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A view of Connaught Place's Outer Circle deserted during the COVID-19 lockdown (Photo/ANI)

Connaught Place under Covid-19

May 01, 2020

New Delhi [India], May 1 : Connaught Place, the world's largest one-mile round market is part of New Delhi that Lutyens designed. Name changed to Rajiv Chowk, yet it is still known as Connaught Place. It is a unique shopping centre of its kind where shoppers can walk under comfortable shade of a wide verandah during the terribly hot months of Delhi's summer. Lutyens used Georgian style of architecture and made this market unique in the world. A lively busy centre, it is today almost a ghost town under the lockdown in the wake of COVID-19. In my years I have never seen it like this, not even when curfew was imposed during the 1947 riots in Delhi.

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3 more COVID-19 deaths in Pune, district toll reaches 95

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Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 1 : Three more COVID-19 deaths have been reported from Pune in the last 12 hours, taking the death toll due to the infection in the district to 95, informed an official on Friday.
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