the 150 new cases, 116 are from Mumbai, 18 from Pune, three each from Ahmednagar, Nagpur and Aurangabad, two each from Thane and Buldana, and one each from Satara, Ratnagiri and Sangli, news agency PTI reported quoting an official.

A BJP legislator in Karnataka on Tuesday alleged that some of the attendees of the Tablighi-&nbsp;Jamaat event in Delhi have been 'purposely evading' testing&nbsp;for coronavirus despite appeals, and said such it was "not&nbsp;wrong" to shoot such people.&nbsp;Accusing them of indirectly indulging in an act of terrorism, MLA M P Renukacharya, who is also a political secretary to Chief Minister Yediyurappa, however said, it waswrong to blame the whole community for the misdeeds of few.

The Rajasthan High Court Tuesday quashed the FIR against Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey for holding a placard in 2018 which stated &lsquo;Smash Brahmanical Patriarchy&rsquo;. In a 2018 tweet, journalist Anna MM Vetticad had shared a photograph of Dorsey and others, where he had held the said placard during his visit to India. Following the tweet, an FIR was filed against Jack, Vetticad and others at Basni police station in Jodhpur. The court said, the phrase which has been castigated as offending, may be construed as laying a challenge to the sociological concepts of a particular section/gender of the Brahmin community, but by no stretch of imagination can it be perceived that these words can even remotely hurt the religious sentiments of any citizen of India or create a religion-based rift.

The Border Security Force on Tuesday suspended all movement of its troops till April 21 as a preventive measure against the coronavirus outbreak.&nbsp;Instructions have been issued to all formations of BSF that leave of personnel to be extended upto April 21 who are already on leave and are due to join in the month of April.&nbsp;All Central Armed Police Forces have also suspended all non-essential movement of its troops and staffers as they have extended their leaves by another 10 days, till April 15.&nbsp;The about 2.5 lakh personnel strength BSF is primarily deployed to guard Indian borders with Pakistan&nbsp;and Bangladesh apart from rendering a variety of duties in the internal security domain of the country.
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The Out-Patient Department at Delhi State Cancer Institute has been shut and patients are being temporarily shifted to a private hospital after several DSCI staffers tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;Two doctors and 16paramedic have tested positive for coronavirus at the hospital.&nbsp;The official said authorities are investigating how the staffers contracted the infection as the cancer institute was not admitting Covid-19 patients.&nbsp;

A CRPF&nbsp;jawan&nbsp;was killed and another injured on Tuesday when a militant hurled a grenade at a patrolling party in south Kashmir's Anantnag district.&nbsp;Head Constable Shiv Lal&nbsp;Neetam&nbsp;was killed in the incident in Bijbehara on Tuesday evening, PTI reported.&nbsp;Some&nbsp;jawans&nbsp;received splinter injuries and were rushed to local hospital where&nbsp;Neetam&nbsp;was declared brought dead.&nbsp;

An opposition MLA in Assam was arrested, after he was booked for sedition, for alleged controversial comments about the situations of quarantine facilities and hospitals for coronavirus patients in the state.&nbsp;According to the police,&nbsp;in an audio clip, purportedly of the MLA and another person, the MLA Aminul Islam had allegedly said that the coronavirus quarantine&nbsp;centres&nbsp;in Assam are "dangerous and worse than detention&nbsp;centres" meant for illegal migrants. The&nbsp;All India United Democratic Front MLA&nbsp;had earlier accused the&nbsp;Bharatiya&nbsp;Janata Party led government in Assam of "conspiring against Muslims".&nbsp;

BJP MP from UP's Kannauj parliamentary seat,&nbsp;Subrat&nbsp;Pathak, allegedly assaulted a 'tehsildar' in his house. The MP accompanied by about two dozen supporters barged into the house of Arvind Kumar and beat him up, according to news agency IANS.&nbsp;The official claimed that the MP had been&nbsp;pressurising&nbsp;him to sanction some works that were not according to rules.&nbsp;The supporters of the MP have denied the incident and said that they had merely gone to discuss some developmental projects with Arvind Kumar.

Reports say the Centre 'is considering' a request by state govts and experts to extend the 21-day lockdown imposed to control the Covid-19 spread. All eyes are also on the India-US turf war over hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, that is being used as a potential anti-viral to treat coronavirus patients. Watch today's biggest headlines in our Covid-19 wrap.

