Tributes poured in for former Defence Minister George Fernandes who passed away on Tuesday morning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Fernandes the frank and fearless politician. Home minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that as a trade union leader Fernandes fought for the rights of the poor. Several other political leaders and commentators paid their tributes to the fighter that was George Fernandes. His last rites will be performed on Wednesday.

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;

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;

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;

The Delhi Police on Monday&nbsp;cordoned off a large part of Nizamuddin area after around 200 people, who had attended a religious gathering, started exhibiting&nbsp;Coronavirus symptoms.&nbsp;A religious programme was organised at the mosque on March 18 and more than 500 people from various states had attended the programme; many of whom have since then returned. Making matters worse, coronavirus cases have surfaced in several states linked to this&nbsp;event. A man who died in Tamil Nadu&nbsp;is now believed to have&nbsp;attended the programme while six have tested positive in Andaman, one in Srinagar&nbsp;and one&nbsp;in&nbsp;Guntur.&nbsp;Health authorities in Tamil Nadu are worried about the health status of about 1,500 people in the state, after being exposed to people&nbsp;who attended the Nizamuddin event.

The UP government has ordered an inquiry after a group of migrant workers, who arrived in Bareilly in the wake of a 21-day nationwide lockdown prompted by the fast-spreading coronavirus, were made to squat on a road and then sprayed with chlorine-mixed water on Monday.&nbsp;A section of opposition leaders and social media users were outraged over the treatment of migrants after a video of the incident, which took place near a bus station, surfaced on Twitter. The video showed people, including children, herded in one corner of the road and sprayed with the disinfectant.&thinsp;Some Twitter users even alleged that the workers were given a &lsquo;chemical bath&rsquo;.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Reiterating that Covid-19 is still in the local transmission stage in India, the Health Ministry on Monday said it took 12 days for cases of infection to rise from 100 to 1,000 and that the rate of increase has been slower than some of the developed countries. According to the government,&nbsp;the slow rise in cases in India can be attributed to the strictly enforced shutdown.

Admitting for the first time that the country is entering that phase of the outbreak when the source of a patient&rsquo;s infection&nbsp;cannot be traced and isolated, the&nbsp;Hindustan Times has reported that limited&nbsp;community transmission&nbsp;of the Covid-19 disease has begun in India. The report quoted a Union health ministry document&nbsp;issued late on Sunday night, which noted&nbsp;down&nbsp;the&nbsp;SOP applicable to current phase of Covid-19 pandemic in India&nbsp;amd&nbsp;includes&nbsp;both&nbsp;local transmission and limited community transmission.&nbsp;There are four main stages of disease outbreak. Stage I is usually when cases are imported. Stage II is when there is local transmission, which means a section of people testing positive come in contact with a positive patient&nbsp;with&nbsp;a travel history. Stage III is community transmission. Stage IV is an epidemic, when there several clusters of the infection.&nbsp;

With its troops deployed away from their families, the CRPF has directed its field offices to set up 24x7&nbsp;&nbsp;helplines,&nbsp;and&nbsp;quick reaction teams to assist their spouses and old parents in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.&nbsp;The 23 sectors of the force have been asked to establish and&nbsp;publicise&nbsp;a standalone landline connection and a WhatsApp-enabled mobile number to be manned round-the-clock by an&nbsp;officer.&nbsp;Directions have been issued&nbsp;to take special care of those families where the spouse is alone with the responsibility of children and those where old parents are living alone.&nbsp;

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath&nbsp;on Monday took stock of the situation in Gautam Buddh Nagar&nbsp;in Noida, which has so far recorded 32 positive cases of coronavirus, the highest for any district in the state. The chief minister first landed at Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad and then flew to Greater Noida in a helicopter when he met government officials. After this, he will inspect the Control Room located in Delhi. He will stay in Delhi tonight and visit Ghaziabad &amp; Meerut&nbsp;on Tuesday.

