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Death toll in India was 124, while Corona infected 4789 people.

According to the Union Ministry of Health in India, till Tuesday evening, the number of deaths from corona virus in India has increased to 124. The number of people infected with corona is also increasing steadily. Now it has increased to 4789.

Muslims should celebrate Shab-e-Baaraat by staying at home

Muslim religious and social leaders across the country have appealed to the Muslims to celebrate the festival of Shab-e-Baaraat at home.

On the occasion of Shab-e-Barat, Muslims go to the graveyard and pray for their family members who have passed away from the world. Apart from this, Muslims go to the mosque at night and read special prayers and offer prayers to the Quran Sharif. This time is Shab-e-Baaraat on Wednesday.

Mahmud Madani of Jamiat-ul-Ulema Hind, Maulana Tauqir Raza Khan of Bareilly, Emir Syed Saadatullah Hussaini of Jamaat-e-Islami, Maulana Mufti Mokarram, Imam of Fatehpuri Mosque, Maulana Asghar Ali Imam, Head of Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, Delhi Minorities Commission Chairman Zafarul Islam Khan, including many religious leaders and social activists, especially appealed to the Muslim youth regarding this issues that they have not quit home and prayer at house.

He made a special appeal to Muslims to pray to Allah on this occasion to protect all the people of India from the epidemic of Corona virus.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to turn off the light at nine o'clock on the night of April 5 to express solidarity and gratitude with those directly involved in the fight against the corona virus infection.

After this appeal of PM Modi, concern was being expressed about the fluctuations in voltage.

On this, the Ministry of Power has given a clarification saying, "The Prime Minister's appeal is only to turn off the light on April 5 from nine o'clock for 9 minutes in the night. Street lights or computers, TVs, fans, freezes and ACs have not been asked to turn off. Only the light has been appealed to switch off. This appeal is not applicable in hospitals, police stations, municipal services and manufacturing services. The PM's appeal is only for households. All local bodies have been asked to keep street lights on.''

According to a report in the English newspaper The Indian Express, BJP President JP Nadda has asked his party leaders not to give the Corona infection a religious color.

JP Nadda's statement comes after reports of an outbreak of corona from a program in Markaz of Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi. According to reports, a quarter of the total cases of corona infection in the country are associated with tablighi Jamaat.

In a meeting held with the party's national officials on Thursday evening, he said that no party leader should make provocative or divisive statements.

An official involved in the meeting told the newspaper that Nadda said in the meeting, "The virus and the disease have affected people of all religions all over the world, no one should make a statement or comment that is provocative. We have to remain united in the fight against the virus.''

The Energy Minister of Maharashtra has questioned the suggestion of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut has said that if all the lights in the country are switched off simultaneously, it may cause grid failure.

According to news agency ANI, Nitin Raut said that in such a situation all emergency services will also be stopped and it may take up to a week to recover.

He appealed to the people not to turn off the lights when they light a candle or a lamp on 5 April.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has issued a video message appealing to all the people of the country to light a lamp or candle for nine minutes at 9 pm on April 5. The Prime Minister has said that during this time people should extinguish the electric lights.

The opposition has raised questions on Prime Minister Modi's suggestion.

According to the Ministry of Health of India, the number of corona infection cases in India has increased to 2902.

According to the ministry, so far 68 people have also died due to Kovid-19 in India.

Corona infection cases in India have doubled in the last three days. Of these, about 25 percent of the cases are related to the religious organization of Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi.

According to the Health Ministry, 478 new cases of corona infection have been reported in the country in the last twenty four hours. This is the biggest increase in a day. So far 183 patients have been cured.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, the total cases of corona infection across the country has risen to 2322, while the death toll has risen to 62. So far 162 people have been cured while fighting this infection.

On Friday, 93 new cases were reported in the national capital. There are now 386 corona virus infected patients in Delhi. According to the state government, there are 259 cases related to the tablagi Jamaat. On Friday, two corona virus-infected patients died in Delhi.

67 new cases of corona virus infection were detected in Maharashtra. The total number of infected people in the state reached 490. On Friday, the death toll in the state was 26 after six infected people died. According to the Maharashtra Health Department, 50 people have managed to recover.

