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Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey said Additional Sub Inspector of Police Govind Singh have been suspended for meting out inhuman treatment to the Home Guard jawan.

The movement of people will be allowed based on the guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the minister said at a press conference here.

The states and union territories should also take immediate and strict action in case any incident of violence takes place.

The scientists, including those from the University of South Carolina in the US, analysed the associations between the use of drugs hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and corresponding clinical outcomes.

According to the data collected, the deadly virus spread to 10 people in three families, namely A, B and C from January 26 to February 10, 2020.

Under the standard operating procedure (SOP), any seafarer would be allowed sign on at the port of embarkation only after test for Covid-19 is found negative, failing which action as per guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare would be tak...

The Army is setting up two COVID-19 hospitals, one each in Srinagar and Jammu, as it assured full cooperation to the civil administration in combating the pandemic, an official spokesman said.

Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday, police said.

Nineteen COVID-19 patients died in the state during the day, taking the death toll to 251, said a health official.

'The World Press Freedom Index 2020' said that with no murders of journalists in India in 2019, as against six in 2018, the security situation for the country's media might seem, on the face of it, to have improved.

The state health bulletin said 178 people have been discharged on Tuesday while 76 new cases have been recorded. The number of active cases is 940. In total, 638 people have been discharged so far.

SD Biosensor, which started production from its Haryana facility with a capacity to churn out five lakh kits, aims to scale up production in the coming weeks to meet the growing demand.

According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bengal is in the 12th slot (as of April 21) among the 32 states and union territories in terms of COVID-19 cases and fatalities.

Mysuru District in-charge Minister ST Somashekar said he has spoken to the Mysuru Commissioner about the incident -- an FIR has been registered and further action will follow.

The ICMR said these kits will be tested and validated in the field by their teams and then a clear-cut advisory issued in two days.

The order came on the basis of a report submitted by a multi-disciplinary medical board, to examine the woman, which said that while the pregnancy would not pose a risk to the mother's physical health.