Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday paid tribute to the five security personnel who were martyred in a firefight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara on Saturday.

Taking to microblogging site Twiter, Shah said, I bow to our soldiers and security personnel martyred while protecting our motherland during an encounter with terrorists in Handwara in J&K. Nation will always remain indebted to their supreme sacrifice. My deepest condolences to their bereaved families.

Security forces on Sunday gunned down a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, identified as Haider from Pakistan during an encounter in Handwara.

Two terrorists including a top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Haider from Pakistan killed in Handwara encounter, IG Kashmir Vijay Kumar informed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met two senior ministers and civil servants from the economic ministries to prepare a second stimulus package for the economy hit by a nationwide lockdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Modi, after his meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will hold talks with key economic ministries such as Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), PTI reported quoting unnamed sources.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police on Thursday registered sedition charges against Delhi Minority Commission chairman Zafarul Islam Khan for his incendiary remarks.

He had posted a message in social media in which he stated that if Muslims are continued to be persecuted in India, he will complain to the Aran countries following which all hell will break loose.

One of the persons arrested by the Maharashtra Police in connection with the contentious Palghar Mob Lynching case has now been detected positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, sources said on Saturday. The person was arrested, along with more than 100 others, in connection with the killing of three men, including two saints, in Maharashtra's Palghar.

Remdesivir, an experimental drug developed by Gilead Sciences, Inc., a research-based biopharmaceutical company, has now been greenlit by American authorities for emergency use on serious coronavirus-affected patients in the US after clinical trials reportedly showed positive responses in severe COVID-19 patients. It is the first such drug shown to help fight COVID-19, which has affected around 11 lakh people in the US while killing nearly 65,000.

The Delhi Government has decided to send as many as 40 buses as part of the state government's efforts to bring back students stranded in Rajasthan's Kota due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic necessitated nationwide lockdown, which has now been further extended by the Centre for two more weeks beyond May 3.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 35,000-mark on Friday, while the death toll topped the 1,152-mark as well.

As of 9:30 AM on Saturday, the COVID-19 tally in India has reached 37,336 confirmed cases, which includes 26,167 active cases, 9,951 cured, discharged, or migrated patients and 1,218 deaths.

The COVID-19 tally in the United States has reached 11 lakh while the death toll due to the virus in the country has crossed 65,000, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center at the Baltimore-based John Hopkins University.

According to data available at 8 AM, the US has recorded as many as 1,103,461 confirmed cases of COVID-19 while the death toll has mounted to 65,776. As many as 1,61,563 people have recovered from the virus infection till now.

The Central Railway has requested people not to unnecessarily come to railway stations as only the passengers who have been permitted to travel by the state government would be allowed to board trains. This is aimed at discouraging crowds to cut the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in India, which is spreading like wildfire.

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