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Futile to treat these Markaz members, they should be shot dead: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Tablighi Jamaat Coronavirus hotspot

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Raj Thackeray added that Tablighi Jamaat members, who attacked police personnel, should be publicly thrashed
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News Reports

Apprehensions about grid instability due to 9-minute blackout on Sunday are misplaced, other electric appliances will be running: Power Ministry

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The power ministry assures that adequate arrangements and protocols are in place to handle the variation in demand
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Media

Rahul Kanwal uploads the Tablighi Jamaat infographic with somewhat correct numbers and a picture​ that looks “less Muslim”

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Rahul Kanwal proved suspicions true that one of the reasons for Tablighi Jamaat graphic to be deleted was depiction of a skull cap-wearing man
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News Reports

Aligarh: Three arrested, including a Maulvi, for stone pelting, attacking police when asked to disperse from Mosque amidst Coronavirus lockdown

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Many had arrived at the mosque in Aligarh for Namaz defying Coronavirus lockdown and indulged in stone pelting when asked to disperse
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Editor's picks

India has managed to flatten the Coronavirus curve despite Tablighi Jamaat cases: Here are the facts and charts

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Over 95% of the coronavirus cases reported over the last two days in India have been found to have links with the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi
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News Reports

A day after testing positive for Coronavirus, pregnant wife of AIIMS doctor delivers a healthy baby

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The woman is the wife of a senior doctor at AIIMS, Delhi, and he was also tested positive for Wuhan Coronavirus.
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News Reports

Mumbai: Dharavi man who died of Coronavirus hosted 10 Tablighi Jamaat members

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Mumbai Police probe into the death of a 56-year old man in Dharavi, who died of Coronavirus on April 1, has revealed that he had hosted 10 Tablighi Jamaat members
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News Reports

India Today’s Rahul Kanwal deletes infographic on Tablighi Jamaat: A saga of ‘being apologetic about Islamism’ and wildly incorrect data

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The infographic prepared by India Today Data Intelligence Unit had of a skullcap, a mask, and two pie diagrams making up a face
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News Reports

Coronavirus Outbreak: Funding of Islamist organisation Tablighi Jamaat under the scanner of investigative agencies

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With the Delhi centre of Tablighi Jamaat emerging as the newest hotspot of coronavirus outbreak in the country, investigative agencies have started probing the funding received
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News Reports

After Ghaziabad, Tablighi Jamaat members misbehave with Kanpur medical staff, spit everywhere, refuses treatment saying ‘no disease like Coronavirus’

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Principal and Dean of the GSVM Medical College, lashed out at Tablighi Jamaat adding they are uncooperative while in Coronavirus quarantine
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News Reports

Prayagraj police arrest one Mohammed Saheed for spreading fake news on coronavirus on Whatsapp to incite public

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A statement issued by Prayagraj police said that Shaheed was spreading rumours on Coronavirus from his phone.
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News Reports

Residents of Nizamuddin Basti near Tablighi Jamaat Markaz refuse to share health details with officials, claims it threatens their citizenship

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The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind also questioned the need of health officials visit when the entire basti in Nizamuddin is cordoned off
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News Reports

Coronavirus fight: Advanced Booking for domestic and international travel closed until April 30 by Air India

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A senior official said that Air India could begin taking flight booking on April 14 in case of no extension of the nationwide lockdown.
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Media

This WSJ columnist thinks that deeply religious Muslims can’t be molesters or rapists

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Doing everything he possibly can to prove that members of Tablighi Jamaat were innocent, was WSJ columnist Sadanand Dhume.
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News Reports

600 foreigners linked to Tablighi Jamaat traced in the ​last three days, officials suspect at least 200 more in hiding: Report

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Delhi police and the officials have, in the last three days, traced over 600 foreigners linked to the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi
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News Reports

IIT Roorkee and AIIMS Rishikesh develop closed-loop portable ventilator named as ‘Praan-Vayu’ for COVID-19 patients

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The ‘Praan-Vayu’ Ventilator is based on controlled operation of the prime mover that delivers enough air to the patient.
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News Reports

FIR after video of fruit vendor Sheru Miyan licking fruits goes viral, daughter says ‘he did so because of his habit of ‘counting currency...

