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Apr 08, 2020 19:21 IST Hindustan Times
Private labs can’t charge people for Covid-19 tests, orders Supreme Court
The judges said they were satisfied that there was a case for not charging patients for the tests and would decide later if they were entitled to any reimbursement from the government.
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Apr 08, 2020 19:10 IST Hindustan Times
Aakash Chopra picks combined India-Pakistan XI of all-time, names Imran Khan as captain
Aakash Chopra tried to assemble the team in such a way that the batting department was dominated by Indians while Pakistan was given preference in the bowling department
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Apr 08, 2020 19:00 IST Hindustan Times
‘Financial censorship’: Indian Newspaper Society reacts to Sonia Gandhi suggestion
The Congress president had on Tuesday given Prime Minister Narendra Modi five suggestions to step up the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Apr 08, 2020 18:50 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19: Govt to issue all pending income tax refunds up to Rs 5 lakh
All Goods and Services Tax (GST) and customs refunds will also to be released to provide immediate cash in hand to about one lakh business entities, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), an official statement said.
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Apr 08, 2020 18:30 IST Hindustan Times
‘Sounds mischievous’: PM Modi disses campaign to honour him, slips in an appeal
In two tweets, PM Modi said he had been told about a campaign to honour him by standing for five minutes. “At first glance, it sounds mischievous to drag Modi into controversies,” he said.
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Apr 08, 2020 17:40 IST Hindustan Times
PM Modi says priority is to save every life as India prepares for extended lockdown
Prime Minister Narendra Modi likened the situation in the country to a social emergency
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Apr 08, 2020 17:30 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19 hotspots in 15 Uttar Pradesh districts to be completely sealed
Gautam Budh Nagar, which houses Noida, and Ghaziabad are among the 15 districts, officials said after a review meeting with chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Other districts include Lucknow, Meerut, Agra and Varanasi.
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Apr 08, 2020 17:21 IST Hindustan Times
Mumbai makes masks mandatory in public places, violators face arrest
Mehul R ThakkarMumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday made it mandatory for Mumbaikars to wear masks in public places while citing several studies that...
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Apr 08, 2020 17:10 IST Hindustan Times
773 new cases, 32 deaths reported since Tuesday, says health ministry
Till date 402 people have been discharged and 32 people died yesterday, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
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Apr 08, 2020 16:40 IST Hindustan Times
‘Talking to CMs, none asked me to lift the lockdown’: PM at all-party meet
Talking to leaders of opposition parties for the first time since the Covid-19 became a pandemic, the Prime Minister expressed hope and confidence that with the help of political parties, state governments and the people of India, the country can fight against coronavirus.
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Apr 08, 2020 16:30 IST Hindustan Times
Bollywood producer Karim Morani tests positive for coronavirus
Karim Morani, who has bankrolled films such as Ra.One, Chennai Express, Happy New Year and Dilwale, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Apr 08, 2020 16:10 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19: BMC makes masks mandatory, says violators may be arrested
The BMC order comes hours after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asked people to start using mask if coming out to buy essentials.
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Apr 08, 2020 16:00 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19 hotspots in these 15 UP districts to be sealed till April 15
Uttar Pradesh has so far seen 350 cases of the coronavirus disease, including three patients who have died and 21 who have recovered.
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Apr 08, 2020 15:30 IST Hindustan Times
‘Not possible to lift lockdown on April 14’: PM Modi hints at all-party meeting
It came in the backdrop of varying opinions on the crucial question of extending the lockdown beyond April 14 and on fiscal measures taken by the Central government to meet the exigencies arising from the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak.
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Apr 08, 2020 15:20 IST Hindustan Times
Parts of 15 UP districts hit by Covid-19 to be shut till April 15
Noida and Ghaziabad are among the districts where the shutdown will be applicable
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Apr 08, 2020 15:20 IST Hindustan Times
The Taste with Vir: We’ll have to extend the lockdown
The government has made no official announcement about the end of the lockdown but I don’t know a single person who believes that it will end on schedule. The most we can expect are staggered and perhaps region-based withdrawals of the restrictions.
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Apr 08, 2020 15:10 IST Hindustan Times
He’ll get answer about pace: Akhtar reacts on Kaif’s son’s remarks
It all started when Kaif’s son, after watching the highlights of the epic India-Pakistan encounter in 2003 World Cup, opined that hitting Akhtar must have been easy because of his raw pace.
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Apr 08, 2020 15:10 IST Hindustan Times
US President Donald Trump calls WHO China-centric, threatens to cut off funds
Hindustan TimesUS President Donald Trump said he will put a hold on US funding to World Health Organization. Trump criticized the organization saying they seem to be ‘China-centric’. Trump said, “The W.H.O., that’s the World Health Organization, receives vast amounts of money from the United States. And we pay for a majority, biggest portion of ...