With the arrival of 46 positive cases of corona virus in Rajasthan on Friday, now 179 people have come in the grip of infection.

The number of infected patients in Uttar Pradesh was 172, out of which 47 patients participated in the Tabligi Jamaat event. According to the Uttar Pradesh government, 1203 people involved in organizing the Tablagi Jamaat in Delhi have been identified. Out of these 897 people have been tested, out of which 47 have been found to be corona positive.

75 new infected cases were reported in Telangana on Friday while two infected people died. A total of 186 people are now infected in the state, while 15 have managed to recover.

So far, nine people have died due to corona virus in Gujarat. According to the state health department, there are a total of 95 cases of infection in the state. 10 people have been discharged after treatment. The highest number of cases was 38 in Ahmedabad and 12 in Surat so far.

According to local journalist Subrata Kumar Pati from Orissa, there have been 15 new cases of infection in the state on Friday, now there are a total of 20 infected patients in Orissa.

In Punjab, two new cases were reported on Friday, according to the state health department, there are now a total of 53 infected patients of corona virus in Punjab.

Six new cases have been reported in Uttarakhand. So far, 16 infected cases have been reported in the state.

According to local journalist Dilip Kumar Sharma from Assam, there were three cases of corona virus infection in the state on Friday, the state now has a total of 23 patients.

President of India Ramnath Kovind has said that we need to ensure that nobody remains hungry during the ongoing lockdown to fight against the Corona virus infection.

President Kovind has also expressed concern over the attacks on doctors, health workers and policemen.

He also stated the strict need to follow the rules of social distancing.

The President said that the gathering of the workers at Anand Vihar and the conference of Markaz in Nizamuddin received a setback to efforts to prevent infection.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, eight thousand samples were checked in India in the last 24 hours.

ICMR said that 182 labs are working in India to check the corona virus and 130 of these labs are from the government.

There are 19 states related cases related to the infection of corona virus infection. In the last two days, 647 new cases of corona virus have been found and they are related to the Tabligi Jamat.

The ICMR also said that a total of 12 people have died due to corona virus infection in India in the last 24 hours.

The Ministry of Health in India said that 12 people died due to corona virus infection in twenty four hours. So far, 50 people have died due to corona virus across the country.

400 people belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat have been found to be corona infected. There have been 328 new cases of corona in twenty four hours. 2804 people who joined the Tabligi Jamaat in Quarantine. The places where matters are coming up are hotspots for us. So far 151 people have been cured of coronavirus infection.

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has said that religious leaders should ask followers to follow social distancing. Modi has told the states that collectivity is our power. The war with Coronavirus has just begun.

Food Corporation of India is ready to provide five kg per month ration to the needy. Guidelines have been issued for dialysis of Kovid-19 patients.

Highlights of the press conference of the Ministry of Health in India -

- No changes to the testing protocol yet, but discussion on the changes continues.
- More than 1.5 crore PPE (Personal Protection Equipments) order for the protection of health workers.
- One crore N-95 masks have been ordered. Supply of PPE has been started.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to the Chief Ministers of the states through videoconferencing.
- Instructions to Chief Ministers to work strictly at the district level.
- Emphasis on testing, isolation, contact tracing and monitoring in the coming days.
- Guidelines for relief camps released. Counseling and supply of essential goods is mandatory in the camps.
- There is no significant difference in the way infection spreads in India and other countries.

Thousands of poor people living in the capital of India are standing in queues for the ration received by the government. The factories in which these thousands of poor used to work daily wages have stopped and their source of income has also come to a standstill. In the coming time, how will these poor people feed their family? He is worried about this.

India's Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a press conference, "Let no one go hungry, the government is trying it".

But the queues in which thousands of poor are standing are too long and the quantity of food is not enough.

Due to the Corona virus infection, at a time when there are millions of people in India and they are taking full advantage of the online delivery system and also getting the things they want from home, at the same time thousands of people are on the streets in India. They face a crisis of livelihood and food.

This is a time of grave crisis. A lockdown has been declared for three weeks in India with 130 crore population. People have been asked to stay in homes and businesses are in complete disarray. A large number of people are working from home and there is a huge decline in productivity.

