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Assaults on medical personnel and health workers has caused the Uttar Pradesh government to think of amendments to the old Epidemic Diseases Act which would demand stricter action against attackers

The Karnataka high court has asked the Karnataka government to submit a report on how it gave permission to the holding of the former CM Nikhil’s wedding in Ramanagara. 

Karnataka and Kerala have arrived at a truce in relation to non-Covid patients being let into Mangaluru. A Tablighi attendee who had misbehaved with a nurse at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh has been sent to jail

Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh chaired a meeting with empowered group of ministers on the available options post April 14, the day on which lockdown ends 

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the Khadi department to prepare a triple layer mask through social help groups and khadi societies. The masks would be provided free of cost to the poor and weaker sections of society. The UP govt said that these masks would be of great use and can be worn again after wash.
 

NSA Ajit Doval visited the Tablighi event on March 28 night to convince them to call off the event. News is also that the JNU Muslim Student wing has sought that the FIR against the maulana be dropped.

Delhi government cut electricity and water supply of migrant workers and told them that buses were waiting at the UP border which would ferry them home

After the Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has approved the largest food security scheme to benefit 80 crore people across the country. All this at a time when the nation is under complete lockdown for the next 21 days.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that his government would give a sum of Rs 1000 per day to daily wagers and construction labourers in view of the Coronavirus outbreak

Responding to supplementaries during the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, the minister of state for youth affairs and sports Kiren Rijiju said kabaddi is an indigenous sport and that the government would make efforts to take it to the Olympics

An order issued by the principal secretary to the government of Jammu and Kashmir state that detention of former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah has been revoked

A Muslim cleric has sought police protection after an alleged plot to kill him for speaking on CAA. The Khazi and his relative in a media report on Suvarna News have stated that the tyre of a car in which they were travelling in was punctured as a deliberate attempt to kill him.

 
 

 Why have protests over the citizenship law turned so violent? The events that transpired in the national capital only highlights the point that the government’s measures stand in the way of the long-term plan of radical Islamists called “demographic jihad”

 

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Handshake, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how Modi govt is trying to better relationships with the US. India has offered to partially open up its poultry and dairy markets in a bid for a limited trade deal during US President Donald Trump's first official visit to the country this month, sources familiar with the protracted talks told a news agency.

The Central rules to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 have been amended and class-wise, subject-wise Learning Outcomes have been shared with all States and Union Territories.