Chuni Goswami, PK Banerjee and Tulsidas Balaram are one of India's most famous trios to step onto a football pitch.

Aaron Ramsey was the first Juventus player to return to individual training, while Cristiano Ronaldo flew back to northern Italy by private jet.

Kyle Walker was forced to issue an apology last month after media reports that he had hosted a party at his home.

Diego Maradona sold a signed Argentina shirt and the sale raised money for an underprivileged area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires affected by quarantine rules.

16 McLaren staff were in quarantine after one tested positive for coronavirus during the cancelled Australian GP.

Organizing religious function can land you in jail during this lockdown period. As many as 22 people were arrested for the alleged violation of the lockdown period when they participated in Satya Narayan Katha in Kalavad taluka village of Jamnagar district on Wednesday night. Of those arrested included Jaisukh Lunagaria (57) and his wife Rasila Lunagaria (53) and two brahmin priests — Vasantrai Joshi (52) and Mayur Joshi (32) — who conducted the religious discourse in Bamangam village of Kalavad taluka. The rest of those arrested were 18 women.

More such flights are also being readied by the authorities to facilitate other Indians as part of the Operation Vande Bharat - A homecoming', India's massive repatriation operation to bring home its citizens stranded abroad.

Out of the 17,974 Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, 11,394 were reported from Mumbai alone.

The flight was part of the Vande Bharat mission which started on Thursday to bring back stranded Indian nationals home amid the novel coronavirus-induced lockdown.

At least 22 migrant labourers, who had returned from Andhra Pradesh, escaped from a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said on Friday.

Overall, the national mortality rate was 3.34 as on Friday morning and the recovery rate stood at 29.35 per cent. India has confirmed 56,342 confirmed Covid-19 cases so far.

The incident occurred late evening on Wednesday and the accused, Ram Vilas Rajbhar (42), was arrested within hours, they said.

On learning about the sudden rush of people at the deputy collector's office near Gota bridge, police officials immediately reached the spot and persuaded the migrants, mostly from UP and Bihar, to disperse.

Venugopal said through judicial activism the "Supreme Court has done a tremendous amount of good. It has practically tried to wipe away every tears of the underprivileged, disadvantaged and illiterate sections of society.

Officers have been directed to submit a detailed report within four weeks with details of the steps taken by the district authorities to provide food and shelter to poor people, especially migrants, during the lockdown.

Senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for the petitioners, told the bench that pregnancy of these medical professionals is at an advance stage and they need a further priority in the priority already given to pregnant women.

The move follows similar decisions taken by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments to revive the economy that has been badly hit due to the ongoing coronavirus-induced lockdown.

While the opposition Congress claimed that accused Rajesh Verma is a BJP worker, the ruling party denied it.

An activist has moved the top court pointing out alleged racial attacks on people of North-Eastern like spitting on them, evictions from their homes and termination from their jobs among others.

A total of 64 flights carrying approximately 15,000 returnees from 12 countries are expected to land at 14 airports across India from May 7 to 15 as part of phase one of the mission, they said.

State government's COVID-19 spokesman Subroto Bagchi said institutional quarantine period would now be of 21 days and home quarantine for another seven days.

A police team rushed to the quarantine centre and launched an inquiry into the death of the migrant worker while the body was sent for post-mortem.

Thackeray also admitted that while the spread of the virus has been contained, the state has not succeeded in breaking the chain of infection yet.

The Railways also warned people that although regular passenger trains were not in operation, the migrant special trains, parcel and freight trains were running on the rail network.

The total number of patients who have recovered and been discharged from hospitals is 3,470.

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Following directions from the Centre, Dr Guleria, who is a pulmonologist, and Dr Manish Soneja from the AIIMS department of medicine left for Ahmedabad on special Indian Air Force flight on Friday evening, official sources said.

Priority was accorded to pregnant women and children to embark the ship first and bunk allocation was also undertaken by the ship's crew catering to age and medical requirements, officials said.

Maharana Pratap died of an injury received while tightening the string of a bow for hunting in the year 1597.

Inmates of Mohali’s Paraplegic Rehabilitation Center (PRC) and their family members residing there are making cloth face masks

Amit Shah issued a statement saying that rumours about his health were being spread through social media.

Ramanagara is one of the eight districts in Karnataka that had not seen a single coronavirus case until now, despite being close to the capital city and falling en route the two red zone districts of Bengaluru and Mysure.

The transfer of over 100 miscreants, who are accused of attacking the health workers in Bengaluru, to neighbouring Ramanagara district prison, has snowballed into a full blown political war in Karnataka.

The agitation continued till late in the evening and despite local police officer’s intervention, MLA SR Vishwanath and his men left the spot only after the civic body was compelled to shift the foreigners to another facility.

In the country as per estimates 44 crore people work in the unorganised sector in different places in the country and during the initial period of the lockdown people are seen walking to their native places.

For Uddhav Thackeray to continue as the CM of Maharashtra, he will have to become a member of the legislature before May 28. That is when his six-month-old term ends.

His remarks came two days after Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund voluntarily decided to wind up its six debt schemes due to liquidity issues amid the coronavirus crisis.

The people of the state are paying a heavy price because of the poor response to the crisis by the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP alliance government in the state, the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly alleged.

In a letter to the prime minister, Yechury said the political executive in the country is proving its "incompetence by knee-jerk reactions" and suggested measures that need to be put in place to fight coronavirus.

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday lauded the RBI's prompt action in announcing a Rs 50,000 crore special liquidity facility for mutual funds.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has called for citizen-centric measures and stressed the need to lower the cost of living, as he cautioned the state and Central governments about the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on economy and people in-tuen.

Fadnavis, leader of the opposition in the Assembly and former chief minister, was accompanied by Pravin Darekar, leader of opposition in the council, senior leaders Ashish Shelar and Vinod Tawde, as well as Mumbai party unit chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha.

Naidu also alleged that negligence of ruling party leaders sent a wrong message which led to neighbouring states constructing walls on borders with Andhra Pradesh.

The RJD supremo has been admitted in the private ward of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences which has been designated as a 'coronavirus hospital'.

A reply from RBI which stated that the government has waived Rs 68,607 crore of the top 50 bank loan defaulters.

Rahul Gandhi had attacked the ruling BJP after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a list of 50 wilful defaulters accused of cheating banks.

His remarks came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that wilful defaulters were beneficiaries of 'phone banking' under the UPA regime and the Modi government is chasing them to recover the dues.

Indian government decided to allow migrant workers, tourists, students stranded in different parts of the country to move to their respective destinations.

The top court had said to 'ensure a level playing field' among the contesting political parties in 2019 Lok Sabha polls and by-election in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, it has directed the poll panel to allot a common free symbol to the group.

In his letter to the poll panel, the Governor said the elections should be held ‘at the earliest’ with a view to end the current uncertainty in the state.