Last week, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das announced economic measures to strengthen the economy, saying, "Countries around the world are locking up to fight an invisible killer".

The condition of India's economy was worrying even before the corona virus arrived in India.

The growth rate of the world's fastest growing economy was 4.7 percent last year. This was the lowest level of growth in six years.

In the year 2019, unemployment in India was at the highest level of 45 years and at the end of last year industrial production from eight major sectors of India fell by 5.2%. This was the worst situation in the last 14 years. To put it mildly, India's economic situation was already in bad shape.

Experts believe that because of the impact of the corona virus, where there is a crisis on people's health, on the other hand, the already weak economy may get a bigger blow.

The transition of Kovid-19 has spread at a time when India's economy is trying to recover from the slowness caused by the Modi government's 2016 decision of demonetisation. Through demonetisation, the Modi government was trying to bring black money to the fore, but in an economy like India where small businesses were dependent on cash payments, this decision broke their back. Most businesses were recovering from the effects of demonetisation that the corona virus was killed.

The unorganized sector in India employs about 94% of the country's population and contributes 45% to the economy. The lockdown has badly hit the unorganized sector as thousands of people lost their jobs overnight.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a relief package of 1.70 lakh crore rupees so that the poor 80 crore people of India can get relief from economic burden and livelihood. By putting money in accounts and arranging food security, the government is trying to help the poor, daily wage laborers, farmers and those who are deprived of basic amenities.

But will India's economy be able to overcome the recession with this little government effort. More efforts are needed to save the economy from the bad effects of this crisis.

The biggest challenge is to implement the relief package announcement at the ground level. At the time of lockdown when additional free ration has been announced, how will poor people reach it? The government should deliver food items directly to the poor with the help of army and machinery of states.

At this time, thousands of people are trapped away from their homes, in such a situation, the government should do the work of putting money in the accounts quickly and also keep the supply of food items on priority.

These are the people whose cash needs to be transferred to their accounts immediately. They have not received any kind of social security. The government should not worry about the fiscal deficit. He should borrow from RBI and spend it on the people in this calamity.

The government has made a separate announcement for the farmers in the relief package. The government will add Rs 2000 per month to farmers' accounts for three months from April. The government used to give Rs 6000 annually to the farmers.

But the help of two thousand rupees is not enough as exports have stagnated, prices will rise in urban areas as demand is increasing and prices will fall in rural areas as farmers will not be able to sell their crops.

This crisis has come at a very critical time, when the new crop is ready and waiting for the market to be sent. In a country like India where millions of people are living in poverty, experts believe that the biggest challenge before India will be how will these food items reach the cities and any country in the world in the event of a difficult lockdown. If the supply is not started then food will be wasted and Indian farmers will have to suffer heavy losses. 58% of India's total population is dependent on agriculture and agriculture contributes $ 256 billion to the country's economy.

Experts are warning that there is a possibility of increasing unemployment in India. There has been a huge decline in production due to the closure of a large number of factories.

To provide relief to people employed or engaged in small businesses, the government can help them by giving interest and tax rebate to help businesses recover.

Unemployment in India is still at a record level and if this situation continues, those working in the unorganized sector will have to face great difficulty. People working in small businesses will either be forced to work for less money or will lose their jobs. There is a discussion in many companies about how many people need to be fired.

Air travel in India is currently banned until 14 April. The shutdown has also had an impact on the aviation industry. According to an estimate by the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), the aviation industry will suffer a loss of nearly four billion dollars. It will also have an impact on the hospitality and tourism sector. Hotel and restaurant chains in India are badly affected and a large number of people are also facing the problem of not getting salary due to the presence of silence for several months.

The auto industry has also suffered heavy losses due to the shutdown and may have to bear an estimated loss of around $ 2 billion.

Experts believe that the relief package that India has announced to revive the economy due to the effects of the corona virus is one percent of the country's total GDP. Compared to Singapore, China and the United States, this relief package is like cumin in the camel's mouth.

Experts say that India should announce a big economic package soon so that the businesses that are drowning in the devastation of Corona can be brought back on track.