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Around 4,000-5,000 students hailing from West Bengal are staying in hostels and paying guest accommodations in Kota city, known for its coaching centres especially for engineering and medical aspirants.

Be it businesses, offices, education institutes or medical sector, everyone is adapting to changes in the post-coronavirus world, PM Modi said.

TMC MPs Derek O' Brien and Sudip Bandyopadhyay claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was informed about the team's visit three hours after its arrival which was unacceptable.

Claiming that the party intends to extend full cooperation to the government during this hour of crisis without indulging in politics, it urged the administration to be "transparent".

Haasan, earlier while flagging the need to address the problems of such migrant workers, had sarcastically remarked that the Centre should not remain a 'balcony government', alluding to the relatively better off citizens.

Nagpur East MLA Krishna Khopde said Satranjipura had several COVID-19 patients and many residents had links to the Tablighi Jamaat event last month in Nizamuddin in Delhi.

In a statement, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said the Centre must ensure their testing and provide medical help to them on an urgent basis.

The PM Cares Fund, set up to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic, has become a bone of contention between the Centre and Opposition, alongwith the suspension of MPLAD funds.

The actor said it is because of the Centre's negligence that the Tablighi Jamaat conference became the epicenter of Covid-19.

Rahul Gandhi's remarks came at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, where besides him, party chief Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh and other senior leaders discussed the health crisis.

Over the past week, roads from Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu districts of Karnataka linking Kasaragod in Kerala have been blocked by the former, hitting the movement of essential supplies and emergencies services.

The Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh fell after 22 Congress MLAs quit the Assembly and later joined the BJP.

The TMC has 22 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 13 in the Rajya Sabha. It has been urging the government to defer Parliament for the past 10 days.

These leaders, along with BJP's Jyotiraditya Scindia, met party president JP Nadda, who welcomed their decision to join the saffron party.

Eight people including Congress leader Suryakant Dhasmana and two photo journalists, have been quarantined after they entered the isolation ward of Doon Medical College and Hospital.

Sources close to Scindia have told CNN-News18 that the scion was compelled to leave the Congress largely due to the cold shoulder and "pariah" treatment given to him and his supporters by Nath and Digvijaya Singh.