For the management of Covid-19 cases, the government has released the guidance document on appropriate handling of suspect or confirmed Covid-19 cases. On the basis of their severity&nbsp;the suspects of patients have been divided into three&nbsp;categories .&nbsp;With this, the Health Ministry has put in place the standard operating procedure for care of Covid-19 patients. It will ensure that hospital beds are used only for moderate to severe cases. The SOP also specifies the different types of facilities to be set up for various categories of Covid-19 cases.

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil&nbsp;Deshmukh on Tuesday said that police personnel deployed at&nbsp;Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private residence&nbsp;'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra will be tested for coronavirus&nbsp;infection.&nbsp;His statement comes&nbsp;a day after owner of a tea stall near the bungalow&nbsp;tested positive.&nbsp;Police personnel deployed at the bungalow will be&nbsp;quarantined and replaced as a precautionary measure.&nbsp;&nbsp;The tea vendor was admitted in Jogeshwari-based HBT&nbsp;hospital for Covid-19.&nbsp;However, it is not yet clear how the vendor, who stays&nbsp;inside his small shop, contracted the infection.&nbsp;

The Centre may extend the nationwide lockdown announced to stem the spread of the&nbsp;coronavirus pandemic beyond April 14, say reports. An ANI report quoting govt sources said, a lot of state governments, as well as experts, are requesting the Centre to extend the lockdown, the report also added that the centre is 'thinking in this direction'.&nbsp;&nbsp;Union Minister Rajnath Singh said the govt has not taken&nbsp;any decision on extending the lockdown yet. On Monday, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;had said that Centre will take a decision to end the restrictions at the 'right time', which will be in the interests of the nation and its people. The sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases across the country is believed to be the reason for several state governments seeking extension of the lockdown. Telangana Chief Minister KCR is among the state leaders who has sought an extension of the lockdown.

The Inidan Council of Medical Research&nbsp;on Tuesday said that according to its study if a person does not follow social distancing, one person can infect 406 in just 30 days. Similarly if 75% social exposure is lessened, the risk of infection falls from 406 to 2.5 people.&nbsp;

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, on Tuesday issued a circular on N95 masks, asking the healthcare workers to re-use them after disinfecting the masks.&nbsp;According to the circular, AIIMS will provide the N95 masks to each healthcare worker, involved in direct patient care. This includes, doctors, both Faculty and Residents, nursing officers, technical staff, security guards and maintenance staff. The AIIMS asked the health workers to re-use N95 masks at least 4 times, whereby these will suffice for about 20 days.

With vehicles off the road and industries shut due to the ongoing lockdown imposed to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the presence of major pollutants in the air -- PM2.5, PM10 and NOx -- has reduced by at least 50 per cent in Delhi.&nbsp;According to an analysis by the central government-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, in comparison with other cities the highest reduction in these three pollutants have been seen in Delhi.&nbsp;The three pollutants -- PM2.5&nbsp; which is atmospheric particulate matter that have a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers), PM10 which atmospheric particulate matter that have a diameter of less than 10 micrometers&nbsp; and NOx which is nitrogen oxide released in traffic emissions -- are some of the most dangerous pollutants and prolonged exposure to these can lead to serious respiratory disorders.&nbsp;

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kerjiwal announced a 5-point action plan to treat Covid-19 patients in the capital. Addressing the media, he listed the 5Ts - testing, tracing, treatment, team work and tracking &amp; monitoring.&nbsp;Kejriwal said, currently 2,950 beds are reserved for Covid-19 patients in the capital, and 3,000 patients can be treated as of now, but if the number goes up, the govt is equipped to increase the beds in hospitals. He added, over 1 lakh people will be tested for Covid-19&nbsp;over the next few days along with&nbsp;randomised testing at&nbsp;hotpots.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has written to the PM demanding more austerity measure from the govt in the wake of Covid crisis. Welcoming salary cuts for MPs, Gandhi has suggested a complete ban on govt and PSU advertisements in TV and print media for two years. She has also urged the prime minister to suspend the 20,000 crore Central Vista beautification project, whish she has said seems self-indulgent at this time. She has also suggested a 30% pay cut for govt staff and a bar on foreign travels of PM and ministers. She has further called for transfer of money in PM Cares fund to PM relief fund to ensure transparency and efficiency.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday&nbsp;said that while India must help all countries in their fight against coronavirus,&nbsp;lifesaving medicines should be made available to Indians in ample quantities first.&nbsp;Rahul&nbsp;tweeted, "friendship isn't about retaliation". His reaction came after the govt&nbsp;said that India would to export anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to several countries in sync with its commitment to the international community.
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