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10 Mumbai Cops Test positive For Covid-19 After Catching Infected Thieves

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Two teams of 5 members each, involved in arresting, interrogating, and taking them to the court, have now tested positive for Covid-19.

Mumbai| At least 10 policemen from Nehru Nagar police station In Mumbai’s Kurla were found Covid-19 positive after they arrested a gang of thieves in a case of hop break-in recently.

The policemen tested positive earlier this week and are being treated for the same.

The policemen solved the case of theft in an electronic shop in Mumbai’s Chembur. Based on tip-off last week, they arrested 7 members of the gang. After the arrest, the accused were remanded in police custody and their samples were sent for coronavirus test.

Five of the seven accused tested positive for coronavirus, after which the policemen who came in contact with them were also tested. Two teams of 5 members each, involved in arresting, interrogating, and taking them to the court, have now tested positive for Covid-19.

The five accused, however, are being treated in JJ hospital under police watch.

On Friday, 3493 cases of coronavirus infections were found and 127 patients died in Maharashtra. More than 55 thousand infected have been found in Mumbai. NCP leader and cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde was found positive.

Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 101141 cases. Among them 49628 are active cases, 47796 have been cured whereas the death toll is at 3717.

The state is followed by Tamil Nadu with 40698 cases and Delhi with 36824 cases. Gujarat remains the fourth most affected state with 22527 cases and 1415 deaths.

 

 

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India, UAE sign currency swap deal; seek to forge partnership in new areas at JCM

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Abu Dhabi | India and the UAE on Tuesday signed two agreements, including one on currency swap, as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held exhaustive discussions with her counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to step up cooperation in areas like trade, security and defence.

Swaraj, who arrived here on Monday on a two-day visit, was received by the Foreign Minister of the UAE ahead of the UAE-India Joint Commission Meeting. “Advancing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership…EAM @SushmaSwaraj & Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan co-chaired 12th India-UAE #JCM. Held exhaustive discussions on cooperation in energy, security, trade, investments, space, defence & consular, among others,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted. This is the 12th session of the India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting for Economic and Technical Cooperation.

“Institutional mechanisms guiding the multifaceted cooperation…Two documents signed during the visit of EAM @SushmaSwaraj to #UAE : Agreement on Currency Swap and MoU for Development Cooperation in Africa,” Kumar tweeted.

Currency Swap is such a pact between two countries that allows trading in their own currency and payments to import and export trade at pre-determined exchange rate without bringing in a third benchmark currency like the US dollars. The second agreement would enable both sides to undertake development projects in Africa.

“Reinforcing the strong bonds of friendship…The ministers looked forward to continuing the trend to strengthen & seek partnership in new areas,” Kumar tweeted. “Following the India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting, EAM @SushmaSwaraj and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan signed and adopted the Agreed Minutes of the #JCM,” Kumar tweeted.

With nearly USD 50 billion bilateral trade, the two countries are one of the largest trade partners for each other and have made robust investments bilaterally. The UAE is the sixth-largest source of Indian oil imports and hosts a 3.3 million-strong Indian community.

Along with the UAE foreign minister, Swaraj would also inaugurate a Gandhi-Zayed Digital Museum in Abu Dhabi to mark the celebrations of 150 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth and centenary celebrations of the birth of Sheikh Zayed, founder of the modern UAE. She would also interact with the Indian community in Abu Dhabi.

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