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Russian PM Mikhail Self Isolates After Testing Positive for Coronavirus

Mikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin that he had been tested positive for COVID-19 and was briefly stepping down to recover.

Moscow| Mikhail Mishustin, Russian PM says he has tested positive for the COVID-19 and has informed President Vladimir Putin that he will self-isolate.

Andrei Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister will temporarily perform Mishustin’s duties, but the prime minister said that he would stay in touch on important issues.

Mishustin, 54, was named prime minister in January.

Putin voiced hope during a video call, that Mishustin would continue taking part in outlining policies to revive the Russian economy, which has been plunged by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The prime minister, in Russia, oversees the economy and reports to the president.

It was not immediately clear when President Vladimir Putin last met with PM Mikhail Mishustin in person. The Russian president has decreased meetings and switched to holding video conferences with administrators during the pandemic.

Also Read: Trump Confident COVID-19 Originated In Wuhan Lab But “Won’t Share Details”

Russia’s national tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases swelled past the 100,000-mark earlier on Thursday after a record daily rise in new infections.

Russia is the world’s largest nation by territory and has been on lockdown since Putin declared the closing of most public spaces in late March to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Globally, the total number of COVID-19 cases neared 3,200,000 while the death toll crossed 233,000, as per the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.

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BJP Sarpanch Arrested For Terror Links With Ex-DSP Davinder Singh

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The NIA has now dug out terror links of Tariq Ahmad Mir, a former sarpanch, aligned to the BJP, from Shopian in the Kashmir Valley.

Srinagar| A former sarpanch with links to BJP from north Kashmir has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly furnishing arms to the Hizbul terrorists in the ex-DSP Davinder Singh case.

Tariq Ahmad Mir – a former sarpanch from north Kashmir’s Shopian district – was an arms conduit who rendered logistic support and arms to Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Naveed Babu, sources say.

Tainted DSP Davinder Singh was arrested with Naveed Babu on January 11, this year.

Mir was in touch with Davinder Singh, the suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police, a National Investigation Agency official said.

Mir, a resident of Meldoora Shopian was arrested from his rented accommodation in Baramulla. He is a Sarpanch of Meldoora village and later joined Bharatiya Janata Party, official sources told.

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Sources said that Mir was sent to six days of NIA custody by a court.

No representative from the saffron party could be contacted for the comment on the member of their party.

In January, DSP Davinder Singh was caught by police along with two militants and an overground worker while he was allegedly ferrying them out of the Kashmir Valley to outside J-K. He was suspended following his arrest and the case was later taken over by the National Investigation Agency.

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