A 20-year old man Ravinder Sharma in Gujarat cut his tongue with a blade thinking that it will eradicate coronavirus from his native village in Madhya Pradesh.
As per information available with the Embassy as of April 17, five Indian nationals, two from Kerala, one each from Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana have died.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Saturday clarified that so far no decision has been taken to resume domestic or international flight operations amid the coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown. All domestic and international commercial passenger flights have been suspended for the lockdown period till May 3.
The Resistant Front (TRF), allegedly an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), on Saturday claimed the terrorist attack on the security forces in Baramulla district Jammu and Kashmir.
On the list of most deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States remained the worst-hit country with over 37,625 deaths.
In 83 per cent cases, co-morbidities have been found. This brings to fore the earlier highlighted facts that elderly people and people with comorbidities are at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus.
The father, identified as 78-year-old Bansidhar Mallick, residing at Shovabazar Lane strangulated his 45-year-old son, identified as Shirsendu Mallick, with the help of a cloth strap.
The Ministry clarified that spraying an individual or group with chemical disinfectants is physically and psychologically harmful.
Thirty-four people were arrested and 237 vehicle owners penalised across Noida and Greater Noida on Saturday for allegedly defying restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 lockdown, police said.
Pakistani troops on Saturday shelled forward posts and villages along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesperson said.
Two other patients, who were undergoing treatment for the disease, were discharged after being cured.
A 15-year-old girl was raped by a 22-year-old youth in a sugarcane field when the victim had gone there in Begarajpur village under Mansurpur police station limits in the district, police said.
The Holy place has been closed since March 15 due to the global COVID-19 outbreak around the world.
Inspector Jayesh Bhandarkar of Tehsil police station identified the accused as Jamirul Jafirul Mohammad (32), a resident of Takia in Diwanshaha here.
The meeting was attended by the two Ministers of State for Home - G Kishan Reddy and Nityanand Rai besides Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla and senior officials.
Another 30 families living in the President's Estate were also sent to self-isolation. An officer of Rashtrapati Bhavan is also in self-isolation.
This is in addition to 6.50 lakh Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits sent from here.
The terrorists attacked a CRPF vehicle on duty in Sopore town.
The new containment zones are spread in the west and north-east districts of Delhi.
The attack took place at a checkpoint near Ahad Bab crossing in Sopore of north Kashmir. The police had earlier confirmed that two CRPF men were killed in the exchange of fire.
The Delhi CM appealed to people living in containment areas to follow rules and don't step out of their homes.
Countries which shares land borders with India are China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, and Afghanistan.
The tallies, using data collected from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
The war of words between the two former cricketers, who have had a number of run-ins on the pitch during their playing days, started with Afridi's remarks on Gambhir in the book becoming public before its launch.
The woman was working as a housekeeper in a company at Technopark.
