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The lone Keralite in the Modi Cabinet, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan on Wednesday termed the floating of a new ordinance by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to tackle COVID-19 as nothing but an eyewash and playing to the gallery.....

A youth allegedly died after a police baton charge for violating the ongoing lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID 19, with his family claiming that he had gone out to buy milk when the cops beat him up in West Bengal's Howrah district.....

Aviation regulator DGCA has extended the suspension of domestic flights by a fortnight till April 14 in view of the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis.....

Spain has suspended the use of Chinese kits to detect coronavirus after being found to be faulty.....

Amid exodus of migrant population, former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Monday termed the financial assistance package announced by the government "miserable".....

The death toll from coronavirus in the US has topped 3,000, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE).....

Even as the number of coronavirus cases has been increasing in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday that local transmission is under control in the city and community transmission has not started yet. ....

The Congress working committee met on the backdrop of country facing the coronavirus pandemic and took feedback from the congress-ruled states, as party has been suggesting various measures to help the marginalised sections and daily wagers. Party president Sonia Gandhi slammed the lockdown as "unplanned" and emphasised that testing could only combat this disease which the country is "lacking" and demanded the government to prepare and publish a "Common minimum relief package".....

In a sudden flare-up, five terrorists and three Indian soldiers were killed and three Pakistan soldiers injured in two separate incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday in Jammu & Kashmir.....

Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, who was one of the first leaders to advocate for the lockdown, on Wednesday suggested that before any decision on lifting of the lockdown is taken, states should be consulted. He also demanded that the government give cash to the poor. ....