PM Modi on Wednesday unveiled The Statue of Unity in Gujarat on Wednesday, to mark the 143rd birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Built as a tribute to the "Iron Man of India", the statue has been constructed on an island on the Narmada river. At 182 metres, the Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, 30 metres taller than the Spring Temple Buddha in China and twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a video conference with chief ministers of all states to discuss ways to check the spread of coronavirus. PM&nbsp;told the chief ministers to formulate a common exit strategy to ensure the staggered re-emergence of the population once the lockdown ends on April 14. PM reiterated that&nbsp;testing, community tracing, social isolation and quarantine should remain the focus in the next few weeks.&nbsp;Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and top bureaucrats were present at the meeting along with the prime minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took stock of the fight against coronavirus in a video conference with the chief ministers of several states. PM had held a video conference with the CMs on March 20 as well. The PM apprised the CMs of the steps being taken by the Centre to stop the spread of the deadly pathogen. State chief ministers also gave status reports on the fight against Covid-19 at the state levels. Defence minister Rajnath Singh and home minister Amit Shah were also present during the video conference.

The number of coronavirus cases in&nbsp;India&nbsp;surpassed the 2,000-mark on Thursday and the death toll mounted to 53. Of the 2,069&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;cases, 1,860 are active cases and 155 persons have been cured of the virus. Maharashtra is the worst affected with 335 cases, followed by Kerala with 265.&nbsp;Globally confirmed coronavirus cases across the world is approaching one million. Since emerging in China in December,&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;has infected more than 950,000 people &mdash; including at least 500,000 in Europe &mdash; and claimed more than 48,000 lives, according to John Hopkins tracker. Spain said on Thursday it had suffered a record 950 deaths in 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 10,003.&nbsp;The number of patients in US has gone over 200,000.&nbsp;

Several Bollywood&nbsp;celebrities have expressed their outrage after a video of Indore&nbsp;locals attacking healthcare workers went viral.&nbsp;From Ronit&nbsp;Roy calling them hopeless&nbsp;to&nbsp;Onir&nbsp;calling it a shameful act, here are some of the reactions from the&nbsp;celebs who didn't mince words while venting their anger.&nbsp;

After Congress chief Sonia Gandhi&nbsp;criticized&nbsp;the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi&rsquo;s government attacked the Centre over the implementation of the 21-day lockdown, Home Minister Amit Shah attacked the Congress party in a post on twitter. Shah wrote while India was receiving praise for its handling of the crisis globally, the Congress is playing&nbsp;petty politics over Covid-19 outbreak,&nbsp;and it is&nbsp;high time&nbsp;the&nbsp;grand old party&nbsp;thinks about national interest and stops misleading people. Calling the lockdown necessary, during a Congress Working Committee&nbsp;Sonia&nbsp;had&nbsp;rued&nbsp;that the&nbsp;unplanned manner in which it&nbsp;was&nbsp;implemented has resulted in chaos and pain&nbsp;among millions of migrant labourers.&nbsp;

The Union Health Ministry stated that it has identified 20 existing and 22 potential hotspots of the Covid-19 across the country as it continues to spread. The Ministry informed that although there has been no case of community transmission yet, large human resources would be required to contain the spread of the deadly virus. As per the advisory issued by the Health Ministry on Thursday, Covid Warriors, that is 1 person per 250 people, has to be identified and trained for surveillance activities. The govt also highlighted some areas where special and enhanced deployment of manpower is required.

The national capital till Thursday reported 219 coronavirus cases with two new deaths in the last 24 hours.&nbsp;Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the two dead were from those evacuated from the Markaz headquarters in Nizamuddin. He said among the 219 cases, 108 are those evacuated from Nizamuddin Markaz. Among the total patients, 51 have foreign travel history. As many as 29 cases are the family members of those having travel history.

Amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus outbreak,&nbsp;Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share a video message with countrymen on Friday. Without divulging the subject of his message, the prime minister tweeted that&nbsp;9 AM on Friday he will share a small video message.&nbsp;On Thursday,&nbsp;Modi held a meeting with chief ministers on the Covid-19 outbreak via video-conferencing.&nbsp;

On Wednesday, India saw a sharp spike in the number of Coronavirus cases as officials continued to hunt for 9000 people linked to the Nizamuddin cluster. Reportedly 20 per cent of the nearly 2000 infections are linked the the Markaz event but in comparison with the Western nations, India's rate of cases is showing a stable trend. Globally, the number of cases in US has crossed 2 lakh mark amid a shortage of medical supplies and ventilators. The US president Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Washington will buy ventilators and other medical equipment from Moscow.

Amid the nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Defence Ministry announced on Thursday that it is mobilising ex-servicemen to assist the state and district administrations wherever required. The ministry said in a statement, Rajya Sainik Boards, Zila Sainik Boards can identify and mobilise maximum ex-servicemen volunteers to assist the state and district administration in performing public outreach activities such as contact tracing, community surveillance, management of quarantine facilities.&nbsp;The NCC has also offered the services of its cadets from across the country to join India's fight against coronavirus. So far nearly 47,000 senior NCC cadets have volunteered pan-India. The tasks envisaged for the cadets include, manning of helpline or call centres; distribution of relief materials, medicines, food and other essential commodities; community assistance; data management and queue and traffic management.

At least 328 fresh cases of coronavirus have been reported from across the country in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in its daily briefing. Home Ministry officials added that about 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat workers and their contacts have been identified across the nation and sent to quarantine. The Health Ministry said, the govt has placed orders for more than 1.5 crore personal protective equipment kits and supply has started. Orders have also been placed for more than 1 crore N95 masks.

