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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has made it mandatory to wear masks while stepping out -- a home-made mask will be allowed as well.

In the complaint, the woman said she was raped by a priest in Machilipatnam and was threatened to say that he will release morphed explicit images of her if she tells any authority.

Police officials said Gurmukh Singh shot his teenage son Jaskiran and his brother Avtar Singh on Tuesday over a dispute. While both the father and son died on the spot, Avtar is said to be in stable condition.

Chidambaram pointed out that what is missing in the lockdown strategy is putting cash in the hands of poor people.

A neighbour of the deceased said the woman was put on a tractor by her employer without any salary since the nationwide lockdown was imposed. after the tractor was stopped in Ballari district, the woman started walking.

In Mumbai, the death toll has climbed to 40, with the tally of COVID-19 patients in the country's financial capital now standing at 642.

Owaisi took a potshot at the much vaunted friendship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump over the latter's comment on retaliation.

Gandhi on Tuesday wrote to PM Narendra Modi suggesting five measures to save money for the fight against COVID-19, including suspension of Central Vista beautification project and complete ban on media advertisements by government for two years.

The directives were issued after a detailed review of essential commodities and implementation of the lockdown by Shah,Joint Secretary in the ministry Punya Salila Srivastava said.

Justice Dipankar Datta admonished the lawyer, Bijoy Adhikary, for failing to uphold the dignity of the court and acting in a manner 'not behoving a member of the noble profession.'

Even after the Coronavirus scares settles in India, close to 13.6 crore jobs may be at risk.

With Health Commissioner Faiz Ahmed Kidwai issuing an order on Monday and asking all officers who came to work in the last 10-15 to get tested, the numbers may soon go up.

The matter came to the fore after a purported video showing the doctor working in Surat Civil Hospital being physically assaulted by her neighbours, went viral.

The former RBI governor enumerated the benefits of credible data, saying that it would 'infuse confidence in both the health and economic sphere'.

The survey reveals that close to 50 per cent of the labourers who had taken debt fear that their inability to pay can put them in danger of some kind of violence.

The apex court made it clear that no evidence would be recorded via video-conferencing and if recording of evidence is must in the courts, then the concerned judge would ensure that distance is maintained inside the courtroom.