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Indian embassies may be directed to issue necessary clearance without seeking individual approval from MHA to avoid delay, the letter read.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has urged India to take 'urgent steps' to protect the rights of its minority Muslim community and stop the incidents of 'Islamophobia' in the country.

Jitendra Awhad represents Thane district's Kalwa-Mumbra Assembly constituency, where several coronavirus cases have been found in the last couple of weeks.

The CBI had registered an offence against Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan, Yes Bank's then Managing Director and CEO Rana Kapoor and others on March 7.

On Saturday, ruling YSRCP MLA from Kovur, Prasanna Kumar Reddy, was booked for violating lockdown after his grocery distribution programme led to a massive gathering of 4,500 people.

In his recent address to the Maharashtra residents, Uddhav Thackeray chose uncharacteristically strong words in warning those giving a communal twist to the covid-19 crisis.

The PFI said using the word jihad makes the entire community stand as accused, and called it a conspiracy to stoke religious tensions.

The Congress leader said it was expected from the prime minister to come and inform the country.

The BJP and the ruling Trinamool congress govt engages in a verbal spat after police stopped BJP leader Sabyasachi Dutta and state BJP general secretary Sayantan Basu from distributing relief materials in Kolkata.

"We should be ready to brace the impact of looming economic crisis over the country as all types of business activities are suspended," he said.

On March 12, when the Congress was in power in the state, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) decided to verify facts a fresh into the complaint against Scindia and his family of allegedly indulging in wrongdoing while selling a land in Gwalior in 2009.

The Congress MLAs boycotted the state Assembly proceedings which have now been adjourned till March 27. Senior BJP MLA Jagdish Devda acted as the protem speaker after N P Prajapati resigned from the chair of Speaker on "moral grounds".

The state is set to get a BJP-led government now as the 18-day-long political drama ended on Friday with chief minister Kamal Nath's resignation.

The BJP on Wednesday said all announcements will be done through memorandums and urged party units to spread awareness about measures to stop the spread of the virus.

Pawar added that institutions in the country are being attacked and the situation of the judiciary is no different.

In a series of tweets, Saurabh Bhardwaj asked why a sick person would run away from treatments and said we should imagine the worst conditions or harassment the patients would have faced.