Coronavirus in India live updates: President Ram Nath Kovind after contributing one month's salary to the PM-CARES Fund in March, has decided to forego 30% of his salary for a year. India's total number of confirmed coroanvirus cases stand at 78,003, as per the Union Health Ministry. Maharashtra is worst-hit with 25,922 cases, followed by Gujarat with 9,267 cases

Coronavirus India live updates: The Supreme Court (SC) will reopen its court premises and resume work from the courtrooms from next week. However, the lawyers will argue cases from their chamber, said sources. The total count of confirmed COVID-19 cases jumped to 70,756 on Tuesday, as per the Union Health Ministry

In view of 'escalating' virus cases, the national lockdown should be continued with a well-crafted exit strategy to save lives and secure livelihood, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh suggested during PM Modi's interaction with CMs

Coronavirus Live Updates: The Prime Minister also mentioned efforts needed to address 'jan se jag tak' - from people to world, adding that the world will change after the coronavirus crisis, as it did after the two World Wars

Coronavirus Highlights: West Bengal recorded 153 fresh COVID-19 cases and 14 deaths in last 24 hours, its highest single-day deaths and spike in the number of new cases

Air India cannot afford to bring back passengers for free at a time when revenues have slumped due to coronavirus lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown 3.0: In the last 24 hours, 1,074 patients have been cured, which happens to be highest number of cured patient in a day

Travel and aviation will have to wait longer for a respite as coronavirus lockdown extension restricts public movement till May 3; and although granted some leeway, it's still not business as usual for manufacturing and agriculture

According to travel agents, barring a few airlines, all domestic carriers like IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India along with global players have refused to pay the refunds in cash

IndiGo expects the recovery in the domestic market to take three-six months whereas the international segment could take much longer - 9-12 months

Coronavirus lockdown in India updates: A case has been registered at Bandra Police station under section 143, 147, 149, 186, 188 of Indian Penal Code, read with Section 3 of Epidemic Act, against 800-1000 unidentified people

Airlines are evaluating their expat pilots strategy to pare costs and rationalising route planning

Coronavirus Outbreak India and Lockdown News Updates: While Madhya Pradesh reported its first COVID-19 death, Delhi reported 5 new cases, Kerala reported 9, and Karnataka reported 10 within the past 24 hours

Coronavirus outbreak news updates: The passenger train services already on run at 0700 hours on the day will be allowed to run to the destinations

Air India will soon resume direct services to some East African nations to grab a share of the steadily growing traffic between India and Africa on account of increasing trade, services and medical tourism.

Air India will have all its Boeing 777s pressed into service by September and restart flights to important international destinations to regain lost international market share.

As the pilots' strike enters Day 16, the airline management says it is planning a feasibility study to determine the international destinations that it will fly to.

\"The loss due to ticket cancellations, unused labour and with the bulk of our Boeing-777 fleet grounded now stands at Rs 230 crore. Losses per day stand at Rs 13-15 crore,\" an Air India official said.