Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan received a suggestion to extend the restriction from Indore District Crisis Management Committee on Saturday. Chauhan gave his approval to the committee's suggestion and extended the lockdown in the city

Night curfew will remain in force from 8 am to 6 pm till April 30 in nine cities including Ajmer, Bhilwara, Jaipur and Jodhpur, and markets will be closed by 7 pm while in Udaipur, the curfew will start at 6 pm and markets will be closed by 5 pm

The video of PM Modi's speech and the inattentive chief ministers reminded everyone of the good old first-benchers in school who always used to be a step ahead of the lessons being taught in class

The prime minister's last meeting with the CMs was on March 17, where he had expressed concern over the surging COVID-19 cases in parts of the country

The Gujarat High Court had suggested imposing a curfew or lockdown for three to four days to break the infection chain as the COVID-19 situation was getting \"out of control\" in the state

Mamata Banerjee also criticised PM Modi on the death of 22 jawans, who were ambushed by the Naxals at an encounter in Chhattisgarh. \"22 jawans died in Sukma, what was he doing? He has stolen all the money from Rafale,\" she said

PM Modi's had last interacted with the chief ministers on March 17. At that time, PM Modi had expressed concern over the rising coronavirus cases in parts of the nation

The meeting comes after the centre asked states to take strong actions to enforce safety measures including social distancing and using of masks. The government had said that the growing laxity in observing protocols have led to the surge in COVID-19 cases

Maharashtra on Monday added 31,643 fresh infections, taking the overall cases to  27,45,518. The death toll due to COVID-19 has climbed to 54,283 as of March 29

Maharashtra has seen a huge rise in coronavirus positive cases over the last week. As many as one lakh new infections were added to the state's tally in such short period

Maharashtra night curfew: The decision was taken in a high-level meeting with senior state government officials on Friday amid explosive rise in coronavirus cases in the state

Interacting with heads of states during a virtual meeting, PM Modi proposed micro-zoning of containment areas instead of imposing a general lockdown to contain coronavirus

Assembly Elections 2021 Full Schedule Live Updates: Polling will happen in eight phases in West Bengal starting March 27, Assam in three phases beginning March 27, and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Kerala in single phase on April 6

UP Finance Minister Suresh Khanna today presented Rs 5.50 lakh crore budget for the financial year 2022 in the state assembly

In his pre-recorded address for the sixth Governing Council virtual meeting of Niti Aayog, the senior Congress leader also proposed that states are consulted before deciding the priority list for COVID-19 vaccination

Glacier Burst in Uttarakhand: At least seven people have died, six injured and around 170 are missing after the Uttarakhand flood incident today, confirms State Disaster Management Center

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

Ten of these states have already received 20,000 doses of Covaxin, while Assam has so far got 12,000 doses

COVID-19 vaccines for 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers, which are to be administered in the beginning of the vaccination drive, will be paid by the central government

Ahead of the nationwide roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine, states have made all necessary preparations, including identifying vaccination sites and registration of healthcare and other frontline workers