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headline : Mission Malegaon: Maharashtra textile hub faces severe coronavirus threat

within a month of the first case getting detected, Malegaon, the textile hub of Maharashtra has emerged as a major Covid-19 hotspot.

On April 5, Malegaon recorded five positive cases. Within a week the number had gone up to 27 and two people died because of the disease.

With the number of positive cases rising in Malegaon every day, state health minister Rajesh Tope reached Nashik a couple of days ago and said the state government has started ‘Mission Malegaon’.

headline : PM Narendra Modi to participate in NAM virtual summit on coronavirus on Monday

prime Minister Narendra Modi would participate in the virtual summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held on Monday to enhance coordination of the member states in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The online session will conclude with a political declaration of the movement "uniting against Covid-19" as well as identified measures for enhanced coordination among NAM members in their battle against the coronavirus.

The NAM represents the biggest grouping of countries outside the United Nations, comprising 120 developing countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

headline : Railways asks states to foot bill for bringing migrants home, draws flak

the Indian Railways has issued a set of guidelines for Shramik Special trains being run to ferry the migrants stranded across the country, saying the trains will ply only if they have 90 per cent occupancy and the "states should collect the ticket fare", inviting fierce criticism for charging for their services.

Railways has denied charging the migrants and said they are dealing only with state governments. And officials said it was not possible to waive these charges as the national transporter was incurring running charges as well as cost of meals.

Railways ran five trains on Friday, the first day of operations of the Shramik Specials, followed by 10 on Saturday. For Sunday, it has planned 25 trains, but ran around 10 including two each to Bihar and Jharkhand, one each to Bhubaneshwar and Lucknow. On Monday, it will run its first train to West Bengal.