Odisha shutdown: During the shutdown, all shops including groceries and vegetables will be shut while a restricted number of medicine stores will remain open.
In his 9 AM video message to the nation, PM Modi urged people to switch off lights of their homes at 9 pm for nine minutes on April 5 and light up lamps, candles and mobile flashlights to display the nation's collective spirit to defeat coronavirus.
In a video-conference with the Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of states/union territories, the president emphasized the need to ensure that no one remains hungry during the nationwide lockdown, enforced to check the spread of the virus.
BJP president JP Nadda asked party workers to take PM Modi's appeal to the masses. The PM has urged the countrymen to turn off lights at their homes and light candles, lamps or turn on mobile phone torches at 9 pm on Sunday for nine minutes.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Modi urged the people to switch off the lights in their houses and light diyas, torches to progress towards light and hope amid darkness spread by the COVID-19.
On harvesting season, Venkaiah Naidu urged Governors to advise the state agencies to ensure smooth movement of farm machinery so that the farmers do not face any hardship.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to switch off the lights at their homes and light up lamps, candles or mobile phone torches for nine minutes at 9 pm on April 5 to display the country's collective resolve to defeat coronavirus.
The six Tablighi Jamaat attendees are among 132 who have been tracked down by the authorities in Ghaziabad. All of them had attended a religious gathering in Nizamuddin of Delhi last month.
During an interaction over a video link with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, a senior doctor had also said that the patients brought from the Nizamuddin Markaz were "not cooperating" with the medical staff.
The foreign Jamaat members, who are currently in different parts of the country, some of whom have tested positive for COVID-19, also include 379 Indonesians, 110 Bangladeshi, 63 Myanmarese and 33 Sri Lankan citizens.
The order comes following reports that locals in many towns and villages of Uttar Pradesh have indulged in violent activities and attacked the cops enforcing the lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Modi addressed the nation and requested the people to end the darkness and uncertainty emanating from the coronavirus crisis by progressing towards light and certainty.
Covid19: Six members of Tablighi Jamaat have been booked the stringent National Security Act after allegations of misbehaviour with nurses and hospital staff at a hospital in Ghaziabad.
Delhi violence: The arrest of Haider has come over a month after the deadly violence in which over 50 lost their lives and over 400 people were injured.
Shashi Tharoor said he listened to the "pradhan showman" and went on to add that it was just a feel-good moment curated by the photo-op Prime Minister.
Ghaziabad: The FIR was filed at midnight against six members of Tablighi Jamaat who attended the Nizamuddin event for creating problems for nurses and health staff at the hospital.