The correctional services department in West Bengal has prepared a list of 3,000 inmates who were eligible for parole and bail, in order to decongest jails amid the growing Covid-19 threat. Assam jail authorities on Monday also&nbsp;released 45 undertrials.&nbsp;The move comes after the Supreme Court&nbsp;issued guidelines in view of the&nbsp;Coronavirus outbreak in the country.&nbsp;The Gujarat government on Sunday said it will release around 1,200 prisoners for two months on parole and interim bail to reduce jail crowding. On Saturday,&nbsp;the Tihar Jail authority released over 400 inmates to reduce overcrowding in prisons to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The Centre has asked automobile manufacturers to use their facilities to produce ventilators to boost the country's capacity of such machines in view of rising Covid-19 cases. The Health Ministry said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation will begin manufacturing 20,000 N-95 masks per day within the next week. The ministry also informed that over 14,000 existing ventilators are earmarked in various hospitals in the country while there are 11.95 lakh N-95 masks in stock. Besides, the Ministry of health has already asked&nbsp;Bharat Electronics Limited, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Defence, to manufacture 30,000 ventilators in the next two months.

The Lucknow district administration on Monday acquired four hotels on a temporary basis to lodge medical staff who are on 24x7 duty at various government hospital treating confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases.&nbsp;Hyatt Regency and Fairdeal Hotel have been acquired for the staff of&nbsp;Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences.&nbsp;The Piccadily hotel and Lemon Tree Hotel have been acquired for the staff of&nbsp;Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
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The doctors treating coronavirus patients at Delhi's&nbsp;LNJP and GBP hospitals will be accommodated at The&nbsp;Lalit&nbsp;Hotel on the city government's expense from now on. A Delhi government order says, "It has been decided that doctors working on COVID-19 duty at LNJP Hospital and GB Pant Hospital would be provided accommodation at Hotel Lalit and the payment of the same shall be borne by the Delhi government". 100 rooms have been made available&nbsp;for this.&nbsp;LNJP Hospital, GBP Hospital and other few hospitals are among the facilities where doctors are deployed round-the-clock for attending positive or suspected cases of COVID-19.

Mizoram Chief Minister&nbsp;Zoramthanga&nbsp;on Monday raised the&nbsp;issue of attack and racial discrimination against people of the Northeast in the midst of the Coronavirus&nbsp;epidemic.&nbsp;The chief minister took to twitter after a video showing some persons from the Northeast allegedly being denied entry to a grocery shop went viral and has sought the Prime Minister and the Home Minister's intervention. "I am pained, shocked and in my worst awe seeing this video. When has humanity stooped so low," Zoramthanga said in a tweet. It is believed that the incident took place somewhere in Mysore. According to Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma, an FIR has been lodged and two persons arrested in connection with the&nbsp;incident.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said there was a "dangerous situation" in the entire country as the exodus of migrant workers continued, despite the ongoing 21-day lockdown. Reacting to multiple reports of workers on the move, Sisodia said, "Exodus of migrant workers continues even today from Punjab and Haryana... There is a dangerous situation in the entire country." The Centre has told&nbsp;state governments and Union Territories to seal the borders to stop the movement of migrant workers but has been ineffective so far.

The Supreme Court on Monday heard a petition filed by advocate&nbsp;Alakh Alok Srivastava seeking food, water and shelter for fleeing migrant workers amid the countrywide lockdown.&nbsp;Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court that all necessary steps are being taken to mitigate the situation.&nbsp;Hearing the matter via video conferencing, SC asked Centre to file a reply on the measures it is taking to help these migrant workers. The hearing has been postponed to Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condoled the death of Omar Abdullah's uncle and appreciated the National Conference leader's&nbsp;call to supporters to a avoid large gathering and pray from home for the departed soul. Prime Minister&nbsp;Modi tweeted, "Condolences to you and the entire family. May his soul rest in peace". He said in this hour of grief, Omar's call to avoid any large gathering "is appreciable and will strengthen India's fight against COVID-19". On Sunday night, the NC leader had tweeted that his uncle Mohd Ali Mattoo passed away after a brief illness.

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