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The officials came in contact on Monday with the woman officer of the home department whose son tested positive for coronavirus after returning from the UK.

Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said 255 Indians have been affected in Iran, 12 in UAE, five in Italy, and one each in Hong Kong, Kuwait, Rwanda and Sri Lanka.

The presentation said that the government should impose 2-3 week lockdown with section 144 across major impacted cities right away, and be prepared for a second lockdown later.

The shop owner allegedly published an advertisement in a Gujarati newspaper claiming that the novel coronavirus can be cured or prevented by sleeping on a special kind of mattress sold in his shop.

With developing member countries, we are formulating an aggressive set of actions to combat the pandemic; to protect the poor, the vulnerable, and wider populations across the region, ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa said.

BJP leader announced that the celebrations have been postponed for 15 days due to the virus pandemic and they will be likely held in the month of April.

With the majority of the operations of small and medium enterprises coming to a halt in this environment, the current situation will affect those working in such companies, entrepreneurs, those who are self-employed and so on, Tharoor said.

According to officials, central railways cancelled 23 trains, south central railways cancelled 29 trains, 10 trains were cancelled in western railway zone, 9 in south eastern railway zone and 5 in northern railway zone.

Puneeta, the wife of Akshay Singh Thakur, has said in her plea that although she is convinced of her husband's innocence, she does not want to spend the rest of her life as his widow.

The advisory came a few hours after the Mumbai Municipal Corporation ordered all comapnies not to work with over 50% of their staff.

Commissioner (home, political and border affairs), Kaling Tayeng, however, clarified that the process for renewal of existing ILPs will continue.

Gogoi said a spot in the Parliament will give him an opportunity to project the views of the judiciary before the legislature, and vice-versa.

T Jacob John, former head of the Clinical Virology Department at Christian Medical College in Vellore, said the role of central government leadership seems fragmented even when states are taking autonomous initiatives.

Currently, only government-run labs are permitted to conduct the test. Although their capacity is 5,000 samples per day but only 60-70 samples are being tested.

Tanuj (24) fired at his elder brother Rahul (35), who then caught hold of the pistol. The brothers got into a scuffle and Tanuj was accidentally shot in the chest.

Dismissing the anticipatory bail pleas of Navlakha and Teltumbde, the bench said their petitions cannot be maintained in view of the bar contained in 43D(4) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.