Cutting across party lines, chief ministers and others leaders urged the people to follow the self-imposed curfew from 7 am to 9 pm, noting that "social distancing" was key to breaking the chain of infection, as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 283 after 60 new cases were detected on Saturday, the highest so far in a day, and states like Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar imposed partial lockdown till month end.
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A statewide 12-hour bandh called by pro-Kannada outfits on Wednesday on the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary issue affected normal life in Bangalore and most parts of Karnataka.
Ministry of external affairs said Indian establishments were targeted on Monday and on Wednesday in the city's commercial areas and Indian mission in Kinshasa has taken up the issue with Congo's foreign ministry.
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It sought their support in the campaign against child trafficking.
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Eye-witnesses and police said fire engulfed the bus as it skidded into the roadside ditch near Comilla city, while trying to avoid hitting a three-wheeler autorickshaw.
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All shops, business establishments, schools and colleges remained closed. Attendance in government offices and banks was thin.\n\n
India has been put in lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. People have been told to stay indoors, but for many daily-wage earners this is not an option.
A 25-year-old woman allegedly went missing after taking an autorickshaw from the metro station in Vaishali area in Ghaziabad.
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The 24-hour transport strike called by the Centre of Indian Trade Union-led left trade unions in West Bengal against the Centre's decision to hike petrol and diesel prices on Monday affected normal life and virtually assumed the dimensions of a bandh
Dipti Sarna had revealed that she was abducted by four men at knife point while she was on her way back home in an auto-rickshaw.
What happens when two former ministers go up against each other? No sparks fly, reports A Ganesh Nadar from the Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, but it is the summer heat that has the last word on the campaign.
As fuel prices continue its northward march with petrol and diesel being sold at Rs 80.73 and Rs 72.83 per litre in the national capital, at least 21 opposition parties, led by the Congress have staged a Bharat Bandh protesting the rise in fuel prices and depreciation of the rupee.
Shankast Lal, the driver, and Rakesh had also stolen the woman's mobile phone and cash, Additional Superintendent of Police Hemant Sharma said.
Mustkeem, a vegetable seller of Ratool village in Bagpat district of Uttar Pradesh, claims to have made a 3.5 metre-long two-seater helicopter using parts of tractor, scooter and autorickshaw.
Head constable Chandrakant Pawar was spotted by an employee of the airport authority and handed over to the police with the help of an autorickshaw driver
The woman, a resident of Sunder Nagri, was abducted by Sanjiv, Manoj and Mota on February 22 on an autorickshaw at about 7 pm, according to a police official.
In the second attack on him in the last four days, Arvind Kejriwal was on Tuesday slapped by an unidentified man during a road show in Sultanpuri area of North West Delhi and the Aam Aadmi Party leader immediately blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for it.
A large number of vehicles, including twelve autorickshaws, two taxis and two-wheelers, were completely gutted while two residential buildings also caught fire.
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Rao was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2014.
'Maharashtra has 34,000 active cases, of which 24,000 are asymptomatic, and hence need no medicines but are under quarantine.' '9,500 cases are showing mild to severe symptoms.' 'While 1,200 are seriously ill, only 200 of them are on ventilator support.' 'Let those claiming that the situation in the state has gone out of control, look at these numbers objectively before damaging the state's reputation for political gains.'
Transport minister M R Vijayabaskar said that despite the stir, 80% buses were running.
Two-wheeler maker TVS Motor Company Ltd will enter the three-wheeler segment in an year's time, its chairman Venu Srinivasan said on Friday.
Uber, the US-based online taxi-hailing firm, would not take any commission from its drivers in New Delhi until uncertainty over how it could operate in the country's capital city was cleared up, it said on Tuesday.
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