Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the President, the Vice President, governors of states have also voluntarily decided to take a pay cut as a social responsibility while addressing a press conference to inform about the cabinet decision.
The global pandemic has claimed most lives in Italy where around 16,523 people have succumbed to the disease.
The CBDT chairman clarified the doubts by answering frequently asked questions and said that no scheme could be conceived with all the perfections, so also could be this scheme.
Telangana CM said, " I'm requesting the PM to talk to all CMs and take a call to extend the nationwide lockdown up to the first week of June, otherwise we cannot control coronavirus pandemic.
Darknet markets are e-commerce sites designed to lie beyond the reach of regular search engines. They are popular with criminals, as buyers and sellers are largely untraceable and payment is made anonymously in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
The squad of 4-Para regiment, living up to its war cry of "Balidaan Parma Dharam" (sacrifice is an ultimate duty), successfully carried out the operation last week.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday (April 6) urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the Centre's decision to suspend MPLADS funds for two years, saying they have a demonstrable potential to be deployed as an effective supplement to the initiatives being made by the central and state governments.
Along with the domestic supplies of 20,000 coveralls, a total of 1.90 lakh coveralls will now be distributed to hospitals and will add to the 3,87,473 PPEs already available in the country.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar Police had on Sunday announced extending the restrictions imposed in the district under CrPC section 144, in view of the nationwide lockdown which will continue till April 14.
The nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus has made life difficult for sex workers in Kamathipura, a red-light area, in Mumbai.
Out of the 120 people, 68 have tested positive from Mumbai city alone and 41 from Pune.
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) have announced a unilateral ceasefire in Odisha in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and urged the state government to send medical teams to assist people living in forests and other remote areas.
Indian security agencies have ascertained the roots of false reports of power grid failure on social media in Pakistan.
Kejriwal added that in the last 24 hours, one death was reported in the state due to COVID-19, taking its total death toll in the city to seven.
Village awareness and monitoring committees have been formed at panchayat and block levels for the purpose of creating awareness, surveillance and monitoring of COVID-19.
As many as 40 nurses from Kerala working at a private hospital in Mumbai have infected the disease.
"Due to lockdown there is no revenue, we don't know how long we have to stay like this," the chief minister said, adding "We have to plan for future."
Dashing former India opener Virender Sehwag on Monday urged people to follow coronavirus dos and don'ts strictly by sharing a video of a child who is spelling out the directives perfectly.
Many Chinese Super League sides have already begun pre-season training behind closed doors, despite not knowing when the postponed new season will start.
On April 1, Advani had urged his countrymen to do their bits in helping the nation at this difficult situation by donating to the Prime Minister's coronavirus relief fund.
Dr Guleria said that coronavirus cases have increased in the hotspot and the need of the hour is to confine it to these places only and efforts should be taken contain the deadly virus from growing in other parts of the country.
Edwards has appeared in eight Tests and six One-Day Internationals (ODIs) for New Zealand and amassed 515 runs in it across the two formats.
The Union cabinet on Monday approved an ordinance to reduce the salaries, allowances and pensions of Members of Parliament (MPs) by 30 per cent for one year.
The Prime Minister also stated that it will be a long battle against the epidemic and asked citizens to neither get tired or give up.
This will be the first time that the organisation`s summer training programmes will not be conducted.