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Jammu, Mar 30 (PTI) The Jammu and Kashmir administration constituted various coordination teams on Monday to ensure movement of essential goods and services, and address difficulties amid the lockdown over the novel coronavirus pandemic.

According to the order, the Health and Medical Education financial commissioner Atal Dulloo will be the incharge of the coordination.

Jabalpur, Mar 31 (PTI) Four persons, including an Army personnel and a minor, were arrested for allegedly robbing a man during the COVID-19 lockdown in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur city, police said on Tuesday.

The Madhotal police arrested Army man Amit Raikwar, Sumit Raikwar (24), Rakesh Burman (21) and a 17-year-old boy, police station in-charge Anil Gupta said.

Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) She walks briskly into a crowded marketplace, admonishes people for the unnecessary hubbub, picks up a broken brick and draws a circle around her.

One more circle and then the other, and brusquely asks people how to exercise social distancing in the trying times coronavirus has brought in its wake.

Mumbai, Mar 31 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said flying squads have been set up in all 227 municipal wards of Mumbai for door-to-door survey as part of efforts to check the spread of coronavirus.

The step has been taken in view of the high density of population in Mumbai where there is more possibility of spread of the disease compared to other districts.

Akola, Mar 31 (PTI) As many as 60 prisoners were released on bail from Akola district jail, in accordance with the Supreme Court's order to reduce crowding in prisons during the coronavirus outbreak, an official said on Tuesday.

At least 60 prisoners, who were serving sentences of upto seven years, were released following a health check-up on Monday, Akola jail superintendent A S Sadaphule said.

KANPUR: Corona Virus has done a good too. Students from class 1 to 8 have been promoted en masse. Those who failed to perform better in examinations felt happy at this decision. Even the parents too heaved a sigh of relief. 

As the results have been declared online on Tuesday, the mobile message was received by the and the students with high elation.

Reacting on the announcement of the final result a few parents who were unsure of their wards' success lost no time in exchange of congratulations to one another on knowing the result.

Agra; 30 March 2020 (UMM):  A 38-year-old man has died on his way home from Delhi to Badfara village in Madhya Pradesh. He collapsed due to exhaustion and died of a heart attack Saturday in Agra, well over 100 km still to go.

Ranveer Singh worked as a delivery boy with a restaurant in Tughlakabad, Delhi.

New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) The Bar Council of Delhi on Monday approached the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre, AAP government and police to ensure no advocate is shunted out of rented accommodation due to failure to pay monthly rent amid the lockdown due to coronavirus.

BCD chairman K C Mittal, in the plea, also sought to issue directions to all authorities, identical to the RBI directions, to defer all dues till the time normalcy restores.

New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) A high powered committee, headed by a Delhi High Court judge, has directed authorities to take steps like releasing inmates on emergency parole for reducing over-crowding in jails to prevent the spread of coronavirus which has infected 1,071 people in India and claimed 29 lives.

New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought a status report from the Centre by Tuesday on the measures taken in view of the large-scale migration of labourers from cities to their native villages amid the coronavirus outbreak and the consequent lockdown across the country.

The top court observed that the migration of labourers out of panic and fear is becoming a bigger problem than the coronavirus.