As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Maharastra despite the restrictions imposed by the government, the administration in Nagpur has taken another step to discourage people from spending more time in crowded markets. Now an hourly ticket will have to be bought by people to visit crowded markets.

The price of the ticket has been kept at Rs 5.

The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed 127.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.79 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 127,528,304 and 2,790,109, respectively.

The poll campaigning at Nandigram reached its crescendo and there was a bitter war of words Monday between the main rivals - Trinamool Congress' Mamata Banerjee and BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, her close follower-turned-political foe.

The lights are trained on the high voltage campaign for the prestigious seat in Purba Medinipur district, which is set to conclude on Tuesday evening as the polling there is slated to be held in the second phase on April 1.

The month of March is yet to pass, but before that the capital of the country is already is in a bad condition. In Delhi, the summer has already started showing its colour in such a way that all the previous records have been broken in the month of March.

The temperature in Delhi crossed 40 degrees on Monday for the first time in 76 years.

It seems like COVID-19 cases in Indian cricket are not going to stop anytime soon as the former all-rounder Irfan Pathan tested positive for coronavirus on Monday evening. This is the fourth case of an Indian cricketer, who took part in the Road Safety World Series that has tested positive.

Irfan was part of the India Legends along with skipper Sachin Tendulkar, his elder brother Yusuf Pathan and middle-order batsman S Badrinath, who all returned with positive results in the last three days.

Amid rising coronavirus COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra and other parts of India, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra on Monday (March 29) tweeted that a potential lockdown in the state will directly affect small businesses, poor and migrant workers. Mahindra said this amid reports that Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has hinted of another lockdown in the state to check the spread of the deadly virus.

The Kerala High Court on Monday directed the Election Commission to take steps to ensure that voters having their names entered in voters list in multiple constituencies cast only one vote in the April 6 polls to the State Assembly.

The court gave the interim order on a plea filed by Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala seeking to restrain fake and multiple entry voters from participating in the April 6 polls.

India saw68,020 new coronavirus cases in a span of 24 hours, the highest single-day rise so far this year, taking the country's COVID-19tally to above 1.20 crore, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

Registering a steady increase for the 19th day in a row, the active cases have increased to5,21,808, which comprise 4.33per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to 94.32 per cent, the data stated.

Pharma major Dr Reddy's Laboratories expects the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V to get approval from the Indian regulator in the next few weeks, a company official has said.

We expect to get the approval in the next few weeks. It is a two dose vaccine. You take the first dose on day zero and the second one on day 21.

After several years of legal wrangling, India’s Tata Group has won a decisive victory over its disgruntled minority shareholder. But the boardroom coup that turned into a courtroom drama will only be over with a divorce. That could still get messy.

The Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s claim of being an oppressed junior partner in the storied Indian empire has been set aside by the country’s Supreme Court, which also held SP scion Cyrus Mistry’s 2016 sacking as Tata Group chairman as legal.

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