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The police registered the FIR against the fruit vendor on the basis of a complaint lodged by a youth named Bodhraj Tipta
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat members kept in Madhu resort in Agra throw tantrums, refuse to eat prescribed healthy food, demand spicy beef biryani

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Tablighi Jamaat members are turning out to be quite a headache for the authorities and medical staffs
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News Reports

Karnataka: Muslim mob pelts stones at police officials after being stopped from offering mass namaz defying coronavirus lockdown

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Muslim mob in Hubbali attacked police personnel with stone pelting when the cops tried to stop them from offering namaz en masse
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News Reports

No pills, Sharing unwashed utensils, washroom and water for Wuzu: How Tablighi Jamaat’s lifestyle made them super-spreaders

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Man who had stayed at Delhi centre of Tablighi Jamaat said that poor community practices were reasons they emerged as 'super-spreader'
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Media

Ummah above gender: The Wire journalist refuses to believe nurses’ complaint about Tablighi Jamaatis harassing them

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The Wire editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani has declared Tablighi Jamaatis innocent and indulges in Muslim victim-mongering, accusing nurses of lying
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News Reports

Coronavirus: Delhi police slap a notice with 36 questions at the farmhouse of ‘absconding’ Tablighi Jamaat head Maulana Saad

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As Muhammad Saad remains missing, the Delhi police today pasted a notice with the 36 questions at his farmhouse in Shamli near Delhi.
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News Reports

Here is the truth about the viral video of a Muslim man infected with Coronavirus spitting on a man standing in front of him

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The man with coronavirus was later found dead in a train on the same day, he had spat on a person while buying tickets for the train journey
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News Reports

In 2 days, Tablighi Jamaat accounts for 647 confirmed coronavirus cases in 14 states: Health Ministry

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Over 9000 people, including 1306 foreign nationals linked to Tablighi Jamaat have been put in quarantine so far.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim mob gathered at Kannauj’s Jama Masjid to offer Namaz defying lockdown pelt stones, injure police personnel

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A group of Muslim men had defied the lockdown rules and assembled at the Jama Masjid in the city to offer Namaz
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News Reports

Watch: UP police to deliver FIRs at doorstep, Muzaffarnagar SSP warns lockdown violators

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Muzaffarnagar SSP said in a strong message that multiple FIRs will be lodged against those who will not cooperate with police.
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News Reports

Coronavirus scare: Laundry Service owner diagnosed with Coronavirus in Surat, 54,000 people in the area quarantined

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54,003 were quarantined in Surat, Gujarat after a 67-year-old-man who ran a laundry service in the area was diagnosed with Coronavirus
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News Reports

Wuhan coronavirus: Australian PM Scott Morrison calls for a global crackdown on China’s Wet Markets, asks WHO, UN to take action

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He said, "Wet markets were a very real and significant problem wherever they exist. This virus started in China and went round the world."
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News Reports

Uttarakhand Police reward the police team who detained 13 persons returning from a Jamaat in Uttar Pradesh

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Uttarakhand police announced a reward of Rupees 20,000 for the police team who detained 13 Jamaatis coming from Uttar Pradesh
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News Reports

Tablighi Jamaat behind the sudden rise in positive Coronavirus cases in Pakistan, 143 test positive in 24 hours

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It is being now reported that at least 143 members at Tablighi Jamaat Headquarters at Raiwind, Pakistan have tested positive for Coronavirus last 24 hours
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News Reports

Columnist says he was removed from WhatsApp group by CPI-ML functionary after he said Ramayan has become the most viewed TV program

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The columnist was ostracised from a WhatsApp group as he pointed out that Ramayan on Doordarshan had become the highest viewed TV program
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News Reports

Bihar: Darbhanga DM gets death threat by one Md Faisal for a Facebook post announcing screening of coronavirus suspects in district

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A Facebook user named Mohammad Faisal commented on Darbhanga DM's Facebook post, offering a bounty of Rs 2 lakh to anyone who kills him.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh confirms first death due to Coronavirus in the state, the son of the deceased had attended the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi

