Nearly 65-70 people including students, teachers and staffs at Rajasthan's IIT Jodhpur have tested positive for COVID-19 so far and 60 of them are currently infected with the coronavirus, the authorities said on Sunday.

P Singh Deputy Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) said, Around March 11, some persons infected with COVID-19 had come here. They were from tribal villages Chandigarh, Gujarat and Jaipur. Then the cases started increasing.

Kerala heads in for Assembly elections on Tuesday with battle lines drawn between the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) which hopes for continuity of term, and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is being seen as a potential threat in many places.

Campaigning came to an end in the state on Sunday for the 957 candidates in the fray for the elections to the 140-member Kerala Legislative Assembly.

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's Cadila Healthcare Ltd has sought approval from local regulators to use a Hepatitis C drug as a treatment for COVID-19 following promising interim results from a late-stage trial, the drugmaker said on Monday.

A single dose of the Hepatitis C drug when taken early could help COVID-19 patients recover faster and avoid complications seen in the advanced stages of the disease, Cadila said in a statement to stock exchanges.

Hitting a grim milestone, India broke all its previous records for the highest single-day surge in COVID-19 cases and reported over 1 lakh infections in the past 24 hours.

As many as 1,03,794 new COVID-19 cases were reported, which is the highest in the country since the pandemic began. Prior to this, the highest single-day spike was recorded on September 16, 2020, at 97,984 cases in a day.

Oil marketing companies on Saturday continued on the pause mode and decided against revising the petrol and diesel after cutting its retail rates on Tuesday.

Accordingly, pump price of petrol and diesel remained at previous days level of Rs 90.56 and Rs 80.87 a litre respectively in the capital.

Fresh coronavirus infections in Telangana have breached the 1000-mark, pushing the tally to over 3.10 lakh, while the toll rose to 1,712 with six more fatalities.

The state witnessed the highest single day spike so far this year with 1078 newcases.

To facilitate an easy journey for passengers, the Indian Railways is starting 71 unreserved mail and passenger trains from Monday, April 5.

Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal informed on Friday (April 2) that this decision has been taken to keep provide safe and comfortable travel to passengers. These new trains will be run by the Northern Railways zone across the Indian Railways Network.

India's daily coronavirus infections hit another record on Saturday for the highest tally since September, while daily deaths reached a five-month high, a Reuters count based on data from the health ministry showed.

India recorded 89,129 new infections and 714 deaths, the ministry said. That was the biggest single-day rise since September 20 last year and the most deaths since October 21, according to a Reuters tally.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday slammed both the ruling LDF and opposition UDF in Kerala as twins of misgovernance and corruption and sought a mandate for the NDA in Tamil Nadu.

Addressing rallies in the two poll-bound states, he said that vote for BJP and its allies will be a vote for development.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda has said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is "certainly" losing from Nandigram and is therefore searching for another seat to contest.

On being asked on reports of the Trinamool Congress chief searching for another seat to contest in the assembly elections, Nadda told ANI: This is their strategy and they know better about it, but we have information that she is searching and their people have said so to me. However, I cannot take a guarantee of this as they know it. But she is losing Nandigram, this is certain.

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