Breaking news on April 04

The Assam government will release the full salary of last month to all its employees by April 9, state Finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.

The Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a man in connection with the December violence near the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, officials said.

The Bombay High Court on Saturday stayed the interim bail granted to two former top officials of IL&FS Financial Services Ltd.

Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Siddaramaiah on Saturday urged Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to utilise Indira Canteens efficiently and provide food for poor and needy until the coronavirus crisis and lockdown is over.

 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sent 12,000 sanitizers, 20,000 face masks and 10,000 soaps for distribution among the people of Amethi, a party leader said on Saturday.

Territorial Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Saturday appealed to leaders of all religions in the Union Territory to put on hold festivals and functions of their respective sects during the current lockdown.

The family of a 65-year-old man in Dhar in Madhya Pradesh claimed he died of a police beating during the lockdown on Saturday when he was out to buy essentials, a charge denied by officials.

Three members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) were gunned down in an encounter with security personnel in West Singhbhum district in Chaibasa on Saturday, police said.

The Sri Lankan government on Saturday indefinitely closed all international airports for incoming passenger flights due to the nationwide lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

At least one labourer was killed and another injured in an explosion at a sugar mill here on Saturday, an official said. It is suspected that the chimney of a boiler in Bajaj Sugar mill in Budhana exploded, he said. The deceased has been identified as Aslukman (40) and the injured labourer, Satyavan, was rushed to a hospital, the official said.

Police reached the spot and an investigation is underway, he added.

Public sector Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has released Rs 3 crore to the PM-Cares Fund to support the fight against COVID 19.

Eight shops in a gram panchayat market and a police outpost were gutted in a fire that broke out early morning on Saturday in Shivaji Maharaj Chowk area of Amravati district in Maharashtra, officials said.

A group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronovirus outbreak.

All Americans should cover their faces with scarves or homemade cloth masks when they leave their homes as part of the desperate efforts to curb the massive spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, President Donald Trump has suggested.

A middle-aged man has been arrested from Beed district in Maharashtra for allegedly raping his two daughters and attempting to sexually assault another, police said on Saturday.

Territorial Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Saturday gave her assent to the Appropriation (Vote on Account) Bill 2020 passed in the territorial Assembly on March 30.

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has appealed to employers not to cut salaries of their maids, servants, and drivers who are unable to attend
work due to lockdown that has been enforced to check the spread of COVID-19.

Keir Starmer, the former shadow Brexit Secretary, on Saturday emerged as the winner of a three-way race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the Leader of the UK’s Opposition Labour party.

Nearly 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts quarantined so far: MHA official

Three children, aged seven-11, of a Dalit brick-kiln labourer died due to suffocation when dry cow dung caught fire in their house in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Saturday morning, police said.

A day after announcing one-week-long virtual classrooms on DD Bangla for Class 9 to 12 students from April 7, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Saturday said the state has shelved the plan for the time being due to logistical reasons.

A man in Pakistan committed suicide by setting himself ablaze in front of PM Secretariat in Islamabad, alleging injustice by police.

Jawaharlal Nehru University administration has filed an FIR over violation of coronavirus lockdown by students at university premises on April 1. FIR details mention that a student violated lockdown & misbehaved with security personnel, & later gathered a crowd, violating lockdown.

At least 41 people, who ventured out for a morning walk in a posh area here early Saturday morning, were caught on night vision cameras of a drone
deployed by the city police to enforce social distancing to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus.

Three Maoists were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Saturday

Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said: "In the last two days, 600 people (related to Markaz Nizamuddin) in Delhi have been quarantined. We are trying to trace all contacts."

108 members of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital staff including doctors and nurses have been quarantined after they came in contact with two patients who in their second test report were found positive for COVID-19. Of the 108, 85 are in-home quarantine and 23 in the hospital

Five people killed, one injured after a car rammed into a truck in Limbdi, Surendranagar district, early morning today

Encounter underway between security forces and terrorists in Manzgam of Kulgam.Terrorists trapped at the encounter site. More details awaited