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The Karnataka government on Thursday sent out clear indications that it favours reopening most of the commercial and industrial activities across the state, barring those in Covid-19 containment zones, from May 4. The govt plans to allow liquor outlets, shopping malls and a host of commercial activities by restricting containment zones to a few specific streets.

In a recent dispatch to the government, the domestic newspaper industry pegged its losses in the two months since the onset of coronavirus at close to Rs 4,500 crore and sought a strong stimulus package.

Trump did not mince words at a White House event on Thursday, when asked if he had seen evidence that gave him a "high degree of confidence" the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. "Yes, yes I have," he said, declining to give specifics. "I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that."

A group of seven men gangraped an 18-year-old girl after throwing her brother into a well in MP’s Betul district on Wednesday night. Five suspects have been arrested, three of whom are minors.

So far, 1,075 people have died of the disease, according to central government data, whereas 8,372 have been cured. The total case fatality rate stands at 3.2%, and 65% of deaths were of males and 35% females. The health ministry has recorded 33,610 confirmed Covid-19 cases, of which 24,162 were active cases till 5pm on Thursday.

Bihar, Punjab and Telangana on Thursday joined three other states in demanding that the Centre run special trains to take migrants stranded in the wake of the lockdown in various parts of the country, saying transporting the workers in buses to their home states was not feasible.

The EC, sources said, will take a call on the likely poll schedule at a meeting on Friday morning. CEC Sunil Arora, who is currently in the US, will join the meeting with the other two election commissioners via video-conferencing. A minimum 21-day period between announcement and polling is needed, and a schedule may be announced immediately so that polls are completed well before May 27.

Reliance Industries (RIL), India’s most valued company, plans to raise Rs 53,125 crore through a rights offer at Rs 1,257 a share, a 14% discount to the stock’s Thursday close on the BSE at Rs 1,467. This is RIL’s first fund-raise from the public in three decades and the largest rights offering by an Indian company. Last year, Vodafone Idea and Airtel had come out with rights offerings of about Rs 25,000-crore each.

RadhaKrishn fame Kinshuk Vaidya, who made his Bollywood debut as a child actor in the film Raju Chacha featuring alongside late actor Rishi Kapoor took to social media to pay a tribute to the veteran actor.