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32 farmer unions to protest against COVID curbs and take to streets of Punjab to defy lockdown.

From staunchly opposing the lockdown to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, Rahul Gandhi has now passionately proposed the government to impose a full lockdown to stop the contagion

Calling the incident deplorable, Nigam questioned how dare the West Tripura DM speak to people in an unruly fashion and touch them.

The relatives of the deceased claimed that the men were addicted to alcohol and in its absence they drank sanitiser to quench their addiction

"We have to save the country from lockdown", PM Modi said, urging states to focus on micro containment zone instead

The districts with more than than 500 active cases will have night curfew from 8 pm to 7 am, the CM said.

The Uttar Pradesh government had yesterday refused to implement High Court-ordered lockdown in 5 cities, emphasising that the livelihood of the poor needs to be saved.

While speaking on the matter, migrant labourers lamented, "We're daily wagers, CM should have given us some time before announcing it. It takes us Rs 200 to reach home, but they're charging Rs 3,000-4,000 now, how will we go home?"

Allahabad HC issued a list of strict restrictions in five UP cities Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, and Gorakhpur till April 26

Migrant labourers in Delhi are leaving the city for their native places as Arvind Kejriwal announced a strict 6-day curfew to control the spread of the coronavirus