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Addressing a press conference, Thorat said soon after the gathering, Twitter hashtags like 'UddhavResign' and 'President's Rule Imposition' were trending, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah also called up the state chief minister.

The T20 World Cup is still six months away and ICC said it will take a decision after consulting all stakeholders, including the Australian government.

According to the ministry's "Updated containment plan for large outbreaks COVID-19", a containment operation (large outbreak or cluster) is deemed to be over 28 days from the date the last case in that zone tests negative.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Finance Sub-Committee, constituted under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, to take stock of the fiscal implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forex traders said the weakness in the rupee was largely due to strengthening of the US Dollar against a basket of currencies as investors fled to safe-haven greenback amid weakening risk appetite in the markets.

In her daily briefing to the press, Joint Secretary in the ministry Punya Salila Srivastava said it should be ensured that five or more persons do not assemble at a public place.

Network 18 and Lizol are proud to launch ‘Disinfect to Protect’, a special campaign that takes the importance of disinfecting common surfaces to every home, every citizen.

Two major consignments of medical kits were reported to have been sent to India from China earlier as part of efforts to step up testing specially in hotspots during the current lockdown in the country.

The Telangana government, however, has been assuring that there is no such situation of ‘community transmission’ so far in the state.

Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa met famous Ayurveda doctor Giridhara Kaje at his house to discuss the possibility of experimenting with the ancient Indian medicine to serve as a potential cure against coronavirus.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced the new provisions for medics after consultation with the health ministry.

A purported video has gone viral that showed two TSR jawans stopping him and one of them asking him to squat holding his ears. The youth held his ears but hesitated to squat when the jawan started beating him up with a baton.

The move follows media reports about the plight of migrant workers who took shelter under a flyover on the banks of the Yamuna in the wake of the countrywide lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The accused, Rahul Kulkarni, was detained in Osmanabad in Marathwada region, where he is based, and brought to Mumbai where he was formally arrested.

According to an official, clinical trial of the plasma enrichment technique will be conducted at Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS).

While the 5.33 million tonne of emergency storage was built in underground rock caverns in Karnataka and Andhra, state-owned oil firms have been asked to buy oil at cheaper rates from the market and fill them up.