One more doctor working in the national capital Delhi has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, taking the number of such cases to seven. New agency ANI reported on Tuesday that a&nbsp;resident doctor of the Physiology Department of All India Institute Of Medical Science has tested positive&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;is admitted to the new private ward for further evaluation and multiple testing. His family will also be screened. On Wednesday two resident doctors at Safdarjung hospital tested positive.&nbsp;Prior to this, three doctors of Mohalla Clinics were confirmed to have coronavirus infection, while another doctor from Sardar Patel Hospital has also tested positive for the disease, taking the total count of affected doctors to seven.&nbsp;

The death of a Covid-19 patient&nbsp;and a BMC&nbsp;worker testing positive&nbsp;from Mumbai's Dharavi&nbsp;has exposed its residents to the vulnerability of&nbsp;contracting the viral infection and sparked a fear of its&nbsp;spread&nbsp;in&nbsp;one of the biggest slums in&nbsp;Asia.&nbsp;On Thursday, a&nbsp;52-year-old BMC sanitization worker&nbsp;was&nbsp;found positive for the virus.&nbsp;On&nbsp;Wennesday, authorities sealed the building where the deceased man lived and put all the residents in home quarantine.&nbsp;Several&nbsp;smallscale&nbsp;industries and workshops of&nbsp;leather goods, pottery and textiles operate from the slum&nbsp;colony, which has a population of about 15 lakhs and is&nbsp;spread over 613 acres.&nbsp;The area has been demarcated as a 'containment zone'.&nbsp;A civic official said they have also planned periodic&nbsp;spraying of disinfectants in the area, while the police have&nbsp;restricted people's movement there.&nbsp;

A 93-year-old man and his 88-year-old wife from&nbsp;Pathanamthitta&nbsp;district in Kerala have recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus disease&nbsp;Covid-19.&nbsp;Thomas Abraham and Mariyamma have been fully cured after days of life-and-death battle against the deadly virus which they contracted from their son, daughter-in-law and grandson who returned from Italy last month, The&nbsp;Hindustan Times reported.&nbsp;Their grandson told the newspaper that the secret behind&nbsp;their recovery seems to be the healthy lifestyle they have been leading. He said his grandfather&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;teetotaller&nbsp;and non-smoker&nbsp;and&nbsp;without going to the gym, had a six-pack&nbsp;abs.&nbsp;

The Congress has hit out at the Centre for not announcing an interest subvention scheme along with the moratorium announced on payment of EMIs for three months against loans including for house, personal requirements, auto and other purposes, and said that it defeats the purpose of the relief. Banks have also&nbsp;warned borrowers that they would have to pay more if they choose to defer EMI&nbsp;payments.

The Kerala High Court on Thursday stayed the state government&rsquo;s order to state-owned Bevco to supply liquor at the homes of those who&nbsp;have withdrawal symptoms. The court&nbsp;order came after a Congress leader opposed the move to&nbsp;supply three&nbsp;litres&nbsp;of liquor every week to those showing withdrawal symptoms at their homes after they obtain government doctors' prescription.&nbsp;On Wednesday, a medical professional attached to the Indian Medical Association&nbsp;also&nbsp;wrote a letter to Kerala HC Chief Justice S Mani Kumar to seek his intervention to withdraw the guidelines&nbsp;There have been rising cases of suicides among the addicts since the lockdown was imposed.

The National Commission for Women has received over 250 complaints since the countrywide lockdown was imposed to control the spread of coronavirus. Out of these 69 were cases of domestic violence, which the NCW&nbsp;says&nbsp;has been increasing every day.&nbsp;NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma said the number of cases of domestic violence must be much higher but the women are scared to complain due to constant presence of their abuser at home. She added that because of the lockdown, women are not able to reach out to the police.&nbsp;

The World Health Organisation has praised prime minister Narendra Modi for steps taken by the govt to reduce difficulties&nbsp;for poor people during the nationwide lockdown to fight coronavirus. The WHO mentioned social welfare measure such as ration for 800 million people, cash transfers for 204 million poor women, free cooking gas for 80 million households for next three months as important steps that other countries can emulate

If you're getting bored of staying at home amid the lockdown, you can&nbsp;fight the virus in the virtual world - this time&nbsp;with direct help from the Prime Minister.
2 students from XLRI have created a gamed called 'Bhaag Corona' to spread awareness about the virus. The game has an animated PM Modi shooting vaccines at the coronavirus.
Akram Tariq Khan and Anushree Warade do not plan to monetise the game, they say they have created it for social good.&nbsp;

EMI&nbsp;deferment could put&nbsp;additional payment burden on the borrowers as banks informed that the interest shall continue to accrue on the outstanding portion of the loan during the moratorium period. They reiterated that it is 'deferment' and not an 'interest waiver'. The country's largest public-sector lender SBI also warned customers on Wednesday about the additional cost and advised borrowers to repay their loans if they are in a position to do the same.&nbsp;Explaining about the impact on home loan, State Bank of India said for a loan of ₹30 lakh with a remaining maturity of 15 years, the net additional interest would be nearly ₹2.34 lakh which is equal to eight EMIs.&nbsp;For auto loan of ₹6 lakh with a remaining maturity of 54 months, the additional interest payable would be around ₹19,000, equal to additional 1.5 EMIs, the bank said.

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