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Apr 08, 2020 15:00 IST Hindustan Times
‘Like Lord Hanuman…’: Brazil Prez sends note to Modi on Covid-19 drug
The Brazil President requested for resumption of hydroxychloroquine supplies that were already in the pipeline
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Apr 08, 2020 15:00 IST Hindustan Times
‘Sorry, no option but to stay home’: Maharashtra CM apologises for lockdown
Maharashtra recorded 60 new coronavirus disease cases on Wednesday morning, taking the total tally to 1,078. Of the 60 new cases, 44 tested positive in Mumbai, nine in Pune, four in Nagpur and one each in Ahmednagar, Akola, and Buldhana.
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Apr 08, 2020 15:00 IST Hindustan Times
Coronavirus: Is the world anywhere close to ‘flattening’ the Covid-19 curve?
Even when the top 10 most affected countries manage to flatten the curve, it may get upended if the virus reaches new regions or gets out of control in densely populated countries like India.
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Apr 08, 2020 14:40 IST Hindustan Times
What life in Odisha’s containment zone looks like amid lockdown
The lockdown, now in its 15th day, has paralysed life in the city of 1.1 million people, and the containment may have made it worse for people sitting at home.
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Apr 08, 2020 14:10 IST Hindustan Times
Meet the only Indian billionaire to get richer under Covid-19 lockdown
Damani’s supermarket chain, known for its thrifty cost structure, gained from panic buying of household essentials after India decided to place its 1.3 billion people under a three-week lockdown last month.
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Apr 08, 2020 14:00 IST Hindustan Times
‘Doctors treating Covid-19 patients warriors, need to be protected’: Supreme Court
The court was hearing petitions seeking direction to Centre to ensure protection of doctors. The Solicitor General denied claims that salaries of the doctors involved in treating Covid-19 patients are being cut.
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Apr 08, 2020 13:40 IST Hindustan Times
Make all Covid-19 tests free for citizens, suggests Supreme Court
Private labs have been roped in India to conduct tests for Covid-19 since government facilities are not sufficient in the face of increasing case counts. According to the Union health ministry website, India reported 5194 cases and 149 fatalities as of Wednesday afternoon.
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Apr 08, 2020 13:30 IST Hindustan Times
36 villages in Haryana’s Nuh put under containment zone after 23 new cases
The administration has converted seven buildings into quarantine centres in the district.
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Apr 08, 2020 13:20 IST Hindustan Times
3 out of 5 terrorists killed in Kupwara Op from J&K; 2 went to Pak via Attari in 2018
The three terrorists had crossed over to Pakistan from the Attari-Wagah border in 2018 for training in arms and explosives
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Apr 08, 2020 13:00 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19: PM Modi reaches out to political parties over coronavirus response
Prime Minister’s meeting with Parliament floor leaders of political parties marks the latest attempt to evolve a consensual approach to the government’s response to coronavirus.
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Apr 08, 2020 12:50 IST Hindustan Times
Chidambaram berates govt over jobless rate, then adds a praise
The former Union finance minister quoted India’s unemployment rate, which the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said, could have risen to more than 23% as the economy lost jobs after a nationwide lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic in the last week of March.
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Apr 08, 2020 12:10 IST Hindustan Times
Rohit Sharma reveals his ‘biggest cricketing crush’ to Yuvraj Singh
With no international or domestic cricket going on due to coronavirus pandemic, former and current cricket stars are keeping themselves busy by engaging with fans on social media.
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Apr 08, 2020 12:00 IST Hindustan Times
Popular Kerala actor shows how to make a mask in 9 minutes
He urged people to make masks with old thick clothes and avoid non-woven fabric.
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Apr 08, 2020 12:00 IST Hindustan Times
States face revenue loss, India enters 15th day of Covid-19 lockdown: 10 points
Most Indian states witnessed a decline in revenue of between 30% to 60% for March, and are estimating a bigger dip in April amid the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Apr 08, 2020 11:40 IST Hindustan Times
Association of Radio Operators for India asks Sonia Gandhi to withdraw suggestion
The private FM radio body has highlighted the financial crisis in the radio industry and asked the government to hep them survive
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Apr 08, 2020 11:30 IST Hindustan Times
Exodus from Wuhan begins as 76-day lockdown ends, but another starts
China had sealed off Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, in late January to stop the spread of coronavirus disease Covid-19.
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Apr 08, 2020 11:10 IST Hindustan Times
Muslim vendor forced to shut shop in Haldwani after 5 Jamaatis test positive; FIR filed
There are 31 Covid-19 positive cases in Uttarakhand; out of these, 24 are Jamaatis.
