Several other countries in the region, including the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait, also have banned flights to and from India over the rise in coronavirus cases there.
Active cases in the country reached 25,52,940 and comprise 15.37 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further dropped to 83.49 per cent.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said the decision will come into effect from 22 April and will help in augmenting supply for medical oxygen and in saving precious lives.
The government has also registered FIRs against two private hospitals in the city for providing ‘false’ information about availability of beds there on an official app.
The order also said other pending routine cases, and those filed between 22 March 2020 and 31 December 2020, shall not be taken up for now and will be adjourned 'en bloc'.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal also requested the PM to reserve at least 7,000 central govt hospital beds out of the 10,000 in Delhi for Covid patients, and an immediate supply of oxygen.
Assam CM can’t celebrate that the Congress drew a blank in the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in 2010 as well as 2015, and bagged only one in 2020.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
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