NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the G-20 group of developed and developing countries to rework its definition of globalization which would focus on the collective interests of all people rather than balance the competing individual interests of a few.

In his intervention at the “Extraordinary Virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit" convened by Saudi Arabia to discuss the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the global economy, Modi also highlighted the need for reforming and empowering international organizations like the World Health Organisation to deal with pandemics like the Covid-19 so that it was effective in assisting countries and developing prescribing health protocols.

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Covid-19: Extend lockdown for 1 or 2 weeks, Telangana CM appeals to PM Modi

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Monday appealed to prime minister Narendra Modi to extend the lockdown by another one or two weeks, to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (covid-19). KCR stated that this was the only solution to curb the virus’ spread in the state.

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PM Modi asks ministers to ready plan for 'slow' exit from lockdown

NEW DELHI : Cautioning people to be ready for a "long fight" against COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told his ministers to make plans for slowly exiting the ongoing lockdown and to contain the economic impact of the deadly virus pandemic, including by reducing dependence on other countries.

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Prepare ten priority areas, business continuity plan: PM Modi asks ministers

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked Union ministers to prepare plans to fight the economic impact of COVID-19 on war footing and asserted that this crisis is an opportunity to boost the 'Make-in-India' initiative and reduce dependence on other countries.

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President, PM take 30% pay cut, Centre suspends MPLAD fund for two years

NEW DELHI : The Union cabinet Monday decided to suspend the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) fund for two years and channelize the earmarked grant worth ₹7900 crore to the consolidated fund of India, stepping up the financial aid to fight coronavirus pandemic.

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Modi says defeating covid-19 India's sole aim but battle to be long drawn out

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India's sole mission would be to win the war against coronavirus, but that it will be a long battle against the pandemic.

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PM dials leaders across political divide ahead of key 8 April meet

Taking a step toward engaging the political establishment about the situation with the covid-19 epidemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke to former presidents and prime ministers as well as several leaders of national and regional political parties.

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Foreign embassies in India join the 9-minute-lights-off call appeal by PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong was one of the many among them diplomatic community in India to heed prime minister Narendra Modi’s call to light a candle or an earthen lamp to show togetherness in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

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Modi's Covid-19 call for Sunday lights up Twitter India with multiple trends

#9baje9minute, #9MinutesForIndia, Diwali, #IndiaFightsCoronavirus were some of the trends on Twitter while India displayed its resolve against the virus on Sunday

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Modi also called up called up former Presidents Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil

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Modi’s Sunday, 9pm, 9-min lamp lighting: Students told to do it, show compliance

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education is leaving no stone unturned to make sure Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to light a candle/lamp at 9pm tonight is a success. The board has advised the schools affiliated with it to ensure their children carry out the exercise.

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Trump urges Modi to lift ban on hydroxychloroquine export

NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump late Saturday said he has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply hydroxychloroquine tablets that can be used to treat covid-19 patients in his country, which now has the highest number of cases in the world.

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President Trump requests PM Modi to release Hydroxychloroquine ordered by US

The US has emerged as the worst sufferers of the deadly coronavirus diseases to which there has been no cure

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PM Modi, Donald Trump discuss joint action against coronavirus outbreak

The conversation comes as the US has topped the list of countries with the most number of covid-19 infections in the world with almost 280,000 infections and a spiralling death toll

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Modi, Trump agree to deploy full strength of India-US partnership to fight Covid-19

The US has so far confirmed more than 7,100 deaths while India has reported 75 deaths so far

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PM Modi to hold video interaction with political party floor leaders on 8 April

The video interaction will be held at 11 AM on 8 April

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PM Modi tweets video of Vajpayee's poetry to remind people to lit diyas tomorrow

A day after appealing people to lit candles in their balconies in a bid to unite the people in the battle against coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today shared a video of late Atal Bihari Vajpayee reciting his poem "aao, phir se diya jalaein".

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Modi's Sunday, 9pm, 9-minuted blackout: India’s power sector gears up

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for switching off lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday may result in an electricity load reduction of around 13 giga watts (GW) on India’s power grid, with current lighting load estimated at be 11,344 mega watt (MW).

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PM Modi calls for solidarity in fight against covid-19’s rapid spread

NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking on the ninth day of a nationwide lockout, asked Indians to switch off their lights for nine minutes at 9pm on Sunday and hold up a light in a symbolic act to “challenge the darkness spread by the corona crisis".

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Modi, Netanyahu discuss ways to deal with coronavirus crisis

The leaders discussed ways to increase technological cooperation and steps to tackle the growing number of infections due to the novel coronavirus

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As covid-19 cases rise, Centre releases emergency funds for states

NEW DELHI : As states step up containment, quarantine and treatment for covid-19, in the wake of rising cases, the Union home ministry on Friday sanctioned the release of Rs11,092 crores to states.

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PM Modi taps social influencers to plan strategy against covid-19

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reaching out to social influencers to mobilise public opinion in the battle against covid-19 pandemic. Modi has held over a dozen of meetings in the last fortnight via video conferencing with social influencers, including religious heads and sportspersons.

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PM Modi's address to the nation on coronavirus: Full text

NEW DELHI : Amid a 21-day nationwide lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed the nation with a video message and asked people to show up on their balconies and gates once again, without breaching social distancing, to display India's collective strength in the fight against coronavirus. PM Modi urged all Indians to switch off all other lights and stand at doors or balconies to light candles or diyas, torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes this Sunday.

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PM Modi calls for 9-minute blackout on Sunday, urges citizens to light lamps

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to everyone to voluntarily adopt a blackout at 9 pm on Sunday and light a lamp, candle or shine a mobile flashlight for nine minutes.