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Apr 08, 2020 11:00 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19 cases in India breach 5000-mark, death toll at 149
Maharashtra remained the worst affected after reporting more than 1000 positive cases, on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the central government’s figure for the state showed there were 1161 patients, including 79 recoveries and 64 deaths.
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Apr 08, 2020 10:00 IST Hindustan Times
Yuvraj explains difference between his generation and current Indian team
In an Instagram live session with Rohit Sharma, former India batsman Yuvraj Singh explained the difference of the Indian team during his generation and the current lot under Virat Kohli.
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Apr 08, 2020 10:00 IST Hindustan Times
Trump accuses WHO of bias toward China, threatens to ‘put hold on’ funding
Trump asked why the WHO had given “such a faulty recommendation,” apparently referring to the UN body’s advice against curtailing international travel to stop the virus which first spread from China.
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Apr 08, 2020 09:50 IST Hindustan Times
Donald Trump reverses course, supports India’s position on hydroxychloroquine
PM Modi also received a thank you note from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who compared India’s drug supply to his country as Sanjeevani Booti brought by Lord Hanuman to save life of Lakshman, brother of Lord Ram
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Apr 08, 2020 09:20 IST Hindustan Times
Uttarakhand Police start booking Jamaatis in hiding under attempt to murder charge
Uttarakhand police chief Anil Kumar Raturi had released a video message on Sunday evening asking all the Jamaatis to come out of hiding and undergo Covid-19 test or face attempt to murder charge.
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Apr 08, 2020 08:50 IST Hindustan Times
Indian American’s firm donates 3.4 million hydroxychloroquine tablets
Owned by philanthropic billionaire Chirag and Chintu Patel has also announced ramping up production of Hydroxychloroquine Sulphate at several of its manufacturing sites and expects to produce approximately 20 million tablets between now and mid-April.
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Apr 08, 2020 08:30 IST Hindustan Times
How Covid-19 lockdown has impacted fuel prices and what oil companies are doing
India is the world’s third-largest energy consumer but the Covid-19 lockdown has shut businesses and brought almost the entire vehicular movement to a halt, impacting fuel demand.
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Apr 08, 2020 08:20 IST Hindustan Times
Political leadership is up and ready. Now it’s time for the bureaucracy | Opinion
Once the disease is controlled, the economy has to be brought back on rails at the earliest. For this to happen, our bureaucracy has to put their best foot forward
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Apr 08, 2020 08:00 IST Hindustan Times
How Sars-CoV-2 is more insidious than Sars virus
The active replication of Sars-CoV-2 begins in the upper respiratory tract of the patients, from the larynx up where it stays and infects people before infecting the lungs and causing severe respiratory symptoms, a study found.
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Apr 08, 2020 07:30 IST Hindustan Times
Jobless rate soars to 23.4% amid Covid-19 lockdown
Rampant job losses have gripped many other economies, too, in the face of the pandemic. Roughly 10 million US workers filed unemployment claims in the past fortnight, for instance.
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Apr 08, 2020 07:20 IST Hindustan Times
UK PM listened to his scientists but they were slow to sound Covid-19 alarm
The scientists whose advice guided Downing Street did not clearly signal their worsening fears to the public or the government. Until March 12, the risk level, set by the government’s top medical advisers on the recommendation of the scientists, remained at “moderate,” suggesting only the possibility of a wider outbreak.
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Apr 08, 2020 05:40 IST Hindustan Times
Covid-19: States reel from revenue loss, salary delays likely
Covid-19: The fall in revenue may lead to a delay in disbursement of salaries to the state government employees, and payments to external borrowers including government institutions, if the 21-day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is extended.
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Apr 08, 2020 05:40 IST Hindustan Times
Nizamuddin’s ‘sehat apas’ step up to serve their Basti
Ashish Mishra and Adrija Roychowdhuryhtreporters@hindustantimes.comNew Delhi: When 50-year-old Mussarat Begum was first asked to be at the forefront of a door-to-door Covid-19...
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Apr 08, 2020 05:40 IST Hindustan Times
We will begin pool testing trials to speed up diagnosis: Satyendar Jain
Health minister Satyendar Jain said that once pool testing starts, Delhi’s testing capacity will go up by about eight times with the same manpower, the number of kits and other resources.
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Apr 08, 2020 05:40 IST Hindustan Times
Maharashtra Covid cases tally crosses 1,000 mark
Coronavirus in India: Of the 150, 116 new cases in Maharashtra were reported from Mumbai, which accounts now for 642, the highest among Indian cities. On Tuesday, Mumbai reported 100 new cases and five deaths, taking the total number of infections in the city to 590 and deaths to 40.
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