Top news of the day: Tamil Nadu extends coronavirus lockdown till April 30; retail inflation dips to 5.91% in March, and more

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Raipur 13 April 2020. As the 21-day lockdown ends on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation tomorrow at 10 am. Will the lockdown be extended? Mr. Modi is likely to answer this on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu joined the list of states to extend the lockdown.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on April 14 at 10 a.m., the Prime Minister’s Office said. The 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus ends on April 14 and the Prime Minister is likely to talk about its possible extention

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Monday evening announced an extension of the COVID-19 lockdown till April 30. The ongoing lockdown was scheduled to end at 6 a.m. on April 15. On Saturday last, Chief Secretary K Shanmugam haid said that the State Cabinet had decided to await the Centre’s decision on extending the lockdown.

Several Union Ministers and senior officers returned  to there office on Monday. Most of the Ministers and officials have been following the government’s work-from-home protocols issued in the wake of the novel coronavirus  pandemic.

centre may raise loan to pay shortfall of  GST compensation amount of states.