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- India recorded 59,118 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on March 26-27, his first foreign trip since the coronavirus pandemic.
- Delhi on Thursday reported 1,515 fresh coronavirus cases, making it the highest single-day rise this year. In the last 24 hours, the national capital has recorded 903 recoveries and five deaths, taking the death toll to 10,978, according to the health department data.
- Delhi’s maximum temperature on Thursday settled at 29.6 °C, a notch below normal, and the air quality improved to the ‘moderate’ category due to favourable wind speed.
- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said that the Amarnath Yatra is likely to witness six lakh pilgrims this year.
- A CRPF Sub-Inspector was martyred and three jawans were injured in a militant attack in Lawaypora area on the outskirts of Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar .
- Campaigning for the upcoming polls in West Bengal, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accused CM Mamata Banerjee of “taking back Bengal to the 19th century, with no development work undertaken in the past 10 years”.
- Travel time for passengers may rise as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Thursday announced that it’ll intensify its drive to ensure COVID-19 appropriate behaviour.
- Hundreds of students of Osmania University in Hyderabad and Kakatiya University in Warangal staged a protest against the Telangana government’s decision to temporarily close educational institutions due to rising COVID-19 cases in the state.
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