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Subhani's son had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi and returned to Vijayawada on March 17
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News Reports

Bareilly, UP: 200 ‘devotees’ evacuated from Dargah where they were hiding for 10 days, Dargah sanitized and shut down

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Two hundred 'devotees' have been evacuated from a Dargah in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh where they were allegedly hiding for the past ten days.
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News Reports

COVID-19 test kits to be supplied to the United Kingdom found to be contaminated with Coronavirus

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The test kits made by Luxembourg-based Eurofins that were to be sent to the UK were found to be contaminated with Coronavirus
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Government and Policy

Amidst rising Coronavirus cases, Kerala govt relaxes lockdown norms in the state: Here are the details

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Relaxing the lockdown norms, the Kerala state government has extended the online/door delivery of food from hotels by 3 hours 5PM to 8PM daily
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News Reports

Haryana govt bans the sale and distribution of chewing gum, asked authorities to implement ban on Gutkha, Paan Masala effectively

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the Haryana government has banned the sale and distribution of chewing gums and bubble gums for the next three months.
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News Reports

China didn’t include asymptomatic COVID-19 positive cases in its official data on the pandemic, now to include them after worldwide allegation of underreporting

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China to release data of asymptomatic Coronavirus positive patients, which was not included in its official Covid-19 data earlier
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Tablighi Jamaat had planned to gather 50,000 people for Maharashtra event, govt cancelled permission after initial coronavirus cases: Report

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The state government had reportedly warned Tablighi Jamaat of legal action when the latter insisted on going ahead with the religious gathering.
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News Reports

Female healthcare and police staff not to attend to Tablighi Jamaat members after they roamed naked and made lewd gestures at nurses: Yogi govt...

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UP Govt has decreed that female health professionals and police will not attend to members of the Tablighi Jamaat.
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Home Ministry revokes visas of 960 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members, maybe penalised and deported

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The blacklisting order will prohibit them from entering India for at least two years.
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RJD leader and Jamia PhD student Meeran Haider arrested for instigating violence during the Delhi riots

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Jamia student Meeran Haider is suspected of conspiracy to instigate riots, funding the violence and the agitation against the CAA
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News Reports

The Archdiocese of Bombay appeals to Christians and pastors to cremate bodies of those who had Coronavirus

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Archdiocese of Bombay uploaded a video on YouTube directing Christians to abide by the govt mandated restrictions amidst coronavirus crisis
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Government and Policy

Disbursement of cash under Coronavirus relief package to those who hold Jan Dhan account to take place between 3rd and 9th April: Details

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The Department of Financial Services appealed to PMJDY women account holders to check the last digit of their account number and follow schedule shared below to visit banks or Bank Mitras to maintain social distancing during the nation-wide lockdown.
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News Reports

Aligarh: Stone pelted on police by mob gathered at mosque for asking them to follow lockdown and not offer Namaz together

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The police appealed to the group not to assemble outside and instead offer Namaz at their respective homes citing lockdown
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News Reports

Shoot them dead! Instead of causing trouble, I will bury you: Philippines​ President issues orders against Coronavirus lockdown violators

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The Philippines on March 31reported 538 new virus cases of Coronavirus - the highest daily jump in the number of infections
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News Reports

Coronavirus fight: 34 FIRs registered against Tablighi Jamaat members, 211 passports of foreign nationals seized

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The Tablighi Jamaat members from foreign countries have been hiding in different mosques in the State of Uttar Pradesh to evade screening for Covid-19
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh govt to invoke NSA for attacking police personnel during Coronavirus Lockdown

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There have been several attacks on policemen in various place across the country during screening of people for Covid019
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Did you know that the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund had the President of Congress party in its managing committee

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After PM Modi launched PM CARES Fund, a lot has been discussed about similarities and differences between PM CARES Fund and PMNRF
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News Reports

Coronavirus scare: Talibghi Jamaat members who attended Nizamuddin Markaz now account for 60% of all new cases in India: Reports

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129 of the 141 cases in Delhi are linked to Tablighi Jamaat
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