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PM Modi LIVE: Switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm this Sunday

NEW DELHI : Amid a nationwide lockdown for 21 days to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now sharing a video message with citizens.

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Covid-19: PM Modi to share video message on Friday

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share a video message with Indians on Friday as central and state authorities work on a war footing to contain the spread of covid-19 and give relief to those who lost their livelihood.

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PM Narendra Modi plans staggered exit from vast coronavirus

NEW DELHI : India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle to contain the country's biggest cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital, New Delhi.

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PM Modi to share video message with public tomorrow at 9 am

'At 9 am tomorrow morning, I’ll share a small video message with my fellow Indians,' PM Modi tweeted in English and Hindi

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Covid-19: PM Modi urges states to focus on contact-tracing, remain vigilant

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged chief ministers of states to remain on high alert and focus on contact-tracing to arrest the spread of novel coronavirus infections in the country.

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WHO lauds PM Modi govt's relief package to help poor during lockdown

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today praised steps taken by PM Narendra Modi to help poor during the 21-day nation-wide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Consider advance payment to MGNREGA workers: Sonia Gandhi to PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to consider giving advance wages to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers hit by the nationwide lockdown.

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'This is wonderful': Ivanka Trump lauds PM Modi's Yoga Nidra video

The United States President Donald Trump's daughter and senior advisor to her father, Ivanka Trump lauded the recently shared 'Yoga Nidra' video by prime minister Narendra Modi. As India is currently under a 21-day lockdown since 25 March due to novel coronavirus spread in the country, Modi today shared a video of a yoga asana which he practices at least twice a week.

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Publicise PM-CARES Fund to mobilise donations from abroad: Modi asks Indian missions

'Unity, alertness of all Indians would help safeguard country's future,' said PM Modi on fighting Covid-19 pandemic

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Army rejects fake messages on social media about Emergency in India

NEW DELHI: The Indian Army on Monday rejected fake messages and rumours being propagated on social media about the likely declaration of emergency in India in the wake of coronavirus crisis.

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Covid-19: PM Modi to address Indian envoys on Monday via video link

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address Indian envoys via video link later Monday on coronavirus outbreak and India’s internal and external response to the crisis, a person familiar with the development said.

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India’s Narendra Modi apologizes to citizens amid 3-week coronavirus lockdown

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologized to the public on Sunday for imposing a three-week national lockdown, calling it harsh but “needed to win” the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

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Coronavirus update: 14-day quarantine for lockdown violators, warns Centre

New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Centre on Sunday directed the states to strictly follow the nationwide lockdown norms and stop the movement of people across the cities, advising them to arrange shelter, food and other facilities for migrant labourers at their workplace.

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Covid-19 lockdown: Centre assesses situation amid migrant workers' exodus

NEW DELHI: As thousands of migrant labourers continue their exodus after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Union home ministry has taken stock of the current situation.

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Covid-19: Economic shutdown will raise death toll, Rahul Gandhi tells Modi

NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday said while Covid-19 was a global pandemic, India’s conditions were unique given the dependence of a large population on daily wages. The consequences of a "complete economic shutdown" will "disastrously amplify" death toll arising out of the outbreak of the pandemic.

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Modi says Covid-19 fight to continue for days, apologises for inconveniences

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Indians will have to remain patient for several days in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and apologised for the inconvenience caused to the people.

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Mann Ki Baat Live: I apologise to poor of the country for coronavirus hardships, says PM Modi

This is third time PM Modi is speaking on the seriousness of the coronavirus lockdown and importance it will play in the future for the demise of COVID-19

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Coronavirus: Indian students stranded in UK urge Modi for rescue flight

A group of at least 380 students from India has started a data chain with their passport details to create a collective voice to lobby the Indian government for action

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PM Modi to talk prevailing coronavirus situation in 'Mann Ki Baat' today

Today's episode will focus on the situation prevailing in the country in the wake of COVID-19

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PM Modi calls up Pune nurse to thank her for efforts against coronavirus

Pune: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up a nurse from the civic-run Naidu Hospital, which has been treating Covid-19 patients, and applauded the work done by the hospital staff to fight the pandemic, a civic official said on Saturday.

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Delhi, UP govts start buses to take migrants home, Centre asks NHAI to help

NEW DELHI: State governments in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh (UP) have started special buses for migrants who were stuck in the national capital due to the lockdown and were instead walking hundreds of kilometres to reach home. The central government has asked the highway authorities and toll operators to help out migrants who are walking back.

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Steps taken by RBI will help middle-class, businesses during lockdown: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lauded the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to cut benchmark interest rates, three-moratorium on payment of installments, along with other measures on term loans will help the middle-class and the businesses deal with the 21-day nationwide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.

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Narendra Modi wishes good health to Boris Johnson

NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has posted a message of encouragement for his British counterpart Boris Johnson shortly after the latter revealed he had exhibited symptoms of Coronavirus infection.

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'We need to defeat corona': PM Modi shares video of young girl's message to father

To raise awareness about social distancing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to share a video of a young girl urging her father not to come home. In the public service announcement (PSA) video, a young girl can be seen writing a letter to her father asking him not to return home,

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RBI has taken giant steps to safeguard our economy from coronavirus: PM Modi

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das today announced a series of measures to counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus-induced lockdown in the country. Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that today RBI has taken giant steps to safeguard our economy from the impact of the coronavirus. He further added that the announcements made by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das will improve liquidity, reduce cost of funds and help middle class and businesses.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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