The government on Thursday said that people who had booked air tickets during the first phase of lockdown for travel up to May 3 will get a full refund from the airlines and no cancellation charges will be deducted.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation issued a circular regarding the matter.

A veteran leader of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress, Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan, on Wednesday, said that the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra state government has allowed and is willing to send migrant workers stranded in Maharashtra to return to their native states, but the Chief Minister of the respective states is not ready to accept these people.

A leaflet was released by Naseem Khan's office on Wednesday.

In what comes as a leap in medical research and a first for India, doctors at the Max Hospital in New Delhi's Saket have started conducting 'plasma therapy' in the hopes of finding a cure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a pandemic outbreak which is spreading like wildfire across the globe.

The sample case in this regard is a family of four from New Delhi's Defence Colony, all of who had contracted COVID-19 and were undergoing treatment at the Max Hospital.

The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare confirmed on Thursday that the total number of positive cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection has now crossed the 12,000-mark. India's tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases currently stands at 12,380, which includes 10,477 active cases and 1,489 cured, discharged or migrated.

The COVID-19 death toll in India has risen to 414.

Faced with severe pressure on revenues, TajGVK Hotels & Resorts Ltd, a joint venture of Tata group’s Indian Hotels and GVK group, is approaching lenders for a moratorium on loan repayments under RBI’s Covid-19-Regulatory Package.

TajGVK did not honour payment obligations falling due in March 2020, pertaining to a Rs 94.75 crore term loan, according to rating agency ICRA.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on Wednesday directed colleges and other educational institutions across the country not to insist on payment of fees till the ongoing nationwide lockdown is lifted.

The ministry issued guidelines to the institutions across the country and asked them to strictly comply with it.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked the Centre to issue guidelines and advisories to all the states and union territories to ensure that the implementation of coronavirus lockdown is done in a sensible manner respecting the rights, liberty and dignity of people.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Wednesday said that it has issued over 10.2 lakh tax refunds totalling to around Rs 4,250 crore till April 14. The amount is over and above the 2.5 crore refunds that have already been issued FY 19-20 till March 31 that totalled to Rs 1.84 lakh crore.

Through a press release issued by the Ministry of Finance, the CBDT said that about 1.75 lakh more refunds are in the process of issuance this week.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday released the complete list of 176 government and 78 private laboratories to test potential coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-affected patient samples. Notably, the virus has affected more than 12,000 people in India and claimed at least 400 lives in the country, while it continues to spread like wildfire globally.

The official website of the council provides an idea about the government and private testing facilities for coronavirus available in the country. These testing facilities are spread across the length and breadth of the country.

The Centre on Wednesday declared 170 districts in the country as coronavirus hotspots and 207 as non-hotspots. Hotspots are the regions that have reported a significant number of positive cases.

During the daily press briefing, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health Lav Agarwal stated that the government has asked the states to segregate the districts based on the number of cases they have reported. While the regions with the most cases are coronavirus hotspots, non-hotspots are those districts where less number of cases are found. The discricts where no case has been found is the green zone.

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