New Delhi

Out of the 198 FIRs registered against such people, 178 have been through phone tracking and others due to complaints from neighbours and family members.

It called for more testing for coronavirus and said extensive testing in many countries had led to containment of the spread of the deadly virus.

Spicejet's chairman Ajay Singh, has opted for the highest cut of 30 per cent in compensation, the airline said in an e-mail communication to its staff.

The members of the task force will start work immediately with the respective Congress-ruled state governments to ensure that the daily distress and suffering of people is mitigated, the party statement said.

The governor said the CCB is designed to ensure that banks build up capital buffers during normal times, that are outside periods of stress which can be drawn down, as losses are incurred during a stressed period.

The comment comes after the government unveiled a Rs 1.70-lakh-crore package involving free food grain and cooking gas to the poor for the next three months, one-time doles to women and poor senior citizens and higher wages to workers, among others.

All capital and debt market services notified by markets regulator Sebi would be exempted from the lockdown, as per the government notification.

The bank has rolled out the initiative to encourage more customers to avail its services digitally, without visiting its branches.

Rahul Gandhi also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the economic situation in the country, saying he should get his head 'out of the sand' to deal with the problem facing the country.

None of the MLAs is allowed to contact unknown persons, sources said. There is a conference room in the villa area where senior BJP leaders discuss strategies with the party MLAs, the sources said.

Raghuram Rajan, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, also stressed on making the balance sheets of financial institutions as clean as possible, fixing governance issues and recapitalising banks.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was alarmed by the spread and severity of the outbreak, along with a lack of action taken to combat it.

A compensation of Rs one lakh will be provided for complete loot of household goods in residential units and Rs 50,000 for partial loot, the statement said.

Over the past two weeks, the company has noticed a sudden spike in the number of cancellations as the outbreak spreads to new markets, the spokesperson added.

The Milan naval exercise was scheduled to be held from March 18-28 and over 40 countries were expected to participate in the exercise.

Majority of the agricultural households that possessed more than 0.40 hectare land reported cultivation as their principal source of income, he added.