India

The woman is a testing operator at Nayapura power sub-station and has the duty of informing linemen about the electricity supply faults.

Manmohan Vaidya said the Tablighi Jamaat members have been 'exposed' and even people belonging to the Muslim community are 'opposing' them.

Nearly 80 per cent of fish netted off the Goa coast is meant for export, while only 20 per cent is consumed in the state.

The world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal imported 25 tonnes of gold in March, down from 93.24 tonnes a year ago, the source said, who is not authorised to speak to the media.

Kurung Kumey district Food and Civil Supply Officer Chukhu Jirjo said the truckers, who unloaded rice at Koloriang, were beaten up by a group of men on Saturday.

Migrant labourers who were stranded in the city due to the lockdown said the authorities provide them with food in Yamuna region but with depleting resources and limited capacity of night shelters, they fear their ordeals will only get worse.

While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 3,030, as many as 266 people were either cured of the disease and discharged, and one had migrated, it said.

Tensions escalated in West Bengal's Birbhum district after a middle-aged man succumbed to bomb injuries after a clash broke out between two groups of villagers over Covid-19 response work.

The rooms are also open for doctors and healthcare workers who are unable to commute daily from their homes while doing a splendid job of fighting the pandemic, it added.

Another official said the Director General (DG) of the country's largest paramilitary force with about 3.25 lakh personnel in its ranks went into self quarantine as per protocol.

A surgeon and the hospital in charge have been removed from their posts for not providing a ventilator to the deceased and another patient who also later died.

The US has so far confirmed 278,458 cases of COVID-19 and more than 7,100 deaths. India has 3,072 coronavirus cases and has reported 75 deaths.

The NHA, which implements the national health insurance scheme, said this will strengthen the country's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The study, published in the journal Antiviral Research, reveals that the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin can decrease the pace of replication of novel coronavirus. It has been carried out by researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

On March 30, when the health ministry was asked about its clarification on the home made masks, it had said the issue is being examined technically.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said Modi will interact with floor leaders of all those parties who have more than five MPs in both houses of Parliament on April 8 at 11am.