Robert Vadra on Friday failed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning citing health reasons. The businessman and Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law is under the ED scanner in a money-laundering case involving ownership of 1.9 million pounds of overseas assets. Vadra was questioned by the ED on Thursday for over seven hours in relation to kickbacks received by his company in petroleum deals in Gujarat, IANS reported. 

In its daily media briefing on the current Covid-19 situation in the country, the Health&nbsp;Ministry said a total 79 deaths has been reported nationwide, with 11 new deaths since yesterday.
Joint Secretary in the Health&nbsp;Ministry&nbsp;Lav&nbsp;Agarwal said, a total of 3, 374 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been reported in India till now; with 472 fresh cases since yesterday.
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.

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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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.

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;

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.

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.

The National Health Authority said on Saturday that testing and treatment for Covid-19 will be free of cost for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries at private laboratories and&nbsp;empanelled&nbsp;hospitals.&nbsp;The NHA, which implements the national health insurance scheme, said this will strengthen the country's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. More than 50 crore citizens are eligible under the health assurance scheme which has also been dubbed as Modicare.&nbsp;The tests will be carried out as per protocols of the Indian Council for Medical Research and by private labs approved or registered by it.&nbsp;

As the number of cases of coronavirus spiked beyond 500 in Maharashtra, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday cautioned people against &lsquo;wrong messages&rsquo; about Covid-19 on social media platforms.&nbsp; On Facebook Live, Uddhav Thackeray&nbsp;warned of strict action against those spreading communally divisive messages amid reports that several such videos have been doing the rounds on WhatsApp,&nbsp;TikTok&nbsp;and Twitter.&nbsp;Like Covid-19 virus, there is a communal virus too, this Covid-19 virus sees no religion.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Centre on Saturday said 1,023 Covid-19 positive cases with links to Tablighi Jamaat have been reported from 17 states till now and nearly 22,000 members of the Jamaat and their contacts have been quarantined so far. Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry, said there have been 601 positive coronavirus cases and 12 deaths reported since Friday. He said the condition of 58 coronavirus patients is critical, and they&nbsp;are located in&nbsp;Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Kerala.&nbsp;

Comparing the number of people being tested in India for Covid-19 with other countries, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his appeal to the people to light torches on Sunday, saying shining torches in the sky would not solve the problem.&nbsp;In a tweet, Rahul said India is simply not testing enough to fight Covid-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;He also attached to his tweet a chart, released by the Congress, that showed India was testing only 29 people per million. According to his tweet,&nbsp;Pakistan is testing 67 people per million, Sri Lanka 97, the United Kingdom 1,891, Germany 5,812, Italy 7,122 and South Korea 7,622 per million.&nbsp;Making people clap and shining torches in the sky aren't going to solve the problem, the former Congress chief said.&nbsp;
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The&nbsp;union&nbsp;health ministry on&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;said&nbsp;that most cases of coronavirus in India have been found in the age groups of 21-40&nbsp;which is&nbsp;42 per cent of&nbsp;the total number of patients.&nbsp;The next most-hit age group is those between ages 41 and 50, which compromises of 33 per cent of positive cases.&nbsp;People above the age group of 60,&nbsp;who are the most high-risk group for the viral infection, form 17 per cent of the&nbsp;over 3000 patients.&nbsp;Only 9 per cent of those infected have been found&nbsp;below&nbsp;the age of&nbsp;20.&nbsp;

As coronavirus continued to wreak havoc in the US, prime minister Narendra Modi spoke to President Donald Trump&nbsp;and discussed the issues related to the pandemic. Prime Minister Modi said he had an&nbsp;extensive telephone conversation with Trump&nbsp;and&nbsp;had a good discussion. He said the two leaders&nbsp;agreed to deploy the full strength of the India-US partnership to fight&nbsp;Coivd-19.&nbsp;

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